Syracuse

[run&blade]

Re: Syracuse

Should have took some chances with JUCO big men.

[UNISuperSenior]

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There are two important lessons I've learned from Panther athletics: 1) A sports season is a long season with a lot that can happen, and 2) Never make snap decisions about our team's chances based on one game.

THIS. not getting down on this game. remember when we lost to Indiana St at home a couple years ago and people were calling for Jake's head?

We are still reigning MVC champs until someone takes us out

[ProwlingPanther]

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Still early in the season, obviously but through two exhibition and tonight's game, I thought Chip Rank was going to be more of a factor.

[UNISuperSenior]

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positive note: we out-rebounded them

[Newsbreaker]

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Disappointing offensive performance, but the defense was very good. This team is going to live and die with guard play, which will mean big wins and frustrating losses, at least for now.

Syracuse is very good, and they were so much taller and longer than us that there was little opportunity to establish anything in the lane. That won't be the case in league play.

[olivestreet95]

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Still early in the season, obviously but through two exhibition and tonight's game, I thought Chip Rank was going to be more of a factor.

Chip shot a few 3 balls that were lucky to even hit the back board.....I was most impressed with AJ tonight! I think he will evolve to be a big time player for us.

[jnutt]

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Disappointing offensive performance, but the defense was very good. This team is going to live and die with guard play, which will mean big wins and frustrating losses, at least for now.

Syracuse is very good, and they were so much taller and longer than us that there was little opportunity to establish anything in the lane. That won't be the case in league play.

jake said they hadn't worked on shooting much yet. Guessing we will look at that more for conference play

[Griffitz]

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IMO our play against the 2-3 zone sucks and has always sucked...the only reason we could defeat it the last couple years was with a legitimate threat from the high post in adam to break it down. Passing the ball 5 feet beyond the 3point line for 25+ seconds before taking a last ditch bomb isn't offense, its offensive. This is exactly how we played against the zone 3 and 4 years ago, and it was always excruciating to watch.

I'm no expert at basketball, but with no post ability wouldn't it be better to have a zone offense centered around penetration (aj, kwadzo, moran), than trying to facilitate the offense through Koch and Rank?

[OrangeChicken]

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Disappointing offensive performance, but the defense was very good. This team is going to live and die with guard play, which will mean big wins and frustrating losses, at least for now.

Syracuse is very good, and they were so much taller and longer than us that there was little opportunity to establish anything in the lane. That won't be the case in league play.

This. Game was about as I expected. We were cold as ice for most of the game, but defensively we were very solid.

[UNI83]

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This next line is what the fan base looks like right now....and it's embarrassing to read....


OMGZ WE SUCKZ, THE SEAZONZ IS OVERZ...WE ARE GARBAGE....BLAH BLAH BLAH.



It was one game, against one of the most talented teams in the nation. It was our first game with a pretty much all new line up/style of play.


Let's not give up because of the FIRST FREAKING GAME OF THE SEASON.


I'm honestly ashamed to read some of the stuff here.

[mwatje]

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Chip shot a few 3 balls that were lucky to even hit the back board.....I was most impressed with AJ tonight! I think he will evolve to be a big time player for us.

I totally agree! I think AJ is the type of guy that can tear it up in MVC play.

[ProwlingPanther]

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no...what's weird is that you just compared someone one our team with AI.

(BTW - I thought Jordan could've been the next Detlef Schrempf.)

WAIT A MINUTE!! I KNOW WHERE I'VE SEEN YOU BEFORE!!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/109926/saturday-night-live-debbie-downer

[TheGrowl]

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You're an idiot dude. Go away, you aren't worth corresponding with.

Hey don't get me wrong...I wish we had more players with AJ's athleticism. Truth is we are undersized and out-manned in the front court. (Seemed like every recruit was a guard, right?) Anyway, apologize if I struck a chord...just thought when you put AJ and AI in the same sentence you might open your self up for a bit of backlash. Peace.

[ProwlingPanther]

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Re-read what I wrote and you will see that I said, "AI of the MVC." Wasn't saying he was Allen Iverson. I thought I put it in context. Thanks for the explanation. Very frustrating evening. Have a good weekend.

[Griffitz]

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This next line is what the fan base looks like right now....and it's embarrassing to read....


OMGZ WE SUCKZ, THE SEAZONZ IS OVERZ...WE ARE GARBAGE....BLAH BLAH BLAH.


It was one game, against one of the most talented teams in the nation. It was our first game with a pretty much all new line up/style of play.


Let's not give up because of the FIRST FREAKING GAME OF THE SEASON.


I'm honestly ashamed to read some of the stuff here.

Actually I think I have a good point, if you look at 3-4 years ago when we were similarly "rebuilding", our zone offense was ugly. Granted Syracuse is a really good team, and maybe our posts will play more comfortable against less athletic posts in the zone, but I think fundamentally our approach towards attacking the zone needs to change, or we could be looking at another season filled with sub 50 point efforts against teams that play it.