Basketball 2014-15

[mountainred]

OVERRATED! SUCKS lose 58-57 to Holy Cross, so much for being in the top 25

Holy Cross pressed them out of the gate and forced 25 turnovers (give or take).  Saunders, Chambers and Moundou-Missi are very good, but there is nothing backing them up right now.  (Not that I'm complaining).

[ugarte]

3 for 19 from behind the line was the killer

A five point loss on the road with a glaring statistical anomaly (IT BETTER BE AN ANOMALY) makes me think that this season won't be the horrible disaster last year was. Not that we'll be GOOD or challenge for the conference title or anything, but at least we'll be run-of-the-mill bad instead of the-subject-of-national-derision bad.

[phillysportsfan]

The problem was more the 19 than the 3. Been saying it for 4 years now, they take too many 3's especailly this year without Cressler. Hatter can be streaky and Pat Smith is supposed to be a good shooter but he is still hurt. What is Miller doing taking 5 3's, he should take at most 1 a game? Miller reminds me of Peck sometimes, all the athletic talent in the world but isnt willing to get beat up inside and use it, would rather take a junk 3pt shot with 30s left on the shot clock. I dont get why Courtney allows him to do that. If they only took 10 3's they probably would have won

I dont see Courtney ever taking them anywhere, he can recruit but cant coach at all. Its the last year of his contract, I wonder what it would take for him to do this year for them to resign him, I would hope another losing season which should be guarenteed and he would be gone. Whoever they bring in cant be a worse game day coach

[mountainred]

3 for 19 is probably the same kind of statistical anomaly as 9 for 18 was on Friday.  Shooting regressed to the mean very quickly.

The Courtney offense is take 3s or try to dribble penetrate for a circus lay-up and/or draw a foul.  The only year it has worked was his first because he had Wrobo, Ferry and Groebe bombing away at a 40% clip.

I think ugarte has pegged our level.  We're bad, but that's it.  Unless Shonn goes down, in which case it will get really ugly fast.

I'm not even sold on Bill as a recruiter.  There is some talent on the roster but too many guys with the same skill set of more athlete than basketball player.  I do wonder what James Jones would do with this roster.

[scoop85]

3 for 19 is probably the same kind of statistical anomaly as 9 for 18 was on Friday.  Shooting regressed to the mean very quickly.

The Courtney offense is take 3s or try to dribble penetrate for a circus lay-up and/or draw a foul.  The only year it has worked was his first because he had Wrobo, Ferry and Groebe bombing away at a 40% clip.

I think ugarte has pegged our level.  We're bad, but that's it.  Unless Shonn goes down, in which case it will get really ugly fast.

I'm not even sold on Bill as a recruiter.  There is some talent on the roster but too many guys with the same skill set of more athlete than basketball player.  I do wonder what James Jones would do with this roster.

I also have little patience with Courtney's coaching style.  I hope he proves me wrong this year with better talent to work with, but am not holding my breath.

[mountainred]

Ugly game, but nice comeback:  Cornell 58  Colgate 52.  Big Red trailed by 17 early.

We're basically a playground team, but the playground moves can be fun to watch.  The defense is much better, especially if the other team is easily rattled.

[margolism]

Cornell was down by 11 when I peeked about half an hour ago.

They won by 5.  Already won more D1 games than last season.

[mountainred]

Amazingly, 10 wins looks very doable.  There's the D3 game and games with bottom 50 squads Bingo, UMass-Lowell and Howard.  That's six.  Win at home versus Dartmouth (we even did that last year) and Penn (they are brutal), eight.  You only need 2-17 against the rest of the league slate and 5 games against so-so squads like St. Peter's and Canisius.

[margolism]

Interesting to note that last year, Cornell lost to Colgate by 28 points.

[billhoward]

Interesting to note that last year, Cornell lost to Colgate by 28 points.

Imagine what the Colgate message boards are saying about their coach.

[Trotsky]

Interesting to note that last year, Cornell lost to Colgate by 28 points.

Imagine what the Colgate message boards are saying about their coach.

Probably nothing.  It's all a discussion of the free pizza.

[mountainred]

South Carolina with a pretty easy win over the Big Red, but that was to be expected.  Next up tomorrow is Penn State, which will be tough.  On Sunday, it will be either Drexel or Southern Cal who are both rated in the bottom half of D1.

[ugarte]

South Carolina with a pretty easy win over the Big Red, but that was to be expected.  Next up tomorrow is Penn State, which will be tough.  On Sunday, it will be either Drexel or Southern Cal who are both rated in the bottom half of D1.

At least we catch Penn State the day after they went to double OT.

[ugarte]

Cornell got very unlucky to lose on a buzzer beater 73-72 to Penn State.

4 point lead with 15 seconds left, Cornell gets a block, but the ball goes to Penn State who passes it for a 3 with 4.5 seconds left. A Penn State player tried to call a time out (which should have been a technical) but his coach stepped on to the court to stop him (which should have been a technical) but there was no call. Cornell couldn't get the ball in, Penn State stole the inbounds and got a couple of passes for a baseline drive and got the shot off with 0.2 left for the win.

I don't dislike this team.

[djk26]

"Well, it's late, but I'll keep watching this game.  It's not like Cornell will throw the game away in ridiculously brutal fashion at literally the last second."