Men’s Basketball 23-24

[Trotsky]

Mintz is such a PITA.

[Trotsky]

Drawing 3 fouls on one possession, nice.

[Trotsky]

It would appear to be our strategy to not score any points but draw enough fouls that the entire Syracuse team fouls out, and then we can score 40 unanswered points in the final minute.

[Trotsky]

Down to a six-point deficit.  Cornell has played well despite not being able to hit a barn door with a banjo.

[Trotsky]

Down to 3, 2:43 to go.

[Trotsky]

Awful final two minutes.  Blech.

Nice job defending and hanging around; nothing but bricks whenever we needed a shot.

[ugarte]

Awful final two minutes.  Blech.

Nice job defending and hanging around; nothing but bricks whenever we needed a shot.

yep. after we got it to 3 it all fell apart. turnovers and bricks. coming that close hurt.

[upprdeck]

It will be a test to see how Cornell plays with teams in the ivy.  As bad as SU is right now they still had better athletes at every spot on the floor.  The fact that are such a dumb team helps teams like Cornell stay in the game.

[Local Motion]

Cornell played very well vs. Syracuse last evening.   We just could not sink the three pointers when we needed them.   However I would not call Syracuse a "dumb team" as they are a great Upstate NY rival.   I would love to see Brian Earl pull out the win at the Dome sometime and I think we could have won with a few key three pointers.   Go Big Red!!!

[Trotsky]

I think he meant it literally, they play dumb.  And they do, I was amazed at just how badly they seemed to put all of the great elements together.  Even when Mintz was sitting, the way they threw the ball around the perimeter was amazing -- so much cleaner, sharper, faster than we.  And it seemed like every time they got a clear 3 they sunk it.

But they just did dumb things all night, including that stretch where they handed us 9 defensive fouls in the first couple minutes of the second half and got half their team into deep foul trouble.  That almost sunk them.  With their skill level and how hot they were last night we should not have been within 20 for most of the night, and yet we pulled to within one possession before we remembered we were an Ivy League team.

I don't know whether that's bad coaching or what.

[upprdeck]

Su has better players.. CU plays better as a team. If the SU big had some center skills SU wins by 30..

[rss77]

The Red could have pulled it out with better 3 point shooting and free throws. They have been in a bit of a 3 point slump lately and it needs to improve in order to get to Ivy playoffs.

[Ken711]

Next game on Tuesday, December 19 against 2-8 Siena College.

[Ken711]

Cornell recruit.

https://www.myrecordjournal.com/Sports/Meriden-Sports/Platt-basketball-player-Anthony-Nimani-commits-to-Cornell.html

[upprdeck]

The Girls put up a pretty good fight against a decent SU team last night.. Led most of the game until the full court pressure broke them down.