Bad half? or a Sign of Things to Come?

[6-4-3 Jackrabbit]

I believe this was one bad half of basketball. There seems to be a different feel to this team this year. Since Christmas they just look more mature - both phyisically (eye test) and mentally (ORU). Here's to a good second half of the regular season and a run in the Summit League Tournament!

[rabidrabbit]

Re: Bad half? or a Sign of Things to Come?

NDSU NEEDED to WIN to AVOID being the CELLAR team of the Summit. Must win a home! Obviously, the Bison came out that 2nd half, motivated, hustling, and hitting their shots, and getting rebounds, especially offensive, and they converted.

Jacks came out cold, playing to protect, and didn't call time out to get this back under control. Jacks got beat by a team that was famished for a win, and it showed up in the 2nd half.

Jacks will need to play like they did vs ORU next weekend. IMHO, Jacks, if anyone has a shot at Oakland in Brookings. But Jacks will need a great game from all its players, and an "off-night" by Oakland. Need to knock off IPFW Thur first.

[filbert]

Re: Bad half? or a Sign of Things to Come?

I would add that if you watched the Iowa State-NDSU game, you could see that NDSU isn't really that bad. They've been really unlucky this year, both on and off the court, but they've got some ability.

I'd say that the Jacks have more overall talent this year, but talent is meaningless if you don't have the desire to use it, and the Bison had way, way more desire than the Jacks did.

[Nidaros]

Re: Bad half? or a Sign of Things to Come?

NDSU NEEDED to WIN to AVOID being the CELLAR team of the Summit. Must win a home! Obviously, the Bison came out that 2nd half, motivated, hustling, and hitting their shots, and getting rebounds, especially offensive, and they converted.

Jacks came out cold, playing to protect, and didn't call time out to get this back under control. Jacks got beat by a team that was famished for a win, and it showed up in the 2nd half.

Jacks will need to play like they did vs ORU next weekend. IMHO, Jacks, if anyone has a shot at Oakland in Brookings. But Jacks will need a great game from all its players, and an "off-night" by Oakland. Need to knock off IPFW Thur first.

The only thing I could add here in agreement with the above is that the preception here on this board and elsewhere is that NDSU was one and done when their seniors left, but what might have overlooked is that the subsequent recruiting done by Miles and Phillips both was quailty or good recruits. Nagy hinted to TV that they were once interested Vaughn and did recruit him. Eric Carlson is a very good player and if we had landed him, I would be very pleased. So a win in Brookings over NDSU should happen, but I do not see it as a gimmee.

[LakeJack]

Re: Bad half? or a Sign of Things to Come?

Bad half, we will be ok

[zooropa]

Re: Bad half? or a Sign of Things to Come?

I'm just glad to see the board has started taking its lithium again.

[Chains]

Re: Bad half? or a Sign of Things to Come?

Bad half, we will be ok

Clearly a bad half. But the Bison really did not to much of anything extra to create that bad half. The Jacks stood around. They watched rebounders rebound, they watched uncontested passes to the post for a bucket etc.

I love watching Kai play basketball. Smooth, athletic, can shoot, can rebound, runs the floor, defends. But, Kai needs to put up more than 4 shots for the entire game. The Coaching staff needs to call specific plays for Kai to get him involved in the offense. Kai needs to demand the ball more often.

All said and done the Jacks are in the hunt.

GBGBGJ

[tjbison]

Re: Bad half? or a Sign of Things to Come?

Clearly a bad half. But the Bison really did not to much of anything extra to create that bad half. The Jacks stood around. They watched rebounders rebound, they watched uncontested passes to the post for a bucket etc.

I love watching Kai play basketball. Smooth, athletic, can shoot, can rebound, runs the floor, defends. But, Kai needs to put up more than 4 shots for the entire game. The Coaching staff needs to call specific plays for Kai to get him involved in the offense. Kai needs to demand the ball more often.

All said and done the Jacks are in the hunt.

GBGBGJ

What game were you watching????

[NoVaJack]

Re: Bad half? or a Sign of Things to Come?

What game were you watching????

Hey, isn't there a game from tonight to discuss over on Bisonville? Your team lost.

[tjbison]

Re: Bad half? or a Sign of Things to Come?

Hey, isn't there a game from tonight to discuss over on Bisonville? Your team lost.

as did yours last night, time limits on threads over here now or what?

[filbert]

Re: Bad half? or a Sign of Things to Come?

What game were you watching????

Please, elaborate . . .

[tjbison]

Re: Bad half? or a Sign of Things to Come?

Please, elaborate . . .

I will, but first I will state I should have put forth more sarcasm! The fact is regardless of team allegence it was clear in the second half the "hustle" was nothing near what your guys had in the first!

[zooropa]

Re: Bad half? or a Sign of Things to Come?

I will, but first I will state I should have put forth more sarcasm! The fact is regardless of team allegence it was clear in the second half the "hustle" was nothing near what your guys had in the first!

Yeah, and several of them were out part of the preceding week with the flu.

In fact, it's probably a good thing this was the travel partner week, giving the team Thursday night off.

Did the Bison women have the flu this week too?

[tjbison]

Re: Bad half? or a Sign of Things to Come?

Yeah, and several of them were out part of the preceding week with the flu.

In fact, it's probably a good thing this was the travel partner week, giving the team Thursday night off.

Did the Bison women have the flu this week too?

nope no Flu excuse they just are not up to par with the Jacks women

[bub94]

Re: Bad half? or a Sign of Things to Come?

I love watching Kai play basketball. Smooth, athletic, can shoot, can rebound, runs the floor, defends. But, Kai needs to put up more than 4 shots for the entire game. The Coaching staff needs to call specific plays for Kai to get him involved in the offense. Kai needs to demand the ball more often.
GBGBGJ

There was one play they ran with Kai down low and it worked out really nicely. Kai can out jump his defender so running this type of play should happen more.