Men's Basketball 21-22

ugarte · January 22, 2022, 06:30:33 PM

Quote from: mountainredThe men's hoops team played maybe their best half of the year, taking a 5 point halftime deficit and turning it into a 76-61 win over Harvard. Jordan Jones was back and led the team with 18 points. Other than being way too sloppy with the ball, and some of that is Harvard's quickness and length, the offense looked really good. They took open threes, but tried to work the ball inside and had 20 assists on 27 made FGs. Harvard was largely reduced to chucking up 3s; they took 34.

Really nice win.

I watched a lot of this between the Harvard and Brown wrestling matches. Really fun to watch them hitting their shots.

CU2007 · January 23, 2022, 10:10:46 AM

So for those of us who are casual basketball fans, is the team on pace to make the Ivy tourney? i.e. did we lose any "earmarked wins" or Vice versa that would likely lead to a top 4 finish?

upprdeck · January 23, 2022, 10:19:01 AM

its gonna be tough an go.. losing the princ game hurts. Harvard we can catch. Dart/col we need to sweep. So if you take out Brown 4th is in the cards.

scoop85 · January 23, 2022, 10:38:58 AM

Quote from: upprdeckits gonna be tough an go.. losing the princ game hurts. Harvard we can catch. Dart/col we need to sweep. So if you take out Brown 4th is in the cards.

While we have a shot, losing the Princeton game on that desperation buzzer beater makes the road much harder. We probably will need to go 6-1 at home and 2-5 on the road to get there. As upperdeck said sweeping Col and Dar are likely musts, and it will be tough to do.

ugarte · January 23, 2022, 12:00:18 PM

Quote from: upprdeckits gonna be tough an go.. losing the princ game hurts. Harvard we can catch. Dart/col we need to sweep. So if you take out Brown 4th is in the cards.

and to be clear, the princeton game wasn't an earmarked win until we carried a huge lead into the second half before falling apart... and then still retaking the lead past the buzzer... but a shot was still in the air.

ugarte · January 28, 2022, 12:19:23 PM

https://twitter.com/CornellSports/status/1487098760706592772

CU2007 · January 30, 2022, 10:02:18 AM

Big one today. Looks to be shaping up as a race for the 4th playoff spot with Princeton Yale and Penn likely to make the tourney.

Al DeFlorio · January 30, 2022, 11:25:14 AM

Quote from: CU2007Big one today. Looks to be shaping up as a race for the 4th playoff spot with Princeton Yale and Penn likely to make the tourney.

Shooting too many goddam threes. Take it to the hoop. Fritter away too many big leads by missing threes.

2 of 9 threes. 9 of 13 twos. This team can get inside.

ugarte · January 30, 2022, 11:45:30 AM

hard to complain too much with a 43-25 halftime lead over Brown. rebounding and defending well.

Al DeFlorio · January 30, 2022, 12:16:30 PM

Quote from: ugartehard to complain too much with a 43-25 halftime lead over Brown. rebounding and defending well.

I'm talking in general, not specifically today, but today's percentages make the point: 4 for 17 threes; 18 for 24 twos. 1.5 points scored per two shot. 0.7 points per three.

ugarte · January 30, 2022, 12:33:08 PM

Quote from: Al DeFlorio
Quote from: ugartehard to complain too much with a 43-25 halftime lead over Brown. rebounding and defending well.
I'm talking in general, not specifically today, but today's percentages make the point: 4 for 17 threes; 18 for 24 twos. 1.5 points scored per two shot. 0.7 points per three.

well now that the lead is down to 8 i'm losing my mind. brown started pressing and the ball movement is hesitant and awkward with an inexplicable fondness for dribbling into traffic and passing in tight windows instead of a lot more off-ball movement and they are bricking all of the open looks.

ugarte · January 30, 2022, 12:47:25 PM

ballhandlers are afraid to handle the ball and nobody moves to help so one guy after another gets trapped and now Brown is within 4 with around 5 minutes left. the big red pace doesn't work against pressure because they aren't skilled enough to run against a press without turning it over.

ugarte · January 30, 2022, 12:56:24 PM

Quote from: ugarteballhandlers are afraid to handle the ball and nobody moves to help so one guy after another gets trapped and now Brown is within 4 with around 5 minutes left. the big red pace doesn't work against pressure because they aren't skilled enough to run against a press without turning it over.

tied with 3:17 left when it was still around 15 halfway through the second half. incredible.

CU2007 · January 30, 2022, 01:08:26 PM

Nice to escape with a league road win, but the team better learn something from that second half.

ugarte · January 30, 2022, 01:09:03 PM

...and cornell wins after Brown ties it at 72 when Kobe Dickson gets his own rebound and lays it in with a tenth of a second remaining.

hilarious coaching from Brown. pressing gets them to come back from 18, they stop pressing and Cornell immediately starts scoring again. great final possession by Cornell; nearly got Patel to the line then a nice inbound to Dickson to set up the W.