iogyhufi
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01-14-24 09:26 PM - Post#361684
Tomorrow night, Yale takes on Columbia in an MLK Day tilt, Yale's first D1 home game since losing to Fairfield on December 6. Columbia showed last week that it's got a lot more fight than it has recently, and that was without Geronimo Rubio de la Rosa. Yale will need to be disciplined to win this one.
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iogyhufi
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Re: Columbia
01-15-24 08:46 PM - Post#361732
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41-39 Yale at the half. A combination of fortunate bounces for Columbia and untimely mental lapses from Yale keeps this one close. Kenny Noland is hot early, and Yale's guards are getting backcut to death.
Yale is able to get whatever they want out of offense, so a bit more patience in the second half would be welcome.
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01-15-24 08:49 PM - Post#361734
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No DLR tonight either. Yet Columbia is only down a deuce at the break.
Dogs got up a dozen, but Lions clawed their way back into it. Avery Brown is for real. Looks like the Lions' opening game in Ithaca was no fluke.
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01-15-24 09:28 PM - Post#361738
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Early in the second half, Yale steps up the defensive pressure to hold Columbia without a FG for 8:30 and grab a 25pt lead.
Vintage Bulldog intensity!
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iogyhufi
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01-15-24 09:45 PM - Post#361741
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Yale locked in in the second half and showed their class. John Poulakidas was unconscious, Columbia stopped hitting crazy shots, and Yale tightened up its defense, and that about did it.
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iogyhufi
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01-15-24 09:52 PM - Post#361744
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Something I noticed tonight: Columbia called an early second-half timeout (I think down 4) to save a possession. Yale then rattled off a massive run, and Columbia didn't call another timeout until the Bulldogs were way far ahead.
I do wonder whether that timeout was worth it from a probabilistic standpoint. I would kind of think one early possession is less valuable than the additional timeout, but I dunno for sure.
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iogyhufi
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Columbia
01-15-24 09:58 PM - Post#361745
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Last consecutive thought: I think this game showed what Coach Jones meant when he said this team was 80% of the way there. The second half was sheer dominance, but the first half was sloppy and unfocused a lot of the time. Yale gave up far too many backcuts and 45-cuts for layups that were entirely preventable.
Afaict, Princeton built their record this year mostly on never having those sorts of stretches, and that sort of consistency is what the Bulldogs need if they want to play to their potential.
Edited by iogyhufi on 01-15-24 09:58 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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