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First couple of minutes in half two are completely different and full of energy … more of this, please!
Re: Des – we need him to bull his way to the bucket nearly everytime he gets the ball like he did near the end of the half. That could open up a lot of things …
Suggestion for blockquotes: is it possible to change the (permanent) font for them? I quoted someone in the game thread and it could be easy to mistake the quote as a part of the post itself.
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Basically what you’re saying is this team, in the last week, has completely lost their identity.
^Well, we have to give other teams credit for scouting. They’re starting to force Warren to settle for jumpers, we have no offensive post presence – so that allows teams to pressure other areas.
I didn’t really see the foul on Washington there … momentum back to Greensboro going into the second half. But, this is a little like the Missouri game in reverse – we don’t have much business being ahead given our play, but we are.
You are not crazy, tobacco … in fairness to Vandy, we haven’t looked to go to Vandy in the post at all.
At the same time he’s not exactly working hard to get open, and he has one post move – running hook.
We’re getting run by Unc-G. Their confidence looks sky-high now, and we look flat and defeated.
Depressing, but long way to go.
1.21, tbh Spartans are playing harder, winning the boards
We honestly look flat after the little 9-0 spurt we had. No go-to post presence is seriously killing the offensive flow on this team. It’s either a make-shift drive to the basket or a not so great three point attempt.
Clear forearm to the back to shove Vandy … can’t see how it wasn’t called.
Not much offensive flow again tonight.
If 31 is going to be allowed to hold Warren on every little movement then it’s going to be a long night.
Yeah Central is pretty solid, but their RPI will be such that it has to be listed in the bad ‘L’ column.
Yeah, way too early … All of his ‘bubble’ teams and a couple of his ‘locks’ need significant help/work to sniff a bid. Virginia and Pitt are far from ‘lock’ status. UVa hasn’t beaten anyone, and Pittsburgh hasn’t played anyone (Stanford? No. Lost neutral court to Cincy – that’s not even bubble worthy).
^Haha I tried to add an image but to no avail …
Re: the forums – I’m assuming we’ll eventually be able to see a page view listing all the topics (regardless of forum) that updates with new/fresh posts like we had in the past? 🙂
Thanks for all your hard work … we all appreciate it greatly.
Hooray forums …
We need Mr. Twang from South Park to build as a Great Wall around the forums this time
Ok, back to business – and I think it’s a good thing that it’s happening so soon after that occurrence on Sat. night.
I hope I’m wrong, but I expect this game to be close for at least thirty minutes and then we’ll see what happens down the stretch. Foul trouble and free throw shooting – those look like keys for us all season … I’m anxious to see the response tonight.
Wes Miller is still very hate-able to me. I know that’s not nice, but whatevs …
^^Whiteshoes, I wanted to point out / give you a hat tip that you were correct on the Barber / Lewis situation from earlier in the season.
When the season first started, I disagreed with you to an extent in thinking that Barber and Lewis could (and perhaps should at times) play together at the same time. It became clear rather quickly though that the team is much different with Barber on the floor running the team as opposed to Lewis, and also that Lewis is (or has been) ineffective at the two due to defensive capability and lack of offensive contribution.
This of course is not meant to be disparaging towards Lewis in any way. I thought he did an admirable job Saturday night (and frankly, we could have used a lot more (offensively speaking) out of Barber on this night). We’re very fortunate to have a player of Lewis’ caliber to be a back-up / second point guard.
As for the game itself, even with all that went wrong over the last 10 minutes or so – if Warren doesn’t run completely out of gas we likely still manage to pull out a victory. He put every ounce of energy he had into the game for thirty minutes, and that may mean we need to start finding two to four minute stretches (at least in the first half) for Buckets to conserve some energy. I know a lot of guys play 35 min.+, but I know from experience that when you work as hard as he did on the boards (offensively and defensively) it can zap you quickly.
Speaking of, we have to find better offense when Warren is zapped / out other than Turner forced threes. I like Turner, but someone else mentioned how infuriating it can be watching him play – and I agree. He makes some terrible decisions – mostly shot selection – for a veteran player. In fairness though, if Barber or Lee (when in the game) isn’t driving the basket we don’t have much of an offense to speak of other than someone like Turner taking a three. To his credit, he’s knocked down some big ones over the last few games.
