Drexel Postgame Thoughts...

[OrangeFoo]

I'm starting to see the upside of Zephir getting minutes. I was complaining about him getting minutes over Fennell a lot the last couple weeks. He was a bit of a spark plug defensively to help start our run in the second half. He also was a little bit of a stat stuffer in his 15 minutes. Importantly, he looks more confident and sure of his role than Fennell out there. If this continues, they might be in a battle for minutes all season long, which would be very good for team depth, which was tested again today.

It’s amazing that Zephir is the 9th or 10th guy on the roster when it’s healthy. He would be 6th guy on the later JB teams and would have gotten a lot of run even last year. Amazing recruiting there.

The biggest asset for this team is that there is very little drop off between the first 5 and the next 5. Imagine when JJ gets back… the either Anthony, Kingz or JJ will be running with the bench mob.

 

[OrangeFoo]

Who said they are a good team? Definitely am not trying to overrate them to be clear. They are, however, a well coached team is my point and the comments about them developing guys who have moved on to P4 programs is accurate. They are a step up from the first two games for that reason on its own.

This was their worst non conference loss since 18-19 and outside the NCAAT the worst neutral/home loss in terms of margin than anything I could find in the past 20 yrs.

We manhandled them as we should in the second half and did so away from the Dome and with still no JJ and even losing one of the key reserves for most of the game.

The announcers made them sound like a bubble team. He kept saying “quality team”. FWIW they seem like a good squad with a few pieces but they are a one trick pony with 3s and once we took them away it was over unless they got an offensive rebound