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- Cornell was projected to finish third in the Ivy League. Does this highly competitive game mean we’d finish second? Or does it mean we’d finish third and Cornell would wind up fourth? In any case, what does this mean for where we’d finish in the ACC?
- Our defense was sometimes good, sometimes bad. Early on, we were allowing too many open three pointers and lucky that the Big Red missed them. Later, we extended the defense to cover the jump shots and Cornell blew by us for several lay-ups.
- The big news, of course is that Benny Williams didn’t play a minute. Per Brent Axe, he was seated before the game in the section of the ‘bench’ designated for players who “expect to play”. Later in the game he slept with thew fishes. Coach Autry in his presser simply said “This was a particularly hard game and I just played the guys I thought could help us win”. Ouch!
- Much of the post-game show consisted of Eric Devendorf pleading with Naheem McLeod to remember that he’s 7-4 and play like it. If he could just be “strong inside, it would set up so many things for his teammates”. Again Naheem didn’t have much in the way of bad stats but there are so many things he fails to do that don’t show up in the box score: rebounds and lose balls that he does little to contest, lay-ups he doesn’t block, plays where he get pushed under the basket or just backs off of players he is guarding, etc. etc. Due to his ‘soft’ play, we’ve got Maliq Brown playing center and Justin Taylor playing power forward, something that probably won’t work in ACC play.
- Kyle Cuffe came up short on a dunk and had a Cornell guard faceplant him on another. His leaping ability, which seemed so dramatic in his highs school tape, seems to be a thing of the past. He can’t shoot it but does. And he sets up nothing as a point guard.
- Our defense was sometimes good, sometimes bad. Early on, we were allowing too many open three pointers and lucky that the Big Red missed them. Later, we extended the defense to cover the jump shots and Cornell blew by us for several lay-ups.
- The big news, of course is that Benny Williams didn’t play a minute. Per Brent Axe, he was seated before the game in the section of the ‘bench’ designated for players who “expect to play”. Later in the game he slept with thew fishes. Coach Autry in his presser simply said “This was a particularly hard game and I just played the guys I thought could help us win”. Ouch!
- Much of the post-game show consisted of Eric Devendorf pleading with Naheem McLeod to remember that he’s 7-4 and play like it. If he could just be “strong inside, it would set up so many things for his teammates”. Again Naheem didn’t have much in the way of bad stats but there are so many things he fails to do that don’t show up in the box score: rebounds and lose balls that he does little to contest, lay-ups he doesn’t block, plays where he get pushed under the basket or just backs off of players he is guarding, etc. etc. Due to his ‘soft’ play, we’ve got Maliq Brown playing center and Justin Taylor playing power forward, something that probably won’t work in ACC play.
- Kyle Cuffe came up short on a dunk and had a Cornell guard faceplant him on another. His leaping ability, which seemed so dramatic in his highs school tape, seems to be a thing of the past. He can’t shoot it but does. And he sets up nothing as a point guard.
