I was there, which will be the last time I go, but simply put, you don't lose this game.  Foul shots or whatever, I don't t want to analyze it, we just lost to Canisius at home fella's, end of story.  Call me next year.

insideout wrote:

For those of you who were looking for J Rob he was sitting on the bench getting zero playing time while freshmen and walk ons continue to play.

I don't get it either.  J Rob should be in the mix.  I also don't understand why Darius Lewis was on the bench for the last six or eight minutes.  It seems that whatever team we play we give up our advantage and play to the other teams strength. There is also too much selfish play and dribbling.  They on the other hand were sharing the ball and looked really sharp in their offense.  They had 24 assists and we had 11.  

BTW what was the crowd, 200? I hope Harper is paying attention.  
 

ElDuque wrote:

Ferry couldn't call a timeout fast enough? Cat had his tongue? Team not prepared that everyone screams for TO after a make?

Lame. Just lame.

ED, spot on. Watch the replay included in the game highlight video at goDuquesne.com.
1. Mike's jumper occurs right in front of your own bench.
2. Sanders has the ball in his hands after the shot goes thru the basket.
3. Sanders drops the ball on the court, and the inbounder (Valenti) had to pick up the ball and step back out of bounds to inbound.
4. An official is standing near Ferry the entire time.
5. Ferry is motioning for his team to get back on defense and raise their hands.
6. The trailer, Valenti, was not picked up by the defense until it was too late.
I saw no attempt by Ferry to gesture for a time out or look at and try to engage the official. To me, this was another of Ferry's Fantasyland excuses.

Last edited by PhoenixRising2 (11/19/2016 10:38 am)

I'm glad now I didn't drive in to see this one. Now, looking at the go Duquesne site, 8 players had stats. Littleson had 2 rebounds and 1 foul so I'm assuming he played maybe 3 or 4 minutes. So, once again, with this deep bench we now have, he's playing 7 guys. EJ had no stats. Did he even get in. What's up with this guy. Last year we lose Jeremiah and it throws the whole season down the crapper. If you don't play people, how do you expect them to perform when they have to. I'm totally lost on Robinson. Yeah, his D is suspect but they don't coach D anyway. He's quick around the basket, has nice post moves. He should be getting at least 6-7 minutes a half. This guy makes Danny Nee look like coach K.

Well I went last night and was crossing my fingers that they would pull it out, but now I can go back to staying away and not get myself seriously aggravated by Ferry's Dukes.  I was so pissed off last night my kids even said "why do you go if it gets you so upset", and you know they are right.  All posters are right about everything from lack of interest, not playing JRob and missing fouls (it did cost us the game). What makes me sick is that there is some talent on this roster, but you can't go 10 minutes and 39 seconds with 12:04 to play and not get a field goal (see PG article).  Well its true that during that stretch they were getting fouled, but the free throw shooting was atrocious in my view - 21 of 32!!  Are you friggin kidding me!  And think about a number of those missed fouls being on the front end of a 1 and 1.  You need to shoot at least 75% to 80% from the foul line in D1 ball, 65.62% does not cut it.  How about these stats: 0-7 from the 3 in the second half and 4-17 overall and yet when missing like that NO JROB!!  Would a reporter please ask Ferry why he rides the pine when he is your best offensive big man and your 3 point shooting is horrid????  Darius can't make a 2' consistently to save his life and yet Robinson sits.  I'm sorry, his offensive production outweighs whatever deficiency he purportedly has on D - and it's not like the rest of the team plays shut down D!.  All of those bad stats and we still should have won.  Just can't take it.  As Iron Duke says, only a few miserable souls like us even care.  We could have pounded it inside against PSU and we could have done it against Canisius, but no, we have to run that stupid  offensive weave incessantly from the top of the key.  At least do a different set to throw it inside to keep the other team off balance. And no EJ at all when his experience could have been used in that second half dry spell and he HAS HIT some clutch foul shots - that is how we won the opener.  What is the mystery there????  I like Mike L, but his foul shooting was costly.  Oh well, I'm rambling now.  Sorry guys, just can't take it.