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Cooke got a look in his eyes around the 8-10 minute mark that I hadn't seen for 4-5 games. Right after that he went on his tear even making his freebies with ease.
Schooch too looked like NCAA Schooch in the 2nd half and looked mostly confident at the line again.
Not sure what clicked but let's hope the off button is broken for good.
Oh and Pete Gillen is horrible.
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Oh and Pete Gillen is horrible.
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Yeah, that Chris Cooke kid for Dayton had a great game!
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Down 11 in the second half, the sky is falling, and they come back with the HEART and DETERMINATION they showed for most of the season and win ON THE ROAD. Me happy that once AGAIN, it's a great day to be a Flyer...
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Was almost crying at the end of the game, like a curse had been lifted. Might have been the 5 beers I drank during the game, though.
But seriously, observations:
- Whatever was going on chemistry-wise was unnoticeable tonight. Passing was generally crisp. Picks and screens were generally working. Rebounding was good. Defensive rotations were the best we've seen in weeks.
- Free Throw shooting was as good as we've seen in a long time. Other than those last 2, Scoochie was in the zone tonight. Charles had a lapse or 2, but was focused down the stretch. DP was as solid as usual.
- We had "men" on the court tonight. Sam gave us decent minutes (given the circumstances), with no meltdowns like we saw last Saturday. X did a decent job, given his relative lack of experience and the magnitude of this game.
Considering the circumstances, this was a great win!
GO FLYERS!!
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Please Archie - no more Wehrli or Miller. Seems like those guys are actively trying to lose the game with weak defense and rebounding. Last 12 minutes was the rotation Dayton needs to roll with all the time, along with McElvene when he can stay on the floor. Hate on me if you wish, perhaps I'm being too hard on the guys.
Great to see Cooke step up and hit the huge 3 in the corner. There have been a few shots over the last 4 games that he's missed that could have swung games in Dayton's favor.
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We absorbed the best that Richmond had, referees included, and still persevered.
I believe Richmond intentionally fouled us on like 8 straight possessions and the fouls still ended up even.
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Kyle Davis hit threes. Was he 2 for 2?
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Originally Posted by big jordan
Please Archie - no more Wehrli or Miller. Seems like those guys are actively trying to lose the game with weak defense and rebounding. Last 12 minutes was the rotation Dayton needs to roll with all the time, along with McElvene when he can stay on the floor. Hate on me if you wish, perhaps I'm being too hard on the guys.
Great to see Cooke step up and hit the huge 3 in the corner. There have been a few shots over the last 4 games that he's missed that could have swung games in Dayton's favor.
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I agree. Wehrli looks so overmatched and unathletic, while Miller almost always seems out of sync on both ends of the floor. He's simply not ready to contribute at this level, certainly not in March.
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Originally Posted by SLUFLYER
We absorbed the best that Richmond had, referees included, and still persevered.
I believe Richmond intentionally fouled us on like 8 straight possessions and the fouls still ended up even.
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I a surprised they didn't try and foul Pollard even before the ball was inbounded.
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Originally Posted by SLUFLYER
We absorbed the best that Richmond had, referees included, and still persevered.
I believe Richmond intentionally fouled us on like 8 straight possessions and the fouls still ended up even.
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Yeah, and they need to change the rule/interpretation that allows a dead-ball "grab" to be a non-intentional foul. If that isn't intentional, what is?
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Originally Posted by SLUFLYER
I agree. Wehrli looks so overmatched and unathletic, while Miller almost always seems out of sync on both ends of the floor. He's simply not ready to contribute at this level, certainly not in March.
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Please add XW to this list of guys not ready to play at this level. Way over matched and in over his head it's crazy. He has a long way to go.
On another note I said to my wife with about 8 minutes left that you could just see a different, more confident look in everybody's eyes all of the sudden...hopefully it carries over to Saturday.
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Originally Posted by CT Flyer
Please add XW to this list of guys not ready to play at this level. Way over matched and in over his head it's crazy. He has a long way to go.
On another note I said to my wife with about 8 minutes left that you could just see a different, more confident look in everybody's eyes all of the sudden...hopefully it carries over to Saturday.
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True, but what other options do we have? No one looked good, but he looked the best off the bench between BW, SM and Big Steve.
I said this last week and a few went to great lengths to defend him: BW just simply isn't that good of a player. He's a great story, played a key role last year, and "understands the system"...but he just doesn't have the physical tools to be an impactful player night in and night out. He helped us win against SLU, but that was an anomaly as he's done nothing since.
Not trying to make this a bash BW post, but being a realist. We can't make it to the 2nd weekend of tournament if we are relying on BW to be our first guy off the bench. We need Steve and Miller to step up.
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after a pi$$ poor first half, we did a nice job in the second half up till the last minute, where we missed 3 of our last 4...... Have to take the good with the bad.....
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Amazing how the law of averages eventually works out.
The Flyers were around 25% on 3's the last 4 or 5 games, but tonight Scooch, Charles, Kyle, and Darrell were 9/11!
And on freethrows, Scooch was 8/10 and DP was 5/6.
Keep it up on Saturday!
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Wehrli has to play over Miller. I agree that Wehrli is overmatched athletically but he knows where to be on defense and stay out of the way on offense more than Sam. Miller is killing them non stop when he's out there. If you have to have either in there I'm playing Wehrli.
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I would rather go small at times. Move Cooke to power forward, Pierre at center and Darrell Davis at the wing and do some trap press.We also may need to play some zone when Big Steve is in the game. Maybe a Triangle and two possibly. All I know Sam Miller needs to be benched, because he is killing us when he plays. We would be better off with four playing than to have him in the game.
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Originally Posted by Angry John
I would rather go small at times. Move Cooke to power forward, Pierre at center and Darrell Davis at the wing and do some trap press.We also may need to play some zone when Big Steve is in the game. Maybe a Triangle and two possibly. All I know Sam Miller needs to be benched, because he is killing us when he plays. We would be better off with four playing than to have him in the game.
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Exactly, the loss of defense is worth the extra speed and offense.
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Despite the issues and the difficulties of the past two weeks, I just hope what we saw tonight we will see against VCU this Saturday and into the post season: passion to win.
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Another idea, why not try Mikesell at power forward ? He is 6:7, can bang, would not get smoked by the speed problem he has at small forward and would be a nightmare match up.
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Free throws one is this game. Sadly, free throws could've lost us the game. I want to see consistency. I want to see us come out on Saturday evening and win the first four minutes. That's what I want. Followed by winning the next 36 of course:-)
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Kyle Davis hit threes. Was he 2 for 2?
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Kyle has made 6 of 8 from 3 over the last 3 games and is a respectable 35.7% from deep on the season, thankyouverymuch!!
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Originally Posted by Angry John
I would rather go small at times. Move Cooke to power forward, Pierre at center and Darrell Davis at the wing and do some trap press.We also may need to play some zone when Big Steve is in the game. Maybe a Triangle and two possibly. All I know Sam Miller needs to be benched, because he is killing us when he plays. We would be better off with four playing than to have him in the game.
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Originally Posted by Angry John
Another idea, why not try Mikesell at power forward ? He is 6:7, can bang, would not get smoked by the speed problem he has at small forward and would be a nightmare match up.
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All of these ideas sound great, but the problem is these players don't know how to play the positions you're suggesting. You can't teach guys new offensive positions in a couple of days. A lot of people may say that it's just basketball and to go play, but Archie's system doesn't work like that. The freshman only play 1 offensive position(Crosby=1, Mikesell=3, Steve=5, Sam Miller=5). Wehrli only plays the 5 spot too.
Archie is also not going play a zone defense or teach a new junk defense in a couple of days. That's not what he believes in and he's not going to do it no matter how much people want him to mix up defenses.
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No it won't, defensive rebounding and pushing the ball quickly up court will allow us to get to the free throw line much more than the stagnant half court chucking 3's .... shooting 28 free throws and making 18 is better than making 3 out of 7..
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Gotta disagree with comments on X and Sam. They stunk. They were both negative during their brief tome on the floor/ UR made a pretty good run with Sam turning the ball over and getting lost on D and having no clue as to how to rebound. X got snuffed at the rim. Might have had an easier time if they never saw the floor. Really hope they improve over the summer.
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I sat behind the Richmond bench with a group of UD fans. My thoughts:
Scouting report on Richmond. They can score. One of the better teams in the league. Their defense is weak and they are not physical. They have little depth. They can get hot and scare you.
Arena is nice. The crowd was muted. Funny considering it was senior night. Student section was abysmal....
That is how the game was played. Richmond could score; especially Cline. Good Grief, but UD wore them down in the second half by constantly driving and pounding the ball inside. That opened the 3 ball.
If there was bad chemistry in the group, I saw none of it. I did note that some of the players would yell at each in pervious games. This game they did not. They stayed together.
Scoochie and Cooke came out of their funks in big ways. Pierre had that look in his eyes. Kyle played some good defense, especially help D and made a couple of 3s. Pollard is hurting. He lacks some explosiveness and lateral movement. Richmond went at him a lot. UD had to play Sam and Bobby, just to rest up Kendall.
Coaches knew matchup was going to be a problem for Steve. He settled that by 2 fouls in 2 minutes. The first was suspect. The second was dumb.
Hard played, fun game to watch. This team needed a weak team on defense to wake them up and get their mojo back. They were clutch down the stretch, especially Scoochie at the line until the last 2 free throws. (As it turns out they did not matter).
Richmond went into Hack-a-Shaq mode and I groaned as they targeted Scoochie. He has struggled at the line lately. Instead, he nailed FT after FT. 8-10 for the game. The first 8 in a row!
When the team was down in the 2nd half, I felt it was more like the Duquesne game that URI game. These guys did not panic and drove to the basket on offense. They made plays and won the game down the stretch.
Numbers really showed how weak Richmond is on D. 58% and 60% from 3. UD was not exactly a defensive team either.
Scoochie, biggest game of his career. Cline for Richmond was a beast. He looked incredible. We had no one who could match him one on one. Maybe a healthier Pollard. Watching Cline blast us was the part of the game that gave me angst.
Big win. Sigh of relief by the Flyer Faithful.
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Originally Posted by CT Flyer
Please add XW to this list of guys not ready to play at this level. Way over matched and in over his head it's crazy. He has a long way to go.
On another note I said to my wife with about 8 minutes left that you could just see a different, more confident look in everybody's eyes all of the sudden...hopefully it carries over to Saturday.
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Its called the Pollard effect
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Originally Posted by SeasonTicketFan
I sat behind the Richmond bench with a group of UD fans.
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How many UD fans were at the game?
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All of these ideas sound great, but the problem is these players don't know how to play the positions you're suggesting. You can't teach guys new offensive positions in a couple of days. A lot of people may say that it's just basketball and to go play, but Archie's system doesn't work like that. The freshman only play 1 offensive position(Crosby=1, Mikesell=3, Steve=5, Sam Miller=5). Wehrli only plays the 5 spot too.
Archie is also not going play a zone defense or teach a new junk defense in a couple of days. That's not what he believes in and he's not going to do it no matter how much people want him to mix up defenses.
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Absolutely....Mikesell is so weak physically that he'd be slouched over wearing a damp tee shirt let alone trying to play/guard the 4?
I don't agree as much that they can't show the look of a zone a couple times a game.......Yes, switching zone looks can be quite difficult but when you get into serious foul trouble and/or trying to stop a run by an opponent then it's a different story..In fact, earlier this year UD went to a zone for a possession, iirc..
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Another idea, why not try Mikesell at power forward ? He is 6:7, can bang, would not get smoked by the speed problem he has at small forward and would be a nightmare match up.
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Maybe because he's rail thin and can't guard his shadow?
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Vegas had it as a pick'em or one point game and that is exactly how it was expected and turned out. Excellent grit coming back from 11 down.
If Cooke, Scootchie and KD can get hot from the outside, then Pollard and Pierre won't think that they have to win the game down low. They can dish the ball out to Cooke, Scootchie and KD and likewise when the defense comes out, the guards can get the ball down low for layups.
Big Steve's silly foul problems necessitates using the other freshman. If the veterans now get back to where they should be, freshmen coming off the bench won't feel the pressure of having to win the game and I think we will see much better offensive and defensive efforts from them when they can play more relaxed. Now if we can get Big Steve to play more under control!!!
I'll take winning by one point and all the stress it gives.
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Originally Posted by Flyer68
Vegas had it as a pick'em or one point game and that is exactly how it was expected and turned out. Excellent grit coming back from 11 down.
If Cooke, Scootchie and KD can get hot from the outside, then Pollard and Pierre won't think that they have to win the game down low. They can dish the ball out to Cooke, Scootchie and KD and likewise when the defense comes out, the guards can get the ball down low for layups.
Big Steve's silly foul problems necessitates using the other freshman. If the veterans now get back to where they should be, freshmen coming off the bench won't feel the pressure of having to win the game and I think we will see much better offensive and defensive efforts from them when they can play more relaxed. Now if we can get Big Steve to play more under control!!!
I'll take winning by one point and all the stress it gives.
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This team rides as SS rides......When he decides to become that "warrior" type of player then it feeds on everyone.....I thought we'd be getting that type of performance most the entire year coming out of the NCAA tourney last season where he proved he was as good as any PG but he's shown many times to be lethargic and too unselfish. All he needs is to take the ball to the rack more and, yes, that does open up some when he hits a couple 3's but he's so good getting into the lane for kick outs, dump downs, etc..
It's a great way to keep KP, SP, and SM in the flow of the games..
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Originally Posted by Donniex3Era
No it won't, defensive rebounding and pushing the ball quickly up court will allow us to get to the free throw line much more than the stagnant half court chucking 3's .... shooting 28 free throws and making 18 is better than making 3 out of 7..
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Going 18/28 is better than going 10/10
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Some people would make bad basketball coaches, because of their negative attitudes. All I hear from a couple of people are "that you can't do that", "he is rail thin" and "the position can't be learned in two days" and "Archie does not run zone".
Yes, he does run a zone and it's a 2-3. He throws it in once and awhile. His team also runs a trap full court press. It worked quit well against Rhode Island in the last five minutes of the game. You do not have to run these defenses for long periods of time. Maybe only one to two minutes at a time. On Mikesell being rail thin, he has more bulk than Sam Miller. Archie made a comment in the summer that the coaching staff was surprised how much he can bang. Another comment said the Freshmen could not learn a new position. Well, moving from a four to a five is not as hard to learn as moving from other positions. One freshman that could make the switch, would be Mikesell. He has a very high basketball IQ. Any option is better than having Sam Miller out there. That three pointer from him that hit the side of the backboard says it all.
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I love your optimism, but you may need a bit of a reality check on a couple of your points.
-Sam played awful. Zero effort- dumb foul, not going after loose balls, rebounds slipping through his hands, caught with his back turned on defense which allowed an uncontested dunk. Also, did you see that 3-pointer from the corner? Never made it to the basket... whoof.
-Free throw shooting may have seemed better toward the end of the game, but we still finished at 64%.
I 100% agree, however, that our defensive shifts/help were much better (still room for improvement), our shots were actually falling, the ball movement was great at times, and the chemistry seemed to be there.
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Originally Posted by Angry John
Some people would make bad basketball coaches, because of their negative attitudes. All I hear from a couple of people are "that you can't do that", "he is rail thin" and "the position can't be learned in two days" and "Archie does not run zone".
Yes, he does run a zone and it's a 2-3. He throws it in once and awhile. His team also runs a trap full court press. It worked quit well against Rhode Island in the last five minutes of the game. You do not have to run these defenses for long periods of time. Maybe only one to two minutes at a time. On Mikesell being rail thin, he has more bulk than Sam Miller. Archie made a comment in the summer that the coaching staff was surprised how much he can bang. Another comment said the Freshmen could not learn a new position. Well, moving from a four to a five is not as hard to learn as moving from other positions. One freshman that could make the switch, would be Mikesell. He has a very high basketball IQ. Any option is better than having Sam Miller out there. That three pointer from him that hit the side of the backboard says it all.
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Originally Posted by Angry John
Some people would make bad basketball coaches, because of their negative attitudes. All I hear from a couple of people are "that you can't do that", "he is rail thin" and "the position can't be learned in two days" and "Archie does not run zone".
Yes, he does run a zone and it's a 2-3. He throws it in once and awhile. His team also runs a trap full court press. It worked quit well against Rhode Island in the last five minutes of the game. You do not have to run these defenses for long periods of time. Maybe only one to two minutes at a time. On Mikesell being rail thin, he has more bulk than Sam Miller. Archie made a comment in the summer that the coaching staff was surprised how much he can bang. Another comment said the Freshmen could not learn a new position. Well, moving from a four to a five is not as hard to learn as moving from other positions. One freshman that could make the switch, would be Mikesell. He has a very high basketball IQ. Any option is better than having Sam Miller out there. That three pointer from him that hit the side of the backboard says it all.
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I know Archie has a 2-3 and the trapping press used against Rhody, but what I'm saying is that Archie does not believe in using them beyond one possession(last one of the half vs Richmond) or complete desperation(Rhody down 19). I'm not against changing defenses, but I've come to accept Archie just isn't going to do it. If you read the game thread I was begging for some defensive change in the second half.
As for the Freshmen learning/playing different positions I'm just stating what is obvious based on the substitution patterns. Those guys only substitute at the spots I listed earlier(Do you at least agree with this?). Could they learn an additional spot? Probably. Is the coaching staff going to teach them an additional position at this point? Nope! That is not how they operate with freshmen. The only freshmen who has played a second position for Archie that I can remember was Darrell Davis playing some point guard and he was doing that the whole year because there was no other option. The coaches have their plan and they have shown no sign of deviating from it whether we like it or not.
Also you say it is easy to move/interchange the 4 and 5 spot, and that Mikesell would be able to do it because of his high basketball IQ. One problem. He doesn't play the 4 or 5 right now. He plays the 3 spot on the wing.
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Originally Posted by Angry John
On Mikesell being rail thin, he has more bulk than Sam Miller. Archie made a comment in the summer that the coaching staff was surprised how much he can bang.
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Mikesell is listed at 195 and honestly looks a lot smaller than that. Miller is 245 and looks 245. I am not sure where you get this more bulk thing, but I definitely do not see it. Mikesell may be more defined, but he does not have more bulk.
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You won't know if Mikesell can do it unless you try it. I would only do this if Pollard can no longer go. Desperate times can call for desperate measures. I do know that Sam Miller is not ready for this level of play at this time of the year.
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I meant that Mikesell is more defined. He would cause problems for a traditional power forward with the mismatch.
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Was at the game also. Robbins Center is one of the nicest arenas you can watch a game in. Holds about 9,000 with very comfortable seats, and a huge screen in each corner. Unfortunately they show very few replays, or much other besides the live game. The have twelve big luxury boxes. Not many Flyer fans and we were spread out. Thank goodness for the screaming female Flyer fan directly behind me. The student section was half empty, and about 1,000 no shows in the rest of the seats, and yes many people left with a few minutes to go.
Got their 45 minutes early, because I wanted to look for any signs of discontent. Saw none. The team came out with great intensity for the first 5 minutes, then faded a bit, as Cline single handedly beat us to death. Our passing was very good and the help defense was there, but faded. Overall saw no signs of bad blood or bad attitude in the entire game or on the bench. Miller, like the others, tried to guard Allen and Cline and failed, and he went to the bench with his head hung in disappointment.
Scoochie was the man. He shot a couple of step backs that were as good as Donald Smith. He asked for the ball over and over.
Richmond is exceptional on offense, and not that great on defense. Cline was a master at getting position down low, and always gets his shot off. Their coach blew that game by starting the intentional fouls way too early. Then when they were down 6 with very little time he has his guys take a two pointer, instead of a three, and they lose by 1.
A question no one has raised, why do we get screened to death every game, but we throw very few meaningful picks? We have the laziest bunch of screeners other than a few of our bigs. Too much one on one dribble drive.
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Cooke's 3 with about 2 minutes left that put us up 6 is the kind of play we'll need in the A10 and NCAA tournaments. Creating your own shot, just nailing 3's without a conscience.
Good to see that he and Scooch were back hitting FT's last night... we needed every last one of Scoochie's freebies down the stretch, and he was a machine hitting 8 straight (until missing the last 2 when we were up 4 with 7.1 left... when it didn't really matter any more).
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More thoughts about the game after sleeping on it.
First, the team executed the game plan put in place by the coaches on offense. Scoochie had a great game because that was part of the plan AND he executed well. UD created mismatches and their players drove to rim all night long with less than impressive defense to stop them. Coaching and scouting saw that and had that in the game plan. UD used their strengths against the weakness of the Spiders.
I've had a chance to see coaches game plans over the years. It is fun to see when a smart plan is drawn up and executed. Kevin, Tom, Allen and Bill don't get enough credit at times.
UD physically powered Richmond inside. That is why their was a bit of fool's gold in Richmond's lead. Their team is not strong and UD wore them down. Richmond had no answer. As good as Cline was on offense, Chris Mooney subbed him out on every defensive play late in the game.
Scoochie saw lanes at the beginning of the second half and took advantage of them. Equally important, he nailed FT after FT when you could see Richmond decided to foul him. They have scouting reports too.
This team has won more road games than UD has done in a while. Their mental toughness was their last night. Some people said swagger. That last minute took forever to play. The team executed and kept their cool on the road.
The last 7 seconds were meaningless except to gamblers. Scoochie was exhausted and Clines a desperation 3. The game was over.
Not sure how many Flyer fans were there. There were 30-50 behind UD bench. At one time I thought I heard Let's go Flyer's chants in the arena. My bad hearing could not tell if that Flyers or Spiders.
Freshman have had a difficult year. The A10 is full of upperclassmen who take advantage of inexperienced players. I'm not ready to write them off yet. I still think they can develop. However, I wish they had developed more by now.
Team was loose before the game. They were very happy after the game. Winning cures many ills.
Finally, it was 70 degrees in Richmond yesterday. Spring is in Virginia.
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It's fine X got some minutes. At some point he's going to be needed to spell some guys. PLUS Cline was probably getting Pierre and others winded from all the contact and bumping.
SCOOCHIE -- i've known Scooch is capable of this, and he just dominated. Listen, if cooke is off, SM and Pierre aren't getting it done some nights - Scoochie has a few options. HE's the Coach on the FLOOR - needs to be decisive , make the decisions, and play like this to the end.
He can drive the rack.
Step back and pop a 3.
Create some dribble drive/dish
Offense need to flow thru him more , and less Cookie and Pierre. Pierre if we are against a zone and he's on, on, on.
This was very exciting to see. Both Scooch and Cooke popping. The team moving the ball.
Keep playing like this guys. Scoochie's team - give him the keys and lets ride this pony to a couple of wins in the NCAA!
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Power went off with about 12 minutes to go. So, back up power source allowed the radio broadcast and candles, that was just fine. Larry and Josh did a great job. Hope we can get a replay somehow from Dish TV, would enjoy watching the final 10 minutes, even with the fouls.
Glad they decided to shoot the ball and not play with it around the perimeter, which they did the past month. Making the foul shots was huge, never gave R a chance to creep too close and put pressure. A good win in a tough road environment.
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And then of course free throws. We'll need SS, Kyle, Pierre and Cookie on their best FT form thru the A10 Tourney, and beyond.
With hopefully some success from KP too. GREAT to see Kendall banging in the middle against Cline and others. Loved the energy and team moxie last night!
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Originally Posted by SeasonTicketFan
This team has won more road games than UD has done in a while. Their mental toughness was their last night. Some people said swagger. That last minute took forever to play. The team executed and kept their cool on the road.
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8-2 away record, 10-3 road/neutral record. That is STRONG. We still have at least one more neutral site game to play, possibly as many as 3.
Only Villanova in the RPI Top 25 has a better road record than we do (they are 10-2). Virginia, a potential 1 seed, is 5-6 on the road this year.
We went 7-2 in the conference on the road. I will take that every single year.
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most true road wins (8) since the 1966-67 season.
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7-0 on Tuesdays this season.
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Excellent road record, except for the LaSalle stinker. At home to have three close losses is terrible, but many of us have posted before about how teams feed off of the UD Arena energy as much as our Flyers do. Win this last home game and all is forgiven.
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