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We only brought 10 and they have all played.
We only brought 10 and they have all played.
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Who didnt make the trip? I cant even think.. its been a long day at work.Originally posted by Rabbitden View Post"The most rewarding things you do in life, are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.” Arnold Palmer
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12 of 23 at the stripe doesn't helpComment
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Well the Jacks are 12-23 from the FT line. 1:41 68-58 UGAComment
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Not sure, just heard Merm say it earlier in the game.Originally posted by goon View PostComment
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Our shooting is off early in the season. Once we get that back, which should be sooner rather than later, we will be ok.Comment
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Well, from everything I heard, the emphasis throughout the entire pre-season practices was overwhelmingly defense--like 80% or more of the time in practice. I suspect the theory of Nagy and the coaches is that the shooting touch will come around, but bad defensive habits, once they get set early in the season, are really, really hard to change.Originally posted by goon View Post
And the defense on this team is MUCH improved over last year.
Yeah, the shooting (and to some extent the free throw shooting) is kinda sucky, but I personally am not too worried about it right now. If it hasn't come around by the end of December, then yeah, it's time to start thinking about panicking.
Also--and I really, REALLY hate saying this, YET AGAIN, the Jackrabbits are again a really, really young team this year. One senior, Callahan (who, let's be honest, is probably not in the top five talented basketball players on this team, if you're talking about just basketball talent), two juniors, Fiegen (who looks like he's made a huge leap from last year) and Wolters ('nuff said). That's it, for upperclassmen. Even given Wolters, that's an awfully, AWFULLY weak upper-class roster for any Division I basketball team.
Meanwhile, the Jackrabbits have five sophomores and seven freshmen on the roster.
Realistically, this team is still a year away. If the youngsters--Sophomores (Carlson, White, Heemstra, Dykstra, Hennings) and Freshmen (Jacobsen, Prince, Olson, Monaghan, Feilmeier, Horstman, Francis) can over-produce, then the Jacks will look on that night like a pretty good team. If it's a game of Wolters and the Rest, then it's going to be a long night.
(And it looks like at least three of the Freshmen will redshirt--I forget which ones were way on the end of the bench in the Western Michigan game, but I don't think we'll see any of them this year. Prince and I think Monaghan were two of them, maybe Olson too, and I think Jacobsen and Feilmeier are walk-ons, aren't they?)"I think we'll be OK"Comment
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UGA 72 SDSU 61 FinalComment
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I think these early games will benifit the Jacks overall. I agree with Filbert, defense has been on the top of they're list. The next three games are more than winable, we just need to play our game and the offense will come. I see us 4-2 at the end of the week.Comment
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True. We have been a very young team every year for like a decade now. With the exception of Williams and Callahan the first as seniors was pretty good senior class talent wise. I figure this team is still trying to find its roles. Just find it hard that we can play for 25-30 minutes but we cant do anything the last 10. I think it just bugs me that I consider these very winable games and can barely score 60 points.Originally posted by filbert View Post"The most rewarding things you do in life, are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.” Arnold Palmer
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the game tracker has it as 11/49 for 3pts for the teams combined. Thats ugly. Not good offense on either side but they made a run which I wish we could do. Hopefully around confrence play we are able to do those things."The most rewarding things you do in life, are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.” Arnold Palmer
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atleast we are doing better the oakland is right now. They have had a rought start to the year it looks."The most rewarding things you do in life, are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.” Arnold Palmer
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Another general observation: in previous years, it seemed that SDSU was just lucky to stay in the game with BCS opponents, and while the Jacks could steal the occasional game from the likes of Iowa State and Iowa, those still seemed a bit flukey.
This year, I still have the sense that what's killing the Jackrabbits in games against BCS teams isn't so much the talent gap as it is experience. If we had the same players on the court as we have this year, but they were all seniors and juniors, it seems to me that these second-half collapses we've seen against Minnesota and Georgia either wouldn't happen in the first place, or their impact would be less against a more experienced team. I do NOT get the sense that the BCS teams are completely, totally out-talenting the Jackrabbits. Yes, they're more talented top to bottom, but the gap isn't so great that a good, disciplined game can't overcome a lot of the talent gap. The problem is that to play a good, disciplined game, there's really no substitute for an experienced team with a lot of upperclassmen on the floor.
This could be a fairly frustrating year, I think, but mainly because we'll continually see flashes of what this team will be, interrupted by the reality of how dang young they still are, top to bottom."I think we'll be OK"Comment
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Nagy just said that we have been concentrating to much on defense and it is showing holding UGA to 40% He just thought the offense was going to be there, he takes the blame but still believes we have the shooters and this aspect (shots) will start falling. Free throw shooting has him bothered though.Comment
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Defense and rebounding have looked good against power conference opponents, and that a good sign despite the mid 2nd half faltering we've seen in the last 2 games.
Offense will come around.If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.
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