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Originally posted by IUPalum View Post
The more exposure the gimmick gets, the more the solution will start to appear.
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Originally posted by Scrub View Post
Oh there's no question: if the Toppers put up another stinker like last night on Saturday, Fairmont will run them out of their own building. Gotta get this figured out. I refuse to believe Sarson is SO instrumental that they can't win without him. But, man, they've looked pretty bad since he went down. They just looked downright sluggish at times last night. And sluggish is a bad adjective for a team running a system devised to create chaos for the opponent. "Sluggish chaos" is a pretty ineffective strategy.
wlu was not taking bad shots. They just were not dropping in 2nd half (11% from three).
I liked that wlu changed their strategy. Frostburg was a step slow from fatigue, but wlu was missing open looks.
So wlu went to their half court game and started getting easy shots inside with great interior passing. Their 2 pt fg % was 60% for the game.
Also, in the last 6 mins or so, wlu decided to take off the trap and make frostburg work for shots in the half court rather than jack up threes in transition.
wlu has good half court defense. It cooled frostburg shooting and made them use clock to even get a shot.
Excellent strategy by wlu to find a way to win on horrendous shooting night.
Variation in 3 pt shooting from half to half is huge for many teams. Against wvwu wlu shot 63% from three in 1st half
and 31% in 2nd half.
Last edited by Columbuseer; 02-15-2024, 09:36 AM.
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Originally posted by IUPalum View Post
So the gimmick worked.
I am glad Gannon has introduced the gimmick to the PSAC.
Lol
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Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS View Post
I don't watch WL a ton but I do see Sarson is the 'energy' guy. That's contagious for sure. Is he coming back this year?
And, yes, he is a sort of energy kind of guy, but I have to believe that this system--for all it's been talked about here--doesn't run on a single engine.
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Originally posted by Scrub View Post
Oh there's no question: if the Toppers put up another stinker like last night on Saturday, Fairmont will run them out of their own building. Gotta get this figured out. I refuse to believe Sarson is SO instrumental that they can't win without him. But, man, they've looked pretty bad since he went down. They just looked downright sluggish at times last night. And sluggish is a bad adjective for a team running a system devised to create chaos for the opponent. "Sluggish chaos" is a pretty ineffective strategy.
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Originally posted by boatcapt View Post
Our game plan these days seems to be hope (hope as a team we break out of our 3 point shooting funk and all is well again). Hope is not really a strategy and certainly not a game plan. I fear that if hope is our game plan against Fairmont, we might come up on the losing end
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Yuk...WLU gets a much too close win against a Frostburg team that stinks on ice. Seemingly every 3 games out of 4 we are complaining about WLUs abysmal 3 point shooting. That's a HUGE problem when your offense relies so heavily and exclusively on taking and making the 3. Lots of players in extended (season long?) shooting slumps that don't show any signs of breaking.
Our game plan these days seems to be hope (hope as a team we break out of our 3 point shooting funk and all is well again). Hope is not really a strategy and certainly not a game plan. I fear that if hope is our game plan against Fairmont, we might come up on the losing end
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Originally posted by Columbuseer View PostWlu offensive rebounding and their interior passing won this game. Frostburg went to a playground game and their guys were too tired to go after offensive rebounds in 2nd half and they were taking shots with no one under. I can see how they almost beat wvsu. They have some open court scorers.
wlu shot horrendously from three- 8 for 40. They need to find ways to get rasile and spadafora open looks. If they had shot a good 40%, they win by 34.
They need to tighten up their 3 pt defense. Too many wide open uncontested looks from three Imho.
Fortunately, fatigue Cooled off Frostburg in the late stages.
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Wlu offensive rebounding and their interior passing won this game. Frostburg went to a playground game and their guys were too tired to go after offensive rebounds in 2nd half and they were taking shots with no one under. I can see how they almost beat wvsu. They have some open court scorers.
wlu shot horrendously from three- 8 for 40. They need to find ways to get rasile and spadafora open looks. If they had shot a good 40%, they win by 34.
They need to tighten up their 3 pt defense. Too many wide open uncontested looks from three Imho.
Fortunately, fatigue Cooled off Frostburg in the late stages.
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By the way, anyone see what happened to Shuler? He didn't play at all in the second half. But at least Spadafora was back today. Toppers can't really afford to lose any more players to injury right now.
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Fyi
Jp dragas 41 pts and 5 steals Saturday but in a loss.
https://www.maxpreps.com/news/0b8r6z...-jp-dragas.htm
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Fyi
machi chester is averaging 13 ppg for rock creek Christian, hitting 42% from three.
His team is playing against elite level schools from AZ, CA, NYC, etc. Other teams include Simeon, Calvert Hall, and Oak Hill Academy.
A wholly different level of completion compared to traditional high level D1 public high school teams.
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