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Post by hoopjunkie on Jun 25, 2016 12:31:54 GMT -5
Just can't take any "lesser" teams for granted. Show up with the A game every night. Too often they were no-shows against weaker teams last year. Sent from my SM-G900P using proboards No doubt. Cornell, St Petes and Vermont are games great teams don't lose. Hopefully this group has got to that level. I mean, you win those, and don't play the two National Finalists from the prior year, and you're looking at possibly 25 wins last year. |
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Post by OneIndian on Jun 25, 2016 12:41:30 GMT -5
Mon 0 & 2 Iona 1 & 2 SP 1 & 1 That's 2 and 5 Win Pct .285 And in an earlier post I singled out the following teams as well Mon 0 & 2 Iona 1 & 2 Man 2 & 1 That's 3 and 5 Win Pct .375 Both well under .500 My point agian was only that we scored the ball well but had too many turnovers and struggled to stop more athletic teams last year. You disagree? Im expecting big things this year we should be the best team in the MAAC. You know Fairfield finished ahead of both St. Peters and Manhattan right? Oh yup thx I had them reversed, sub in FF for SP. Same winning percentage though .285. We were 1 & 1 vs FF as well. |
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Post by hoopjunkie on Jun 25, 2016 14:41:02 GMT -5
You know Fairfield finished ahead of both St. Peters and Manhattan right? Oh yup thx I had them reversed, sub in FF for SP. Same winning percentage though .285. We were 1 & 1 vs FF as well. I included them both in mine. So the % would creep up a little. I also included the scores. To me it does matter if we lose by 2 or 3 on the road, and beat the same team by 15 at home. Sort of tells you who the better team really is. Iona and Monmouth were both better than us last year. I have no problem with that. Iona loses a MAAC legend and a few other important pieces. Monmouth loses their senior leader, and him not being around really hurt them the last few weeks. |
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Post by OneIndian on Jun 25, 2016 15:35:38 GMT -5
Oh yup thx I had them reversed, sub in FF for SP. Same winning percentage though .285. We were 1 & 1 vs FF as well. I included them both in mine. So the % would creep up a little. I also included the scores. To me it does matter if we lose by 2 or 3 on the road, and beat the same team by 15 at home. Sort of tells you who the better team really is. Iona and Monmouth were both better than us last year. I have no problem with that. Iona loses a MAAC legend and a few other important pieces. Monmouth loses their senior leader, and him not being around really hurt them the last few weeks. I would agree Mon should miss Jones and Iona's roster is a revolving door of sorts. I would say this is the best shot we've had since the Fran years to dominate the MAAC. Let's hope it's our year. We certainly have talent and senior leadership. |
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Post by SIENA1971 on Jun 25, 2016 16:05:18 GMT -5
I included them both in mine. So the % would creep up a little. I also included the scores. To me it does matter if we lose by 2 or 3 on the road, and beat the same team by 15 at home. Sort of tells you who the better team really is. Iona and Monmouth were both better than us last year. I have no problem with that. Iona loses a MAAC legend and a few other important pieces. Monmouth loses their senior leader, and him not being around really hurt them the last few weeks. I would agree Mon should miss Jones and Iona's roster is a revolving door of sorts. I would say this is the best shot we've had since the Fran years to dominate the MAAC! Let's hope it our year. We certainly have the talent and senior leadership! If Siena can keep the injuries to a minimum this season you may be right . . . I may be wrong but it seems Siena has had a greater share of them over the past number of years compared to our competition |
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Post by Sienafan on Jun 25, 2016 18:21:20 GMT -5
Yeah but can he defend or play the point? Otherwise he's a 6 ft SG...and shooter off the bench. He's seems likely a new Hymes/Oliver type for us. I don’t believe that to be case at all, Khalil is much bigger and stronger than Hymes, and has lateral quickness ( something Oliver was sorely lacking) I suspect if Khalil was 6’2" or 6’3” he would have been in A10 or higher. He could have gone A-10 at his current height. He had 1 or 2 offers from a school in that league. |
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Post by musicman on Jun 26, 2016 9:20:08 GMT -5
"We were well under .500 vs the top of the MAAC last year" We were?? 3-5 because of a sweep by Monmouth. Iona we beat EASILY at their place by 13, lost at home by 6. St Peters beat us by 4 at their place, we crushed them by 17. Fairfield beat us by 7 at their place, and we spanked them by 15 at the TUC. Maybe our strength is the frontcourt, and not having the most athletic wings in the league? Not sure how much we could have improved anywhere. We have so many veterans coming back, it would be extremely difficult for any new guy to get real minutes on this team. I'm hoping for contributions from the two athletic kids that sat out (Kadeem and WB) and maybe one freshman breaking thru to get 10 min a night. great post. When you are thinking in that perspective, you have to get excited about this fall. |
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Post by MTS on Jun 26, 2016 9:48:29 GMT -5
"We were well under .500 vs the top of the MAAC last year" We were?? 3-5 because of a sweep by Monmouth. Iona we beat EASILY at their place by 13, lost at home by 6. St Peters beat us by 4 at their place, we crushed them by 17. Fairfield beat us by 7 at their place, and we spanked them by 15 at the TUC. Maybe our strength is the frontcourt, and not having the most athletic wings in the league? Not sure how much we could have improved anywhere. We have so many veterans coming back, it would be extremely difficult for any new guy to get real minutes on this team. I'm hoping for contributions from the two athletic kids that sat out (Kadeem and WB) and maybe one freshman breaking thru to get 10 min a night. great post. When you are thinking in that perspective, you have to get excited about this fall. If you got by point differential (counting MAAC tournament results) - Siena-Iona -14 (1-2) Siena-Monmouth -22 (0-2) Siena-Fairfield +8 (1-1) Siena-St. Peter's +13 (1-1) Siena-Manhattan +43 (2-1) Total +28 (5-7) |
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Post by OneIndian on Jun 26, 2016 10:37:14 GMT -5
great post. When you are thinking in that perspective, you have to get excited about this fall. If you got by point differential (counting MAAC tournament results) - Siena-Iona -14 (1-2) Siena-Monmouth -22 (0-2) Siena-Fairfield +8 (1-1) Siena-St. Peter's +13 (1-1) Siena-Manhattan +43 (2-1) Total +28 (5-7) On last season: This is meaningless ( even with this bogus analysis your win pct is .41). Fact is we won a little better than a 1/3 of our games against the top of the MAAC last year. That ain't ever gonna get it done. You can put on the ole' green and gold glasses and massage numbers until it makes you feel better. Fact remains if you didn't win you've lost. I don't care if it's by 1 or 21. There's no Close in the Win Loss stat column & I don't do moral victories. Last year is over, the chapter's been written. On this season: I am optimistic about this year. We are senior led and definitely have talent. Have to figure we're the team to beat. Monmouth lost Jones (big impact) and Iona's roster is always in flux. I like our chances. Best shot we've had in awhile. Stay tuned! |
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