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Game 10: at Rider, 12/14 1pm
By: Checkmate Date: December 11, 2024, 8:03 pm
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RIDER (4-6, 0-0 MAAC)
Last Game: Quinnipiac 72, Rider 67 on 12/6/24
Last Game vs SBU: Stony Brook 55, Rider 48 on 11/20/23; teams
combined 4-40 from three; FT: SBU 18-24; Rider 5-9
Checkmate Guess the Line: Rider -7.5
NET Ranking: Stony Brook 348, Rider 276
KenPom Rating: Stony Brook 338, Rider 275
KenPom Prediction: Rider 71, Stony Brook 65
Olaniyi GoFundMe:
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Watch:
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Notables:
6-4/190 gr G TJ Weeks Jr. 13.1 ppg, 5.0 rpg, 1.3 spg, .816 FT%
6-9/255 gr F Tariq Ingraham 10.9 ppg, 6.9 rpg, .482 FG%
6-5/210 rsr F Jay Alvarez 10.7 ppg, 4.0 rpg, .417 3-pt FG%
6-3/165 fr G Flash Burton 7.2 ppg
6-5/195 jr F Zion Cruz 6.7 ppg
Will the pain continue or will we right the ship? Odds are not
in our favor. In fact, KenPom has us as underdogs in every game
the rest of the year. Prediction: 8-23, 4-14 CAA.
We've had some lean years before, but even when Boals' team was
bad his first season, you at least felt like we had some guys.
Yeboah took a leap as a redshirt sophomore, Olaniyi won
conference freshman of the year, Cornish was at least explosive
with the dribble, and you believed that Boals, with his
background, would recruit and could coach. Next year, 24 wins,
Ws over South Carolina, URI, GW, and poof, Boals is gone and the
Geno era begins. Discounting COVID and the injury year, prior to
that Boals year, you have to go pre-Brenton for a truly lost
season, of which we had many before Pikiell got things going.
I expect Rider to pick us up full court for at least some of the
game, not with this smothering press but we need to be careful.
We've had some bad turnover games, including 17 against Air
Force, 16 against Yale and 15 at Brown. It also wouldn't
surprise me to see both teams in some zone until they're shot
out of it. We're at 27 percent; Rider's at 28. Why wouldn't you?
Rider made a shift against Quinnipiac last time out, starting
Burton and Cruz for the first time. I like Cruz, who played at
DePaul before putting up a nice year at Pratt CC in Kansas
(there's basketball going on everywhere). Rider needed a jolt
offensively, and he's a guy who can put it on the floor, isn't
afraid of contact and can knock down the jumper too. He and
Alvarez, who averaged 15 and 5 in two years at Houston Christian
(formerly Houston Baptist) before transferring closer to home,
are both well-built combo guards who can score in a few ways.
The guy who I think will especially be a problem is Ingraham, a
former three-star who's just this burly big who throws his
weight around yet has a soft touch around the rim. He might have
stuck at Wake Forest, where he started, if not for a slew of
injuries. He ought to give Wight all he can handle. I like him
more than Weeks, who to me is all right. Son of a UMass legend
and a former Minuteman himself.
Rider's in the running for the all-name team, with a starting
five of Burton, Tank Byard, Zocko Littleton Jr., Maurizio
D'Alessandro and Alaaeddine Boutayeb. Four vowels in the first
five letters of a name shows shades of Duke icon Alaa Abdelnaby.
Bottom line here: We have to defend. Scoring's come too easily
for literally every D-I team that we've faced. We are
second-to-last in America in effective FG% against, ahead of
only Tanahj-Pettway-led Prairie View A&M. Rider is no offensive
juggernaut, so they shouldn't be able to run away and hide. And
they shouldn't murder us on the glass either – we've been -12 or
worse in four losses already this year. Is there any deterrent
to teams attacking the rim over and over? Is Nyarko really just
non-competitive? I can't believe there aren't 6-8 minutes for
him where he can change shots and be active from the dunker's
spot on the other end.
Offensively, we are 13 for our last 70 from three, 19 for 90 if
you count the game prior. We gotta be better than that. Frey's
at 27 percent; Octave at just 21. Gotta expect those figures to
climb.
We can definitely win this one and I'd love to be optimistic,
but I haven't seen anything/much to suggest that it'll happen.
#Post#: 44811--------------------------------------------------
Re: Game 10: at Rider, 12/14 1pm
By: Moveitfred Date: December 13, 2024, 10:20 am
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Of course it's always difficult to win on the road, but it feels
like it's time for SBU to show some signs of what they might be
able to do well and if those projected six more wins might be
possible.
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Re: Game 10: at Rider, 12/14 1pm
By: Checkmate Date: December 14, 2024, 12:02 pm
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Got a gift today with no Weeks for Rider. Broncs still favored
by 5.5.
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Re: Game 10: at Rider, 12/14 1pm
By: Moveitfred Date: December 14, 2024, 12:46 pm
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Seems there was an offensive blast by SBU heading into the
break. Is a solid second half and win forthcoming...?
#Post#: 44815--------------------------------------------------
Re: Game 10: at Rider, 12/14 1pm
By: Chairman of the Board Date: December 14, 2024, 1:11 pm
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never jump at a jumpshooter.
how do you get onto a div1 roster and not know that?
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Re: Game 10: at Rider, 12/14 1pm
By: Checkmate Date: December 14, 2024, 1:33 pm
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Rider is pretty bad. Can’t rebound and just hapless offensively.
A 15 point lead might as well be 30. Of course this is without
Weeks.
Going to be a real nice win for the guys. Good energy today, and
Luster was on some kind of heater. His stroke is close to
perfect.
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Re: Game 10: at Rider, 12/14 1pm
By: Accelerator Date: December 14, 2024, 1:54 pm
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When you shoot 13-for-24 from 3, you're probably going to win.
I don't think it's a sustainable strategy, but it was fun to
watch!
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