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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 67742, member: 27"] Needs to be brief. Here goes: Young girl did the NA. Did a terrific job with it and ended up getting the biggest ovation of the entire night. Another really small crowd. I will say St Rose brought a significant number of fans, some scattered in good seats and a decent sized group behind one of the baskets. Was impressed by the St Rose team. They have a lot of kids from the NYC area that were not intimidated much by the Dome or playing a top 5 D1 team. They were well coached and played very hard too. SU played man all game long except when they zoned on inbounds plays and when they pressed. The man was not effective. Fab had some nice plays hustling back on defense but the team looked lackadaisical in general here. Kris Joseph in particular struggled in man. Not sure his knee is close to 100% right now. The starters got the team out to a good lead but when JB went deep to his bench in the first half, the lead melted away quickly and when a Roser hit a 3 at the end of the half, SU was shockingly only tied for the lead. Didn't think the starters looked very good early in the 2nd half either. Scoop got pulled after a bad lob pass to KJ turned into a turnover. He was replaced by MCW, who led an unlikely group on a long sustained run of excellence that pulled SU far ahead of the heady St Rose team. The other players who played during that run were Christmas, who played extended minutes at C for the first time, JS, KS and DW. JB went to the press with this group of athletic and long players. They forced a series of turnovers, scored most everytime they had the ball and the game became a blowout quite quickly. The best player on the court during the run was MCW, who made some nice defensive plays, a number of great passes and hit 3 3s for good measure. He is the best looking frosh guard we have had in a long time...at least since GMac. Looks like he and Christmas have a good connection...MCW likes to get the ball to RC down low, where RC did some damage against the undersized St Rose team. Special credit to DW and JS for their stellar defense. KJ became a lot more assertive during this period as well, scoring on some nice drives during this interval. JB substituted more freely in the 1st half than normal but as is his wont, when he finally found a lineup that was working in the 2nd half, he rode that horse till she dropped. Weird game. Disturbing to see the starters struggle some against a relatively weak opponent. This looks like it is going to be a finesse team. Really need Fab and Rak to play hard and get rebounds. Fab and MCW each drew a charge. This pleased me greatly. [/QUOTE]

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