George Washington Game Thread
 

Solid Rebound win last night but we have another huge game on Friday Night against a team that stole a win from us on a fluke last year... Let's take it to them.

Game is at 7 PM on Friday Night and will be shown on ESPN2.

Possible Starting Lineup:
G 3 Paul Jorgensen 6’2” 185 SO New City, NY
G 13 Patricio Garino 6’6” 210 SR Mar del Plata, Argentina
F 12 Yuta Watanabe 6’8” 197 SO Kagawa, Japan
F 34 Tyler Cavanaugh 6’9” 238 RS JR Syracuse, NY
F 21 Kevin Larsen 6’10” 265 SR Copenhagen, Denmark

Their normal PG Joe McDonald missed the last game with an eye injury, I wonder if he plays on Friday. Wake Forest transfer Cavanaugh avgs 17+ Points and 7+ Rebounds a Night.

Hopefully Chuck plays.

Let's finish off the successful week in style before we, I can't believe I'm going to say this, have a showdown in Olean against SBU next Tuesday!

I Believe... Go UD!

So GW starts guys from 4 different continents? That's pretty impressive.

GW cheerleaders on Spring Break is impressive, too
 

Are UD students still on break?

They begin classes Monday the 18th. But it looked about 100 in the Pep band last night for the women's game. It appeared most were students with some alumni sprinkled in, so maybe students will have a presence on Friday.

will be interesting to see if either team is forced to match up with the other.

Classes don't resume until the 18th? Wow, times have changed from the Old Daze when we'd be back on the 3rd or 4th. Is this a GREAT Country or what!? Sorry, don't mean to hijack the Thread, but Man have times changed at UD.

I think most schools started back this past week.

There you go, no Joe McDonald tonight

Jon Rothstein ‏@JonRothstein · 15s15 seconds ago
George Washington's Joe McDonald (eye) will not play tonight against Dayton, Mike Lonergan told @CBSSports.

I assume you are referring to the ones standing on the shoulders, right!;)

Injuries sure seem to have raised their ugly heads for many teams this year; our womens team seems to have the most, Austria, Deanne, Edwards, all former starters with Deanne and Austria our two leading scorers, and Austria and Edwards on A-10 all defensive teams:o.

will be interesting to see if either team is matches up with the other as GWs front line of Larsen, Cavanaugh and Garino is much bigger than the Flyers. On the hand Pollard, Pierre and Cooke are much quicker than the Colonials.

I'm not going to lie, this game has me concerned. I'm concerned about the match ups for this game in the interior. GW could kill us on the boards tonight. Larsen could expose McElvene.

I'd rather beat a team when at 100% but glad to see McDonald out. Any word on Cooke?

No Country Joe!

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for?

Saw some rumors on Twitter that Cooke is a no go tonight and now Crosby also has some sort of injury. Frustrating if true, we need all the help we can get tonight.

Who you following that is rumoring?

Full disclaimer, these are NOT confirmed, I'm not even sure if totally reliable. Just something I saw mentioned among a few students I know. So who knows, hopefully it's nothing and Cooke is still questionable.

I preferred the "Fish Cheer" (Woodstock version) myself.

David Jablonski ‏@DavidPJablonski 45s45 seconds ago

Charles Cooke looks good. He'll play tonight for @DaytonMBB.

David Jablonski ‏@DavidPJablonski 2m2 minutes ago Dayton, OH

In other Dayton injury news, John Crosby has a quad injury but may be able to play.

Supposedly both will play

Cooke not showing much lift in warmups. .... Makes me wonder

Cookies in the posted lineup

Scooch, KD, Cooke, Pierre, Pollard the starting 5

Pierre on fire!

8-7 UD with 14:50 left... DP with all 8

Dyshawn is looking very comfortable out there tonight. We are a much quicker team when we play small-ball.

Charles: You had a squared up 3...why settle for a 2 shot off the dribble?

16-13 UD with 10:56 left in the half

Daryl Davis' hands are quicker this year. That was a big-time steal and two.

Wondered if something was wrong with Scooch... not a thing!!

Charles with an NBA move - switching hands in mid-air with a kiss off the glass. Wow, that was a superb finish.

23-15 with 7:35 left

I thought Kyle was fouled on that layup and the replay confirms it
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KD should've gotten the and one.

Cavanaugh was hanging back for the block, and then it was where did he go, as Charles blew past him.

Daryl! That was a good bounce pass...he waited until the defender sold out to him and then he hit Kyle and Kyle finished strongly, as he normally does. Our fast breaks are much better tonight, giving us some easy buckets.

wow! D and ball movement are very good!

We miss four straight easy shots.

We are focusing way too much on the dribble and not enough on the shooters! You can't let them sit out there and shoot 3's!!!!!!!!

31-30 GW with 3:17 left

Giving up 6 offensive rebounds to our 2, but they have 8 turnovers to our 2

Has Cooke gotten a rest at all today?

Their bigs can stroke it from deep. That's a problem
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He went out after playing less than two minutes.

Charles: Watch your shot selection that jump shot off the dribble has been ineffective.

Mikesell gives up an easy basket in 2 seconds

35 - 34 on a Pierre 3 at the end of the half.

Big 3 by Dyshawn at the end

35-34 UD at the half

That was an incredible look by Scoochie to catch Dyshawn in the corner of his eye...and Dyshawn knocks down the big 3 for the lead.

DP is the one I trust most to take a 3 anymore.

Nice 2 for 1 to finish the half. Excellent choice by Scooch to shoot the three

He lost the smallest guy on the court and the guy capitalized with a bucket in the paint. Ryan has to be focused like a laser on his man. I think he gets caught following the ball and not the man.

This team drives me crazy how much they rely on runs. both offense and defense!

Flyers took a few too many bad shots the last 10 minutes. Charles and Darrell need to clean it up

Cavanaugh and Garino 5-7 on threes is killing us right now, and of course their 8 offensive rebounds.

Pollard has been a non-factor with no rebounds and one missed shot, and a seat on the bench for not blocking out.

Refs let them play. Only 10 total fouls called. Enjoyable.

What a fun half of basketball to watch! Great shots, up and down action, and some nice defensive plays too. In the halfcourt O, Dayton is not settling for perimeter passing and 3's. Lots of crisp passing, penetration, and mostly good shot selection. Now let's pull away in the 2nd!

Give Watanabe a pump fake already!

Arcie really needs to work on shot selection with these guys.

19 point play!

44-43 UD with 15:40 left

Right on! It amazes me how the 2-on-1 fast break has become a lost art.

If you are going to play a man-to-man defense then the defender must close out on the 3-ball! If not, then you are better off to play zone and cut off the dribble penetration.

Kyle gets shot happy, which is sad for us.

Kyle tacking the bad shots this half

Pierre and 1!

Get ready..........only 12 total fouls called 5 min into the 2nd half. The whistles will warm up...

I am starting to hate their Cavanaugh.

Need to get Pollard off Cavanaugh

Somebody better get in Cavanaugh's face! Pollard is a complete foul machine.

Pollard has no interest in participating in tonight's game.

They are hot but our perimiter defense is AWFUL

51-49 GW with 11:30 left... UD Ball after the TO

Bingo!

Wow, this GW team is well coached. I don't know if I have seen a team work the ball screens as well as they do. The Flyers are getting caught up in these ball screens and creating open shots for GW.

Big Steve is showing his value. We are getting outrebounded badly.

Kendall is just completely out of sorts with his game.

D DAVIS!! a game of runs

I guess the refs aren't calling traveling tonight!

61-57 GW with 7:50 left... Scooch w 2 FTs after the TO

Daryl: You were under the bucket; shoot it! Don't throw it wildly to the crowd!

Get frickin Pollard out of there! He wants to be a spectator so let him sit and watch.

Larsen is a load in the paint. The Flyers need to start fronting him.

Cooke just stood there on that last score by GW. Pierre had him on the right, Cooke needed to dig in on the left and just stood there.

KP. Zero points and zero boards

Now getting outrebounded by 13 and the threes not falling.

PLaying better since Arch called the TO

Wow this crowd
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THREE missed opportunities. Our history of close games and GW is unsettling to say the least, let's take his lead out

66-61 with 3:50 left... DP with 24

DP is back and he's back big!
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Great crowd, greater Pierre!

DP leading this team! Love it!

Cafv for GW looked tired. No attempt to close out on Pierre

Good thing we have Dyshawn's game back. He is keeping us in the game. That steal by Kyle two minutes ago was huge in turning this game around. It does appear that GW is running low on gas at this time.

Truth...once again

Up 5 with 3:37 left

Larsen just walked in the lane. I swear the refs have missed about five GW walks tonight. I think they missed a goaltending call on Scoochie's drive as well.

Traveling must not be a point of emphasis this year
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