LIU Brooklyn, Sun. Dec. 11, 12 Noon, FS1/970AM
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MadisonMike
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Love reading all your comments . Keep up the great work. One question who is the coach? CM or St. JEAN?
Class of 72
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First and foremost let's get the obligatory excuses out of the way.
We were down three players today (Sima, Lovett and Alibegovic).
L.I.U. was playing down the block from their campus cheered on by a raucous home crowd of 200 fans.
The beds at the downtown Brooklyn Marriott made our players backs stiff. Note: when your basketball program is in the crapper reserving a dozen rooms with meals 12 miles from your campus is insulting to donors and fans who have to work for a living. Charter a fcking bus, especially if you don't plan to show up for the game mentally.
Now to the game. Let me start off with the player of the game Darien Williams. Darien provided all the offense never provided by Yankuba Sima. Problem is he is not a center. That rat Fink L.I.U player had his way with our front court like Max Cady over pubescent Danielle in Cape Fear. Needless to say the fast fading Yakwe was not in his league and never will be as Fink had both an inside and outside game. Yet another example of our team failing to stop the one player that should have been a main focus of the defense.
Did I say defense? We all know Mussini, Ellison, Amhed provide just token pressure on their player and Shamorie's defense has yet to catch up with his offense but Gosh Darn it how is it possible that 6'11, 145 pound Owens is the only player today that decided to play some defense. Of course most of the blame likely falls on this inexperienced and seemingly over their heads basketball staff who have yet to show they have a tactical defensive scheme in their repertoire of their predictable "run, pass and shoot the three" game. I shudder to think what the better coached guards on Butler, Xavier, Villanova, Creighton, dtc,, will do with Ellison and Mussini in the lineup at the same time. It is like deja vu all over again to last year's defenseless backcourt. L.I.U. collected the bulk of the fouls early and a more experienced coach would have exploited that advantage by going inside more but what we saw instead was Bashir "gonna get my points" Amhed driving out of control and even when fouled only is capable of hitting half his attempts which leads me the the wild man Malik Ellison who, managing to get fouled, hits a big fat ZERO % from the line. Bashir and Ellison left 7 points on the line. Basically, that was the game. Both players need to be reigned in and I'm not sure this staff is capable of doing that. Why haven't they utilized Darien to date?
Bench coaching? Perri obviously took game preparation seriously and Mullin looked pale and embarrassed at the end of the game. He shook hands but was less than gracious as usual, not saying a word to any of the opposing players or coaches. Hey Coach, grow a pair and save the anger for your team in the locker room. Steve Lavin was just as bone headed as a coach but was always gracious in defeat. From the looks of this team, you better tone down the sore loser attitude and focus on your players and their weaknesses. The new AD looked none too happy today. Time for a little more introspection for our $2 million rookie coach. Nice pay for a trainee. Better start reading "Coaching for Dummies". The $10 investment may work wonders.
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We were down three players today (Sima, Lovett and Alibegovic).
L.I.U. was playing down the block from their campus cheered on by a raucous home crowd of 200 fans.
The beds at the downtown Brooklyn Marriott made our players backs stiff. Note: when your basketball program is in the crapper reserving a dozen rooms with meals 12 miles from your campus is insulting to donors and fans who have to work for a living. Charter a fcking bus, especially if you don't plan to show up for the game mentally.
Now to the game. Let me start off with the player of the game Darien Williams. Darien provided all the offense never provided by Yankuba Sima. Problem is he is not a center. That rat Fink L.I.U player had his way with our front court like Max Cady over pubescent Danielle in Cape Fear. Needless to say the fast fading Yakwe was not in his league and never will be as Fink had both an inside and outside game. Yet another example of our team failing to stop the one player that should have been a main focus of the defense.
Did I say defense? We all know Mussini, Ellison, Amhed provide just token pressure on their player and Shamorie's defense has yet to catch up with his offense but Gosh Darn it how is it possible that 6'11, 145 pound Owens is the only player today that decided to play some defense. Of course most of the blame likely falls on this inexperienced and seemingly over their heads basketball staff who have yet to show they have a tactical defensive scheme in their repertoire of their predictable "run, pass and shoot the three" game. I shudder to think what the better coached guards on Butler, Xavier, Villanova, Creighton, dtc,, will do with Ellison and Mussini in the lineup at the same time. It is like deja vu all over again to last year's defenseless backcourt. L.I.U. collected the bulk of the fouls early and a more experienced coach would have exploited that advantage by going inside more but what we saw instead was Bashir "gonna get my points" Amhed driving out of control and even when fouled only is capable of hitting half his attempts which leads me the the wild man Malik Ellison who, managing to get fouled, hits a big fat ZERO % from the line. Bashir and Ellison left 7 points on the line. Basically, that was the game. Both players need to be reigned in and I'm not sure this staff is capable of doing that. Why haven't they utilized Darien to date?
Bench coaching? Perri obviously took game preparation seriously and Mullin looked pale and embarrassed at the end of the game. He shook hands but was less than gracious as usual, not saying a word to any of the opposing players or coaches. Hey Coach, grow a pair and save the anger for your team in the locker room. Steve Lavin was just as bone headed as a coach but was always gracious in defeat. From the looks of this team, you better tone down the sore loser attitude and focus on your players and their weaknesses. The new AD looked none too happy today. Time for a little more introspection for our $2 million rookie coach. Nice pay for a trainee. Better start reading "Coaching for Dummies". The $10 investment may work wonders.
Ray Morgan
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The template today for 72's post game handshake comment.
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I didn't watch the handshake line. Were Yakwe and Freud able to hold onto any of the LIU player's hands, or did they slide off like they were covered in motor oil.
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Here's a telling statistical difference in games we have won & lost:
In games we have lost we have : 69 assists (11.5 pg) 78 turnover (13 pg)
In games we have won : 97 assists (19.4) 73 turnovers (14.6 pg.)
Until they share the Rock Game in a game out & learn how to take care of it. We will continue to lose.
In games we have lost we have : 69 assists (11.5 pg) 78 turnover (13 pg)
In games we have won : 97 assists (19.4) 73 turnovers (14.6 pg.)
Until they share the Rock Game in a game out & learn how to take care of it. We will continue to lose.
Ray Morgan
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Also no containment of the opposing guards. They beat our guards, and havoc ensues. Often ends up in an open shot. Mussini just too slow afoot to handle quick guards, which even low majors have, and too small to prevent taller guards or stronger, more athletic guards from backing him down for an easy, short jumper.
Class of 72
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His great pass at end to Yakwe and his missing all 3 of his foul shots along with lazy passing and defense made him the major contributor to the loss today. When Paultzman alluded to "God forbid Lovett gets injured" this is what his, and most of fears were with Ellison having any bigger role in a game.
He is not a Big East Player plain and simple. He brings size but no smarts to the game. He can sometime drive and score but is just as likely to charge or turn the ball over. If he thinks he is a go-to player that is on Mullin to control.
Ditto for Bashir Ahmed. Both have been too focused on their own game.