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Having major issues watching the video through the A10 website. Never had an issue all year. Great job by davidson.

Down 2 at the half. How did they look (to anyone who watched)?

Horrible second half.  Sloppy unforced errors, selfishness by certain players, and I though poor coaching getting that "T". Ferry should have been yelling at certain players rather than the refs. It will be interesting to see the stats to see TO vs assists.  Micah played well despite not hitting any treys, and James was exceptional.  This is another opportunity for a W that we missed.  

Got to wonder what the future is for Castro. He does not even get in in garbage time.  

CLK wrote:

Horrible second half.  Sloppy unforced errors, selfishness by certain players, and I though poor coaching getting that "T". Ferry should have been yelling at certain players rather than the refs. It will be interesting to see the stats to see TO vs assists.  Micah played well despite not hitting any treys, and James was exceptional.  This is another opportunity for a W that we missed.  

Micah did some nice things, but we can't win with him going 2-9. DC shot much better, but 0 assists won't cut it. I knew this 4 game stretch would be difficult, but it's a shame we picked this time to have injuries. Well, as I thought, what we do at home against our peers, and the bottom teams, will determine how good of a season this is. The league is strange this year, as the top teams are nothing special, and the bottom teams are better. This means there are opportunities for wins, but few games you can assume as victories. GW lost to St. Louis tonight.
 

Duq81 I'm sorry this team has never had a ton of assists. How can you say the bench can't score, would you have believed James would be a double / double machine. Robinson had 7 very serviceable minutes against Dayton and may never be seen again. He can score from the low post. We haven't seen enough of these guys to know. The saddest part is everyone of these games where winnable. This team needs to be shaken up!!!!

duq81 we are not playing like we did earlier in the year.  As I said earlier we are playing very selfish basketball in the last two games.  Way too many quick shots and little and ineffective ball movement.  Case in point was the start of the second half.  Gill killed us on the first three trips...a quick trey, a missed quick shot and a charging foul.  Now the Dukes are down 8.    Colter needs to step up and play uner control and start setting other players up. I don't know how many TO he had but it was too  many.

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One of the reasons that we are not playing the same way we played at the beginning of the year is actually simple...the competition.  This is not OOC teams. These are teams in our league which is very good.  Hopefully the players/coach will adjust.

In my opinion the team needs to have some reasonable scoring threat from inside the paint.  I would say that Ty has the best offensive potential to score down low instead of away from the hoop.  Getting Ty the ball either in the paint or on the short baseline makes him tough to defend as opposed to getting him the ball away from the hoop, where he is easy to defend.  Jordan can also score down low, but the coaches obviously find too many negatives in the rest of his game, to give him the minutes he would need to develop as a scoring threat.  I don't see any appreciable contribution from the other bigs in terms of scoring, beyond dunks and put-backs.

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Hilltopper wrote:

The Dome wrote:

1 assist the entire second half is beyond belief. 7 for the game 5 of which came from Micah. 16% from three. And even more incredibly very little use of the bench. 14 turnovers again double digits. If you are a player on this team how do you attempt to understand the substitution pattern.

Excellent post.  Above vs a team that  lost to Bonnies.  

Bona is a good team. they're 10-3, and they're going to win most of their home games. Davidson lost to them on the road, not at home.
 

FAM wrote:

I was surprised he played Mason the other night...I would have given him another day off because I didn't think we would beat Davidson there with him. Upcoming thoughts:
@ GW - very difficult to win    Home-St. Louis - why not us
DU home Bonnies on the 16th  - though the former Bobby Mo coach seems to have Ferry's number, if we are going to beat them it will have to be here.    If we win two out of three I will agree  that we are a good team.  If we win one or even none, we are better than last year based on our OOC record but I do not believe we are very good.  Jones was good and I think his replacement is even better!!  If we can find one other strong person to step in, that will do wonders.  As far as Ferry substituting without logic to us, I am okay with that...I think he is trying to see who will get the hot hand and that person will play a lot that game.  None of those other players are that developed yet that one is ready to take over like James. 

That Bona game is key. They are a good team, maybe the third or fourth best in the league. Winning these games at home are crucial. If we can beat teams like this at home, we have a chance to finish around .500 in the league, which would give us a nice record overall.