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Post by pj on Jan 27, 2023 9:12:45 GMT -5
It's A&T vs Everybody. The MEAC, The Big South, the SWAC, PWI's, even vs Gravity with Ron McNair, or vs Apartheid with the A&T Four.
Idk what we will do. Where we will end up. (winning the Tourney or even getting a NIT, CBI or some other Post season action). But Basketball is here. Football has a mountain, Baseball has a mountain, Track is Climbing, Tennis has a smaller mountain. But we have:
Monmouth @uncw Elon @stoney Brook @ Monmouth @ Towson Delaware Hampton
The Table is set. Let the fish eat fish and the Dog eat dogs and maybe we will be in the Top 4 of Teams that do not play (Tourney) until the 3rd day on Sunday March 4 in Wash DC.
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Post by pj on Jan 27, 2023 10:23:27 GMT -5
Watson!!!
The Rims are still shaking at William &Mary too!
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Post by planoaggie on Jan 27, 2023 10:26:08 GMT -5
We are 6th in the CAA standings. With 8 games left we have a chance of going 6-2 or better. Only 2 teams are ranked higher than us in the standings. 5 of the teams left to play are in the bottom 5 of the CAA. Also, the 5 teams ahead of us have to play 2 to 4 teams that are currently in the top 6.
We are in a better situation to finish in the top 4 than others, just win the games we are supposed to win and upset UNCW and/or Towson. Let's cheer the team on to see if they can pull this off.
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Post by planoaggie on Jan 27, 2023 10:36:38 GMT -5
It's A&T vs Everybody. The MEAC, The Big South, the SWAC, PWI's, even vs Gravity with Ron McNair, or vs Apartheid with the A&T Four. Idk what we will do. Where we will end up. (winning the Tourney or even getting a NIT, CBI or some other Post season action). But Basketball is here. Football has a mountain, Baseball has a mountain, Track is Climbing, Tennis has a smaller mountain. But we have: Monmouth @uncw Elon @stoney Brook @ Monmouth @ Towson Delaware Hampton The Table is set. Let the fish eat fish and the Dog eat dogs and maybe we will be in the Top 4 of Teams that do not play (Tourney) until the 3rd day on Sunday March 4 in Wash DC. Sorry, I just now understood your comment on Top 4. We are saying the same thing, but you said it 1st. I was confused about 3rd day .... Now I understand you are talking about byes in the CAA Tournament and what day the 4th place team will begin play. A little slow at times.🙂
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Post by 919aggie on Jan 27, 2023 10:39:47 GMT -5
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Post by pj on Jan 27, 2023 11:03:57 GMT -5
It's A&T vs Everybody. The MEAC, The Big South, the SWAC, PWI's, even vs Gravity with Ron McNair, or vs Apartheid with the A&T Four. Idk what we will do. Where we will end up. (winning the Tourney or even getting a NIT, CBI or some other Post season action). But Basketball is here. Football has a mountain, Baseball has a mountain, Track is Climbing, Tennis has a smaller mountain. But we have: Monmouth @uncw Elon @stoney Brook @ Monmouth @ Towson Delaware Hampton The Table is set. Let the fish eat fish and the Dog eat dogs and maybe we will be in the Top 4 of Teams that do not play (Tourney) until the 3rd day on Sunday March 4 in Wash DC. Sorry, I just now understood your comment on Top 4. We are saying the same thing, but you said it 1st. I was confused about 3rd day .... Now I understand you are talking about byes in the CAA Tournament and what day the 4th place team will begin play. A little slow at times.🙂 Yes. maybe we can enjoy the Bye during the Tournament. (saving our legs and scouting the foe). We can play fast but Kam playing all game may be needed on a given night.
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Jan 27, 2023 11:11:03 GMT -5
....it still bothers me that we remain too reliant upon our physical gifts on the offensive end to score baskets. That ain't gonna work in March, especially against teams with equal talent that stress good ball movement and have coaching staffs that SCOUT VERY WELL. So, as we play lesser talented CAA teams and potentially go on a winning streak, if the offensive ball movement doesn't improve, we're a semifinals-at-best CAA team (and that may be a generous projection).
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Post by A&T AGGIE 96 on Jan 27, 2023 11:19:58 GMT -5
....it still bothers me that we remain too reliant upon our physical gifts on the offensive end to score baskets. That ain't gonna work in March, especially against teams with equal talent that stress good ball movement and have coaching staffs that SCOUT VERY WELL. So, as we play lesser talented CAA teams and potentially go on a winning streak, if the offensive ball movement doesn't improve, we're a semifinals-at-best CAA team (and that may be a generous projection). That’s all on the coaching and staff…I think the next coach will address our issues and build out what we are lacking.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2023 11:24:47 GMT -5
....it still bothers me that we remain too reliant upon our physical gifts on the offensive end to score baskets. That ain't gonna work in March, especially against teams with equal talent that stress good ball movement and have coaching staffs that SCOUT VERY WELL. So, as we play lesser talented CAA teams and potentially go on a winning streak, if the offensive ball movement doesn't improve, we're a semifinals-at-best CAA team (and that may be a generous projection). This season is an excellent foundation build for the future. It's exceeded my expectations and has me excited about what we can end up doing as CAA members in multiple sports. We can compete and beat schools with larger enrollments and endowments. I can see us winning a few CAA regular season titles before this is all said and done.
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Post by aggieblackie2 on Jan 27, 2023 13:19:37 GMT -5
Most of the basketball teams in the CAA are no better than the teams we played in the MEAC. What games are you looking at? Have seen all of the games and the only team that was much better than us was Charleston. Teams we played in the MEAC were on par with 90% of the teams we play in the CAA. NCC, Norfolk, Morgan, FAMU and BCU were just as good as 90% of the teams presently in the CAA. My point is I was expecting much better talent on the CAA teams.
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Post by planoaggie on Jan 27, 2023 13:47:17 GMT -5
Norfolk State is undefeated in the CAA. Monmouth: 64-59 William & Mary: 67-53 Hampton: 78-66 NC A&T: 70-66 Look again this Conference is not the ACC or any of the P5 prower Conferences . A&T can play with these programs . Ones they decide to play as a unit and drop this Rec ball, NBA and Portal audition mentality and function as a team . The ball is in the coaches and players hands now. What they do with it is on them . That is why I am going to sit back and see if they (players and coaches) will overcome these obstacles and play to their potential. My expectation for this team is to finish between .500 and .667 in the CAA. I will be pleasantly surprised if we finish around .75 in CAA.[/quote] ---------------------- I reposted my earlier post back on December 19th containing my team finish prediction. We are 6-4 right now and if we go 6-2 to finish the season as stated in my last post, we will have a 12-6 CAA record which amounts to 12÷18 = 0.667 or 66.7%. The team is meeting my expectations at this time. I hope they exceed it.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 27, 2023 16:48:37 GMT -5
How did we win this game? somehow, when we started playing "street ball", so did drexel!! heck, maybe "street ball" is coach's strategy to force the other team to play "street ball" too. shoot, nobody plays "street ball" better than us! we beat drexel because we turned the game into a "track meet" and drexel wasn't good at it. i was very surprised that their coach allowed them to play one-on-one ball like we do. the teams that we play who don't fall for the okie doop usually win if they have as good or better talent. but the 2nd half of the drexel game looked like a "pickup game" on the playground and nobody does that better than us, especially if at least 2 of our 3 guards are knocking down outside shots. in this case it was watson and horton. woods had trouble beating his man one-on-one, but watson and horton went "crazy" on dem muggs in the 2nd half...
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Post by A&T-roy on Jan 27, 2023 17:23:36 GMT -5
Yes they are, but I said this for football and it applies to basketball just as much or even more. Steel eventually sharpens steel and our teams would adjust to whatever league we moved to. We wouldn't be doormats. Competition elevates play. Agreed. To say Charleston, Towson, Hofstra, and Drexel aren't better than Norfolk, NCCU, and Howard is foolhardy at best. And the teams Norfolk, arguably the MEAC's best team, beat are middle to the bottom of the CAA. I expect Norfolk wouldn't have beaten us if we hadn't lost our Center (Austin Johnson) early in the game.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 27, 2023 18:57:06 GMT -5
^^^^^ here you go with the excuses again. norfolk "is not" currently the best team in the meac, norfolk is tied for "4th place" in the meac (with nccu) out of 8 teams which means they're 3 spots from the meac's "bottom" and 4 spots from the top. in other words, norfolk is closer to "last place" than first place. yet, norfolk is "undefeated" against caa teams this season and was "almost" undefeated against the caa last season (3-1) too including a win over unc wilmington "in wilmington" who went 23-9 last season but norfolk split with hampton last season which was their only caa loss.
one could "validly" argue that howard and norfolk are "capable" of beating every caa team we've beaten cuz we loss to norfolk this year and got "blown out" by howard last year...
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Post by aggie2039 on Jan 27, 2023 19:15:15 GMT -5
^^^^^ here you go with the excuses again. norfolk "is not" currently the best team in the meac, norfolk is tied for "4th place" in the meac (with nccu) out of 8 teams which means they're 3 spots from the meac's "bottom" and 4 spots from the top. in other words, norfolk is closer to "last place" than first place. yet, norfolk is "undefeated" against caa teams this season and was "almost" undefeated against the caa last season (3-1) too including a win over unc wilmington "in wilmington" who went 23-9 last season but norfolk split with hampton last season which was their only caa loss. one could "validly" argue that howard and norfolk are "capable" of beating every caa team we've beaten cuz we loss to norfolk this year and got "blown out" by howard last year... Howard lost to Hampton by 9 and Hampton is 2 -7 in the CAA, Howard is 4 -1 in the MEAC.
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