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Post by Agg E. Pride on Nov 10, 2021 13:46:33 GMT -5
What's the story with Blake Harris, was he in the building last night? I understand, from what I believe to be a reliable source and from the GHOE open practice, that he's not on the team anymore. If this is true, I tried to tell y'all! 3 high schools in 4 years & 2, maybe 3 colleges. CLEAR š©š©š©š©š©
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Post by marchingband1969 on Nov 10, 2021 14:22:32 GMT -5
Maybe I'm wrong, but here are my observations: 1) Sorely lacking an inside presence. I can't understand why some Aggies are excited about a 7 footer who plays on the perimeter and gets outrebounded by 6'4 guys. 2) Our guards can't shoot. Period. What kind of 1 goes 1-7 from the field and 2-8 from the line? 3) I'm aware of injuries taking a toll on our programs, but missing Harris and Powell and maybe others, is a concern. What's up with this? Are practices/life on campus that brutal? 4) I tried to tell you guys to be "cautiously optimistic" about our chances. I feel the same about what Powell and the guy from UCF will produce. Based on your list, it looks like we are limping unprepared into another Big South season.
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Post by marchingband1969 on Nov 10, 2021 14:26:06 GMT -5
I'm not liking all these positive reactions to a lose. Sorry, I'm not built like that. An L is an L is an L. Y'all carry on! its possible to look good as a team and still lose. given how we got embarrassingly "blown out" by uncg last season in our own house, last night's game represented a step in the right direction. yeah, we should be upset with the loss but there are a lot of "positives" that can be taken away from that game and i think that's what most folk are trying to say. but i don't think anybody is happy about the loss... There's no moral victory for us here. New coach at UNCG and their star player off that team is gone. An L is an L, no matter the margin.
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Post by saabman on Nov 10, 2021 14:26:29 GMT -5
3 quick cheap fouls put him on 4 . Guard was smart and he wasnāt. Ć can understand that š But what I can not understand is 1. you have a 7 footer staying around on the perimeter three-point line waiting to shot a three , not trying to set a screen or anything .And then we turnaround and wonder why we got out rebounded šš¤£š . 2. UNCG would pass the ball no less the 4 times or more before a shot went up , A&T 2 if we are luck š 3. To much 1on1 play and 3 shooting when a midrange shot is available all night . 4. Why can't Harry and the 7 footer be on the floor as a unit especially in the last moments of the game . UNCG had 2 to 3 big men on the floor in parts of the game as a unit, we had 1 . I really am trying to hold back on Coach but he continues to show me that . He has no idea or knowledge of how to coach or use big men in his system.
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Post by pommie on Nov 10, 2021 14:31:13 GMT -5
Inside presence is an interesting concept with a 5 out offence. I donāt understand it either. The one time Harry was in the low post he dished to Maye who got fouled and hit 2 foul shots. I can see Web/Harry/Justin in the post and dishing to Marcus. But the offensive set has to involve some inside play. Agreed we cannot shoot from the perimeter.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Nov 10, 2021 15:07:28 GMT -5
its possible to look good as a team and still lose. given how we got embarrassingly "blown out" by uncg last season in our own house, last night's game represented a step in the right direction. yeah, we should be upset with the loss but there are a lot of "positives" that can be taken away from that game and i think that's what most folk are trying to say. but i don't think anybody is happy about the loss... There's no moral victory for us here. New coach at UNCG and their star player off that team is gone. An L is an L, no matter the margin. i disagree. i agree that an L is an L, but i don't agree that the margin does not matter. you mean to tell me that you see no difference between playing well enough to beat uncg at their house in a game that went down to the wire last night "versus" never even being in the game from beginning to end and "literally" getting embarrassed and blown out by 21 points in front of your own home crowd? you view both of those losses the same? if so, i don't understand that mentality. and heck, i'll be honest. after taking that royal "azz whupping" last year in clubcorbett losing by "21 points" and getting "dunked on" multiple times, my mindset going into this year's game was i'd like to win the game but if we don't, PLEASE DON'T GET "BLOWN OUT AND EMBARRASSED" this year. well, we didn't get blown out, quite the "contrary". so i was granted one of my wishes but didn't get the win. shoot unlike some of our fellow aggies, i'm friggin' "PROUD" of how our team handled themselves before a hostile crowd last night. mind you, i desperately wanted the win, but i definitely wasn't "embarrassed" at all last night like i was last year. and to me, that's the difference between last night's loss versus last year's loss. they're definitely not the same...
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Post by Bornthrilla on Nov 10, 2021 15:15:05 GMT -5
I agree with oleschool. My main goal heading into last night was to not get embarrassed again.
Yes, the bar has been lowered that much. But that is our reality.
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Post by pj on Nov 10, 2021 15:59:09 GMT -5
Itās One Game. We lost in the final seconds, while being cold shooting the 3.
I just want Coach to put more guys in and see who works and where. This is not the playoffs, nor is it the league play.
To me, we will be solid, and thatās not even seeing the other guys.
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Nov 10, 2021 16:05:14 GMT -5
As I said in the private forum, you can compete and be close to winning every single game on the schedule....but at the end of the year, the schedule ain't gonna have a little "l" beside it for the games we lost to by 5 points or less and a big "L" to the games we lost by 15 points or more.
They all gonna have "L" beside them.
Our team was extremely competitive last night.....but lost. I gotta be honest - my concern is they're gonna be competitive in virtually EVERY GAME, but will find ways (poor FT shooting, bad shot selection in the waning moments) to lose more than they win.
Being at/near the bottom of the Big South standings is not what I desire, but is possible if we don't figure out how to win. Not to just be competitive.....BUT WIN.
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Post by aggierattler on Nov 10, 2021 16:27:13 GMT -5
Oh, and in addition to Fts (59.1%), 3 pt shooting was ABYSMAL last night...2-20 (10%). Either stop taking so many or make them. That applied to both teams last night. By going 6-for-40 from the 3-pt line, we may have witnessed a record last night for poor shooting by two teams in a 40-minute game.
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Post by Aggie E on Nov 10, 2021 17:57:52 GMT -5
IMHO weāre just not a good 3-point shooting team. You donāt have to shoot a lot of threes to have an effective offense, that was proven in the first half. Our shot selection was on point and we were very efficient. The defense had essentially shut UNCG down! Once we went āClub Corbettā jacking up threes in transition and missing, that gave G easy looks on the other end. If anything weāre more of a āspot-up threeā team, but definitely not a āfast break threeā team! I thought that both Jones and Kam shouldāve recognized that and adjusted the tempo. Jones needs to focus on teaching his guys that the name of the game is winning, even if there are no lob passes or threes. Thatās what gets you in the tournament!
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Post by bseballaggie on Nov 10, 2021 18:21:33 GMT -5
Oh, and in addition to Fts (59.1%), 3 pt shooting was ABYSMAL last night...2-20 (10%). Either stop taking so many or make them. We canāt, stop shooting them without a structured playbook designed to attack various defenses.
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Post by lenman1 on Nov 10, 2021 19:13:54 GMT -5
Whatley was 2-15 and 1 for 7 from 3. He should never shoot that much, they figured out to just not guard him on the pick and pop. Harry can make the three and was open on a number of pick and pops (better hands but got to stay away from the ticky-tack fouls).
You will not win many games when your point guard plays 34 minutes, scores 4 points and goes 1 for 6 from the field and 2-6 at the line. Filmore is a better defender than Whatley, who came in with the green light (don't understand the rotations).
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Nov 10, 2021 20:59:44 GMT -5
Oh, and in addition to Fts (59.1%), 3 pt shooting was ABYSMAL last night...2-20 (10%). Either stop taking so many or make them. That applied to both teams last night. By going 6-for-40 from the 3-pt line, we may have witnessed a record last night for poor shooting by two teams in a 40-minute game.quite frankly, "part of" the reason for poor shooting last night was that both teams played "OUTSTANDING" defense! folk don't hear me say that very often after an aggie basketball game but i'm a defensive "fanatic", so i "always" pay close attention to the defensive side of the ball cuz its in my dna. and "no question" both teams played "intense" defense last night, the way i like it! when i'm watching a basketball game and the opposing team shoots the ball, i always ask myself "how difficult did we make that shot attempt"? on a scale of 10, a "zero" is leaving a shooter wide open and a 10 is a "blocked shot". an 8 or 9 is forcing somebody to change their shot in mid air because otherwise it would get "blocked". we saw a lot of missed "put backs" last night and folk were like, "why they missing so many shots right under the basket"? well, it wasn't because guys can't make a layup. instead it was because those short range shots were intensely "contested"! i swear, i literally luv defense and last night was a great example of how defense is supposed to be played. when i was coaching, we had a defensive motto on my team which was, "NO CLEAN LOOKS". which meant, "nobody" on the opposing team gets a clean look at the basket when shooting the ball and i saw a lot of "NO CLEAN LOOKS" last night. overall, we shot 32% from the floor and uncg shot 37% from the floor. on the surface folk might think neither team can shoot the basketball well, but that's not why the shooting percentages were so low last night by both teams. it was low because of the "intense" defense being played by both teams. also, folk are complaining about poor free throw shooting which "on the surface" was true. but what folk are not considering is that playing intense defense takes a "major toll" on your legs, especially when playing "man to man" which both teams played most of the night. i think both teams shot poorly from the charity stripe, "in part" because of tired legs. tired legs causes "poor shooting". if you look at the 1st half stats from last night, you'd notice that we shot a respectable 67% from the free throw line and 43% from the floor. but in the 2nd half we shot a not so respectable 53% from the free throw line and a "gawd awful" 23% from the floor. big difference between our first half shooting versus our second half shooting, same for uncg too. and part of the reason for that was "tired legs" from playing intense defense and intense defense being played against us. last night's game had a "march madness" intensity to it as if a lot was at stake. these are the kind of games that i luv to watch...
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Post by Maxell on Nov 10, 2021 22:50:37 GMT -5
QUOTABLE: "I felt like we had control of the game for about 30 minutes, and then the last 10, we took some tough shots. We stopped sharing the basketball, they dominated us on the glass, and we didn't make our free throws. They were able to get the momentum in their gym and come out with the victory, but I think the things that we need to correct are right in front of us, and they will be corrected."
A&T Head Coach Will Jones after the game Tuesday
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