Today 2pm. Hopefully yesterday was a confidence booster knowing that they can hang and possibly beat an SEC team. MSM doesn't look that good this year so let's notch our first D1 win of the year on the board. Will Anthony Smith get more points? Will Stewart continue to be a force down low? Will we take better care of the ball? Will Risher create shots for people? Stay tuned...
"It's not gonna happen in the Big South." - LUconn
Well since no scoreboard online thinks this is important enough to update I finally had to wander around the office looking for a radio. Very loud static but I can kind of tell what's going on.
"It's not gonna happen in the Big South." - LUconn
You know.....its baffling. How can we hang with an SEC school then lose a heartbreaker to a low level DI school? Jekyl and Hyde. What else do you expect from a young team. It seems like we improve in one aspect and lapse in another. When will this team put together a complete game?
We're just young. It is going to take these guys a while to get used to playing Coach Dunton's way. Blair cannot do it all, himself. As the young guys come together, the Flames will be just fine. Look for them to make some noise once conference play starts.
Post by thesportscritic on Dec 20, 2005 16:19:50 GMT -5
Young was an excuse last year and this year. There are no more excuses for this team. It is time to put up or shut up for this team. Do they want to play up to their capabilities or not? Right now they are choosing not to play at all up to their capabilities.
It is frustrating but it just seems like thing are starting to come together and move in the right direction but they're just not resulting in a W like we'd all like. Just think though, we're gettting valuable experience playing in a tournament format, and playing in extremely tight games, coming from behind, etc. I want to win as much as the next guy but these losses aren't all bad.
"It's not gonna happen in the Big South." - LUconn
Young was the excuse last year and it's the excuse this year. It's not like we all of the sudden got experienced. We had a huge turnover of players from last year. I don't understand why you can't use it twice. I think you're just making up rules.
"It's not gonna happen in the Big South." - LUconn
Loosing to Longwood, Mt St Mary's, and Lipscomb has nothing to do with being young. It is all about not having the talent to be competitive at the D1 level. I said this during an earlier thread. Just look at our low ranking right now. LU in the past has had younger teams under the Jeff Meyer era but they weren't this bad.
Post by thesportscritic on Dec 20, 2005 16:29:10 GMT -5
LUconn that excuse is getting very old to me and I am tired of hearing it. Young teams have had success and at least has wins over D1 teams. LU women's basketball team is quite young and yet they are still winning. Coach Green is not using young as an excuse of why they have lost some big games that were all winnable and one of them we were winning or it was two of them and didn't quite finish the opponent.
Alright, this may come as a surprise, but the men's team is not the women's team. They are on a whole other level in terms of where they are as a program. The Men's team goal every year should be to win the Big South. The more tourney appearances we get, the more exposure, recruits coverage etc. we'll get. Everything we do is to prepare us for the Big South. Sure, winning these games would be cool and a lot less embarrassing but they don't matter. They're like preseason games to us, all because our team is not relavent in the RPI/at large teams. We can be 4-30 and if those 4 wins are in the Big South tourney we'll be a 16 seed in the tournament (probably the play-in) just like we would with most other records.
Our Women's team is going to make the tournament. They're jockying for a position in it. It's like comparing apples to oranges. I've never followed the women's team but I can assure you it wasn't always like that.
"It's not gonna happen in the Big South." - LUconn