Go on record; are we back?

[OttoinGrotto]

This is what I’m talking about. Hedging is for cowards.

Let’s goooooooo

I remind everyone that in the first exhibition's game thread I declared that we were cutting down nets after just 5 minutes of game time elapsed.

 

[bevosu]

A definite maybe.

 

[IthacaMatt]

I think our GM hit a home run with roster construction. Just hope Red and his crew are strong enough coaches to get the most out of these guys.

LGO!!!

It would be nice if that big African kid, Diawara (?) could see a few minutes a game.

 

[IthacaMatt]

The league does have a few guys that are either way taller or way heavier than Kyle. In some cases, both.

His ability to win those matchups is in doubt, as sometimes you can't just leap over somebody to make up for the disadvantage in height and weight. If he, Souare, White and Freeman can't at least break even in those matchups, we could have some very long games.

I am optimistic Kyle can handle the challenge.

Soare and White can both defend opposing bigs for 5-10 minutes a game. We're deeper in this respect than we have been in at least 5 years.

 

[OrangeinDC]

Their best player Lilley was out along with at least 3 others. Another guy looked like he dislocated his shoulder and ended up in a cast, came out of the game early.

Like you said, no way to know yet but Binghamton was the better team with about 7 or 8 guys and a bunch of injured players in street clothes.

Dayumm!! Are they beat up from our game?

 

[RedtheGOB]

Obviously it’s early days. They passed the first test. Now onto the next and the next and the next.

I’ll know we’re back when we’re rolling 8 guys deep with no weak links against real competition and other P5 teams actually have us circled on the calendar as a legit battle.

For the longest time opposing coaches didn’t even have to gameplan us, we were just an afterthought until the next game. Their staffs could just look at our roster and see the glaring weaknesses in Nov that would haunt us all year. Lemoyne or Colgate or Bryant long ago, the other teams coach just needed to watch the highlights to see how to shut us down on both ends. And That goes back well before Autry as HC.

My hope is that we show up to play Houston and Kansas and they can’t just easily gameplan us. I’m not going to act like they’ll be worried about us but they know it’ll be a real game. When they watch the tape will they have to think about George making shots or throwing oops to Kyle, is it Kiyan or JJ at the 2, is Freeman playing the 3 or 4 or 5 when is Sadiq going to get on the court and give them trouble.

 

[OrangeinDC]

encouraged but lets see how we fare against Houston, Kansas, Tennessee amongst others before we pop the champagne

It's such a good feeling to look forward to those kinda games again! Win or lose, we're actually built to compete.

 

[721Comstock]

It would be nice if that big African kid, Diawara (?) could see a few minutes a game.

Negative, Ghostrider - the pattern is full.

He’s gonna RS.
So is Womack.

Don’t hold your breath.

We’ve got Kyle and Souare,
plus Donnie can play minutes there situationally / opportunistically / “break glass in case of emergency”.