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Re: Game 30: AE Quarterfinals – SBU v. UMBC
DIR By: steveoh
Date: March 3, 2016, 11:43 am
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I'm usually Pikiell's harshest critic, but I actually thought
our Seawolves played great (besides the free-throw shooting).
UMBC were hitting tough contested shots at a ridiculous pace.
That happens sometimes. The key was that Warney was able to keep
pace with them throughout. We still had our patented horrifying
spacing on offense, players running into other players, lack of
feeding the post, etc, but Warney, as usual, cleaned it all up
and made it look better than it really was.
Seriously, it was UMBC's night. They should have won. But we
won. That's a great sign.
The thing to worry about is that Albany, Vermont and UMBC all
had back-to-back-to-back good-to-great shooting nights against
us recently. But it really looks like they all made contested
shots rather than it being the cause of a team-wide defensive
breakdown. Bad luck, if you will.
Hopefully.
#Post#: 15282--------------------------------------------------
Re: Game 30: AE Quarterfinals – SBU v. UMBC
DIR By: Checkmate
Date: March 3, 2016, 4:09 pm
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--- Quote from: steveoh link ---
>
> I'm usually Pikiell's harshest critic, but I actually thought
our Seawolves played great (besides the free-throw shooting).
UMBC were hitting tough contested shots at a ridiculous pace.
That happens sometimes. The key was that Warney was able to keep
pace with them throughout. We still had our patented horrifying
spacing on offense, players running into other players, lack of
feeding the post, etc, but Warney, as usual, cleaned it all up
and made it look better than it really was.
>
> Seriously, it was UMBC's night. They should have won. But we
won. That's a great sign.
>
> The thing to worry about is that Albany, Vermont and UMBC all
had back-to-back-to-back good-to-great shooting nights against
us recently. But it really looks like they all made contested
shots rather than it being the cause of a team-wide defensive
breakdown. Bad luck, if you will.
>
> Hopefully.
>
>
>
--- End Quote ---
You're right with the shooting, particularly with the last two -
Maine, which was also in there, was terrible shooting the ball.
Vermont and UMBC couldn't miss. I thought UNH shot better than
it did in its narrow loss here, but the percentages were bad -
it was really just early on and then Leissner late.
The spacing on offense comes and goes. Sometimes we're moving it
well; other times we really stagnate and rely on helter-skelter
situations or our size advantage underneath. I really feel like
the O has lacked flow since the Albany game here. I'll come back
to it again - that Walker took it inside and took makeable shots
rather than firing up jumpers was huge. Good things happen when
you get into the middle of the defense.He was never out of
control in transition as we've become accustomed to seeing. I
hope Thrower understand his strengths and weaknesses as well.
He's shown some good things out there the last few.
A buddy calls Walker our Lance Stephenson. I call him our Swaggy
P. He's more defensive minded than both but you understand where
we're coming from.
Quality post. Your opinion's always welcome.
#Post#: 15283--------------------------------------------------
Re: Game 30: AE Quarterfinals – SBU v. UMBC
DIR By: Hammertime
Date: March 3, 2016, 4:59 pm
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--- Quote from: Checkmate link ---
>
> [quote author=steveoh link=topic=509.msg15280#msg15280
date=1457027027]
> I'm usually Pikiell's harshest critic, but I actually thought
our Seawolves played great (besides the free-throw shooting).
UMBC were hitting tough contested shots at a ridiculous pace.
That happens sometimes. The key was that Warney was able to keep
pace with them throughout. We still had our patented horrifying
spacing on offense, players running into other players, lack of
feeding the post, etc, but Warney, as usual, cleaned it all up
and made it look better than it really was.
>
> Seriously, it was UMBC's night. They should have won. But we
won. That's a great sign.
>
> The thing to worry about is that Albany, Vermont and UMBC all
had back-to-back-to-back good-to-great shooting nights against
us recently. But it really looks like they all made contested
shots rather than it being the cause of a team-wide defensive
breakdown. Bad luck, if you will.
>
> Hopefully.
>
>
>
--- End Quote ---
You're right with the shooting, particularly with the last two -
Maine, which was also in there, was terrible shooting the ball.
Vermont and UMBC couldn't miss. I thought UNH shot better than
it did in its narrow loss here, but the percentages were bad -
it was really just early on and then Leissner late.
The spacing on offense comes and goes. Sometimes we're moving it
well; other times we really stagnate and rely on helter-skelter
situations or our size advantage underneath. I really feel like
the O has lacked flow since the Albany game here. I'll come back
to it again - that Walker took it inside and took makeable shots
rather than firing up jumpers was huge. Good things happen when
you get into the middle of the defense.He was never out of
control in transition as we've become accustomed to seeing. I
hope Thrower understand his strengths and weaknesses as well.
He's shown some good things out there the last few.
A buddy calls Walker our Lance Stephenson. I call him our Swaggy
P. He's more defensive minded than both but you understand where
we're coming from.
Quality post. Your opinion's always welcome.
[/quote]
I agree with your thesis Checkmate. But we like to call Walker
"The tasmanian Devil"
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