Men’s Basketball 23-24

[ugarte]

What in the world happened to Boothby's 3 point shot? He slipped last year considerably and was 0-3 last night.

Boothby's shooting as a freshman was unsustainable; 49.5% from behind the arc was insane.  And he found his stroke in league play last year, 22-46 (don't do the math on his out of conference shooting last year, it's not pretty).

Not going to start a thread over a D3 game, but maybe next weekend?  I saw the commentators for the broadcast are new names.  Did Barry retire/get replaced?

Wasn't the discussion about the Lehigh game going 0-3? we didn't play the D-3 game yet.

separate points. he was talking about Boothby and then referring to my earlier suggestion of "weekend threads," proposing that we keep the D-III game discussion here instead of giving it its own thread.

[mountainred]

What in the world happened to Boothby's 3 point shot? He slipped last year considerably and was 0-3 last night.

Boothby's shooting as a freshman was unsustainable; 49.5% from behind the arc was insane.  And he found his stroke in league play last year, 22-46 (don't do the math on his out of conference shooting last year, it's not pretty).

Not going to start a thread over a D3 game, but maybe next weekend?  I saw the commentators for the broadcast are new names.  Did Barry retire/get replaced?

Wasn't the discussion about the Lehigh game going 0-3? we didn't play the D-3 game yet.

separate points. he was talking about Boothby and then referring to my earlier suggestion of "weekend threads," proposing that we keep the D-III game discussion here instead of giving it its own thread.

Yeah, it made sense to me when I typed it.

No one was hurt while the Cornell won comfortably 107-86.  Some random thoughts:

* The defense and ball security were troubling.  Surrendering a point a possession and losing the turnover battle to an okay D3 school is a problem.
* The only changes to the first ten guys were that Williams sat out, he's said to be day-to-day, and a bunch of minutes for Fr. Jacob Beccles -- who looked pretty good.
* Max Watson sighting with 6-ish minutes left.  Very late for a rotation guy from last year.
* New announcers were nothing great.  Very young. I guess Al Michaels started somewhere, but it felt that we were providing training for a recent Newhouse grad.

[chimpfood]

Looks like Baldwin may have torn his acl. He has the standard acl knee brace and crutches, that definitely hurts.

[mountainred]

Looks like Baldwin may have torn his acl. He has the standard acl knee brace and crutches, that definitely hurts.

Jeff Goodman tweeted the other day he was out for the season for a knee injury: https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1721585466946826288 so an ACL tear would make sense.

[rss77]

Understand that Barry may be out this season

[mountainred]

Understand that Barry may be out this season

Thanks.  I hope everything is okay with him.

[ugarte]

* New announcers were nothing great.  Very young. I guess Al Michaels started somewhere, but it felt that we were providing training for a recent Newhouse grad.

i thought the same. they could follow the action well but the emotion felt forced and overstated. idk. maybe i'm being harsh. gotta let them grow on me.

[ugarte]

Some random thoughts:

* The defense and ball security were troubling.  Surrendering a point a possession and losing the turnover battle to an okay D3 school is a problem.
* The only changes to the first ten guys were that Williams sat out, he's said to be day-to-day, and a bunch of minutes for Fr. Jacob Beccles -- who looked pretty good.
* Max Watson sighting with 6-ish minutes left.  Very late for a rotation guy from last year.

with respect to the other thoughts, i'm not concerned with the rotation in the D-III game. let's see what it's like on Saturday.

[Jordan 04]

$25 single-game tickets for Fordham basketball seems...high?

[upprdeck]

That seems to the price for tickets to their games in that gym.

Compared to games at Newman its high but not like going to the Dome or any big time bball games.

[Weder]

Was considering going to the game at George Mason next week and you can get in for $10

[Jordan 04]

Yeah, out of curiosity I looked around at other A10 teams. Most seemed to be $10-15.  Columbia is $12 or $13. And it doesn't appear to be a supply/demand issue - their gym holds 3K and attendance last year (per their own boxscores) was anywhere from 500 to 1800 for games I looked at. Oh well, it is what it is - just seemed out of whack to what I would've expected the pricing to be.

[mountainred]

Some random thoughts:

* The defense and ball security were troubling.  Surrendering a point a possession and losing the turnover battle to an okay D3 school is a problem.
* The only changes to the first ten guys were that Williams sat out, he's said to be day-to-day, and a bunch of minutes for Fr. Jacob Beccles -- who looked pretty good.
* Max Watson sighting with 6-ish minutes left.  Very late for a rotation guy from last year.

with respect to the other thoughts, i'm not concerned with the rotation in the D-III game. let's see what it's like on Saturday.

Sure, today will be more telling, but you have to think Earl likes Beccles since he was running with the regulars starting with the first "line change."  I guess we'll see if his PT and Max's were D3 game wonkiness or a sign of how valuable they will be this year.

(I guess we aren't doing a new chain?)

[chimpfood]

Defense is doing great today. Maybe we shouldn't be saying scrap the press after one game?

[mountainred]

Defense is doing great today. Maybe we shouldn't be saying scrap the press after one game?

I don't want to jinx anything, but that was about as good a half of basketball as we can hope to see from our guys.  45-24 good guys.