Game Thread St. Bonaventure @ George Washington (Wednesday 1/9/13)

[z8-Minutemen]

The Battle for 13th! Should be a good one. Looking doubtful for Welders.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by z8-Minutemen

The Battle for 13th! Should be a good one. Looking doubtful for Welders.

God I hope Bonas beats Umass. Nothing in my life has made me happier than when Bonas opened the door to the NIT for Umass last year.Lets hope it happens again.

[Free Quebec]

Bonnies have a big edge on the perimeter, GW has big edge inside. Not sure how we will match up when Larsen is in the game. Presumably Garino, out lockdown fresh wing defender would guard conger but that would leave Armwood, the league leading shot blocker defending Johnson or someone smaller on the perimeter.

The other interesting thing is that it's a matchup of strengths and weaknesses. GW is very good defensively, but the Bonnie's have a decent offense. On the flip side the Bonnie's have been bad on d but GW has been abysmal on offense.

I figure wright and Kromah are keys. Wright has been a GW killer and if he's hitting threes (or Mosely) it could be tough for GW to score enough. But Kromah is key the other way. He's getting benched for lack of effort against Georgia - and to give freshman kethan savage a shot - if Kromah responds well (not only does GW need him to defend but he is our only sometimes explosive perimeter scorer) he can make GW a very dangerous team.

[BrownIndians85]

Originally Posted by z8-Minutemen

The Battle for 13th! Should be a good one. Looking doubtful for Welders.

You need some new material, (edited).

The only way you become relevant again is to hire another stand-up guy like Coach Cal. Oh wait, what's this I hear about academic integrity? Recruiting violations? What? Final Four? Vacated?

[Free Quebec]

Actually Pomeroy has UMASS ranked 13th in the league so maybe this is the battle for 12th.

[xu95]

Line is GW by 2.5. I would take the Bonnies and the points on this one.

[BrownIndians85]

Originally Posted by BrownIndians85

You need some new material, (edited).

The only way you become relevant again is to hire another stand-up guy like Coach Cal. Oh wait, what's this I hear about academic integrity? Recruiting violations? What? Final Four? Vacated?

Come on xu95.. what is this? Kindergarten Cops? Seriously, if "prick" is considered offensive as an insult, or "name calling" as you say, then the same tired insult of "welders" should make his whole post be removed.

Since when did this place turn into middle school study hall?

[BrownIndians85]

Originally Posted by xu95

Line is GW by 2.5. I would take the Bonnies and the points on this one.

Nope. Bonnies cannot win on the road. They nearly frittered away their only road win against mighty Cornell. Call me a pessimist and I hope I'm wrong, but I'm taking GW by double-digits until this Bona team proves it can play 40 minutes of basketball on someone else's court. Hell, I'd take 40 minutes at the Reilly Center right now.

P.S. GW > Arkansas State

[letsgogdub]

Has St. B. ever had a live wolf as a mascot? --I know, I know. Wolves are hard to domesticate.

I was reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves_...orking_animals

Seems like it might be cool if you did.

(I know, lawsuit risk, etc.)

[res]

Originally Posted by BrownIndians85

Nope. Bonnies cannot win on the road. They nearly frittered away their only road win against mighty Cornell. Call me a pessimist and I hope I'm wrong, but I'm taking GW by double-digits until this Bona team proves it can play 40 minutes of basketball on someone else's court. Hell, I'd take 40 minutes at the Reilly Center right now.

P.S. GW > Arkansas State

Good call, so far.

[z8-Minutemen]

Originally Posted by BrownIndians85

You need some new material, (edited).

The only way you become relevant again is to hire another stand-up guy like Coach Cal. Oh wait, what's this I hear about academic integrity? Recruiting violations? What? Final Four? Vacated?

I didn't see what you called me, but it must not have been pretty. I'm glad your maturity is showing. Also good job, xu95.

Also, speaking of academic integrity and recruiting violations, how bout that welding incident? A little hypocrisy I see... At least our team made a Final Four, your team did nothing.

[UMass87]

Rag on UMass all you want SBU fans but GW made you their bitch tonight. Is your a$$ feeling a bit sore?

[Turtle]

I think our assholes have already been stretched from the previous games... Chris Johnson and Conger are the only ones who look good on the team. Are bigs were awful, to many missed catches from Ndoye. There were many "no look" passes that just were way off target. GW was nailing three pointers, seems to be a common theme. Why is our three point defense so bad? Oh well, good game GW.

[Bona84]

Yes. The Bonnies cured GW's shooting woes.

[Free Quebec]

Well, both Kromah and Savage responded to the new roles with 26 combined.

Armwood was usual all-conference self with 11 points, 14 boards, 5 blocks and 3 assists.

Garino chipped in 12 points, 5 assists and strong defense.

GW is becoming a very good defensive team so it's usually about whether they can make shots and take care of the ball. But I hope those dummies who were predicting 2-3 wins for GW in conference play can recognize now that GW is on the way up, not down- though with 4 freshman starting it will be uneven.