Iup basketball

[Ship69]

So a highly thought of recruit is benched, which in today’s college basketball probably means he’s done at IUP. There’s talk of burning red shirts. Ethan apparently still isn’t healthy. Other than that, everything is fine.

On a positive note, Furtun looks better the more he plays, outside of the occasional head scratching turnover, which will happen with a true freshman.

This will be an interesting crossover weekend. Ship and Lock Haven probably aren’t upper echelon PSAC teams but they won’t be pushovers either. It’ll be interesting to see how IUP stacks up.

Ship this year is in the biggest rebuilding mode Chris Fite has had in 6-7 years and is definitely not upper echelon at this point. And Denzel Figueroa and Kamau Mitchell, both of whom figure to get a lot of minutes this year, were not playing against Chestnut Hill. The team won't have played since Nov. 20, so perhaps they'll have time to return. The Raiders will need all hands on board to have a shot at IUP. I know it's not a vintage IUP team, but handling the IUP guards and Porterfield will be a problem for the Raiders. And they lack the size to take advantage of what looks to be IUP's biggest flaw — the lack of imposing power forwards after Porterfield. Talking of crossover weekends, traveling to Cal U. and Slippery Rock later in December will certainly be no cakewalk for Ship. While the team has been playing hard and has been more competitive than I thought they'd be to this point, I'd actually be pleased if we won any of the next four games against PSAC opponents. We're supposed to get a transfer who could help considerably after semester break, but that will be of no consequence in December.

[Chuck Norris]

Post game comments from Joe doesn't sound good for Waldo. Callum is back up number 5 with Damir Josh and KJ sharing the 4

So a highly thought of recruit is benched, which in today’s college basketball probably means he’s done at IUP. There’s talk of burning red shirts. Ethan apparently still isn’t healthy. Other than that, everything is fine.

On a positive note, Furtun looks better the more he plays, outside of the occasional head scratching turnover, which will happen with a true freshman.

This will be an interesting crossover weekend. Ship and Lock Haven probably aren’t upper echelon PSAC teams but they won’t be pushovers either. It’ll be interesting to see how IUP stacks up.

[Cobra Hawks]

Post game comments from Joe doesn't sound good for Waldo. Callum is back up number 5 with Damir Josh and KJ sharing the 4

[IUPalum]

Waldo not in rotation again tonight.

Unfortunately, he's just not strong enough yet.

[IUP1423]

Waldo not in rotation again tonight.

[Chuck Norris]

A 16 point lead gets trimmed to 2 and then IUP has a late surge to go up 10 at the half. McNamara got some minutes, that’s the only difference I see from last night, though I must admit, I’m not exactly glued to this one.

[IUPalum]

KJ enters and the double digits lead disappears.

[IUPalum]

What is going on with the live stream audio. Yet again it's atrocious

It won’t get better till after Christmas. Just be glad we have one this year.

[Cobra Hawks]

What is going on with the live stream audio. Yet again it's atrocious

[IUP24]

Listening to Joe’s pregame, he wasn’t high on Waldo. Said Ethan’s legs aren’t healthy, Brooks/Sarp would get more minutes and of course he said KJ will get his minutes

What’s the deal with Ethan’s legs? I thought he was healthy… Good grief.

[IUPalum]

Yes, that is the assumption but you never know with Joe. He keeps playing KJ for crying out loud.

[Ship69]

To be fair St Thomas have some good players. One in particular in Patterson. D1 bound no doubt. Lambert and possible Romero-Sanz will be shedding their red shirts

I was impressed with the St. Thomas team. I really didn't think IUP played too badly for the most part, but that was a good press St. Thomas put on and the biggest difference I saw was that they simply shot better than IUP. The Northwestern student section was mocked some years back for wearing T-shirts that simply said "Make shots," but after all that's the essence of basketball — making more shots than the other team.

[Cobra Hawks]

Thoughts:

1) Joe in his post game said he is probably going to take some red shirts off some guys. He basically implied some of his guys are playing soft and it's time for a competition.
2) Sarp is very raw but he is a freshman so I'll give him a pass.
3) KJ... enough said, ugh. He's obviously not allowed to shoot. What's that tell you?
4) Petteno was a swing and miss for Joe.
5) Stewey hasn't stepped up and maybe he isn't capable.
6) Dallis, Ethan and Clarke then the rest.
7) Who loses their red shirt?

To be fair St Thomas have some good players. One in particular in Patterson. D1 bound no doubt. Lambert and possible Romero-Sanz will be shedding their red shirts

[IUPalum]

Thoughts:

1) Joe in his post game said he is probably going to take some red shirts off some guys. He basically implied some of his guys are playing soft and it's time for a competition.
2) Sarp is very raw but he is a freshman so I'll give him a pass.
3) KJ... enough said, ugh. He's obviously not allowed to shoot. What's that tell you?
4) Petteno was a swing and miss for Joe.
5) Stewey hasn't stepped up and maybe he isn't capable.
6) Dallis, Ethan and Clarke then the rest.
7) Who loses their red shirt?

[Chuck Norris]

Why is Sarp getting more minutes??? Yikes!

I said I thought Petteno could be more effective getting 15 minutes instead of 35 (I was wrong), but I didn’t see Sarp being the guy to take a lot of those minutes. I’m not sure it matters how much guys 5-8 play, you just aren’t getting much from them.