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I hope we have a lot more rounding into form to go. The offense while a tad better in second half was still bleak. Defense and Mballa’s rebounding, offensive efficiency and outstanding defense was the difference maker. None of our “shooters” shot better than 33%. They all take way too many bad shots and forced shots many times early in the shot clock. A lot of work to do there. Despite all that huge win especially with Kent losing. We jump to 3 seed. Now have a ton riding on Friday night at Kent.

Hitting some nice open 3s. He’s a disaster when he forces a drive though. He just isn’t athletic or tall enough to finish inside.

One reason is his rebounding tonight any way is terrible. With Mballa out they had several offensive rebounds.

I’d like to see fewer guards. Hardnett and Josh would be a nice combo. Balls doing a good job of clogging high post making it difficult for dribble drive and clogging lane. But we need Josh in for 20 in second half.

Thank you Josh Mballa! Without him we’re down 15 or more at half. Shockingly we’re tied. Foul trouble on Balls. Whitesell needs to devise plays to attack the two with 3 fouls in second half and the guys can not afford to sleep walk to start second.

We’re 4-20 from the field and 0-5 from 3. We desperately NEED someone who can shoot. Mballa on the bench. Can we score with him out?

Pretty embarrassing so far with the exception of Mballa who is picking off errant shots for put backs and swatting shots while rebounding. Have no clue what the rest of the guys are doing. Grant tossing bricks along with everyone else. And Segu trying to drive through people. Credit to Balls for the quality of their D. They’re giving a text book lesson so far. Time to turn this baby around. UB should never ever lose to these guys!!

Let’s hope!

Defense! Defense! Defense!!!

I’ve seen enough. This one is over. Good road win with a lot of positives. Still some less than intense and intelligent play in second half with big halftime lead. Still much to learn and improve on. Onward and upward!!

Just some more lackadaisical play. WTH is Williams throwing a back pass threw his legs. He needs to mature. And quickly! Just another ridiculous play after talking trash to the Toledo bench after a 3.

Mballa is good! He is going to be very very very good!!!!

Love Grant’s defense, but wish he’d wait for a wide open shot before he takes a 3!

Whitesell needs to call a TO and stand on a chair and read them the riot act. Inexcusable!

We’ve seen it before. Just hope with this TO and subs we won’t see it tonight.

Lackadaisical. A little late for the subs. Williams and Hardnett not getting it done defensively.

Defense! Defense! Defense!!

Well, well,, well, where have I seen this before? Fantastic first 1/2! Have they finally learned their painful lessons from tossing big first 1/2 leads? We shall see!!! Graves et al shooting lights out!

With the exception of the last play on Knapke, Hardnett has been a sieve on defense not only on Knapke, but being no where near where he needed to be when Segu got beat off the dribble. Meanwhile the team defense during the 15-0 stretch was some of the best I’ve seen from UB in a long time.

Utilize this option for the 3 only

Absolutely dreadful! The good news those stats are so bad that they can't do any worse, let's hope. And should they improve significantly they should win a lot more games.

😂😂😂😂😂 nice one!!

Some interesting stats. We shot 45% from the field, 17% from 3, 46% from the line, 48 rebounds with 12 assists against 18 turnovers. Other than rebounding some pretty ugly stats. But the most important stat of all is the W!

How about Hardnett being on the floor shooting 49% from the line?

WOW!!!! That second half was brutal. But I think it’s now pretty clear what this team must do to be successful. Basically we have a below average set offense. Guys make bad decisions with the ball, take bad shots and are shooting poorly. When they’re at their best they’re playing tenacious defense. They rebound well and then get out in transition for easy baskets. When they’re defense is on then they play better offense even with their handicaps. As their offense went south in the second half tonight they got scrambly on defense and have them a variety of open looks and baskets around the hoop off rebounds, drives and passes. In the final analysis it’s a win. Great first half. Lousy second. But a W from which they learn something so they can get better. Someone has to tell Jayvon that he shouldn’t take the three unless he has time and distance to line up his shot. Unfortunately his shooting from out side has not improved since his freshman season.