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Date Posted: 14:34:25 03/11/03 Tue
Author: jenningsbeach
Subject: Re: Kudos to Manhattan
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's message, "Re: Kudos to Manhattan" on 11:11:31 03/11/03 Tue
Obviously, Oscar was frustrated. Manhattan is the better team, more talented than Fairfield, and deserves to move on.
The problem last night was the same as always: Fairfield can't shoot. We had lots of open looks, lots of chances, but no one hit a big shot. I thought Bell might get it going, or Ajou, or Todd, or Maxwell. Nothing. No counterpunch. A couple of clutch baskets would have made it interesting, but I suspect Manhattan still finds a way to win. A double-digit deficit to those guys is almost insurmountable; there's just no margin for error. You might stop the Jaspers two or three times in a row, but Flores kills you the fourth time down the floor. That fall-away jumper he hit over Delfico with 6 minutes to go was the prettiest shot I've seen all year.
I think the Stags are a lock for the NIT, with a great chance to host a game next week. Good thing, too. I'm not ready to pack away my Fairfield sweatshirt. I don't want to let go of this wonderful season.
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Re: Kudos to Manhattan -- Fair Play, 16:47:04 03/11/03 Tue
I think you all are looking at the world through rose colored glasses. True, the players should take some of the blame for not playing up to their potential, but I think Garcia is 100% on the mark. The fact that one of his own players would come out and say that deoen't make me too confident in TOT. There were many questionable moves he made during that game last night. First, why change up a team that has you up 7-5 in the first few minutes. Second Garcia made back to back and 1 plays and TOT benches him. Look at the stats Garcia played for 20 minutes and scored 11, Gai played 30 minutes and scored 5. I don't understand why Garcia was on the bench for most of the second half, he wasn't in foul trouble. I want to thank the stags for a great year, wish they could have won for the seniors but the NIT is still to come.
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Re: Kudos to Manhattan -- champ, 17:52:50 03/11/03 Tue
Garcia is frustrated and making excuses for the players' own failures. He's simply repeating what's been discussed here and elsewhere ad nauseum, because it might resonate with some people and deflect the criticism away from him and other players. Fact is guys...you looked like a sorry lot out there.
How about OG doing his speaking on the court? His charge and fouls came at momentum killing times. And what about his turnovers; 0 assists. But the box score will never tell the story about this one. The intensity was not simply there. There were one blown opportunity after another and defensive lapses that just don't get factored in.
TOT was desperate to find the spark plug and no one came through. The substitutions only prove the point that everyone had an opportunity to lead the way and no one did.
If I were the coach, I also would have been substituting like crazy to find somone who wasn't going to sleep-walk through the game!
About the only thing TOT didn't try was inserting Paul Brown and Alvin Carter.
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Re: Kudos to Manhattan -- Menzies, 21:53:25 03/11/03 Tue
The move I didn't understand was Thompson in the game when we needed offense the get back in it (6-9 min left). Robbie was playing hard and pretty well, but IMO we needed OFFENSE and hope like hell those guys could give you "D" also.
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Congrats to Manhattan - They took us out of our game -- JoeStag, 22:20:34 03/11/03 Tue
I thought the biggest aspect of this game was that Minor was giving Goode some problems, and Goode was not able interrupt the offensive flow of the Jaspers. Without Goode's energy, and Gai's intimidating blocks, our offense did not have its jump start.
I was OK with Thomson in the line-up, cause we needed someone to give us an emotional boost..... I thought he did, but I do agree that we needed more offesnive weapons at that time.
We NEVER scored more than 4 points in a row..... never made a run..... Manhattan deserves credit for that.
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Re: Congrats to Manhattan - They took us out of our game -- GOSTAGS, 22:28:54 03/11/03 Tue
good points - we never seem to play the press very well..it always seems to take us out of any kind of offensive sync...it sure did last night
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Re: Congrats to Manhattan - They took us out of our game -- Menzies, 21:51:03 03/12/03 Wed
I am looking at it in a very academic, statistical manner. Clearly nobody had answers for MC. That being said maybe you could get some help from an unexpected direction. Nothing else worked any better.
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