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11-10-21 01:47 PM - Post#327961    
    In response to Scotty-14

  • Scotty-14 Said:
Adoh was a welcome surprise. Had his good and bad, but his talent level/potential is top notch. JVH also looked a little better, though I'd prefer him not inbound the ball when the other team is pressing. Rhodes had a bad night, but I don't see that repeating itself too often.

TWO THINGS I think make or break us:

1. Can Funk shoot mid 40s+ from the field?

2. Can the team shoot 35%+ from 3?

If both are no, we may be just a screwed as we thought. I am proud of the guys tonight, but will reserve optimism until I get clarity on those questions.




You make a number of good points. Adoh was definitely impressive, better than expected. And VDH had the best offensive game of his career. Unfortunately he was his normal self on the boards - grabbing one in 24 minutes. Last year he had the worst rebounding rate on the team. Worse than Deuce Turner, Walter Ellis, etc. Malachi Rhodes got 3x as many available rebounds as VDH.

As for the 3-point shooting, I am afraid Bucknell may have only one reliable long-range shooter: Elvin Edmonds, who was very good in HS. Bascoe has a reputation for shooting the three, but he didn't play at all last year - and he may have very limited minutes this year. Hopefully Adoh can fill that role. Funk's career 3-point pct is a poor .306. Rice's career mark is .303, although he was much better last year. The team hit less than 19% of their threes in the GWU scrimmage fwiw, and was 29% last night.

Your goal of 35% on threes is really an absolute minimum that they need to hit to have success. Last year they hit 32.9% on threes - one of only two seasons in the scholarship era worse than 34%. Average has been over 36%. The 2004-07 period and the 2010-15 period bothsaw averages of about 38%.

Although the final margin of 18 points was respectable, if looked at another way it was not:

First five minutes: NCS 1, Bucknell 13
First half: final 15:NCS 39, Bucknell 27
Second half:NCS 48, Bucknell 30

So BU blew them out for five minutes - a span when NCS missed all of their 13 shots and also saw their star big man suffer a potenailly serious shoulder injury in the first minute. Then after things stabilized, the score the rest of the way was NCS 87, Bucknell 57. Not sure if that gives me cause for optimism.

If there is any causes for optimism, I suppose they would be: Adoh's play, VDH's play at the offensive end (only), Edmonds looking like he belonged, Rice's solid PG play, and Screen showing some development. As for Screen, it is a bit disappointing that he doesn't seem to have developed any new post moves. But he should be good in PL play.



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