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Re: Game 7: at Wagner 11/23, 3pm
DIR By: OldSeawolf
Date: November 24, 2019, 7:24 am
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Awesome Checkmate, thanks! Amazing sequence right there,
punctuated by Mo making up big time for the missed FT. It even
captured the in/out audio feed -:) My blood pressure has
returned to normal, after having my video feed freeze at the
most inopportune moments of the game.
If we can stay healthy, we're gonna do some damage this year.
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Re: Game 7: at Wagner 11/23, 3pm
DIR By: OldSeawolf
Date: November 24, 2019, 8:06 am
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Unusual Newsday coverage for an OOC road game:
By Denis P. Gorman
Special to Newsday
Updated November 23, 2019 10:49 PM
Geno Ford could not stop gushing. He would not stop gushing.
About his team. About the opponent. About what he had just
witnessed.
And with reason. Though the calendar reads November, what took
place inside a tiny gym on Staten Island would not be out of
place in March.
“I’m going to be honest: I thought that was as good a college
basketball game as I’ve been in in years,” Ford said minutes
after Stony Brook’s pulsating 87-84 overtime win over Wagner on
Saturday afternoon at the Spiro Sports Center.
“It doesn’t happen a lot during the season, but it’s kind of one
of those games where it’s unfortunate that someone loses,” Ford
said. “Usually when you lose, you kind of deserve it because you
didn’t play well or the other team is just better. That was as
back-and-forth of a game as I’ve been involved in in a long
time.”
And it took the kind of detail play whose importance becomes
paramount in postseason tournaments for Stony Brook (5-2) to win
its fifth straight game.
With the Seawolves trailing 84-82, Mouhamadou Gueye was fouled
while grabbing an offensive rebound. The 6-9 junior made the
first free throw but missed the second — only to have the ball
bounce to Elijah Olaniyi. He got it back to Gueye at the
free-throw line extended, and he knocked down the go-ahead
jumper with 1.1 seconds left.
That left Wagner coach Bashir Mason frustrated with his team.
“You don’t do the fundamentals, free-throw boxouts, take care of
the ball in those pressure situations, the ball bounce your way,
and those guys handled those situations tonight much better than
us,” Mason said after the Seahawks dropped to 2-4. “And I think
they deserved to win.”
After Gueye’s jumper, Wagner’s Nigel Jackson turned the ball
over when his inbounds pass hit an overhead beam. Stony Brook
got the ball back, and Olaniyi made two free throws to seal the
win.
Makale Forman had 23 points and Olaniyi added 18 for Stony
Brook. Gueye had 12 points (10 in the second half) and nine
rebounds. Andrew Garcia also scored 12 points.
“I’m not going to sit here and tell you we have the best talent
that I’ve ever been around — we’ve got talent, we’ve got a lot
of talent — but it’s the best chemistry,” Ford said. “It’s
honestly something I’ve never seen. It speaks to the whole
character of the whole roster . . . I’ve just not been around a
group of guys who like each other like these guys do.”
Chemistry undoubtedly is an important element for any team. So,
too, is quality shooting, and the Seawolves made 50 percent of
their shots from the field (31-for-62) and 54.2 percent of their
three-point attempts (13-for-24).
The game was the eighth meeting between Stony Brook of the
America East Conference and Wagner of the Northeast Conference.
Stony Brook trails 5-3. Wagner had won the most recent matchup,
58-54, in the 2010-11 season. Stony Brook had won its previous
game against the Seahawks at Spiro Sports Center, 72-48, in
2009-10.
Jackson led the Seahawks with 22 points. Tyrone Nesby IV had 19,
Elijah Ford 15 and Alex Morales 14.
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Re: Game 7: at Wagner 11/23, 3pm
DIR By: Checkmate
Date: November 24, 2019, 4:34 pm
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“The best chemistry” he’s ever been around. Hey, you need talent
to be successful too, but I love hearing that these guys are a
close-knit group.
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