Home Court DISadvantage

[UNIMIS2001]

Is it just me, or do we play worse at home than away??

It probably is just my perception, but man this is getting old.

[ianuni57]

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I know the Dome was not a good place for basketball, but in the last few years it felt like a home court advantage.

[oldandgrey]

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It is a disadvantage when Coleman was the only one I saw tonight that busted his butt all game long on both ends of the court. No way should we get out rebounded at home by this opponent. Rebounding is effort and I saw a huge lack of effort by the whole team besides Coleman. You can say well we were missing Jordon, but when one of your teammates go down, someone needs to elevate his game. Did not see that tonight.

[clenz]

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It is a disadvantage when Coleman was the only one I saw tonight that busted his butt all game long on both ends of the court. No way should we get out rebounded at home by this opponent. Rebounding is effort and I saw a huge lack of effort by the whole team besides Coleman. You can say well we were missing Jordon, but when one of your teammates go down, someone needs to elevate his game. Did not see that tonight.

Coleman never busts his butt...as some of the posters on this board

[run&blade]

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Players and coaching, not the drywall.

[Khan4Cats]

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It is a disadvantage when Coleman was the only one I saw tonight that busted his butt all game long on both ends of the court. No way should we get out rebounded at home by this opponent. Rebounding is effort and I saw a huge lack of effort by the whole team besides Coleman. You can say well we were missing Jordon, but when one of your teammates go down, someone needs to elevate his game. Did not see that tonight.

I've been down on Coleman for a while and I will admit that tonight he did bust his butt. It actually looked like he realized his career was about coming to an end and he finally started playing like there's no tomorrow.

I thought the rest of the team played decent, just couldn't get open shots to fall, some were close, some were way off. Can't come away from a game with 4 one and one chances and get two points total out of those, we couldn't even make uncontested shots at the foul line.

[BCPanther]

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Great analysis Khan!

[Matt Trump]

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I've been down on Coleman for a while and I will admit that tonight he did bust his butt. It actually looked like he realized his career was about coming to an end and he finally started playing like there's no tomorrow.

Good to hear. I hope it continues

[Schack]

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I have a hard time accepting the argument that "we lost because we didn't shoot the 3-ball well". That seems like more of an excuse than a reason. If your going to "hang your hat" on the 3-ball then you better expect to lose a lot of games.

[JCPanthers]

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I have a hard time accepting the argument that "we lost because we didn't shoot the 3-ball well". That seems like more of an excuse than a reason. If your going to "hang your hat" on the 3-ball then you better expect to lose a lot of games.

We lost because we couldnt hit open shots.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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Agreed...couldn't hit open shots. Coleman played great tonight. He layed it all out tonight...I hope that continues. I thought the ball reversal, swing, penetrating, cutting was pretty solid tonight, the shots (mostly open) were not falling. 3 for 21 from the three point line isn't a good stat!

[GonzoCat]

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Did Coleman play well or was it just a case of a non-MVC team not knowing that the wasy to beat UNI is to just blanket Coleman with double and triple teams because no one else for UNI is much of a threat?

When I heard UIC had a big man I was hoping and thinking they might try to play EC straight up and that he would have a big game. There's very few players in the country that can match up with Eric straight up.

Unfortunately the game was not even on the radio in Dsm.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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Eric was playing very hard (sometimes a little too aggressive at times, but I can live with that if Eric plays like that all the time). That sucks that the game wasn't on radio in Des Moines. What was on instead?

I have an honest question...

Was the UNI-Dome such a home court advantage (opposition shooting wise) that it mattered that much that it could have hidden some of our weaknesses that are now exposed in the McLeod Center? Despite having one of the better statistical defensive teams, it seems (again, perception, not statistical which I will try to figure out later---or someone else?) as though opponent shooting percentage have improved.

Honest question...any thoughts?

[UnderParPanther]

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I always thought UNI had a mental edge playing in the dome as nobody was used to playing in it and depth perception for shooters always seems to effect things. I'd like to see some statistics on shooting percentages in the dome vs mcleod though.....

I don't recall anyone going off on us in the dome with such regularity as teams have in the mcleod center, but i dont have any statistics to back that statement up.

[unigriff]

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I felt like we were playing the Korvers all over again...everytime the shot clock winded down to 5 or less, all UIC had to do was throw it up and it would go in. Huge momentum changer and confidence killer...