UA game thread

[MTS]

Just an awful game...glad I watched on TV. Horrible gameplan. We were really never in the game. Really missed Brett but he isn't coming back for two months if we are lucky. We got outplayed and out-coached. Team is in a funk and UA owns us as painful as it is.

We overachieved last year and right now are underachieving.

That said we aren't athletic (Saintsfan called it). We need more talent. I love Rob Poole but if your senior captain isn't going to show up you're going to struggle.

You can't keep losing to AE teams even the decent ones. Jimmy is now 1-4 against the AE. Last year give him a pass. Not so this year. Eventually he is going to feel Siena fans wrath. Patience is running VERY thin.

On to Radford. Siena needs to decide what kinda of team they want to have.

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I think we may start hearing Mitchisms. Young team, injuries, blah, blah, blah.

[MTS]

Dec 13, 2014 22:03:42 GMT -5 @racersedge said:

I think we may start hearing Mitchisms. Young team, injuries, blah, blah, blah.

Just listened to Jimmy's PC. Not at all with that standard BS. I do think he knows that we just don't have enough talent. He said nothing about "young team" or injuries other than I don't know if they (the team) thinks they can win without Brett, I'll have to ask them.

Not giving up on the season, the team or Jimmy but clearly we've got major issues. We had no answer for UA's zone and continue to commit idiotic fouls.

[bigsaintg]

We need our alleged best from court player to show up too. 2 points and 5 fouls doesn't cut it

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Dec 13, 2014 22:10:56 GMT -5 MTS said:

Dec 13, 2014 22:03:42 GMT -5 @racersedge said:

I think we may start hearing Mitchisms. Young team, injuries, blah, blah, blah.

Just listened to Jimmy's PC. Not at all with that standard BS. I do think he knows that we just don't have enough talent. He said nothing about "young team" or injuries other than I don't know if they (the team) thinks they can win without Brett, I'll have to ask them.

Not giving up on the season, the team or Jimmy but clearly we've got major issues. We had no answer for UA's zone and continue to commit idiotic fouls.

I'll listen to it tomorrow, what I saw was a team that looked rather lost on offense and defense.

[glen]

Cole was the only bright spot. JO - poor. Lavon - poor. Poole - poor. Wright - mediocre. Hymes - mediocre. Oliver - poor. Ugh

[Tony]

It’s not Rob Poole per say- it’s the team, we are slow and can’t shoot going into 2nd year with Jimmy, we still get 3 foul calls a half where the defensive player puts two hands on offensive player when he has ball… automatic foul call… Jimmy automatic foul call. How many times we going to do it?? How many times we going to see this slow footed team get beat on the press… when you press you don’t have to go for steal every time, sometimes it can just be a harassing press, mix in the full all out press, we give up way too many lay ups. This team just isn’t that talented, across the board .. its more than not playing hard..face it folks we just aren’t that good, not going to single out kids, but we need more talent, better shooters and athletes. Jimmy is going to be here a while, the staff needs a shake up—we need to recruit in more than the Baltimore pool, sorry folks it isn’t getting it done

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Dec 13, 2014 22:23:59 GMT -5 glen said:

Cole was the only bright spot. JO - poor. Lavon - poor. Poole - poor. Wright - mediocre. Hymes - mediocre. Oliver - poor. Ugh

Cole is way to out of control for my taste.

[gosaints]

Long was terrible and how can your starting point guard be your leading rebounder with 9 and Evan be next with 3? JO and Willem didn't show up on the boards again. Second game in a row this has happened.

[bigsaintg]

As much as I can't stand Will, he out coached a Jmmy tonight. Albany moved the ball well and made their 3s and foul shots

[gorvy]

They had better guards, better forwards, better coaches, better bands and better cheerleaders. Even their guy on the goofy rolly thing was better.

[gosaints]

Dec 13, 2014 22:15:48 GMT -5 bigsaintg said:

We need our alleged best from court player to show up too. 2 points and 5 fouls doesn't cut it

But the 3 is his best position! Ya right, put him back at the 4 where he belongs.

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So, do you guys still want to play that fantastic 2-3 zone? Albany played 2 – 3 zone most of the game, and what offense did we run? We matched up to their 2-3 zone.
When we were in the 2-3 zone, Albany had 3 guys out front, popping wide open shots. This isn’t a hard game, but Jimmy sure makes it look hard.

How many lay ups did Albany get on our press? How many times did we steal the ball away 1 or 2 times?

FT
Albany 29/32
Siena 15/24
Game over

[bigdog76]

In pre game Will Brown described his game plan. He executed it. Not sure what Siena's plan was. We bring out the best in everyone we play. All the fouls and lack of quickness are getting old. No three point game. Pre season hopes fading fast...Help wanted,.shooters and athletes.

[gosaints]

Dec 13, 2014 22:47:09 GMT -5 @gosiena said:

So, do you guys still want to play that fantastic 2-3 zone? Albany played 2 – 3 zone most of the game, and what offense did we run? We matched up to their 2-3 zone.
When we were in the 2-3 zone, Albany had 3 guys out front, popping wide open shots. This isn’t a hard game, but Jimmy sure makes it look hard.

How many lay ups did Albany get on our press? How many times did we steal the ball away 1 or 2 times?

FT
Albany 29/32
Siena 15/24
Game over

If Jimmy had any smarts he'd have Siena in the ARC right now shooting 500 foul shots apiece and practicing rebounding. As bad as they were tonight if they were better fundamentally in these two areas they win the game.