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** NEWS **
Chucky has been officially cleared and will play tomorrow.Leave a comment:
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LOL ... I said to my buddy that night there would never, ever be another Silent Night while Joe was still the boss.Originally posted by IUP CRIMSON HAWKS View Post
To my knowledge, that game still holds the attendance record for IUP Basketball. From memory the announced gate was 3,857.
Old JR just spoiled the party.
Side note: I fully expect IUP to draw more than 3,500 tomorrow night.Leave a comment:
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To the best of my count IUP24 remains undefeated. LOL.Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS View Post
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The White Out is on for Saturday night.
That's better than that time 6 years ago IUP24 lost that game to Gannon.
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That's interesting, Of course with Chucky out Shawdale, and Benton are getting most of his minutes. Maybe a few more to Porterfield as well. If Joe's anything, he is consistent. Look at the times for the two Mercyhurst games.Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS View PostLeave a comment:
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The IronMan made me curious ... MPG (last 10 games ... most recent starts on the left)
PLAYER MC SH CL UPJ CAL ED GU SRU MC LH Morris 32 33 34 33 34 28 29 29 31 30 Malik 38 33 39 38 35 31 36 39 39 27 Armoni 39 35 30 36 40 29 34 37 38 27 Porterfield 40 21 15 32 37 25 35 34 35 21 Shawndale 33 28 21 40 20 23 26 13 26 31 Chucky INJ INJ INJ INJ 26 29 21 27 28 19 Anthony 8 13 14 13 8 17 3 15 OUT OUT Benton 10 15 22 DNP DNP 3 2 DNP DNP 22 Ulrich DNP 8 25 8 DNP 12 3 6 3 15 Glover Jr. DNP 3 DNP DNP DNP 3 1 DNP DNP 8 Demogerontas INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ INJ Leave a comment:
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Grand scheme ... yeah ... it's one game. They put up a great fight in the second half minus two starters.Originally posted by IUPalum View Post
But, IUP had three guys play more than 38 minutes today. That's insane. By the way, the other two played 32 and 33 minutes. Five guys over 32 minutes. That's ironman basketball. That just can't happen with a team that has the money IUP has in its pocket. It's insanity. It's incredibly poor roster management.
I get what you're saying about the press in the second half. It was desperation. It worked. They cut that 17-point halftime deficit down to 4 points. The players gave everything they had in the second half. They were understandably exhausted in the final 5 minutes.
Chucky's left hand evaluation this week is about the most important thing to happen to this program this year. If it hasn't healed (quickly) correctly -- and he can't come back Saturday night -- I fear this could be a rough month.
Today ... as well as Mercyhurst played, IUP was right there in the end. Nobody can say one more guy wouldn't have made the difference. Heck, 2-3 rebounds may have made the difference. This bye on Wednesday is coming at a perfect time.
The question still remains: If Shawn Ulrich can't get a single second today -- on a day IUP played one post player ... why is he here? If Diop was deemed not ready to play ... why is he here?
I get they went all in last year with Dante and Cobo. I'm just not sure Joe realized he had a better team this year than last year.
Chucky comes back healthy they can win the Region -- or at least give it a good run. Without him ... it's not looking good.Leave a comment:
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Since the start of last year, IUP is 48-5.
Three of those five losses are to Mercyhurst.Leave a comment:
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I'm going to battle you on the press thing. The 1-2-2 press has more than one purpose. Joe wasn't using it to create turnovers today. If they did then good but that wasn't the purpose. The purpose today was to speed the game up a bit and take Hurst out of their half court offense. Gary loves calling a ton a plays out but the second half he couldn't due to IUP pressing. The other thing, IUP should've got 2 separate 5 second calls when they went man press on the in bounds but the refs had their heads up their butts. I thought Carlo and Baldy were god awful today. They bailed Hurst out on quite a few occasions. It still doesn't take away the fact Joe played Hurst tempo the first half and put them in a hole.Originally posted by IUPbigINDIANS View PostLeave a comment:
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Incredibly glad I donate to a fully-funded program which routinely has a 6-man rotation by Feb. 1 of just about every season -- which, of course, includes walk-ons. It's ironic it's Groundhog's Day weekend. That's Joe Lombardi's program. Every year is the same. But, at least we have those redshirts ready for the future. Or, at least until they transfer this off-season.
INCREDIBLE effort by the PLAYERS today in the second half. It's not easy to be forced to play IRONMAN basketball. It's not easy to have guards play power forward. It was a great comeback. I'm sure Ousmane Diop enjoyed it from back in Indiana. Shawn Ulrich never took his warm-up jersey off. Dylan Benton played a career-high in minutes. And, of course, IUP couldn't buy a rebound for its life. But, at least we have those redshirts for the future. We don't need them right now. We didn't need them when Tommy Demo went down. Nor when Chucky went town.
IUPAlum said he's seen this movie before. I have, too. The ending sucks. It's always the same.
Chucky Humphries' left hand can't heal fast enough. A season depends on it. There is not help on the way -- even if it is available.
IUP got bailed out today. Gannon and ESU knocked off UPJ and Shippensburg. It takes some of the sting away. Some.
Lombardi kept his 6-man rotation in a press for the entire second half. It produced one turnover -- and wore the crap out of his own team.
Enjoy your dinner tonight, Gary. You earned it today.
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I think we must have been saving those timeouts for something. Maybe next year? Lol. Joe stunk as bad as the team.Leave a comment:
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