Men's Basketball 24-25

there were some moments but siena isn't good enough to have given us fits like this. they were guarding deep and we weren't rotating the ball fast enough to find open looks given their overcommitment. still, the team feels surprisingly close to cohesive somehow. none of it seems unfixable.

Just could not make adjustments to counter the man to man and open up the 3 point shooting. Our defense had a hard time getting stops too. Too many offensive fouls also.

8 Siena steals, 2 for Cornell

chimpfood
Awful performance, never even got a lead vs Siena at home. We did well at finding cutters for easy lays but just didn’t shoot threes for some reason and played bad defense. The Ivy League games are all that matter anyway but it’s hard not to be pissed off after sitting in Newman for two hours to watch them get handled by Siena and have the Siena fans be even louder than our own.

Only 12 three point shots attempted; fewest since before the pandemic and the current offensive style. Give Siena some credit for doing a good job of taking away the threeball, but the BR never looked in rhythm.

Restart after the glorified scrimmage for league slate. 8-6 should get us into the ILT, it's almost always enough to finish top 4. To do that:

1-3 versus the favorites Yale and Princeton
2-2 versus our competition for the ILT Brown and Columbia
5-1 versus the rest of the league Harvard, Penn and Dartmouth.

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Awful performance, never even got a lead vs Siena at home. We did well at finding cutters for easy lays but just didn’t shoot threes for some reason and played bad defense. The Ivy League games are all that matter anyway but it’s hard not to be pissed off after sitting in Newman for two hours to watch them get handled by Siena and have the Siena fans be even louder than our own.

Only 12 three point shots attempted; fewest since before the pandemic and the current offensive style. Give Siena some credit for doing a good job of taking away the threeball, but the BR never looked in rhythm.

Restart after the glorified scrimmage for league slate. 8-6 should get us into the ILT, it's almost always enough to finish top 4. To do that:

1-3 versus the favorites Yale and Princeton
2-2 versus our competition for the ILT Brown and Columbia
5-1 versus the rest of the league Harvard, Penn and Dartmouth.

Wild to see Harvard and Penn at the bottom. Feel for Donohue. Not for Amaker.

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Wild to see Harvard and Penn at the bottom. Feel for Donohue. Not for Amaker.

My thoughts exactly!

Harvard was losing to DIII Bowdoin by 9, 9!, at the half before winning by 6. Is Harvard actually this bad?

Weird game yesterday where a player for Penn State Schuylkill punched one of the refs in the shoulder during a break and got the ejection. 3 straight home losses before taking this one against a Division II USCAA team (USCAA equivalent of NCAA Division III). Would like to see Cornell players react better to "press out" man to man than they did against Siena. Credit Gerry McNamara (Siena Coach) with a good game plan to take away Cornell's 3 point shooting which Ivy teams will probably try to emulate.

Pretty massive game today, starting 1-0 in the Ivy League always feels important, especially away against a good team like Columbia (though they don’t scare me as much as a team with their record normally would).

13-4 early, great start and they’ve gotten nothing from de la Rosa

chimpfood
Pretty massive game today, starting 1-0 in the Ivy League always feels important, especially away against a good team like Columbia (though they don’t scare me as much as a team with their record normally would).

great start for the red. clampdown d and getting good looks inside. 13-4, 5 minutes in.

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Pretty massive game today, starting 1-0 in the Ivy League always feels important, especially away against a good team like Columbia (though they don’t scare me as much as a team with their record normally would).

great start for the red. clampdown d and getting good looks inside. 13-4, 5 minutes in.

lot of red here. 23-14 11:28 left in the first half.

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great start for the red. clampdown d and getting good looks inside. 13-4, 5 minutes in.

lot of red here. 23-14 11:28 left in the first half.

35-18 7:43 left in the half. RDLR still 0 points but 4 assists. Noard worth 3 3s.

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great start for the red. clampdown d and getting good looks inside. 13-4, 5 minutes in.

lot of red here. 23-14 11:28 left in the first half.

35-18 7:43 left in the half. RDLR still 0 points but 4 assists. Noard worth 3 3s.

45-25 3:46

Up 20 at half and their best player is scoreless, can’t ask for much more.

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great start for the red. clampdown d and getting good looks inside. 13-4, 5 minutes in.

lot of red here. 23-14 11:28 left in the first half.

35-18 7:43 left in the half. RDLR still 0 points but 4 assists. Noard worth 3 3s.

45-25 3:46

51-31 at the half. RDLR still blanked. Incredible 20 minutes.

Lead cut down to 10 quickly

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great start for the red. clampdown d and getting good looks inside. 13-4, 5 minutes in.

lot of red here. 23-14 11:28 left in the first half.

35-18 7:43 left in the half. RDLR still 0 points but 4 assists. Noard worth 3 3s.

45-25 3:46

51-31 at the half. RDLR still blanked. Incredible 20 minutes.

Columbia comes out on fire, hitting five straight 3s. Lead down to 12. 61-49. Our offense isn't even playing that badly but this is insane. RDLR with 8 points in the onslaught.

This game is a blast to watch, back up 18 and beccles having the game of his life

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great start for the red. clampdown d and getting good looks inside. 13-4, 5 minutes in.

lot of red here. 23-14 11:28 left in the first half.

35-18 7:43 left in the half. RDLR still 0 points but 4 assists. Noard worth 3 3s.

45-25 3:46

51-31 at the half. RDLR still blanked. Incredible 20 minutes.

Columbia comes out on fire, hitting five straight 3s. Lead down to 12. 61-49. Our offense isn't even playing that badly but this is insane. RDLR with 8 points in the onslaught.

As unsustainable as it seemed. Cornell lead back to 18. 77-59.

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great start for the red. clampdown d and getting good looks inside. 13-4, 5 minutes in.

lot of red here. 23-14 11:28 left in the first half.

35-18 7:43 left in the half. RDLR still 0 points but 4 assists. Noard worth 3 3s.

45-25 3:46

51-31 at the half. RDLR still blanked. Incredible 20 minutes.

Columbia comes out on fire, hitting five straight 3s. Lead down to 12. 61-49. Our offense isn't even playing that badly but this is insane. RDLR with 8 points in the onslaught.

As unsustainable as it seemed. Cornell lead back to 18. 77-59.

82-63. 7:57 left. Defense is so good today.

Columbia’s press was looking good and forced a turnover before that timeout, then they just stopped?

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great start for the red. clampdown d and getting good looks inside. 13-4, 5 minutes in.

lot of red here. 23-14 11:28 left in the first half.

35-18 7:43 left in the half. RDLR still 0 points but 4 assists. Noard worth 3 3s.

45-25 3:46

51-31 at the half. RDLR still blanked. Incredible 20 minutes.

Columbia comes out on fire, hitting five straight 3s. Lead down to 12. 61-49. Our offense isn't even playing that badly but this is insane. RDLR with 8 points in the onslaught.

As unsustainable as it seemed. Cornell lead back to 18. 77-59.

82-63. 7:57 left. Defense is so good today.

86-70 5:27 left. Bench mob has taken off their warm ups. Could see a lot of subs after the 4 minute TO.

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great start for the red. clampdown d and getting good looks inside. 13-4, 5 minutes in.

lot of red here. 23-14 11:28 left in the first half.

35-18 7:43 left in the half. RDLR still 0 points but 4 assists. Noard worth 3 3s.

45-25 3:46

51-31 at the half. RDLR still blanked. Incredible 20 minutes.

Columbia comes out on fire, hitting five straight 3s. Lead down to 12. 61-49. Our offense isn't even playing that badly but this is insane. RDLR with 8 points in the onslaught.

As unsustainable as it seemed. Cornell lead back to 18. 77-59.

82-63. 7:57 left. Defense is so good today.

86-70 5:27 left. Bench mob has taken off their warm ups. Could see a lot of subs after the 4 minute TO.

No subs coming anymore. Getting a little sloppy. 86-73 with 3:18 left. Need to stabilize.

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great start for the red. clampdown d and getting good looks inside. 13-4, 5 minutes in.

lot of red here. 23-14 11:28 left in the first half.

35-18 7:43 left in the half. RDLR still 0 points but 4 assists. Noard worth 3 3s.

45-25 3:46

51-31 at the half. RDLR still blanked. Incredible 20 minutes.

Columbia comes out on fire, hitting five straight 3s. Lead down to 12. 61-49. Our offense isn't even playing that badly but this is insane. RDLR with 8 points in the onslaught.

As unsustainable as it seemed. Cornell lead back to 18. 77-59.

82-63. 7:57 left. Defense is so good today.

86-70 5:27 left. Bench mob has taken off their warm ups. Could see a lot of subs after the 4 minute TO.

No subs coming anymore. Getting a little sloppy. 86-73 with 3:18 left. Need to stabilize.

Noard worth a back breaking 3 with 4 seconds on the clock followed by a great block from AK and another 3 from Noard. 92-78 1:27 left.

I haven’t liked us closing games for a few years now but a win is a win and that’s a big one.

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great start for the red. clampdown d and getting good looks inside. 13-4, 5 minutes in.

lot of red here. 23-14 11:28 left in the first half.

35-18 7:43 left in the half. RDLR still 0 points but 4 assists. Noard worth 3 3s.

45-25 3:46

51-31 at the half. RDLR still blanked. Incredible 20 minutes.

Columbia comes out on fire, hitting five straight 3s. Lead down to 12. 61-49. Our offense isn't even playing that badly but this is insane. RDLR with 8 points in the onslaught.

As unsustainable as it seemed. Cornell lead back to 18. 77-59.

82-63. 7:57 left. Defense is so good today.

86-70 5:27 left. Bench mob has taken off their warm ups. Could see a lot of subs after the 4 minute TO.

No subs coming anymore. Getting a little sloppy. 86-73 with 3:18 left. Need to stabilize.

Noard worth a back breaking 3 with 4 seconds on the clock followed by a great block from AK and another 3 from Noard. 92-78 1:27 left.

94-83 final. Love it. Great start to league play.

chimpfood
I haven’t liked us closing games for a few years now but a win is a win and that’s a big one.

Beccles coming out party. Great work on both ends.