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Post by lwc4591 on Jan 9, 2014 22:22:37 GMT -5
Man I love it when I am wrong, great win although we played stupid basketball with Zack throwing the ball away, Duren fouling and Garland fouling all in a one minute span. If team doesn't have a let down on Sunday we may go on a 6 or 7 game win streak which would be very unexpected just like our season so far. Congrats to players on a tough win.
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Post by coqui900 on Jan 9, 2014 22:25:37 GMT -5
Gutsy win from gutsy kids.
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Post by coqui900 on Jan 9, 2014 22:27:43 GMT -5
Also, big ups to Rohan. He was great. That block/out-of-bounds play was suck a big moment. We don't win tonight without him.
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Post by cpico on Jan 9, 2014 22:34:16 GMT -5
Nice win over a good George Washington team. We really needed this one. Good job in pulling this one out.
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Post by SICguy84 on Jan 9, 2014 22:37:01 GMT -5
I didn't realize how good GW's RPI is. Mid 20's across all the major sites.
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Post by nepaexplorer on Jan 9, 2014 22:38:07 GMT -5
This is the best I've felt about this team all season. Big props. Looking forward to Sunday.
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Post by durenduren on Jan 9, 2014 22:38:46 GMT -5
Also, big ups to Rohan. He was great. That block/out-of-bounds play was suck a big moment. We don't win tonight without him. Unsung hero, for sure. |
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Post by player71 on Jan 9, 2014 22:52:16 GMT -5
Great effort by Rohan and he hit some foul shots. Jermaine also gave us solid minutes. Yes he committed a few fouls but hit 1 of 2 at the line. Nice overall effort just need to be smarter at the end...
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Post by durenduren on Jan 9, 2014 23:01:30 GMT -5
You know what, f*** it. We just beat a top 20 RPI team and a squad that entered tonight's contest 12-2. Stupid, careless mistakes at the end or not, we must have played pretty decent ball to beat them. It just wouldn't happen by mistake.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2014 23:04:17 GMT -5
I watched the game and then went on the board to see the comments. I must have been watching a different game. So much negativity throughout even though the team really looked much, much better tonight. I'm glad I wasn't relying on the board to know how we were doing. I ma proud of how the team has pulled together.
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Post by ltrain38 on Jan 9, 2014 23:09:46 GMT -5
I watched the game and then went on the board to see the comments. I must have been watching a different game. So much negativity throughout even though the team really looked much, much better tonight. I'm glad I wasn't relying on the board to know how we were doing. I ma proud of how the team has pulled together. Call it managing expectations and in-game tension. I don't really enjoy a lot of tight games until after we win. With an hour to digest the result, I have to say I'm really pleased the way our guys played tonight, knocking off a really high-level opponent. |
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Post by coqui900 on Jan 9, 2014 23:25:21 GMT -5
This was one of the best teams they'll play all year. What I liked, now that I'm home and not sitting behind Edward and Francis for an hour trying to get out:
1) A healthy TD3 makes a huge difference. He's our Jameer Nelson. He's not as good as Jameer, obviously, but he has the same exact game. Their tutoring sessions show. He just wants to make the right play every time down the court. He did a good job defensively. When he has it going, everyone else just plays better. The ball moves better. Everyone knows where to go on the court, etc.
2) Huge ups to Ty Garland. When we had to sit Jerrell and Zack at the end of the first half, GW should have by all rights taken the lead. Garland stepped up offensively -- he saw a massive gap in their zone and scored on a few straight possessions. We needed to keep up because we were in such a hole defensively.
3) Sam Mills was great. Was his charge a clean charge? Headsy move to take that. The refs NEVER call that at the end of games. He also made his looks. Nice finish on a fast break, too.
4) Zack didn't have a double double. He was awesome down the stretch and on defense. But his ability to pass the ball against their zone really helped a lot in the first half. He had a couple of mansized rebounds, too, late. His And-1 was great.
5) Khalid got on it on defense. He was so off offensively but he's really good at disrupting guards.
6) I said it before, but big ups to Rohan. And also to DJ. They're both great role players. DJ makes shots when he gets them. His release is really slow, but he knows that and won't take something unless he can absolutely get it off. His length makes such a difference, too. Rohan also just does what he can do. He stays in his limitations, tries to get boards, and gets on the floor.
7) Jerrell had a really rough night. This was his worst game of the year. A lot was because their defense made it hard for him to get touches. But he missed a few switches on defense, made some dumb reaches, etc. G lit into him a bunch.
This was the best they looked all year. And they did it against the second best team they've faced all season. More good things are coming.
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Post by lasallescreamer on Jan 9, 2014 23:38:48 GMT -5
What I liked was how our guards, primarily TD3 managed the game. Looked for good shots; ran a little clock and prevented their guards from running wild on fast breaks. GW did not have a run and we did not get down 8-10 points which pressures offense to take quick and often, ill-conceived shots. The game played as the NCAA games that we won. Frankly, if we made some FTs and if we did not commit some needless fouls, we win by 7-10 and no tension at end. A good win. Lets build on it.
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Post by angryal on Jan 9, 2014 23:43:52 GMT -5
The team actually looked impressive tonight. Like, perhaps the time they had off between games did them a lot of good. La Salle actually ran a patterned offense tonight, instead of the playground free-for-all offense they were - for whatever reason - running the first 12 games of the year. They looked good defensively and it didn't look like they ran out of gas at the end of the game, like they had in most games this year.
Duquense Sunday.......we'll see how well they carry-over for that one.
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Post by explorerman on Jan 9, 2014 23:53:14 GMT -5
I am sorry.. The team was very sloppy at the end.. Zack throws the ball away and Garland doesn't catch a ball and allows the inbounds go through his legs.. All in the last 30 secs..
Look we are fans of the program but junior and seniors can not play like freshman.. No successful, upperclassmen based team does that! We have seen it all year!
The team does has it moments but it is fleeting and has been like this all season long. Today's game is no different..
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Post by coqui900 on Jan 10, 2014 0:10:42 GMT -5
I am sorry.. The team was very sloppy at the end.. Zack throws the ball away and Garland doesn't catch a ball and allows the inbounds go through his legs.. All in the last 30 secs.. Look we are fans of the program but junior and seniors can not play like freshman.. No successful, upperclassmen based team does that! We have seen it all year! The team does has it moments but it is fleeting and has been like this all season long. Today's game is no different.. They beat a team that's in the Top 30 in RPI right now that has three losses all year. I think that's pretty great. This is mid-major college basketball. Mistakes are a big part of it. They're going to win very few games the rest of the way by double digits. |
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Post by durenduren on Jan 10, 2014 0:12:24 GMT -5
Look we are fans of the program but junior and seniors can not play like freshman.. No successful, upperclassmen based team does that! We have seen it all year! Not disagreeing. But do you believe tonight was a step forward from what we've been seeing, no? |
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Post by SICguy84 on Jan 10, 2014 0:20:33 GMT -5
Sizable step forward tonight, no doubt. Closing out games is high drama as usual with La Salle Basketbal!
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Post by coqui900 on Jan 10, 2014 0:22:34 GMT -5
Look we are fans of the program but junior and seniors can not play like freshman.. No successful, upperclassmen based team does that! We have seen it all year! Not disagreeing. But do you believe tonight was a step forward from what we've been seeing, no? Yes. They won. |
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Post by theneumann64 on Jan 10, 2014 0:58:12 GMT -5
Huge win. Huge, huge win. We're not playing Hartford anymore, winning trumps who they look. To me, it's two fold.
1. Winning is more enjoyable than losing for us as fans.
2. The only shot this team has to get to the NCAA Tournament is to win the A-10 tournament in Brooklyn. The more wins we have against the top teams in the conference (And yes, it remains to be seen where GW will land on that scale) the more feasible I feel that is.
Huge start to get off to in the A-10. Chance to maybe get on a little bit of a run here too.
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Post by lwc4591 on Jan 10, 2014 8:34:05 GMT -5
Being honest we turned a very good win into a nail biter because we were terrible from the line and very sloppy in the final minutes. All in all team looked solid and improved but mistakes like Garland and Zack made at the end should not happen.
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Post by 23won on Jan 10, 2014 9:09:38 GMT -5
Stuck with radio. Is the officiating really that bad, or is Kale just being Kale? The 2nd foul call on Wright was A JOKE. No foul and the ref had no angle to make it (he was just guessing because the GW player spazzed out). It cost us BIG TIME not having Wright or Zack the last 5 or so minutes... I was at the game and freaked on that. SJU's own Jeff Clark called that from mid-court through a sea of players in the lane. No way he saw contact as I saw it from exactly the same angle. Jerrell's calls were bogus all night. 3 of 4 fouls were phantom calls and he had to play with foul trouble all night. Pathetic. |
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Post by La Salle 08 on Jan 10, 2014 9:27:42 GMT -5
Perimeter defense and perimeter scoring have been so much better the last 2 games...it's not rocket science.
Can't help by to look ahead and see this team start to get on a roll.
That GW pregame reception must have been something else, boy oh boy their fans in W2 were hammered.
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Post by virginia61 on Jan 10, 2014 9:29:15 GMT -5
Nice to get a win, despite almost giving it away. Does anyone understand the substitutions for defense where G goes with 5 guards? He did it twice after foul shots. Isn't it usually the other way? Put the bigger guys in for defense and rebounding? With 5 guards on the court, this team can't get a defensive rebound. And refs consistently allow it to be a scrum under the basket late in the game. Even when GW missed down the stretch (which was rare), their guys were there to clean up the miss since our tallest guy was about 6'3".
On a related matter: College b-ball is almost becoming unwatchable down the stretch these days. All games. It's a pretty good product for about 35 minutes and then is just terrible as the last 5 takes a half-hour to play. A million TOs, substitutions, foul shots, other clock stoppages, zebras re-checking the clock to 10ths of a second, etc. The NCAA probably loves all the additional commercials they can get in, but they are at risk of losing a lot of people if it doesn't get better.
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Post by mookie on Jan 10, 2014 9:34:05 GMT -5
Awesome getting a win last night!
Maybe it's me but I do not think Mills should take that charge at the end of the game (in road situations). In situations like that, the ref will either swallow his whistle or call in favor of the home team (thank goodness we were the home team).
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Post by player71 on Jan 10, 2014 9:36:51 GMT -5
I actually agree with Mookie that is was gutsy move by Mills to take the charge...need to get some momentum off of the last two wins...
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Post by golasalle on Jan 10, 2014 9:50:18 GMT -5
Being honest we turned a very good win into a nail biter because we were terrible from the line and very sloppy in the final minutes. All in all team looked solid and improved but mistakes like Garland and Zack made at the end should not happen. Um, it is still a very good win. |
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Post by mookie on Jan 10, 2014 9:52:41 GMT -5
I agree with golasalle. Turning a win into a nail biter is still a win. It'd be great to clean that up but sometimes it's better to be lucky than good...and I'll take the win and go home happy haha |
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Post by explorerman on Jan 10, 2014 10:09:35 GMT -5
Being honest we turned a very good win into a nail biter because we were terrible from the line and very sloppy in the final minutes. All in all team looked solid and improved but mistakes like Garland and Zack made at the end should not happen. Exactly… Thank you… A win over GW is not the standard.. Sorry, I get a win is a win and that is what people play for.. But in a bigger picture playing up to our potential is the standard.. Last night simply was not that.. The late self-caused turnovers, shooting 50% from the free throw at home, etc is not playing up to potential… Was it better? Absolutely last night... Is this team hitting its potential, no …. and that is the standard… Because if we hit our potential or anywhere close then it doesn't matter how bad GW played, we will beat them anyway.. Mills outside of some bad passes, played arguably his best game of the year at the perfect time of the year.. If teams want to play zone getting that extra shooter that we really haven't had all season is HUGE. Hey look, a win while not playing up to our potential is fantastic but in conference play the error size allowed gets much smaller… The win last night had a lot to do with GW not playing well, while we were playing better.. The leading scorer and leading 3 pt shooter in the A-10 was literally air balling open 3s.. For the majority, we can not control how another team plays, but we can control how we play.. that is why performance and playing up or near to our potential provides a better indicator of future performance (and likely more conference wins) as opposed to just wins over entities that we, by in large, do not control... |
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Post by explorerman on Jan 10, 2014 10:10:12 GMT -5
Awesome getting a win last night! Maybe it's me but I do not think Mills should take that charge at the end of the game (in road situations). In situations like that, the ref will either swallow his whistle or call in favor of the home team (thank goodness we were the home team). Agreed |
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