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Got to the dome early. Took a brother who hadn’t been there for about 10 years. He was impressed by the renovations.
Saw a familiar face with the coaches for Monmouth. Our old friend Rick Callahan, who was on the SU staff long ago, is working for them. Nice.
Saw King Rice play at the ESG when he was maybe 16. It’s pretty disturbing when you look at him now, and see all white hair and gaunt features of an old man. Time marches on. In any event, it looks like he and Autry are good friends, and they had a good time discussing things. I think King and Reese played together at UNC.
I haven’t read any posts on the board yet. I’m sure it’s been discussed, but I saw Betsey on the sideline pregame wearing one of those plastic walking boots on his bad ankle/foot. We all knew he wasn’t going to play, but man I am worried about him playing Vegas now. He does have six more days to heal.
I thought the refs were terrible. I don’t care if you want to let the guys play, if you want to call it tight; whatever. But be consistent. On both sides of the ball. From possession to possession. The two clowns we got last night were a mess. Both coaching staffs were continually screaming at them and pulling their hair out in frustration. As were the fans.
They let Monmouth play extremely physical defense early, the. Reversed course and started calling almost everything. Come on guys. It’s a 930 start. People want to get home and go on their lives. It’s not all about you blowing a whistle and showing how much of a big shot you are.
At one point there was a loose ball right in front of Autry. Sadiq got to it first, Big Fro guy from Monmouth smashed into him a half second later, and the refs somehow called the foul on White. Autry lost it. Ad did every fan in the building. It was the single worst call I’ve seen in 50 years of college basketball fandom. Yes Froggy, you piece of dung. You are finally off the hook.
That was a huge call because he and Big Fro guy both got in foul trouble. Big Fro guy would’ve played a lot less minutes and this would’ve really hurt their chances to stay in the game. Sadiq was our best player off the bench and he ended up barely playing in the second half, lately because of this awful call. Don’t remember seeing these clown refs before. I assume they’re from whatever conference Monmouth plays in. I hope we never see them again.
I am happy Monmouth played physical defense. That was good preparation for Houston, who will give us the same thing times 10. They like to double the ball and did it regularly. It didn’t bother us much, except for Kiyan, who really got flustered by it. People are going to see that film, and double the crap out of him. I hope he works on getting rid of the ball quicker and being tougher. And then he was asked to shoot 3 FTs when Monmouth got a technical and missed them all badly.
It was a tough day for KA. At one point he had two or three shots blocked under the basket all in one possession. It was his first adversity in college basketball, and I hope it helps him.
Big Fro guy did almost nothing in the first half but caught fire in the second, hitting a bunch of threes and drawing a disturbing number of fouls. I don’t like certain players, he made all his free throws. Sitting quiet is very talented, but he’s young and Martha, and files too easily. This won’t be the only game this is the thousand oI don’t like certain players, he made all his free throws. Sadiq White is very talented, but he’s young and wild, and fouls too easily. Falls for the head fake every time. This won’t be the only game this season he fouls out of.
Monmouth had a big Greek guy who also hurt us inside. He was able to power Freeman down lowand drive him close to the basket so he could get an easy shot repeatedly. We had to switch William Kyle on him to get him to stop scoring.
Again, major problems on the defensive boards. Might be our biggest weakness right now. That or free throw shooting.
Was interested to see what JJ would bring to the table. That is defense was great but wasn’t awful. Was happy he didn’t take a lot of four shots. He played well in the second half, when we really needed him. The three he made late was the biggest play in the game. But the free-throw shooting……
I was mad at Autry when he left JJ in late and Monmouth fouled him intentionally. Smart move on their part, and it worked out well. I do give Adrian credit for being smart enough to start subbing out JJ situationally after that, so he couldn’t hurt us further. I’m sure that was tough to do.
Thought Nate George was excellent. My only quibble about him is late in the game, he didn’t fight to get the ball hard when we inbounded it. We really need him to have the ball late the game.
In the second half, for the first time this season, we saw Autry tighten the reins and really only play five guys. With White in foul trouble, he only played 3 minutes. The starters all played 16 minutes or more. We’ll see more of this in Vegas. It will be very interesting to see how much run the bench gets. Adrian has to play the bench quite a bit at least in the first game or two because we’re playing 3 games in 3 or 4 days. It would be really nice to get Betsey back. We missed him last night.
Saw a familiar face with the coaches for Monmouth. Our old friend Rick Callahan, who was on the SU staff long ago, is working for them. Nice.
Saw King Rice play at the ESG when he was maybe 16. It’s pretty disturbing when you look at him now, and see all white hair and gaunt features of an old man. Time marches on. In any event, it looks like he and Autry are good friends, and they had a good time discussing things. I think King and Reese played together at UNC.
I haven’t read any posts on the board yet. I’m sure it’s been discussed, but I saw Betsey on the sideline pregame wearing one of those plastic walking boots on his bad ankle/foot. We all knew he wasn’t going to play, but man I am worried about him playing Vegas now. He does have six more days to heal.
I thought the refs were terrible. I don’t care if you want to let the guys play, if you want to call it tight; whatever. But be consistent. On both sides of the ball. From possession to possession. The two clowns we got last night were a mess. Both coaching staffs were continually screaming at them and pulling their hair out in frustration. As were the fans.
They let Monmouth play extremely physical defense early, the. Reversed course and started calling almost everything. Come on guys. It’s a 930 start. People want to get home and go on their lives. It’s not all about you blowing a whistle and showing how much of a big shot you are.
At one point there was a loose ball right in front of Autry. Sadiq got to it first, Big Fro guy from Monmouth smashed into him a half second later, and the refs somehow called the foul on White. Autry lost it. Ad did every fan in the building. It was the single worst call I’ve seen in 50 years of college basketball fandom. Yes Froggy, you piece of dung. You are finally off the hook.
That was a huge call because he and Big Fro guy both got in foul trouble. Big Fro guy would’ve played a lot less minutes and this would’ve really hurt their chances to stay in the game. Sadiq was our best player off the bench and he ended up barely playing in the second half, lately because of this awful call. Don’t remember seeing these clown refs before. I assume they’re from whatever conference Monmouth plays in. I hope we never see them again.
I am happy Monmouth played physical defense. That was good preparation for Houston, who will give us the same thing times 10. They like to double the ball and did it regularly. It didn’t bother us much, except for Kiyan, who really got flustered by it. People are going to see that film, and double the crap out of him. I hope he works on getting rid of the ball quicker and being tougher. And then he was asked to shoot 3 FTs when Monmouth got a technical and missed them all badly.
It was a tough day for KA. At one point he had two or three shots blocked under the basket all in one possession. It was his first adversity in college basketball, and I hope it helps him.
Big Fro guy did almost nothing in the first half but caught fire in the second, hitting a bunch of threes and drawing a disturbing number of fouls. I don’t like certain players, he made all his free throws. Sitting quiet is very talented, but he’s young and Martha, and files too easily. This won’t be the only game this is the thousand oI don’t like certain players, he made all his free throws. Sadiq White is very talented, but he’s young and wild, and fouls too easily. Falls for the head fake every time. This won’t be the only game this season he fouls out of.
Monmouth had a big Greek guy who also hurt us inside. He was able to power Freeman down lowand drive him close to the basket so he could get an easy shot repeatedly. We had to switch William Kyle on him to get him to stop scoring.
Again, major problems on the defensive boards. Might be our biggest weakness right now. That or free throw shooting.
Was interested to see what JJ would bring to the table. That is defense was great but wasn’t awful. Was happy he didn’t take a lot of four shots. He played well in the second half, when we really needed him. The three he made late was the biggest play in the game. But the free-throw shooting……
I was mad at Autry when he left JJ in late and Monmouth fouled him intentionally. Smart move on their part, and it worked out well. I do give Adrian credit for being smart enough to start subbing out JJ situationally after that, so he couldn’t hurt us further. I’m sure that was tough to do.
Thought Nate George was excellent. My only quibble about him is late in the game, he didn’t fight to get the ball hard when we inbounded it. We really need him to have the ball late the game.
In the second half, for the first time this season, we saw Autry tighten the reins and really only play five guys. With White in foul trouble, he only played 3 minutes. The starters all played 16 minutes or more. We’ll see more of this in Vegas. It will be very interesting to see how much run the bench gets. Adrian has to play the bench quite a bit at least in the first game or two because we’re playing 3 games in 3 or 4 days. It would be really nice to get Betsey back. We missed him last night.
