FOUR straight close losses due to laughably clumsy ballhandling.
Can’t bring the ball up the court. Can’t inbound the ball off a timeout. And somehow these games are still close and winnable.
If Davis were healthy, we’re probably 4-0 in the last four games. But he ain’t and the season from hell continues.
Great game for Happy; 20 points in 25 min.
I hope this translates into a deeper, more experienced bench during league play. It will be difficult to qualify for the ILT.
I look at the silver lining here. These dudes have NO experience. This play time will only help us. It’s all about league play.
Well the frosh are getting a ton of playing time and Happy looked pretty strong tonight and even made a couple of free throws. But the turnovers are nuts.
Just looked at the box score. Pretty decent shooting percentages, Happy scoring and dishing assists as I anticipated. But the team had NINE total FTA in the game to Monmouth’s 19? 18 fouls to Monmouth’s 10? Yikes.
Ten assists and 18 turnovers (to Monmouth’s 9) with those foul numbers ain’t gonna cut it in most games, but 8/24 to Monmouth’s 2/14 on treys helps keep things close.
I lean to the warily hopeful. I think that with or without DD the team would improve, but DD is coming back and that will help a lot. Players are just figuring out their offensive roles and spacing, how to play off each other, etc., and that probably causes some of the excess turnovers.
The team isn’t getting clobbered on the boards as I had feared preseason, even if post defense and a lack of rim protection are going to be sore spots the whole way. They’ve been better at staying in front of people on D than some recent editions (maybe because they foul more). There’s been some fight and grit displayed.
Looking forward to upsetting some Ivy opponents in both senses of the word.
I wonder what the mood is in the locker room. Five straight losses without Davis and more Ls on the way. Then again, the last 4 losses were by a combined 16pts (!!).
Does getting Dalen back allow them to flip a switch like 2023-24 Brown? Possibly. But until that happens, this team is just an injury-ravaged comedy of errors. The program outlook hasn’t been this bleak since Joe Scott, albeit for very different reasons.
The players have a ton of heart, though. Without Dalen, they have no business playing close games against non-awful teams. But here they are. Temple, Vermont, St. Joe’s, Monmouth. These teams would be average to above-average in the Ivy.
But moral victories are hard to celebrate.
I decided not to drive to west long branch, and subscribed to Flo for a month. Thirty bucks I’ll never get back.
crazy number of turnovers.
I would bet the mood is unity. They all know they are playing from behind before each whistle blows. They know they have years in the future together and this year there are zero expectations.
Someone bookmark this for me next year so I can tell you we are a competitor again.
I hope all can see the vast improvement in the team from just 3 weeks ago all while missing their leading scorer and leading rebounder. They outshot, outrebounded a bigger team again. Stanton played his ass off at both ends. Happy is gaining confidence in every game. He isn’t just trying to get rid of the ball at first thought. He is shooting/playing with the same confidence as Hicke/DD/Stanton. The confidence being shown from Clark, Stanton and CJ wasn’t there before DD went down. Huggins is showing flashes but still tentative with his ball handling / passing and that is leading to silly TO’s. This team needs to get healthy and I would change the offense when Huggins in the game and get him in lane where he comfortable setting baseline screens and flashing. He is not helping them at all at the top of the key. Clark has gotten way better at knowing the difference between playing hard and playing fast. When he plays fast on offense.. bad things happen.
Not to be Debbie Downer, BUT, if Davis has a monster year, we may be playing without him next year.
You sure about “years”?
There is no one on this team right now that is going to snag an NIL deal somewhere else.
Maybe Davis?