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Post by Phantom on Mar 6, 2024 21:40:19 GMT -5
"We talk'n about practice, c'mon man, we talk'n about practice?"
Players aren't showing up for practice? Really? Then Schmidt has lost this team...
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Post by Sipowicz on Mar 6, 2024 22:05:26 GMT -5
A flaw on offense this year has been running the offense thru CHAD, VENNING has 67 turnovers with only 17 assists, not that its part of his position but on certain nights, this kills them.
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Post by bonaballa1 on Mar 6, 2024 22:07:27 GMT -5
Is anyone actually surprised by this loss? Honestly. This team has shown time and time again that they consistently lay eggs vs lesser teams. Defensively speaking, this was their worst showing of the season. 15 threes for GW. It was like a pickup game.
Chad Venning has 17 assists compared to 65 turnovers this season. It’s at the point where I cringe every time he touches it. Part of the blame has to fall on coaching. He had consecutive turnovers in the 2nd half that led to easy buckets for GW. The offense flowed better in the first half with him on the bench and only taking 1 shot.
Meanwhile, our prized portal pickup takes 2 shots and played 19 minutes.
This team is so backwards in their approach. 29 games in, and Schmidt still hasn’t figured it out. The strength of this team is our guards and three point shooting. Not our post players.
If we’re going to go down, let’s go down swinging. With Mika, Moses, Chuck, Daryl, and Assa being aggressive. I can’t watch us throw the ball into Chad anymore. It’s insanely frustrating.
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Post by bigcat on Mar 6, 2024 22:37:29 GMT -5
SBU turnovers tonight… 5 by Chad and only 2 for rest of the team. GW’s defense attacked Chad and Noel right from the start and we never adjusted. Seems like that has been our downfall in many losses.
Not taking any cheap shots at Chad. His development has been remarkable, he plays hard and has been a key player. But when our coach/team cannot recognize 55 games into Chad’s career at SBU that he is not good at passing out of a double team then what are we spending our time on each day?
When has Schmidt ever been so focused on feeding the post?
When has a Bonnies’ roster had more effective 3-point shooters?
As Bonaballa said, we have it backwards.
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Post by coach on Mar 7, 2024 1:09:10 GMT -5
AGREED!!!
Hopefully we show up to the conference tourney and just let chad/barry/noel clean the boards and let the guards spread the court. Time to run and gun and open the offense up. Focusing the offense down low makes everyone else stand around and watch. These players are better playing uptempo and getting open shots.
Barry needs more than 6 minutes of playing time!!!!
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Post by joe48 on Mar 7, 2024 6:27:22 GMT -5
Did not see 2nd half. Not suprised by the outcome after watching GW nailing open shots in the first half. The team has not played consistently on defense all year. We get beat off double teams consistently and yet continue this strategy. We do not have good foot speed as a team so we cannot recover on switches defensively. You see a lot of the same mistakes every game and they should have been corrected by now. I agree with comments about focus and hunger. We have a lot of experience yet no leadership.
I made a comment earlier about bringing in 5th year players that start. Not so sure it is a great idea. Their play has been inconsistent. If the comment about practice is accurate then that explains the season in a nutshell. Schmidt is a good coach but this season has not been good. I don’t expect any miracles in Brooklyn.
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Post by kccgold on Mar 7, 2024 7:02:55 GMT -5
AGREED!!! Hopefully we show up to the conference tourney and just let chad/barry/noel clean the boards and let the guards spread the court. Time to run and gun and open the offense up. Focusing the offense down low makes everyone else stand around and watch. These players are better playing uptempo and getting open shots. Barry needs more than 6 minutes of playing time!!!! In general Barry does yes, and I love his game, last night though wasn’t his night. He was beaten a couple times on defense and frankly we needed to win that one with offense because GW was shooting the lights out and we know Barry isn’t there yet offensively |
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Post by Sipowicz on Mar 7, 2024 7:08:27 GMT -5
ASSA showing some offense in the first half cut into BARRY’s PT too.
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Post by artvandalay on Mar 7, 2024 7:28:42 GMT -5
I don't think you can say the Bonnies laid an egg, GW had something to do with it. 59% from the field and 52% from the three pt line is tough to beat. They seem to give up a lot of easy baskets and the GW rebounding edge is on the Bonnies. Get the home win Saturday and see what happens in the A-10. May be wishful thinking that the Bonnies can win the tourney.
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Post by buffalojim1 on Mar 7, 2024 9:49:03 GMT -5
bigcat has it right on. I of course love bona basketball as much as anyone but throwing $ at nil is not the answer. I don’t know how many bona fans can afford to do such. For me the money goes to family or even a local charity not a student athlete so that can get the bag. Really is that where we are now? Paying these guys and if we don’t they go somewhere else. Hmmm sounds like we are hostage to these “student athletes “. Maybe some get enjoyment out of the extra benefits they receive by giving to nil like a close relationship with the coach or player , getting into the locker room etc. If you have that disposable income and enjoy that great! Unfortunately I don’t think that’s realistic for the majority of fans.
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Post by wgt on Mar 7, 2024 20:26:57 GMT -5
I am concerned with the CHUCK's health. The color guy for GW picked him as the impact player to watch in the game. As CHUCK remained on the bench, when needed, he was questioning why he wasn't out there and wondered if he was injured.
CHUCK was playing the most mpg until recently. He had been playing 31 mins but his playing time has been declining. In the past two games he has averaged just 17.7 mpg. And he played only 22 mins at Fordham and at La Salle. This is a significant change. What's up?
He still is our best rebounder (5.8) but his #s have seen a big drop. In his last 6 games he has grabbed only 2.5 caroms a game! Quite a reduction from grabbing 8+ boards in 8 games. Double figures in 4 games (11, 11, 10,10).
In spite of his reduced floor time he is our best season rebounder, tied with Barry for most steals, best a/to ratio (2.76). Mika is 2nd at 2.3.
Shooting 46% FGs, 41% TREYS, 86% FTs.
I'm puzzled by his reduced mins.
BTW, Barry's steals every 19 mins is best on the team by a wide margin.
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Post by letsgobonas on Mar 7, 2024 22:55:57 GMT -5
What's really surprising about Chad is his size and footwork without any real strength... when those doubles come, he loses control of the ball so quickly or gets tied up for a jump ball so easily... he simply needs to be stronger with the ball.
But the biggest issue is why we continue to dump the ball down to him over and over and over when he's not on his game... the overall offensive game plan has been awful in many games this year... we have 5-6 players who can knock down the three-ball and we underutilize them with virtually no ball movement at times.
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Post by wgt on Mar 8, 2024 0:12:40 GMT -5
CHAD has an incredible # of TOs this season (65 in 29 games!!). Last year playing 3 more games he had 59. Unusual to see a big turn it over that much. He does have great foot work except when he walks. His 3 TOS in 63 secs leading to run away baskets is something I've never seen.
Except for CHAD our offense took exceptionally good care of the ball in Foggy Bottom. Team had only 2 !!! CHAD had 5!
Many factors go into a loss. Against GW it was not our offense or playing thru CHAD too much that cost us the game. We shot 48% FGs, 46% TREYS & 83% from the stripe for 75 pts.
It was our D being unable to slow down GWs 59% FGs & 52% TREYS for 86 pts even though we turned them over 14 times.
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