and you always have to be concerned when you play a team like that. Some of our fans are thinking this is a sure win, but that team is capable on any given night of giving people fits. But they are also capable of losing to Wagner. I have a feeling the good version will show up against us.
No, i have not. But i do know that Dunn scored 38 points against vandy. He looks like a good player.
Exactly, as I said in the other thread - if Temple brings their A game, we better at least bring our B+ game to win and probably our A game if we don't have Caleb or Paul.
I've seen way more talk about people scared of Temple than people saying we are going to crush them
Is it bad that my first thought was "oh so he's definitely dropping 25 against us now."
Read the article, there are issues between player and coach when Battle tweets out this emoji response to that quote:
We will see.
This is a terrible sign (in the short term) for Temple.
RU72 must have been consulted. Columbia just looked overmatched by our length. They were definitely not comfortable offensively.
FWIW I think Paul knows Battles game from GSB and the whole AAU circuit (and Khalif’s brother)
The Temple team could be on the verge of imploding. If we come out hot and Battle is on the bench pouting, we might see some in game drama. He could be a cancer pulling the entire team down with him
Our game aside, I feel bad for McKie. I loved him with the Sixers, and thought he'd make a good coach.
I thought he would do better as a coach. Temple a tough job it seems. This season could be the end for him
10-15 years ago I was coaching an AAU basketball team and we had a tourney on the temple campus. Our starting center ( 6’4” 240 athletic kid) was being recruited by temple to play D line for them ( he ended up accepting that scholarship) In between games he wanted to walk round the area. As we were going to leave the campus the security guard pulled me aside and said even with him at your side you don’t want to leave this gate ( it was 12:30 on a nice spring day) He told me what gate to use and where it was safe to walk around
Yes. Except for the part about eeking out a win. Columbia had a 15 point lead and got sloppy at the end. Similar to our UM Lowell game. The Villanova win over Delaware State was truly “eeked out” as you put it. That game was neck and neck the whole way despite the final 10 point margin with fouling at the very end.
