SWC75
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- So we were up 66-42 with 12:21 left in the game and everybody was feeling good. The rest of the game was 36-43, (42 points in 27 minutes then 43 in 12), with visions of this team blowing a colossal lead to Albany to add to their woes. (I still remember losing a 24 lead to UMASS in the 2008 NIT and not bothering to read the board until the opening of the next season. Albany kept playing hard, getting rebounds and loose balls and making shot after shot. Fortunately, we were making shots, too and the game never got closer than 11 points. But the bloom was off the rose and the good feelings had mostly evaporated.
- Red said he’d put some guys in who didn’t play hard down the stretch, so it’s his fault. I looked up the substitutions during that period to see who specifically he may have bene talking about. At 11:24 Lucas Taylor replaced Chris Bell. At 7:55 Jyare Davis came in for Donnie Freeman. At 6:21 Taylor and Cuffe came out for Bell and Moore. At 5:00 Freeman replaced Davis. At 2:16 Davis replaced Lampkin. I don’t really see a pattern there.
- Donnie Freeman and Kyle Cuffe were 6 for 6 from the three point arc. The rest of the team, including our best outside shooters, Chris Bell and Elijah Moore, were 0 for 9. That doesn’t solve our shooting problem. Lucas Taylor last year at Georgia State was 64 for 181 from three, 35.4%. This year he’s 1 for 13. “Yeah but he’s not at Georgia State any more!” But how much difference does that make on an open three?
- Chance Westry seemed unable even to dribble a basketball properly. He’s not the answer to anything right now.
- The fancy numbers don’t mean a lot against Albany, a game team with no size. And they are almost completely offensive numbers. We gave up 85 points to Albany. What will we give up to Duke or even Wake Forest?
- Red said he’d put some guys in who didn’t play hard down the stretch, so it’s his fault. I looked up the substitutions during that period to see who specifically he may have bene talking about. At 11:24 Lucas Taylor replaced Chris Bell. At 7:55 Jyare Davis came in for Donnie Freeman. At 6:21 Taylor and Cuffe came out for Bell and Moore. At 5:00 Freeman replaced Davis. At 2:16 Davis replaced Lampkin. I don’t really see a pattern there.
- Donnie Freeman and Kyle Cuffe were 6 for 6 from the three point arc. The rest of the team, including our best outside shooters, Chris Bell and Elijah Moore, were 0 for 9. That doesn’t solve our shooting problem. Lucas Taylor last year at Georgia State was 64 for 181 from three, 35.4%. This year he’s 1 for 13. “Yeah but he’s not at Georgia State any more!” But how much difference does that make on an open three?
- Chance Westry seemed unable even to dribble a basketball properly. He’s not the answer to anything right now.
- The fancy numbers don’t mean a lot against Albany, a game team with no size. And they are almost completely offensive numbers. We gave up 85 points to Albany. What will we give up to Duke or even Wake Forest?