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Post by JayBee on Nov 30, 2008 21:56:16 GMT -5
This is the type of matchup that usually gives us problems. A big team with two girls listed at 6-5. They nearly doubled NCCU on the boards. We will have to create at least 28 turnovers and shoot 70% from the line to win this one. Decks, your predictions were on point! Coach Bibbs must have been thinking along the very same lines of how to win this game, because that's exactly what happened! Neither of the 6-5 girls they had could not jump at all, but were a force in the middle! But my hat's off to Smalley with the help of Bland and Taylor-James - she outjumed, outsmarted, outfinessed and frustrated the big girls all night long! I think the Eagles that were at the game were using their annihilation as a barameter for our game with the Lady Pirates, but soon had to join us in victory!
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Post by Aggie77 on Dec 1, 2008 9:21:27 GMT -5
“A&T is a good basketball team, there is no doubt about that,” Baldwin-Tener said. “But we made them look better than they are. I would have liked to have put our best team out there and seen what the outcome was.”
Where was her best team? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECU women fall in home tourney
By Randy Jones The Daily Reflector
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Looking for its first title in its own tournament since the 2005-06 season, the East Carolina women's basketball team did everything it could to not win it.
The Pirates shot poorly, rebounded poorly, defended poorly and were outhustled all night by North Carolina A&T as the Aggies wore down the host team for a convincing 72-53 victory in the championship game of the Lady Pirate Invitational Saturday night inside Minges Coliseum.
“I feel pretty confident that's about as bad as we can play,” ECU head coach Sharon Baldwin-Tener said. “We didn't have anything going. We didn't take care of the ball. We didn't shoot well. And we didn't play well together.”
The two teams battled back and forth early, with neither team finding any kind of a groove.
The Pirates (4-2) hit just three of its first 17 shots from the field, with all three made by forward Kim Gay. However, the Aggies (3-2) failed to capitalize as they hit only 2 of their first 12 shots and turned it over seven times.
The visiting team did find its rhythm first. After ECU took a 20-19 lead on a Gay jumper with 4 minutes, 24 seconds left in the first half, the Aggies scored the next six points and never trailed again.
Gay, who was named all-tournament along with teammate LaCoya Terry, scored 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds.
A big part of the late surge was the play of tournament MVP Brittanie Taylor-James and all-tournament pick Amber Bland. The duo scored 11 of the Aggies' last 13 points in the half. The only other bucket, fittingly, came by Lamona Smalley at the buzzer as the forward was sitting on the ground near the free throw line.
Taylor-James led all scorers with 28 points, along with seven rebounds. Bland had 17 points and 15 boards. Lamona Smalley also had a double-double with 11 points and 13 rebounds.
“A&T is a good basketball team, there is no doubt about that,” Baldwin-Tener said. “But we made them look better than they are. I would have liked to have put our best team out there and seen what the outcome was.”
The wheels seemed to come off of the Pirates starting in the second half's third minute. In a span of three minutes the Pirates turned the ball over three times and had three fouls called on them — including Gay's fourth. The Aggies got up 40-26 with 15:47 left.
A few minutes later, after a Gabriela Husarova 3-pointer cut the lead to 42-31, back-to-back no calls on an Aggie offensive putback and a collision near the top of the key involving Jasmine Young drew the ire of Baldwin-Tener, who was called for a technical foul.
Over the next few minutes, the Pirates again turned the ball over numerous times and were called for more fouls. Eventually, the lead ballooned to 56-33 with 10:03 on the clock.
Terry drained two shots to make it 58-40 a minute later, but the game was well in the Aggies' control.
Terry, who led the Pirates with 15 points on just 6-of-19 shooting, said the team just couldn't get any shots to fall. ECU hit just 21-of-60 from the field (34.3 percent). It was a problem compounded by the 24 turnovers.
“We just shot horrible,” she said. “That really affected us.”
The Aggies also made 21-of-28 from the foul line, compared to ECU's 7-of-16.
Terry was quick to say the referees had no part in the outcome.
“No we can't really blame the fouls,” she said. “I guess we need to stop fouling so much. Move our feet more and play better defense.”
The Pirates will be off until Dec. 6 when they travel to take on No. 16 Virginia in Charlottesville.
Buffalo wins consolation
In the night's first game, Buffalo held off a late rally by North Carolina Central for a 65-54 win to claim third place.
Kourtney Brown, who was named all-tournament, led the Bills (4-3) with 19 points and 11 rebounds.
Jori Nwachukwu led the Eagles (0-7) with 16 points.
Contact Randy Jones at rajones@coxnc.com or (252) 329-9593.
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Post by aggiedog on Dec 1, 2008 9:58:20 GMT -5
It is hard for ECU to accept the fact that A&T just kicked their as# really good.
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Post by JayBee on Dec 1, 2008 10:06:02 GMT -5
Trust me, her best team was out there on the floor! It was the same team that had just crushed Central! It's just that she was out-coached! A&T made no excuses about having 2 of their starters out! What if we had had our regular starters on the floor? Then they would have gotten whipped worse!
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Post by aahhbigboy on Dec 1, 2008 10:11:39 GMT -5
Wow, that is a pretty classless statement. I mean, there might be a reason you didn't have your best team out there baby, and that was that heat coming from the opposing team. You rarely hear coaches slight other coaches like that. Well, I guess that's one more team that won't be scheduling A&T. lol You know she's catching some heat......losing your own tournament to an in-state school with a smaller budget is guaranteed to lose you a recruit or two. lol
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Post by Aggie9195 on Dec 1, 2008 11:15:38 GMT -5
That was the same team you had out there the day before that whipped up on Central. Chick please, give me a break!!! You got your a--kicked by A&T. Admit it and move on. If that wasnt your best team out there then where were they? Yea right!
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Post by Maxell on Dec 1, 2008 11:42:53 GMT -5
That's the kind of bulletin board material that can propel this team to beat #15 Auburn on Wednesday. If I was a player or coach I'd be mad a hell about that statement and take it out on every other team we play so that there would be no doubt how good we are.
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Post by aahhbigboy on Dec 1, 2008 12:11:44 GMT -5
That was the same team you had out there the day before that whipped up on Central. Chick please, give me a break!!! You got your a--kicked by A&T. Admit it and move on. If that wasnt your best team out there then where were they? Yea right! Or how about this 9195, one of our bigs didn't play and Reisha Bullock had a high ankle sprain. Tweet only scored 3 points. So I've gotta ask, aren't WE the ones that didn't have our best team??? lol ECU woulda lost by at least 30.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Dec 1, 2008 12:42:24 GMT -5
Wow, that is a pretty classless statement. I mean, there might be a reason you didn't have your best team out there baby, and that was that heat coming from the opposing team. You rarely hear coaches slight other coaches like that. Well, I guess that's one more team that won't be scheduling A&T. lol You know she's catching some heat......losing your own tournament to an in-state school with a smaller budget is guaranteed to lose you a recruit or two. lol bigboy, that's one of the few things we definitely agree on. indeed that was a classless statement by Baldwin-Tener. as i've mentioned previously, ecu recruited my daughter, so i know Baldwin-Tener personally. she's not a classless person, so that statement by her is out of character. but i think she was embarrassed that a well known instate hbcu not only beat them but straight up kick their azz in their tournament on their home floor. but let's not confuse ecu with auburn and let's not confuse conference usa with the sec. the sec is one of the strongest women's basketball conferences in the country. we're talkin' bout the likes of former d1 champions tennessee and lsu. it will be a major challenge for our ladies to beat #15 ranked auburn on their home court. but stranger things have happened this season. unranked hartford beat 5th ranked duke at the time...
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Post by aggiejazz on Dec 1, 2008 12:44:43 GMT -5
“A&T is a good basketball team, there is no doubt about that,” Baldwin-Tener said. “But we made them look better than they are. I would have liked to have put our best team out there and seen what the outcome was.”
This statement above makes it clear the heated rivalry and clumsy dismissal that larger in-state schools have towards A&T in particular.
Last year A&T's baseball team beat one in-state school at home and right after the game the losing coach made his team run wind-sprints in the outfield. A total insult to the Aggies. Also, NC State handpicked umpire started cheating in the 5th inning when A&T had a 3 or 4-run lead. All of sudden A&T pitchers were not hitting the strike zone and NC State pitchers became big league with a strike zone as big as the Atlantic.
This is the lie the ECU coach will used to protect her behind because the unwritten rule is you can't lose to a HBCU. This why it is difficult for A&T to get home-and-home with some of these in-state schools.
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Post by Bigboy on Dec 1, 2008 12:49:35 GMT -5
She might be afraid that ECU might can her a-- for losing to an HBCU!! I'm sure they scheduled us and Central thinking they would have easy victories. ECU's AD was probably eye-balling Bibbs after watching that game!!!!!!
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Post by Bornthrilla on Dec 1, 2008 13:25:16 GMT -5
We came. We saw. We conquered.. .
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Post by aggiepride73 on Dec 1, 2008 16:46:05 GMT -5
Bornthrilla,
Were you the guy walking around during halftime taking pics? If so, my wife and I were sitting at half court on the bleachers (last row towards the top)! Good to meet you. Now I know when to look for you and Jaybee. Alot of old heads on these message boards-lol!
Gonna try and make a few more gms before the season is out!
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Post by Aggie One on Dec 1, 2008 16:46:12 GMT -5
Bigboy is right on point. Almost always, PWC coaches who lose to HBCUs get canned at the of the season especially after getting waxed like they did. She's probably already feeling the heat and calls for her head.
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Post by truthseeker on Dec 1, 2008 17:41:10 GMT -5
That's the kind of bulletin board material that can propel this team to beat #15 Auburn on Wednesday. If I was a player or coach I'd be mad a hell about that statement and take it out on every other team we play so that there would be no doubt how good we are. this is an important gm to the selection committee... beat a ranked team & let dennis thomas state your case...
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