Up 5pts with just over 3m left, Clark swings it back to Stanton with 2s left (dumb move but still time). Stanton could easily dribble it across the timeline in 1s but instead stops and throws a long pass to Hicke as time expires.
Dartmouth scores a layup to make it a 3pt game and our guys look rattled and panicked the rest of the way.
Is no one on the sideline letting them know they need to hurry it across? Just get it across and call timeout if you dribble into a trap. Apparently, Mitch didn’t bother to go over anything after Saturday. I expect the same mistakes in every game for the rest of the season.
Worse development IMO is the evident tweaking of Davis’ ankle. He left the game limping, received intensive treatment on a cart in full view, then returned to the bench. Very surprised that he went back in. He was ineffective and quickly fouled out. Strikes me as the type injury that takes an extended period of inactivity to recover. We are mediocre with him, but at least competitive. Without him ???
Yes, I’ve been thinking about this. These guys beat Vermont without him, but when he returned, they quickly learned to lean on him. Now he is limping and was absent at the end of yesterday’s game, and they seemed hesitant on the offensive end.
It will be interesting to see what decision is made about his ankle.
It was another hideous ending in regulation. For most of the game they were mainly giving up buckets off of actions and mental mistakes, and there weren’t too many. Then they just started leaving guys alone at the three-point line and stopped getting DRs and loose balls.
The inability to deal with defensive ball pressure has been a problem all season, and not just at the ends of games and not just without Davis and not just in the full court. Remember Akron? The twin weaknesses at the rim and on the perimeter show up on the road and sometimes at home when the energy level flags.
