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Re: Game 26: at Maine 2/11
DIR By: OldSeawolf
Date: February 11, 2018, 7:55 pm
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Checkmate, I thought some of the 3’s late in the game were
really poor. Even 0ne of UC’s makes I thought was a dubious shot
choice. Love Saintel’s energy and athleticism - my one issue
with him is his inability to finish around the rim.
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Re: Game 26: at Maine 2/11
DIR By: guest282
Date: February 11, 2018, 9:01 pm
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> [quote author=avmsbu link=topic=678.msg21316#msg21316
date=1518390803]
> MacKenzine and Olaniyi both look they're going to be good. I'd
like to see more of Garcia but I don't think you could take
minutes away from Saintel or UC and/or Cornish.
>
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No chance, AV. Garcia isn’t ready for prime time, and Junior was
a monster defensively today. That is going to be a big part of
this team down the stretch. We ran away from Lowell when we
turned up the intensity defensively - on-the-ball pressure,
deflections, challenging shots, etc. Junior had three steals and
five blocks today. I wonder when that happened last at SBU.
Maybe some Warney game. Junior is fairly limited offensively,
but if he can fill a stat sheet with his energy, between steals,
blocks and offensive rebounds, fantastic. He’s the closest thing
we have to a shot blocker, and the shots he didn’t get he may
have challenged or at least got the opponent thinking about it.
He helped out on Calixte’s last drive and shot, which he
short-armed. Olaniyi has been tough defensively too. His
deflection made Calixte go get the ball past halfcourt and
attack our defense starting at 60 feet away.
I don’t get the complaints about the threes - at least not
today. You realize they were a big reason why we won, right? 7
for 16 in the first half, 4 for 13 in the second. I’ll take 11
makes every time. We won this game because we shut down Calixte
in the second half and some guys not named Yeboah hit some big
shots, including, lo and behold, some free throws.
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I agree that we won't likely see much of Garcia until next year,
and that Saintel is SB's best overall defender.
This one almost got away. I think SB was 2 for 6 from the line
in the last minute. That said, I'll take the two-game winning
streak. Hope to see the team get to .500 in the AE before the
final two games.
I'm not saying this is the ceiling but at this point, I'd be
happy with 8-8 and a second round conference tournament game.
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Re: Game 26: at Maine 2/11
DIR By: Moveitfred
Date: February 12, 2018, 10:45 am
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Missed this one other than the box score and what's here a day
after. Looking at the final four conference games, ending up 8-8
would be quite the achievement for this team I'd say.
Since we're thinking ahead, anyone else hoping/assuming UVM's
going to come to our place unbeaten...and wouldn't that be an
unlikely but fun cap to the season if SBU could miraculously
spoil their perfect show?
But much before any of that, on to Bing, where SBU always seems
to struggle no matter the team. I expect a rather dreary,
error-filled/low shooting percentage game that comes down to the
last shot like this one.
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