WashPaRick wrote:

As happens every time we play the Bonnies someone on their message board mentions in one way or another that they get homered when playing the Dukes. This time it was will Dambrot bring his homer refs with him. The last time I remember having the refs taking care of us it was at home when the Nelsons played. It was the opposite when they were on the road. Anybody here think we get a fair shake from the stripes.

Well the refereeing can't be worse than yesterday. I just hope they call it consistently. Both teams are physical teams, so they should let the players play. As long as they call it the same way both ways we'll have nothing to complain about though. Yesterday was probably the worst refereed game I've ever seen. It mostly favored Richmond, but there were some bad calls that went our way too. I don't know any of their names, but hopefully that crew doesn't ever work another of our games. If they get the treatment they deserve they'll never work another game anywhere.

Last edited by luckymcd (3/05/2021 8:52 am)

Dukes412 wrote:

WashPaRick wrote:

As happens every time we play the Bonnies someone on their message board mentions in one way or another that they get homered when playing the Dukes. This time it was will Dambrot bring his homer refs with him. The last time I remember having the refs taking care of us it was at home when the Nelsons played. It was the opposite when they were on the road. Anybody here think we get a fair shake from the stripes.

Well I remember playing there last year and one of their idiot fans threw a balloon on the court during critical foul shots to send it to ot. Believe it was Sincere Carry shooting them. It should’ve been a technical foul but nothing was called and in the end we ended up winning but talk about homer calls.

Well remember that one. We could have easily lost the game as a result and the officials just looked the other way like nothing happened.
 

Yesterday was a good win, but we need to play a lot better to win today. Expect a 40 minute battle and the team who plays better defense will win. In their four losses they only shot even 40% from the field once. They never made more than 1/3 of their threes. It's vital to finish off good defensive possessions by getting the rebound though. If we rebound like we did yesterday we'll lose by 20. They hit the glass as hard as anyone in the conference and Osunniyi has killed us in the past. They got outrebounded in all four losses. Defending Lofton is going to be key. In their four losses he's only averaged 11.8 points a game, shot 1 for 10 from three point range and has just a 1.2 assist to turnover ratio. They basically only go 6 deep. So even though we are playing on back to back days I'd like to see some press. We don't want to turn the game into a track meet, but making them run brings them out of their comfort zone and favors us. A tightly called game might actually favor us for that reason too. If our bigs get in foul trouble it's bad news, but we've got depth, they don't. This is definitely a game we can win. We aren't a typical 9 seed and they aren't a typical 1 either. For the third game in a row I'll have to say I hope I'm wrong and predict an L though. Dukes 62 Bonnies 68.

Well not like we've never come from behind but it's looking bad.

D picked up but O is struggling.

Glad to see Baker is o.k.

gotta put all 5 starters in to end the half, try to get back into this.   No need saving fuel if you're gonna be down 20+ at the half.   

I called for some press in my preview. I'm going to have to nix that recommendation. We're starting to look like a team playing back to back. Little movement on offense, settling for deep shots. The defensive effort is there, but we're late rotating and leaving open shooters. Weathers is giving it all he's got now, but it won't be enough if he can't get the shots to fall.

That's deflating.

Last edited by WashPaRick (3/05/2021 11:49 am)

Well, I've seen enough. Turning off the TV and heading outside to do some chores,

Dambrot figure it out not likely against Schmidt I hope Penn State throws a ton of cash his way. Can you imagine the Bonnie’s next year. All underclass men. 

YES, Schmidt is better than Dambrot.  But Penn State is looking at 2 African- American Coaches right now.