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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3221936, member: 289"] - You want two things from a game. You want to win and you want to come away with the impression that a lot more wins are to follow. We achieved the first goal but not the second. For most of the night, it looked like a battle of two mediocre, (or worse teams). We won’t face anyone on Oakland’s level in the new year and we struggled to pull away from them all night. - Something is wrong when the team that’s supposed to be national power shoots 33 of their 57 field goal attempts from the three point line, (58%) and the mid-major shoots only 17 of their 42 attempts from there, (40%). - But that’s because Oakland has 6-7 261 Xavier Hill-Mais (16 points on 6 for 9 from the field and 4 for 4 from the foul line) and 6-11 240 Brad Brechting (20p, 6/7, 8/8). They can recruit guys like that but we can’t? - Brent Axe said this afternoon that these next three games are a chance to give Quincy Guerrier, Brycen Goodine and Jesse Edwards a chance to show what they can do and get some game experience. Because we’ll need them in the conference season. Goodine for the second straight game didn’t play at all. Edwards managed 7 minutes. He got 3 points and 2 rebounds. Guerrier played for 12 minutes. He had 2 points and 2 rebounds, although he did mange 3 assists, including a dandy pass between two defenders to Dolezaj for a lay-up. He also threw a cross body block at a three point shooter well after the ball had bene released and sacked Haill-Mais in a rebound battle, bloodying his nose with an elbow, (I was surprised he wasn’t ejected.) The big problem as that the failure of their teammates to blow out the Golden Grizzlies so these guys could play a big chunk of the game. - We again lost the battle of the boards 29-34. [/QUOTE]

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