Game #6: UMass-Lowell - Sat Nov 23 @ 2pm ET

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

Hope everybody took the under...

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 10 years ago

So bad on offense....

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 10 years ago

Amigos in at 4.5 mins

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 10 years ago

one three ball, one assist

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 10 years ago

EC should play 40 minutes.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

jcru wrote:Amigos in at 4.5 mins

Did you notice Hurley talking to EC and Biggie right before the tip? Both had their warmups off already and I would be willing to bet Hurley was giving them the "just hang with me for a few minutes and you are right in there" talk.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 10 years ago

I'm sure everyone has a pretty good idea of when they'll get into the game (if everything goes according to plan). I also noticed Butler with his warmup off up near the coaches. Was thinking he might get some burn at some point in this game. If he can shoot at all, I'd welcome it.

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 10 years ago

Gil with a nice hook.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 10 years ago

EC should not come out of the game until we are up by 20.

Unread post by **ATPTourFan** » 10 years ago

That EC is pretty good.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

TruePoint wrote:I'm sure everyone has a pretty good idea of when they'll get into the game (if everything goes according to plan). I also noticed Butler with his warmup off up near the coaches. Was thinking he might get some burn at some point in this game. If he can shoot at all, I'd welcome it.

I was thinking the same thing about Butler.

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 10 years ago

TruePoint wrote:I'm sure everyone has a pretty good idea of when they'll get into the game (if everything goes according to plan). I also noticed Butler with his warmup off up near the coaches. Was thinking he might get some burn at some point in this game. If he can shoot at all, I'd welcome it.

I agree with just about everything you said here, except I'm left wondering what the plan is?

15 Year Lurker · Unread post by **15 Year Lurker** » 10 years ago

God EC is good

Passing, shooting, everything

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

Love everything about the way TJ is playing in this game.

twisted3829 · Unread post by **twisted3829** » 10 years ago

nice 3 by Powell there

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

twisted3829 wrote:nice 3 by Powell there

Real nice drive after that also just didnt fall for him.

bigappleram · Unread post by **bigappleram** » 10 years ago

kind of shocked DH is pulling a "Baron-esque" move by not doing the obvious, and shuffling the starting lineup. we are at our best with the 3 M's.

getting a little cute here with a 4 guard lineup, and Hassan at Center. dont think we are there yet.

Blue Man · Unread post by **Blue Man** » 10 years ago

bigappleram wrote:kind of shocked DH is pulling a "Baron-esque" move by not doing the obvious, and shuffling the starting lineup. we are at our best with the 3 M's.

getting a little cute here with a 4 guard lineup, and Hassan at Center. dont think we are there yet.

waiting for hurley to take off his baron mask

Blue Man · Unread post by **Blue Man** » 10 years ago

Biruta looks like jon clark.

we look like a jim baron team.

mike powell is garbage.

pc is going to do things to our butts that I've only seen in the saw movies.

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 10 years ago

haha

cannot argue with any of that

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 10 years ago

it could be the priests vs the alter boys

Iona 42 , George Mason 16

SmartyBarrett · Unread post by **SmartyBarrett** » 10 years ago

Anyone else just get the blue screen of death on the live stream?

EDIT: Never mind, it's back.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

SmartyBarrett wrote:Anyone else just get the blue screen of death on the live stream?

EDIT: Never mind, it's back.

The 2nd half is usually when the audio stops syncing with the video. Fingers crossed this time...

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 10 years ago

My feeling on the first half is that they could have kept on the gas and blown this team away with about 7-8 minutes left in the half, but instead Dan decided to experiment with lineups a little. I'm ok with that. We're going to win this game comfortably anyways. This is as good of a time as any to mix and match and see what combinations work together and which ones don't.

The other thing is that we can survive an awful first five minutes against a bad team, but that is a habit we absolutely have to break. At least it didn't take a whole half this time, but we have to come out if the gates better.

EC is a stud.

Awesome moment with Lamar during the timeout.

SmartyBarrett · Unread post by **SmartyBarrett** » 10 years ago

adam914 wrote:
SmartyBarrett wrote:Anyone else just get the blue screen of death on the live stream?

EDIT: Never mind, it's back.
The 2nd half is usually when the audio stops syncing with the video. Fingers crossed this time...

Finger crossing didn't work.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

adam914 wrote:
SmartyBarrett wrote:Anyone else just get the blue screen of death on the live stream?

EDIT: Never mind, it's back.
The 2nd half is usually when the audio stops syncing with the video. Fingers crossed this time...

And right on cue...audio not matching up. What garbage...

Blue Man · Unread post by **Blue Man** » 10 years ago

This team is so bad its going to make lamar odom relapse and start freebasing whatever he can find in the stands.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

Blue Man wrote:This team is so bad its going to make lamar odom relapse and start freebasing whatever he can find in the stands.

Too bad there is nothing in the stands...

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 10 years ago

Blue Man wrote:Biruta looks like jon clark.

we look like a jim baron team.

mike powell is garbage.

pc is going to do things to our butts that I've only seen in the saw movies.

Blue Man wrote:This team is so bad its going to make lamar odom relapse and start freebasing whatever he can find in the stands.

How drunk are you?

Blue Man · Unread post by **Blue Man** » 10 years ago

How drunk are you that you think biruta or powell looks good? Or that we look good?

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 10 years ago

I mean...am I going to write a book about how epically great we were today? No. But we're fine. Horrible first five minutes and the rest has been kind of blah, but nothing to have an aneurysm over. I don't get what your venom is all about. Seems like this was a perfectly workmanlike 6.5/10 win. I would save all that anger for a loss. You sound like the blind rage of a drunk man like Brady back in the day.

RIFan · Unread post by **RIFan** » 10 years ago

between Italy, the preseason and the first part of the season they have played about 10 games together...how long do they get a pass for "Rust" and being "young"?

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 10 years ago

I'm going to have to slap you with a "Low Expectations" Yellow Card, TP.

This is by far the least talented team we have played all season. "Bad Offense" as you yourself put it, is inexcusable.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

Until the George Mason game according to some on here. Although they are getting smoked by Iona today, so I'm not sure if the entire success of our season still rides on that one game or not anymore.

RIFan · Unread post by **RIFan** » 10 years ago

As I said in another game thread...I don't think this team (at least what they have shown so far) is better or more talented than last years.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

RIFan wrote:As I said in another game thread...I don't think this team (at least what they have shown so far) is better or more talented than last years.

Hard to argue with that at this point. They SHOULD be way more talented, but arent showing it so far.

DanInAZ · Unread post by **DanInAZ** » 10 years ago

I am not watching the game. But seeing 11 for 21 for FTs kills me.

RIFan · Unread post by **RIFan** » 10 years ago

If a win can be a "bad" win, we almost have our second in a week.

Unread post by **TruePoint** » 10 years ago

jcru wrote:I'm going to have to slap you with a "Low Expectations" Yellow Card, TP.

This is by far the least talented team we have played all season. "Bad Offense" as you yourself put it, is inexcusable.

Ok but it isn't like we struggled with this team. We led the whole game, experimented with some funky lineups and won easily. It wasn't super pretty, but to make it sound like it was a disaster is weird to me. This game didn't move the needle for me one way or the other. My opinion of this team is no different than it was this morning. Still taking a wait-and-see attitude. Not going to melt down over a double digit win. I don't care how bad the other team is.

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 10 years ago

This would be the "bad" win, in that scenario. Metro State would be the "good" win, in comparison.

Metro State was a much better team on a less than neutral site for them, than this crapola.

15 Year Lurker · Unread post by **15 Year Lurker** » 10 years ago

HAlf way to the win total of last year...next!

jcru · Unread post by **jcru** » 10 years ago

It's a win, but it's sloppy.

And the coming out each half and sleep walking through the first five mins each time continues.

The bigs do not finish strong at all, even against poor competition. Brown also beat this team by 10, so the fact that game is at Brown this year, means it will be a dogfight based on this game.

Steve McDonald just now: "they are going to have to go back to the drawing board, Don, because there are not a lot of teams they could have beat tonight."

That's a quote from an impartial observer, TP. Steve McDonald is hardly a hater.

DanInAZ · Unread post by **DanInAZ** » 10 years ago

12 FT misses. It might not have mattered in this game but it will in a close A10 game.

That is more FT misses than I ever saw my dad miss in the hundreds of games he played in over a 30 year span (He still plays full court hoops from time to time at 73). Terrible. A team that is focused typically always makes their FTs.

RIFan · Unread post by **RIFan** » 10 years ago

only out rebounded them by 5 while they have been out rebounded by an average of 17 a game.

Luke just said that if the Bigs aren't going to do their job we may have to play smaller.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

Very interesting to listen to Murray in the postgame. He said they aren't happy at all with this effort.

luke · Unread post by **luke** » 10 years ago

Totally agree with Steve Mc Donald. A good team would have killed UMASS Lowell today. Hope maybe some hangover from the trip had something to do with today's play. Right now Mathews is about the only guy playing well. He has been impressive. When he isn't in the game there is no offense.

hrstrat57 · Unread post by **hrstrat57** » 10 years ago

IMHO nothing we can learn from this one.... Move along.

On another topic it appears clear Butler is not going to play. Can he still be red shirted or is it too late?

twisted3829 · Unread post by **twisted3829** » 10 years ago

too late, he's played in a game

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 10 years ago

Blue Man · Unread post by **Blue Man** » 10 years ago

So can we stop being fanboys now and admit there's a problem? Or should we just pretend a win is a win and struggling to beat the worst team in division I is "rust" even though we've played 10 games together against varied competition?