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Date Posted: 17:26:08 01/21/03 Tue
Author: 79er
Subject: First Ten

What a win! But what happened in those first 10 minutes. We were more than flat; it looked like we forgot our offense against the trap. Anyone have any inkling as to why...I can't take another start like that. We do miss some consistent outside shooting and should be a little better when Bell returns.

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[> Re: First Ten -- JoeStag, 18:58:33 01/21/03 Tue

I only can tell you what I heard Huessler and Cummings say over the Webcast. We took only 3 shots in the first 5 minutes of the game..... committing 5 turnovers. We shot only 4-22 in the first 16min of the half.

I had heard that Todd had some early turnovers, and was taken out in the first couple of minutes. The team then struggled against the zone with Goode at the helm. Todd did not come back until the 11:30 mark.... and then Ajou scored 6 big points. Stags finished with 14 T/o's in the first half.

It was a combo of both Turnovers and Bad shooting.

MSG Viewers, is that how it looked?????


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[> [> Trapping by Siena -- Reindeer Fan, 20:20:59 01/21/03 Tue

I watched the game and it was awful. I believe O'tooles gameplan was to pound it inside, and we forced 4 or 5 very bad passes in a row inside that were picked off/stolen by Siena. Siena also decided to trap whenever the ball went into the corner, and the result was almost always a Fairfield turnover. In my opinion, Siena lost in part to poor coaching. The stags never really found an answer for the trap, but Siena stopped trapping.

While poor shooting was a factor, lack of shooting due to turnovers was the real issue, especially in the first 5 minutes. Outside shooting was a factor as the stags went 0-6 from three point range in the first half, but most of those shots were taken after Siena built the lead. Some were in the final seconds of the shot clock, I don't think our game plan was to shoot many threes.

Look for Manhatten to trap all night against the stags. We'll see if they learn how to handle it in practice this week.


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[> Re: First Ten -- JoeStag, 18:59:50 01/21/03 Tue

I only can tell you what I heard Huessler and Cummings say over the Webcast. We took only 3 shots in the first 5 minutes of the game..... committing 5 turnovers. We shot only 4-22 in the first 16min of the half.

I had heard that Todd had some early turnovers, and was taken out in the first couple of minutes. The team then struggled against the zone with Goode at the helm. Todd did not come back until the 11:30 mark.... and then Ajou scored 6 big points. Stags finished with 14 T/o's in the first half.

It was a combo of both Turnovers and Bad shooting.

MSG Viewers, is that how it looked?????


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[> [> First Ten - absolutely horrible -- STAGAL, 19:40:06 01/21/03 Tue

I don't think we've faced much zone coverage this year and caught us by surprise. Tried to force the ball inside to Oscar and Gai, but they were surrounded by 2-4 players and ball was taken away. Not enough movement, too predictable on offense which Siena was waiting for. Passing lanes were also shut down by their tenacious D which resulted in turnovers. Max and Gai both had shots they should have made. I'm sure the home crowd helped also. At least 2 of Gai's first 3 fouls were bogus, esp. the 2nd where he was standing with his hands up and Siena player backed into him to shoot. He was understandable very upset with that call. However we did not get disturbed and fall apart, then our D stepped up and momemtum changed. It reminded me alot of the 29-12 deficit we had against Marshall in our first NIT game in 73, where we pecked away and ended up winning by around the same amount as yesterday.


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[> [> [> Re: First Ten - absolutely horrible -- Fair Play, 09:27:52 01/22/03 Wed

Manhattan is going to look to double team Gai and Garcia since they are our best offensive threats. I have been very frustrated the last few games because you know Deng Gai is going to draw the double team which obviously means one of your players is open. WE have to look to the open man and not force the shots. This will be key against Manhattan especially if they are planning to trap us all night.


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