Game Thread: Northwestern vs. Stony Brook

[mshelton33]

Northwestern (1-0) hosts Stony Brook (1-0) tonight at Welsh-Ryan Arena. The game is set to tip at 7 pm CT and air on BTN+.

Forward Jack Karasinski is in attendance in sweats, but he has been ruled out with a concussion and will not play.

 

[its_the_sauce]

Great game so far lol. Guess they overordered for students and were pushing free Candlelite pizza on us. As tasty as ever.

 

[EagerFan]

I don’t understand that, there are tens of students here.

 

[EagerFan]

Nice first four minutes. Four cats with points, defense is more than SB was ready for at the start, so far Cats seem comparatively a tad more athletic.

 

[LawCat21]

33 in red is like dollar store Robbie Avila

 

[EagerFan]

Stony Brook spent the majority of their pre game warmups running drills to kick out to the three, and their first half game was essentially the same drills.

Cats inability to box out and rebound is on stunning display tonight. Awesome threes are keeping us in the lead so far.

 

[SouthportCat]

Is Ghai hurt also?

 

[Hungry Jack]

Breakout game for Phoenix Gill. He has risen.

 

[EagerFan]

No idea what the ref saw to give Angelo a technical.

 

[BosCat]

Northwestern Wildtrotters

 

[EagerFan]

Well, the cats hang on for a victory, but SB basically matched us point for point after the early lead. I don’t think we’ll shoot 52% from three every game. This does not bode well.

 

[LawCat21]

We can shoot and that can cover up a lot of sins. Don’t remember a ton of games with double-digit made threes the past couple of years.

Already being down to a 7-man rotation (albeit with a starter out) doesn’t bode well. Would love to see Ghai in for a least a few minutes since there’s no reason not to with 5/5 eligibility. Kostic needs some work, don’t really want to see him dribbling the air out of the ball like he did a couple of times.

Jake is very good. Not much else to say about that.

Even if he never gets there in terms of outside shooting, Gelo would still be very good if he tightens up the handle a bit.

 

[EagerFan]

Angelo has everything but that outside shot. The way he was playing tonight looks like he's modeled himself after Brooks.

Tonight he had 7 rebounds, an assist, two steals, and four blocks to go along with his three fouls and two turnovers. I still don't know why he got T'd up when he forced a jump ball and the other player got mouthy at him as he walked away.

 

[Hungry Jack]

Angelo has everything but that outside shot. The way he was playing tonight looks like he's modeled himself after Brooks.

Tonight he had 7 rebounds, an assist, two steals, and four blocks to go along with his three fouls and two turnovers. I still don't know why he got T'd up when he forced a jump ball and the other player got mouthy at him as he walked away.

I think we will have enough outside shooting if Krasinski does what I think he is capable of doing, and Phoenix does like he did last night. Obviously this gets harder against power programs. But I’m fine if Gelio becomes an inside presence on both ends.

 

[EagerFan]

I think we have some offense inside with Angelo, LA, and Jake to go along with our outside offense of Jake, LA, Phoenix, and Karasinski. I think our offense will have trouble overcoming our lack of defense as the talent of our opponents rises later in the season.

 

[GatoLouco]

Did not see it and am curious about tonight.

My impression against IA State was not that we were devoided of offensive talent, it just needs (a lot of) work.

My impression was that we are going to struggle keeping teams under 80 in conference.

 

[EagerFan]

I can see that.