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Post by dadster81 on Feb 16, 2017 5:07:07 GMT -5
Running made an interesting comment - can Coburn still be redshirted? He has only a handful of minutes.
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Post by 2fal4life on Feb 16, 2017 5:38:43 GMT -5
They must have been watching ESPN. Probably Hillary supporters too 😱
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Post by runningrj1 on Feb 16, 2017 6:40:35 GMT -5
They must have been watching ESPN. Probably Hillary supporters too 😱 HA!
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Post by dadster81 on Feb 16, 2017 7:37:38 GMT -5
From the Buffalo News - a few interesting facts from their article "Bona stands 16-9 overall and very likely needs to win the Atlantic 10 tournament to get an NCAA Tournament bid. A first-round bye would aid that effort. But regardless of the A-10 tournament result, Bona now is in striking distance of 20 wins for the third time in the past six years and just the fourth time in the last 34 years." "Bona’s defense allowed 77.4 points a game and 39.3 percent three-point shooting in non-conference play. In A-10 play, the Bonnies are holding foes to 69 points and 33 percent three-point shooting." buffalonews.com/2017/02/15/bona-draft-5/
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Post by Jive36 on Feb 16, 2017 8:28:10 GMT -5
Fordham has been tough on "D" for everyone....except us. They started out against us with tough defense that had us behind them close to double figures. But then Mark Schmidt set up the offense in Rochester to attack that D and we never looked back. I wonder if any of the other coaches in the A-10 watched our game vs. Fordham because if that's the D that is giving other teams trouble, the answers were most likely in our video of that game in Rochester... I wonder if some of our success against Fordham is because we practice against 1-3-1 and matchup zones every day because we run similar defenses. Fordham pressures a little more than we do but not everybody has multiple guys that can handle that pressure like we do in Adams, Mobley, Taqqee and Kaputo. Kaputo struggled early on in the Rochester game against the pressure but once Taqqee got involved with breaking the press we did a ton better.
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Post by thesocalkid on Feb 16, 2017 8:38:15 GMT -5
GREAT WIN FOR THE BONNIES !!!
As for the SBU students not showing up for the game I'm sure that they were all in their dorm rooms studying or staying in their rooms keeping warm or watching re-runs of Gomer Pyle. Those poor uninformed children probably just forgot there was Mens Basketball game last night! " forgive them Father for they have sinned "
On the other hand I assume they have never read the book " The Art of War " by Sun Su in which it says " turn your weakness into your strength " . The entire student body should have shown up - locked arms - and rocked the Reily Center. They missed a GREAT opportunity to make a statement.
GO BONNIES BEAT DAYTON
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Post by class70 on Feb 16, 2017 8:38:24 GMT -5
This board is always entertaining. The Bonnies play their best game of the year and yet a great deal of the comments are quibbles with the coach not playing a frosh benchwarmer. I certainly don't know what's behind that, but I'm sure both the coach and player are well aware of the situation and what the plan is for the future. The reason Bona relies heavily on starters is that we're not very deep talent-wise and we would like to win as many games as possible. If someone wants to speculate that a 20 year old kid will be worn out by the end of the season by playing 40 minutes in 30 to 35 games, please cite it. Scientific evidence please, not these foolish heuristics I see here all the time. I doubt it exists because the NCAA would probably have thought of restricting playing time if it did. The place for players to get experience and earn time on the floor is practice. Let the coach decide how to handle that. As to the team effort, it was very encouraging. However, Dayton is a much better team than LaSalle and we'll need a 40 minute effort like the first 25 minutes of this game to beat them. It can be done, but according to the estimable Ken Pomeroy the chances are just 18 out of 100. We have those Flyers right where we want them. Go Bonnies!
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Post by Jive36 on Feb 16, 2017 8:47:55 GMT -5
I think Schmidt wanted to sub out our starters at the end of the game but hey didn't execute. At 3:45 left Schmidt used a :30 second timeout put Mobley back in and tried to run a designed play for Ikpeze so it looked. That started a string of six straight empty possessions where the starters could not execute the play that Schmidt wanted them to run. I firmly believe had they run that play correctly you would have seen the bench emptied.
Now that does not mean that he couldn't have gotten Kaputo and Griffin some more minutes in the second half. Griffin didn't play at all and most of Kaputo's minutes were the result of Mobley giving two bad fouls. In fact I wondered when Mobley fouled out if he wasn't frustrated that he hadn't been subbed out yet. It was a stupid obvious foul that I have seen him avoid dozens of times.
As much praise as our offense has received for their first half performance last night the second half was rough 1-8 from 3 and 13-32 overall. We didn't need a big second half but I'm not convinced our offensive woes are all fixed or that we played a complete game.
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Post by thesenator on Feb 16, 2017 8:48:24 GMT -5
3 Things: 1. No excuse for student section to be only 1/3rd full. What...2/3rds of the students had HW to complete? Someone mentioned they are boycotting because they were blamed for the vcu loss. Seriously!? Were they ever blamed by anyone associated with the school? I only heard supportive statements by Schmidt. And even if they were blamed at first..suck it up...letter of support and Schmidt in the Hickey today asking for support...Talk about being a snowflake. It's your duty to show up and support your school. (At least I felt like it was when I was there) 2. If Coburn wasn't going to see any time why not red shirt him? 3. Keep this rolling into Dayton. Get the W and let's make some noise. i'm disappointed that there weren't more students at the game (btw, the announcers said 1/3 of the students were there...very generous of them...i think if we have 1,800 undergrads, about 360 were there last night=20%), but i can't say i'm surprised...college kids act stupidly at times and sometimes very stupidly, but i don't think they're dumb...they're told they are wanted/needed at the games and that the vcu debacle wasn't their fault, but then out comes the security and uniformed personnel...very visible in front of the student section and on the court during time outs...what are they expecting? a riot?...i think the students may have done what my dearly departed old uncle used to say: you "vote with your feet" and the students voted not to have their feet enter the rc...i think that's the wrong way for the students to go...if i were advising them, i'd tell them to get a few of them that would represent the student body and ask for a meeting with the powers that be...ask the powers that be, what really are your concerns and how can the students assist in allaying those concerns while at the same time be able to show the bona spirit that has been a trademark of bona basketball for many decades...
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Post by Jive36 on Feb 16, 2017 8:51:25 GMT -5
As to the team effort, it was very encouraging. However, Dayton is a much better team than LaSalle and we'll need a 40 minute effort like the first 25 minutes of this game to beat them. It can be done, but according to the estimable Ken Pomeroy the chances are just 18 out of 100. We have those Flyers right where we want them. Go Bonnies! So your telling me I have a chance? Fordham last night only had a 7% chance according to Mr Pomeroy so it's not impossible.
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Post by Jive36 on Feb 16, 2017 9:05:52 GMT -5
I wonder if the students would have turned out better had the team won at GW. That being said I was a little disappointed that there wasn't a better turnout. This was the first game I was at since the VCU debacle and I think there were more students at some of the Soloman era games than there were last night. There is only one more home game with the students on campus so hopefully they show up for it. I did check the spring break schedule and it seems that Bonas has finally gotten with the rest of the world and made spring break the first week of March rather than the last week of February. I hope this has a positive impact on attendance by the students at the A10s which lineup with the week they are off. If they are boycotting or protesting I hope they realize the only people they are hurting is the team and themselves.
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Post by tastylicks on Feb 16, 2017 9:09:08 GMT -5
student section very disappointing last night. Those that showed up, thank you.
Those that didn't come, I can understand their angst, they have been disrespected. With the stupid courtside seats, the media and the league running them over and ridiculous overreaction in terms of the number of security guards, I understand why the students would be pissed. But at the same time by sitting games out they are missing an entertaining basketball team, a team I'd killed to have as a student, no showing is not the right way. Show up and be proud
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Post by agoo on Feb 16, 2017 9:17:27 GMT -5
This board is always entertaining. The Bonnies play their best game of the year and yet a great deal of the comments are quibbles with the coach not playing a frosh benchwarmer. I certainly don't know what's behind that, but I'm sure both the coach and player are well aware of the situation and what the plan is for the future. The reason Bona relies heavily on starters is that we're not very deep talent-wise and we would like to win as many games as possible. If someone wants to speculate that a 20 year old kid will be worn out by the end of the season by playing 40 minutes in 30 to 35 games, please cite it. Scientific evidence please, not these foolish heuristics I see here all the time. I doubt it exists because the NCAA would probably have thought of restricting playing time if it did. The place for players to get experience and earn time on the floor is practice. Let the coach decide how to handle that. As to the team effort, it was very encouraging. However, Dayton is a much better team than LaSalle and we'll need a 40 minute effort like the first 25 minutes of this game to beat them. It can be done, but according to the estimable Ken Pomeroy the chances are just 18 out of 100. We have those Flyers right where we want them. Go Bonnies! The quibbles are more about resting Jay, Mobley, Taqqee, and Gregg in a game that was over after 25 minutes. What sense does it make to play your top player 40 minutes in a game that stopped being competitive in the closing moments of the first half?
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Post by words74 on Feb 16, 2017 9:50:18 GMT -5
If you think that last night's game was over after 25 minutes, you might want to rethink that. You don't think that it's possible that LaSalle has a 2nd half equal to our 1st half? A few turnovers, some hot shooting and before you know it the game changes.
Anyone remember last year's Dayton game. We were down by a larger margin in the first half- 45 -18 - and came back to make it a game in the 2nd half, losing by only 6! Imagine what the board would look like if Schmidt took out his starters and we lost the game.
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Post by bub on Feb 16, 2017 9:56:06 GMT -5
If you think that last night's game was over after 25 minutes, you might want to rethink that. You don't think that it's possible that LaSalle has a 2nd half equal to our 1st half? A few turnovers, some hot shooting and before you know it the game changes. Anyone remember last year's Dayton game. We were down by a larger margin in the first half- 45 -18 - and came back to make it a game in the 2nd half, losing by only 6! Imagine what the board would look like if Schmidt took out his starters and we lost the game. With the 3 pt shot and lack of defense the game is never over in college basketball. West Virginia led Kansas by 14 points with 2 1/2 minutes left the other night. West Virginia lost.
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