Nice win for the Elis against Dartmouth. The Green’s defensive prowess came through, keeping Townsend and Poulakidas to subpar shooting nights. But the Blue showed its defensive bona fides too. On to Harvard - against another opponent, you might worry about a letdown but they should be up for the Crimson.
I saw some confusion about Ivy Hoop Online in another string. Here’s a link to a good article on last night’s game:
think curren used to cover yale for the new haven register at one point…if i am correct, remember that ? local coverage from the hometown newspaper? those were the days
Not sure but his articles are great.
here’s adversity…yikes and in a matinee no less
Who is the imposter wearing #4 tonight?
Get a good week of practice then beat up on Brown in Providence. Get good vibes from the gym and come back a week later to win Ivy Madness. Hopefully this is a wake-up call for us
hurts against havuhd. but we needed a gut punch imo.
and on poula its better to be off now if i am working on right hypothesis. we’ll see
3 ball left us. it happens
invite list is shrinking. net win i hope
Biggest issue is that Yale fell from a 12 to a 13. Big difference.
fair point.
i didnt expect 16-0.
think 2-0 is hard enough. but also didnt expect to blow it against harvard.
i have feared brown at home given matchups. still do until when and if they are no longer.
last game no layup even if brown is done. now you dont want a streak
Agreed. Too much hero ball recently has led to all these close wins that didn’t need to be so close. Good to get a loss that won’t really hurt to help focus back up.
yea…i watched the first half much of which i missed initially.
i dont know how concerned i am really. again i have not been working with the assumption this is an invincible team by any stretch. was pleasantly surprised until saturday and have a working hypothesis substantiated by some metrics that the IL is pretty weak writ large.
at the end of the day, we didnt finish at the rim in the 1st half when given the oppty in a way we had previously. credit to harvard. they were worthy antagonists and i dont know besides a rivalry on the road how you dont get more foul shots given the bully ball attempts…but is what it is.
already noted the shooting was poor from deep. samson couldnt utilize any size adv and given timely floor spreading and makes as the game matured likely became a disadv. this is impt bc it cant happen again when it matters or you have to make changes.
bez was terrific attacking the rim and finishing if you forget his 3 pt shooting which is mean reverting down as is poula.
lastly the freshman banked a 3 to put them up 5 with 1 sec on the shot clock. he made some very timely if fortunate shots under pressure. take that out and you have time to tie or win it on your last possession.
conversely you were getting blown out in the 1h so not pretty.
you are going to get everyone’s best shot so tighten it up!
Yale can beat any team in the Ivy tournament. It could also lose to any. The three-point shots weren’t falling for John or Bez on Saturday but more disturbing to me were the results in the paint and mid-range. Not sure if that was a Yale failure or credit to the Crimson - presumably a combination. I like Yale’s chances in the tournament, but I expect exciting games.
Mmph. I mean, yes and no. As we’ve seen from the recent games, even when the shots aren’t falling, it takes kind of a lot for the rest of the league to get one over on Yale. Cornell got 30 points from Okereke (including 4-7 shooting from 3, which he’s not particularly good at normally) and 6 threes from Fiegen on the road, in a game where John went 5-15 from the field, plus they dominated the boards, and they lost. Dartmouth got 50 combined from Cornish and Mitchell-Day on a day when nobody on Yale could hit a jumper and they lost at home. Heck, even in the game we’re talking about right now, one of the worst three-point shooting teams in the country hit 40% from 3 and it took a prayer of a HORSE shot for Harvard to win.
But good teams shouldn’t judge themselves by wins and losses, they should judge themselves by how they’re playing compared to their own standard. And the past month has not featured a lot of what Coach Jones would call “Yale basketball.” The assist numbers have gone way down in the games where the offense stagnates, and you can tell. Yale’s giving up an unreasonable number of offensive rebounds to teams that start 4 guards. Like Saturday shows, you do that too often and you end up paying the price.
Agree with iogyhufi. Not particularly scared of Dartmouth/princeton. Dartmouth doesn’t have the talent and we matchup incredibly well vs a Princeton that frankly hasn’t been good for months. Cornell’s style of play basically adds a level of variance that could top yale and they have enough capable 3 point shooters to produce an upset. Fiegen had what 18 points in the first 10 minutes at JLA
We’ve certainly been less dominant over the second half of the league season, hopefully we got a good reset after harvard
with the standard caveat that anyone can beat anyone in this league still… i fear cornell and brown the most. yes, i know brown is unlikely when it matters most.
princeton is due to figure it out somewhat or at least shoot well. but the matchups are most balanced above. and therefore, scary.
one solution, play better.