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How can your star player Leons go the whole 1st half with only 3 shots? Yet Burch and Ellis drive out of control to the hoop either losing the ball or getting bad passes off.. .make the damn ball go through your star hands.....we are too short on talent to compete...
Just a terrible way for the game to end. Bradley had the ball for the final shot of regulation and a few seconds left. Just needed to inbound the ball and get it to the best shooter.
Instead of the worst case being overtime, they turned it over with just enough time for Duquesne to run down and make a layup to win. Even overtime would not have been a bad outcome there, since Bradley is 2-0 in OT game. But, they didn't even get a shot and end up losing. Ouch.
Bradley had 19 turnovers, which contributed to the loss.
Final score- Duquesne 69 Bradley 67
Stats- https://goduquesne.com/sidearmstats/mbball/media
This team definitely isn't the team we all thought they would be.
They don't have a JH with an I will not lose attitude. What i heard about Ellison nade me think we were getting a better player then Zek but he doesnt have Zek's toughness nor his shot.
A lot of of last years team had a toughness that this team, other then Hickman, doesn't have.
There is a long way to go but these newcomers better toughen up and quickly. Hannah and Leons are more finesse players. They did great last year but they don't have the strong players this year to help them out.
Well we lost a close game and coach blamed himself. That was well deserved since he didn’t use the timeout. To lose that way is on coach. Positive things we played harder then last game.Meta dunked!!!! Last two games were disappointing but with Hickman we win both. Unfortunately, a lot of hype is talked on this platform about some of these guys that we have. We have used scholarships on three stiffs and a kid that left. Who knows what he could have gave us off the bench. Coach talks about the guys leaving for the money but he isn’t recruiting to replace those guys. Instead we get guys that are deep bench players or practice players. Played a walk on over scholarship guys tonight which gave us a spark. Hopefully the rough patch will pass and we dance in arch madness.
For all the good they did in this game, (rebounding, 8 blocks, holding them to 42% shooting, 5-19 from 3), the bad of 19 turnovers far out weighs it. We're having a hard time with basic execution on offense and until that gets fixed we will continue to struggle to win games. The offense needs to go through Leons. In 3 of the last 4 games he's taken the 3rd most shots and that's unacceptable. However Leons has a tendency to not assert himself enough. At the end of the day we can't cry about who we don't have. The guys have to just fight through this and believe their hard work in practice will pay off with a win.
I have noticed the main problems during this stretch are:
Turnovers
Scoring droughts final 10 min.
Mediocre defense
Rebounding
You fix 3 of those 4 and this team is gonna win a lot of games going fw. And 3 out of those 4 involve mental fortitude more than talent.
Right now we have a bunch of GOOD players, but not 1 or 2 great players, which is ok if everyone works together.
Leons has been close to great, but he's not reached his peak this season.
If Leons, Hickman, or Dean get injured, we are SCREWED and you can kiss any chance at coming in Top 4 of the league good-bye.
I'd almost settle for Top 4 right now.
I'd say ISU-red and Belmont would beat us as we stand.
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