MBB: Dayton Game Thread..

[57stratdawg]

Big sequence early in OT. Cam thought it was a 5th foul, but they reviewed it and overturned it.

 

[Seinfeld]

This is the worst FT shooting team I have ever seen. I mean EVER

 

[57stratdawg]

9-22 from the f*cking line

 

[Hump4Hoops]

Sitting at 9 of 22.

Might get worse if there's FTs to close this one out.

 

[Seinfeld]

Unfortunately, we do practically nothing to take advantage of the things swinging our way because we can’t hit a “#%*ing free throw

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

It’s not just FT shooting, we have only 3 offensive guys on the team, the can’t shoot free throws or anything else. It’s painful offense to watch.

What a handicap it is to have two or three guys on the court at all times that contribute almost nothing offensively.

 

[bsquared24]

Mathews is a black hole on offense, Its like watching a less talented Dietrich Slater

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Missing free throws is a disease... as contagious as the bubonic plague..


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[57stratdawg]

Ado!

Do we really want him taking that shot with 30 seconds to go in OT?

 

[Snave]

Nah, but it was available

 

[57stratdawg]

That shot has to happen earlier Molinar. We can’t start that play with 5 seconds on the clock.

 

[Seinfeld]

Having one of those 13 missed free throws back sure would be nice about now. My hat’s off to this group for their energy and what they’re doing today, but we are going to lose A LOT of close games this year if we can’t at least get to 65% from FT. Not 80, not even 70. 17ing 65% would be wonderful

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Ado makes atonement for his basket giving up a 3 point play.

 

[57stratdawg]

Airball from Stewart probably ends it.

 

[mstateglfr]

Airball from Stewart probably ends it.

Looked like he stepped on the sideline before the shot too.
Bad all the way around.

Dude had a great scoring game though.

 

[57stratdawg]

Molinar can’t get it to fall at the buzzer. Free throws and close shots at the basket cost us a win.

 

[hailstate19]

Welp...NIT here we come!

 

[DoomSlayer]

It sucks to lose that game but I’m generally more optimistic than I was before the season. We would really be handful if we could just find a little more offense from somewhere. Getting the free throw percentage up would be a gold start.

 

[Seinfeld]

Right there with you. I honestly questioned whether this group would win 10 games before the season. Now, I don’t know how things will end up in terms of W/Ls, but I think we’re going to be in a lot of ball games.

The most frustrating thing to me is that in spite of the obvious offensive deficiencies, it doesn’t seem like Howland has done a heck of a lot the last 2 years now to get scorers. HS, Juco, transfer portal... whatever. They’re out there, and even if they don’t have typical SEC size, we just need anybody that can hit an open shot and a FT right now

 

[57stratdawg]

I agree. We were 1 shot away today with Molinar and Tulu having subpar games offensively. The team is lead by 3 sophomores on offense. They’re still growing. I still think we’re ahead of what I expected entering the year.

 

[Dawgcap]

Also we were 9-22 with several front end misses. We played technically well enough to win. Just didn’t execute the basic skills. Today wasn’t coaching

 

[hailstate19]

I like watching this team play. They seem to play more as a unit or “team ball” more so then any Howland coached team. Like we don’t seem to have any players that have huge egos, but just average to good skills. Newman, Kegler, Peaters, Stapleton, Nick Weatherspoon etc were like this it seemed. I mean I could be wrong. I just felt like those guys sometimes got a little lost in looking to where they are headed next, instead of the task at hand. I felt sometimes our team cemetery suffered from that.


The team cemetery of the current team is very hard nosed blue collar type. Has the feeling of the early 2000s Stansbury teams. Like the result Probably won’t be the NCAA tournament this year, but I’m thinking it will be soon if the core group stays pretty much the same. I’m really looking forward to SEC play. Maybe they upset some teams this year.