MBB Game 19 Elon, Jan 17 (Sat) 12 PM

[triplec2195]

Also can’t win when Cruz is a non factor. This team has size that’s also problematic giving our guards tough looks.

[dutchPride86]

Bad coaching move having our centers guard Cutthrell he’s killing us. Need DeCady on him.

Klaczek shoots 44% from 3. Maybe they got spooked by what Goods did for Stony the other night and didnt want our centers sagging off him and thats why they put DeCady on Klaczek. But yeah not working at all and a dumb strategy to begin with. Make the teams secondary weapons beat you, dont make it easy for the star

[Wags]

28-4 points in the paint. If DeCady didnt get lucky and make 4 threes that half we'd be down 20 right now. And I dont care how many 3s he makes, any possession than ends with a DeCady 3pt attempt is a win for the opponent.

This is more than just missing Biggie. Not sure what happened to this team. Absolute disgrace

I think it's a trickle-down effect on roles for everyone. Missing Biggie, no small thing.

[Wags]

30-4, Elon in the paint is now 30-10. Finally going the other way a bit. 14-7, Hofstra to start the second half. Davis has 9 of the 14.

[dutchPride86]

30-4, Elon in the paint is now 30-10. Finally going the other way a bit. 14-7, Hofstra to start the second half. Davis has 9 of the 14.

Night and day when Cruz decides to be aggressive. Unfortunately Saturday CAA refs are going to foul out the entire team

[dutchPride86]

71 points allowed with 9 minutes left. Don't see how we win this game

[Hofstra]

This defensive effort is unwatchable. Every trip down court results in a wide open 3, or second chance points in the paint. Cruz really firing though. Great game from him on the offensive end

[dutchPride86]

The silence from the crowd on TV when they pump in the Knicks "defense" organ music makes me really sad

[Hofstra]

89 points allowed.. not winning many games with this defense. We back at it again Thursday. Need that win vs. A&T. Demoralizing today though. I know Elon is a good team, but Hofstra just had zero answers. Made no adjustments at all.

[bean-pie]

Wtf was that to end the game. Am I missing something? Why in the world did we not foul IMMEDIATELY on the last two possessions - it doesn’t make sense and just burns more clock. Unreal.


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[dutchPride86]

Well coaching staff should be ashamed of themselves and players need to take a long look in the mirror. Ruined all the goodwill built up from non conference with these 2 games.

Im not sure what's most frustrating... terrible game plans, questionable substitution patterns, playing right into the other team's hands, bad turnovers, lane violations, or the consistently non existent effort levels of the players in 1st halves.

So is German genuinely hurt now too? Or did Speedy just decide to leave him on the bench for final 5 minutes after he got banged up? Also time to stop giving Victory a pass here. Hes been awful.

Season is far from over, but they very well may have cost themselves a top 4 seed with these 2 losses, and that very well could be the season

[EvanJ]

Ja'Juan Carr, Kacper Klaczek, and DeMarco Johnson became the second group of three teams from 2010-2011 to now to have at least 5 assists and 2 or fewer turnovers against us. The previous three teammates to do that against us were Northeastern's Bolden Brace, Donnell Gresham Jr., and Vasa Pusica on January 5, 2019, which was the last time that three CAA teammates did that. That game ended with Pusica missing a three in a tie game with the shot clock off, which let Justin Wright-Foreman make a three at the buzzer to win 75-72 and send the fans home happy.

[daHUPride]

Bad loss today against Elon.
We came out cold, counting on DeCady for our offense, and Cruz gave us nothing for the first 10 minutes.
We are so limited without BIGGIE in our lineup/rotation.
Victory had his worst game ever, 5 fouls - STUPID fouls- in 5 minutes
This team is a sum of its parts - and not having Biggie 5 minutes from Victory - has us relying on Sunday and DeCady to play thecentife game - sorry, not winning many games with that rotation.

[HUSID74]

Well coaching staff should be ashamed of themselves and players need to take a long look in the mirror. Ruined all the goodwill built up from non conference with these 2 games.

Im not sure what's most frustrating... terrible game plans, questionable substitution patterns, playing right into the other team's hands, bad turnovers, lane violations, or the consistently non existent effort levels of the players in 1st halves.

So is German genuinely hurt now too? Or did Speedy just decide to leave him on the bench for final 5 minutes after he got banged up? Also time to stop giving Victory a pass here. Hes been awful.

Season is far from over, but they very well may have cost themselves a top 4 seed with these 2 losses, and that very well could be the season

We're six games in the CAA season and we're 4-2....probably better than we thought we'd be a this time...stop the doom and gloom!

[HUSID74]

Let's give Elon some credit. They came in here and were relentless, seemed like every time we got it closs they would come down the court and respond with their oen points. That three they made as the shot clock ran down was ridiculous.

And let's not make it sound like that without Biggie this team can't win...he's probably at best our fourth or fifth best player. Sure his absence hurts but he is not our savior.

[dutchPride86]

Well coaching staff should be ashamed of themselves and players need to take a long look in the mirror. Ruined all the goodwill built up from non conference with these 2 games.

Im not sure what's most frustrating... terrible game plans, questionable substitution patterns, playing right into the other team's hands, bad turnovers, lane violations, or the consistently non existent effort levels of the players in 1st halves.

So is German genuinely hurt now too? Or did Speedy just decide to leave him on the bench for final 5 minutes after he got banged up? Also time to stop giving Victory a pass here. Hes been awful.

Season is far from over, but they very well may have cost themselves a top 4 seed with these 2 losses, and that very well could be the season

We're six games in the CAA season and we're 4-2....probably better than we thought we'd be a this time...stop the doom and gloom!

1. I thought the bar was raised we they beat 2 ACC schools?

2. Its a pretty weak 4-2. Towson the only quality win. Took the 2nd half off against Campbell, barely beat Drexel getting badly outplayed in the 2nd half, and needed OT for one of the ugliest played games in recent memory against Monmouth

We haven't even played any of the good teams in the league yet. Think we're winning either of the Charleston UNCW road trip games with that level of effort and execution?

Championship teams do not piss away games like this against inferior teams. They just don't.

And as you said in your next post, Biggie isnt the savior. His absence is not a good enough excuse to lose to Stony and Elon at home

[dutchPride86]

Let's give Elon some credit. They came in here and were relentless, seemed like every time we got it closs they would come down the court and respond with their oen points. That three they made as the shot clock ran down was ridiculous.

That 3 was a back breaker no doubt. But I'm gonna rattle off 6 unforced mistakes Hofstra made in the 2nd half that Elon deserves no credit for and negate any impact of that shot imo (5 of the 6 came after the shot too)

1. Victory picking up his 3rd foul on a hofstra made FT not even 2 minutes into the 2nd half
2. Victory off in outer space on the fast break as a nice pass from Cruz sailed over his head for a turnover. Basket there would have made it 1 possession game with over 6 min left
3. Sunday lane violation on an Elon missed FT. Cost Hofstra 2 critical points
4. Sunday and Edmead, two 80% FT shooters, both missing front ends of 1 and 1s in final 10 minutes (could argue theres your 4 point margin right there)
5. Roberts butchering a fast break for another turnover with under 5 min to play. Would have made it a 1 point game
6. Hofstra wasting 20 seconds bricking highly contested 3s with a minute left instead of going for quick 2 and extending the game

And none of that even mentions Cruz's no show for the 1st half or the inexplicable defensive assignments on Cuthrell.

I'm sorry I dont know why this random January game got under my skin so bad today but it really did. The more I replay it in my head the angrier I get today. Lol

[Pbdutch]

These last two games were bad games and bad losses. Maybe there’s a reason why I keep saying we need to choke our opponents and dominate them when able. Get a big lead and keep going. Try to beat em by 50. That’s the attitude the team needs to have and they don’t.

Playing down to your competition is also really sad and on the coaching staff. We really need to turn this ship around. I’m pissed

[Flying Dutchmen]

If Monte wasn’t still puttering around at A&T we would have the worst coaching in the league. We are so passive offensively for such large portions of the game. We completely embarrassed ourselves out in SB, another questionable performance today.

Elon stinks defensively and we don’t attack or get a free throw for the final 15 minutes of the first half. The minute we hit league play, teams just know how to defend us, take the lead and hold on for dear life.

Wills and Roberts need more time, and we need to be able to put someone other than Silas/Victory at the 5 if necessary. Would it kill us to give Cruz a breather at any point? Please make some adjustments so this season doesn't spiral away like last year.

[Wags]

Well coaching staff should be ashamed of themselves and players need to take a long look in the mirror. Ruined all the goodwill built up from non conference with these 2 games.

Im not sure what's most frustrating... terrible game plans, questionable substitution patterns, playing right into the other team's hands, bad turnovers, lane violations, or the consistently non existent effort levels of the players in 1st halves.

So is German genuinely hurt now too? Or did Speedy just decide to leave him on the bench for final 5 minutes after he got banged up? Also time to stop giving Victory a pass here. Hes been awful.

Season is far from over, but they very well may have cost themselves a top 4 seed with these 2 losses, and that very well could be the season

We're six games in the CAA season and we're 4-2....probably better than we thought we'd be a this time...stop the doom and gloom!

The trending makes it seem worse than it is. Not too much wrong with 4-2 and tied for second place at the one-third mark, but when you start 4-0 and seem to be trending down from there, the early panic sets in. Long way to go though, lots of ball left to play out for everyone. Let's see how this second third of CAA play goes and where things are by then.

This game, in particular though, the D stands more for Disappointing than Defense. Elon can score, but when you allow 43 in the first half, you can't allow even more in the second. And when Davis goes off for 28 in the second half, you score 50 in the second half as a team and 85 for the game, that should have easily been enough offense to win.