[quote="Ray Morgan" post=308807][quote="rawdognyc" post=308805][quote="Class of 72" post=308755][quote="bamafan" post=308676][quote="Mean Gene" post=308630][quote="Adam" post=308583]Yeah this team looks pretty solid. They're #197 in NET (out of 353), but more importantly they've been playing better recently.
Don't be fooled by their name, they're no cupcake. Very solid mid major.
Like Princeton, pretty good opportunity here. Need to stay focused the entire game.[/quote]
Agreed, they have some size too in Joshua Nurse and Cori Johnson.[/quote]
Youse guyz ah startin to scare me.[/quote]
If we have to stay focused for Saint Francis I can't wait for the pre game discussion for the Seton Hall game.
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It's easy to become unfocused against an inferior team. You know this 72. This team for some reason always plays down to their opponents. That's why people are saying to stay focused. We always seem to ramp it up for the better teams. I know I shouldn't have to explain this to you. I think you're just a ball buster sometimes ;-)[/quote]
Considering last year, this team hasn't the right to play one half ass game, let alone 8 or 9 of them. You can believe in the "playing down to the competition" only so much. So far, the games have been fairly consistent. Against our weakest opponents, we struggle to get separation and when we finally do, some have made a run to close the gap. Against the high majors of VCU and Georgia Tech, it took 2 Herculean efforts by Ponds to pull out come from behind victories. This all means that the team has to improve in several aspects to hit the top 5 in the Big East. They can, and may. But there are no nights off in the Big East. If you don't play hard and smart, and don't execute for 40 minutes every game, the losses will mount quickly.[/quote]
I'm not too concerned. This team is much better than last year and we finished the year pretty nicely. I think you'll see the press a lot more in BE play, especially when Keita is back. We are nowhere near playing on all cylinders and yet we're 10-0. I don't care what people think of the schedule so far. This team has found a way to win and that's usually when they start working harder on defense. Why blow their load so early on against teams they no they can easily beat? It's a long season. I'm sure you'll see more use of the press and hard nose D when the opponents are more difficult.