Fordham Game Thread.

[calsufan]

Gill is out with an ankle injury so Fasasi will get the start. The flashing lights are going to give me a seizure. It's disco night on Rose Hill.

[roaddog77]

Zan playing well again

[explorer88]

If we don’t defend the 3 we are going to lose. Fordham has3 threes already and only one had a hand in the shooters face.

[explorer88]

We have missed 4 bunnies already.

[calsufan]

I think Dunphy is going to have to go deeper into his bench today. Fordham is really working Brickus and Brantley hard.

[explorer88]

Make it 5 bunnies.

We are so well coached. Need to make shots.

[calsufan]

I do like the fact that all of the players on La Salle look comfortable handling the ball.

[explorer88]

I think Fordham’s strategy of denying Brantley and Brickus the ball 90 feet is excellent. Can La Salle overcome that?

Will Fordham get tired chasing them all game?

[calsufan]

Jan 6, 2024 12:26:15 GMT -5 explorer88 said:

I think Fordham’s strategy of denying Brantley and Brickus the ball 90 feet is excellent. Can La Salle overcome that?

Will Fordham get tired chasing them all game?

Or will Brickus and Brantley get tired fighting it?

[explorerman]

Jan 6, 2024 12:26:15 GMT -5 explorer88 said:

I think Fordham’s strategy of denying Brantley and Brickus the ball 90 feet is excellent. Can La Salle overcome that?

Will Fordham get tired chasing them all game?

It is exactly how I would defend La Salle.. Deny Brickus and try and speed up Brantley. Makes complete sense.. Can someone step up and/or can we make adjustments?

[explorerman]

Jan 6, 2024 12:31:06 GMT -5 calsufan said:

Jan 6, 2024 12:26:15 GMT -5 explorer88 said:

I think Fordham’s strategy of denying Brantley and Brickus the ball 90 feet is excellent. Can La Salle overcome that?

Will Fordham get tired chasing them all game?

Or will Brickus and Brantley get tired fighting it?

Exactly my thought calsufan

[calsufan]

VERY late call on Rokas on that play.

[calsufan]

Rokas has the worst set of hands...rebounding and catching the passes in the paint. The coaches should be running drills constantly for him on that.

[explorer88]

3 straight turnovers trying to get Rokas the ball. 5 point lead blown. He never goes after the ball hard and fight for it.

He really continues to really hurt us.

[calsufan]

Jan 6, 2024 12:36:48 GMT -5 explorer88 said:

3 straight turnovers trying to get Rokas the ball. 5 point lead blown. He never goes after the ball hard and fight for it.

He really continues to really hurt us.

A lot of Euro players don't seem to like to mix it up. He needs to get a "pissed off" edge to him sort of like Kanesevic had at St. Joe's. I hated him as a player, but there was no denying he played hard and with an attitude.

[explorerman]

We miss an incredible amount of high percentage shots… seems like way above the norm

[1863]

Fasasi has been brutal so far this season.

[las71]

Tunde throws too many soft passes.

[explorerman]

explorer88 mentioned 5 bunnies.. I would say 4 but that is 8 pts right there.. in a game that is highly likely to be less than 8 pts at the end..

Difference winning and losing teams can often be a small margin of error..

The amount of inside 3 feet shots missed whether to skill/ability or fatigue just kills us

[calsufan]

Jan 6, 2024 12:44:19 GMT -5 1863 said:

Fasasi has been brutal so far this season.

I think Fasasi is going to be a good player for La Salle. He needs to learn how to play D and be a little more precise with his passes, but you can see that the talent is there. Dunphy is usually not the type of coach who gives freshmen a lot of run, but he obviously sees something in Fasasi if he's giving him this much time.

[explorerman]

Tunde is a true freshman playing in foreign country for the first time if there someone that deserves benefit of doubt it is him.

I feel like he is the type that plays better with more minutes… He has had several plays where you go “whoa”.. So you know it’s there.. Just got it get it out out of him and more consistently..

Always the question with promising freshman as they age..

[explorer88]

Rokas just played 3 great minutes.

Let’s give him credit.

La Salle just played a great 3 minutes. Good play is contagious.

[las71]

Good half for the good guys. Great foul shooting. Hopefully we can keep it up.

[victoriouslasalle]

Jan 6, 2024 13:00:15 GMT -5 las71 said:

Good half for the good guys. Great foul shooting. Hopefully we can keep it up.

fingers crossed hopefully no 6 min shooting droughts

[roaddog77]

We up by 9 46-37 at halftime. We playing with good energy and defense in the first half. Bench play of Jocius and Marrero (11 pts total) playing well. Brantley (10 pts) playing great on his homecoming back in New York. We just have to keep playing in well second half, we be ok baby.

[calsufan]

That's the second charge call that Brantley didn't get. Both were charges by Fordham.

[calsufan]

3 fouls on Brantley. No bueno.

[calsufan]

Two straight passes that the La Salle guard threw the ball into the Fordham player. Sloppy passing!

[explorer88]

Passing is awful to start the 2nd.

[explorerman]

Let’s see what Marrero does with more than the 18 mins he normally gets…

He won’t shoot at the same rate that he did the first 2 months but let’s see if he can maintain a 60% TS which is well above average for a NCAA D1 guard