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Nothing against the guy, seems like a great guy and 100% team oriented, but fact is he’d be doing us a big favor by transferring so we can have another spot open to try and recruit a stud center to go along w Mballa or a Juco that can do damage also. He’s just not going to be the guy that you were hoping for, just too slow to play at this level consistently.

Haha I saw this and thought that must mean Buffalo>Louisville

Im not negative myself but look it’s sports, your allowed to be negative when your team loses a game you thought they could win. And your allowed to be positive when they play well. That’s part of being a fan, I think majority on here are fine. Maybe one or two that are over the top but most are just fans that want to call it as they see it I got no problem w that.

What a win!! Arguably the best regular season win in school history considering what DePaul had done coming into the game, I’d put West Virginia last year slightly higher. Besides Johnson who just can’t get his shot going, everyone else had a solid game. They just couldn’t play with our speed. We out rebounded DePaul 53-40, would have never thought that was possible. Mballa had 14 boards and gave us a bunch of second chances which we took advantage of, he had no points but played great in my view. Segu was a stud, Jordan and Graves also solid as usual. If we can just find a way to get Johnson and grant to get going we would be deadly.

This was a very frustrating game to watch. Really had much higher expectations for Johnson going into this year, he’s been a bust no other way to say it. It’s sad cause you can tell he’s got the talent. Some of these recruits I think lot of people had higher expectations going into the year that they would have a big impact like nickleberry and Hardnett, just hasn’t panned out so far, hopefully that changes. The only guy who I’ve been impressed from the new guys coming in is Mballa. Ceiling is super high for him, just gotta avoid bad fouls and work on ft shooting. Segu had that amazing game against Harvard, but he’s faded himself. We need some of these other guys to step up, can’t be relying on just Graves and Jordan to provide most of scoring.

I watched the vanderbilt vs Tulsa game. Granted vanderbilt had a rough game I think this is a very winnable game for us. I expect Jordan to step up and have a good game. Mballa will also play big role, need him to stay in the game most importantly and not get in foul trouble. Nesmith will get his points, just got to limit him from having a huge game. I’d stick with man, that’s our bread and butter, maybe show a zone look once or twice during game just to confuse them but that’s it.

Agreed Williams has to take those 3’s when he is wide open. The scouting report on him I’m sure says let him chuck from the 3. He’s gotta work on that so he can atleast shoot a 30% clip to keeps teams honest. He’s been great at attacking rim and finishing on the left side. He is definitely playing a lot smarter this year as a whole, and making the extra pass when needed. Last year he would force it when the play wasn’t there. I think he’ll be fine just taking some time to develop.

DePaul will likely be ranked when we play them. Would def. get some looks if won both but one at a time for now.

Nice preview agree with most your points there. Just hope your right about Johnson, been a big disappointment so far, 30% from the field not gonna cut it. I think he turns it around eventually, but it better happen soon- not so much for this game, but for the two following it we will need him to perform if we going to come out with wins. Williams also looked good last game, hopefully shows some more consistency there.

That hurts he definitely was a nice option to have on the bench as a big, strong body that can spell some minutes here and there.

Exactly the kind of guy I would like. Would be nice not to have to sweat once Mballa gets 2 fouls and also can play him alongside Mballa when going against bigger lineups.

100% agree with you there. Need an athletic big man who can protect the paint. Love what I see from Mballa but he’s only 6’7” and we need more depth there.

Don’t like to call this a must win, but it’s a def. should win, especially since following this game with Vanderbilt and DePaul on the road. We def will be undersized, but should continue the same strategy of fronting the post and turning them over.

Definitely nail biter, another poor shooting night with the exception of Jordan and Jeenathan. That call wasn’t lucky was a clear foul. Refs missed some other fouls on mz state against us. He hit the big points to close it out, but Johnson needs to get his act together he’s been horrible so far this season and this game he was missing open shots. He’s too talented to not be performing better.

Yeah I don’t think people freaky over Johnson, Just disappointed with his inconsistency and basketball IQ right now. I think he’ll be fine but he got to stop taking these contested shots and move the ball. He’s not comparable to Blake or Willie cause both those guys came from the juco ranks so it was kind of expected there would be a period of transition w them. This guy played d1 for 3 years at Middle Tennessee . He’s gotta make the extra pass when guys are in his face, period. Some of these other guys haven’t really played at this level, like Hardnett since he redshirted and Nickleberry to so kind of figured would be adjustment there.

Wow what an ugly game looked like it was going to get away but the full court press got us the win right there. We shot terrible once again, but was able to turn them over 22 times which is reason we won. I’m glad Whitesell benched Johnson he was terrible. Give credit to Jordan, Graves and Mballa who had solid games. We are too thin on the front line it showed in both these games in Charleston. On to the next but if we play like this against Missouri state, mark it as a loss.

Agreed. Not to say that Whitesell will turn out bad, but Oats was not afraid to rip into the refs if they making bad calls or rip into the players if they not playing 100% or making poor decisions. With some of those shots that Johnson was taking last night he would have pulled him and given him an earful. Whitesell is just too calm for my liking, but obviously I want to see him do well.

Yes I agree UConn is a potentially top 25 team and we hung right there, but I honestly felt we could and should have won that game. We shot the ball extremely poorly, especially in the second half. Some really bad shot selection especially by Johnson, he’s gotta stop taking contested poor shots. Segu and Jeenathan had poor offensive games. Mballa was a beast and him getting in foul trouble definitely hurt as we are lacking depth there. Some defensive lapses too. Hopefully they learn from this, but you clearly see we have the talent just a matter of putting it together and playing smart.

Mballa has to have better court awareness was in the circle there. Would have been a charge if he could have got out.

Uconn is gonna be tough matchup as they have a lot of size. Mballa going to play a big role and we going to have to be better on the boards if we going to have a shot at this one. Hopefully we can turn them over and get a little run and gun going. Should be a fun one.

Very nice win. Segu had a coming out party this game wow extremely impressed. I think we’re gonna see him and Jordan on the court a lot at the same time. Even got the Harvard guy Aiken frustrated and committed a flagrant foul. Johnson finally started to hit his shots, hopefully we see that every game. With the exception of Gabe Grant who just looked kinda lost out there, everyone else played well. Impressive win, just gotta work on being better on the boards and clean that up.

Leiphold has got to go. Sorry onside kick which you weren’t prepared for in obvious situation. Embarrassing is an understatement.

Agreed, like what I’ve seen, lot of potential. Better work on those FTs as teams will exploit that if they know he can’t hit consistently. Hard to take much from this game, offense got going but that was expected from competition. Defense was better, but still had some miscues which led to easy buckets at the rim. We’ll see how we measure up against Harvard.

Yeah but the ODU team that year was one of the top in conference USA and that game was on the road. Not even sure if we were favored in that game. This team was predicted to be worst in Ivy League and we were at home. This was much worse, and I don’t think Dartmouth even played that well. We were just that bad, and Oats would have ripped into the team after the start we had and made some adjustments. It’s one game so I get it, but boy do things have to change fast otherwise we’re going to have a really ugly out of conference record.

Normally in agreement with you there, but when the offense is this horrific, you just got to find a way to win, and way to many wide layups allowed. If they anchored down and had right rotations, they would have found a way to win this one.