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Great to see Sullivan go off from a scoring standpoint. We’re much better when he’s shooting with confidence. And with him, it’s mostly about confidence. Really nice game from Kam Gibson on both ends as well. Penn and Robin did a great job getting into the paint, although I think we could have done more of that.
Defensively, I thought we gave up position to de Graaf and Diakite too deep in the paint, but they didn’t really capitalize on it as much as they could have. If teams are paying attention, they should be able to catch us in bad matchups off of switches because we’re so small. But otherwise it was solid and we did nice job of team rebounding. Sullivan had a good game for NJIT, but he had to work for most of it.
We remain undefeated against league opponents that don’t play defense (Bryant and NJIT). The road games have been a different story though, so this game with Binghamton will be telling. It’s typically not been an easy trip historically. We’ve won most of them but it seems to always be a slog, and the teams are better matched this year than in the past.
Defensively, I thought we gave up position to de Graaf and Diakite too deep in the paint, but they didn’t really capitalize on it as much as they could have. If teams are paying attention, they should be able to catch us in bad matchups off of switches because we’re so small. But otherwise it was solid and we did nice job of team rebounding. Sullivan had a good game for NJIT, but he had to work for most of it.
We remain undefeated against league opponents that don’t play defense (Bryant and NJIT). The road games have been a different story though, so this game with Binghamton will be telling. It’s typically not been an easy trip historically. We’ve won most of them but it seems to always be a slog, and the teams are better matched this year than in the past.
They’re capable of remarkable lapses, although they seem to retain better focus against teams they deem worthy of their attention.UML looks like the class of AE. Hard to see how they lost 2 already
The initial reason I hopped on their bandwagon at the start is that I liked their roster on a matchup basis relative to Bryant. Today certainly didn’t do anything to invalidate that. Lowell had 20 offensive rebounds. Let that sink in for a second.
As much as this season has been wacky, if my life was at stake and I had to pick two finalists right this second, I’d probably still pick Lowell and Bryant. Albeit with a fairly low degree of confidence, especially wrt Bryant.
It’s just hard to look at a starting five that has Walker, Gross-Bullock, Pride and Timberlake and not see that as a top 2 team. It‘s a stupid amount of offensive talent for one team to have in a league like this. They don’t even have to be good defensively. They just need to not stink at it. They have more than enough time to make that happen before the tournament, as long as there is any kind of collective focus on the issue.
If that roster doesn’t make the finals in a year like this, it’s a pretty big wasted opportunity.
It’s just hard to look at a starting five that has Walker, Gross-Bullock, Pride and Timberlake and not see that as a top 2 team. It‘s a stupid amount of offensive talent for one team to have in a league like this. They don’t even have to be good defensively. They just need to not stink at it. They have more than enough time to make that happen before the tournament, as long as there is any kind of collective focus on the issue.
If that roster doesn’t make the finals in a year like this, it’s a pretty big wasted opportunity.
It leaves you speechless. They weren’t even pretending to care.Here's an example of where Bryant might be playing both man and zone...thus, aren't playing either one:
(Yeah, I'm cherry-picking one play from when they were already down 23, but I saw this pop up and WOOF)
One way to look at it is that if any other team in the league with the possible exception of Lowell played defense the way Bryant does, they’d probably be 0-7, or at best have a win or two. Bryant is 4-3, and two of those losses were road games against Lowell and Vermont. So the raw material is clearly there.
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