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Even in the good years we had some rough OOC's. With the turnover all around Im perfectly fine with some early season growing pains. Definitely not looking into this one too much.

Defense, defense, defense... that’s how we won the last few years. Turnovers and fast breaks. Where the hell was that tonight?? We looked like an NBA team on defense.

https://getsomemaction.com/news/2019/11/5/general-womens-lacrosse-coming-in-2020-21-detroit-mercy-youngstown-state-as-affiliates.aspx Interestingly, as part of UB's push to D1A/the MAC, women's lacrosse was a sport that was going to be added but it never came to fruition Interesting meeting notes from way back then http://www.buffalo.edu/content/www/facultysenate/minutes3/faculty-senate-executive-committee-minutes/_jcr_content/par/download_15821355/file.res/November 13%2C 1996.pdf

This seems not good...

Just would like to point out that Harvard lost to Northeastern Adding on to this: Arizona State lost, Andre Allen had 0 points and 2 rebounds Washington State won, Noah Williams had 2 points, 9 rebounds, and 2 assists Alabama lost as we all know, Hawkins didn’t even play, Rojas is out for the season The first game of the season isn’t time for panic mode. They had a bad game, and in my opinion completely underestimated Dartmouth. Think of last years team when we had bad games, like the one against Northern Illinois. Bad games happen, even to good teams. Defense needs work, offense just wasn’t on the same page. We will be fine

I give you the first D1 opponent of the Nate Oats era. Pretty ugly as I remember. Hero ball, multiple turnovers. Let’s all just RELAX. https://ubbulls.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2015-16/old-dominion/boxscore/783

After last night I think we need to focus on our house and forget about Oats and Alabama.

Think back to 2015 fellas it’s one game. We will be fine. A good loss to learn from.

A couple knee jerk reactions: The boys looked bulky and poorly conditioned. Wondering if the new musclehead S&T coach has them where they need to be. Injuries also may hint something is off. Multiple times guys looked confused as to what was being run on the offensive end. Granted it's a bunch of new guys with no chemistry in a new system, so it should improve. Very disappointing to see such an unprepared group. The difference in intensity between Oats and Whitesell from sitting right behind the bench was apparent. In a game where our guys were flat and the refs were inconsistent if not bad, I'm not sure I heard him raise his voice once. This team is significantly less mature than last year's, aside from just the experience lost. Judging from their social media they revel in the relative bright lights at the level and may have thought they could ride the coattails of the program's recent succes. Major reality check, time to grind. Quick player notes: Rondo is our spark, he'll be playing meaningful minutes all season. Incredible ball-handler at this level, shooting touch is there, intensity and quickness on defense along with Cocoa almost brought us back. The offense needs to get Graves more looks. He's going to have to be the go to guy. Had a jaw-dropping rebound for a stick back layup. I'm willing to write off Nate as ever becoming a reliable outside shooter. Also remains heavily left hand dominant driving. Just a stunning lack of skill from a recruit of his caliber. Exciting to have Mballa for three years. Quite raw in some areas but so much to work with. Fundamentals including focus on boxing out will need to improve. Going to give Hardnett the benefit of the doubt coming off an injury, but that was not the player we were looking forward to all summer. Low activity level, awkward athleticism. Will be watching him closely. Does anyone know why Nickleberry didn't see one minute? Hoping he had a slight knock and there isn't something else up. Otherwise shocking that a recruit of his caliber couldn't crack the rotation. Thought his length and vision could have helped spread the floor and make Dartmouth pay for their heavy overcommit/help defensive rotations. Long post but damn that was a brutal one. Hoping the program didn't blow too much of their momentum with the general public last night. Crowd felt large enough and tried to get into it during the comeback, but was mostly understandably subdued.

The team oats inherited. Are you kidding me. Evans bolted. He lost Moss. He lost two steady hands to graduation that guided the team through the MAC thicket. His wife diagnosed with cancer. He went out and got Hamilton and Conner in the summer. He got CJ and Perk as recruits. Oats did a miraculous job his first year. And the team Hurley inherited woefully underperformed. He had five seniors anchored by one of UB’s all time players. The fans thought that was finally going to be the year. And what happened? The team flames out in the quarter finals. And Jim lost two of UB’s best players of all time with CJ and Perk graduating not to mention Harris. These three were outstanding I agree with others on the board. Way too many new parts with a new coaching staff. It’s going to take time to find their footing. It may never come together in the way we’ve seen in the last five years. But the team will surely improve significantly.

Noah Hutchins (Park/IMG) reclassed to 2020 and is still being recruited and holds a UB offer as well as 16 other offers

Oats lost his opener by 1 to U of Penn

Welp, great start for Jim. Really had his guys prepared 😂

Yes, however, I think the defensive intensity last year allowed us to create some higher percentage shots / fast break points. We only had 9 fast break points for the game. We need to come out more aggressive in coming games to create opportunities for the offense.

At least some good news this evening!

Their game was atrocious like their shorts tonight

Antwan Johnson is dreadful so far... he needs to sit right now.

Literally just created a topic with this tweet in it. Great minds.

Karma is biting me for mocking Bona and Bama