billikenbill

If you listen to Rammer and Earl on the varsity network, you don’t hear it.

Things heading south in a hurry.

Correct.

- Hughes busting his butt on the defensive end. - Parker keeps both teams in the game with good buckets and braindead decisions. - Medley might be hurt after the 2 illegal screens. - Gibby not able to finish his drives. - Does Eziwero actually want to play college basketball? - Make FTs.

That was backcourt on Loyola, complete BS.

Accurate, unlike our FT shooting. Hughes rocking it on the defensive end.

Started with the foolish EZ foul and Parker thinking he’s still playing at juco. Awful.

Parker??? WTF are you doing?

First thing I thought about. Dumb, dumb, dumb foul.

Such a dumb foul by EZ there. Grow up, dude.

Hughes is playing like a man possessed!!

18-11 good guys, 6 for Parker. We may not be good but we’re definitely playing hard.

9-8 at the under 16 despite the three turnovers. EZ started the game like he’d never played before.

My goodness, we force a second turnover!! Bills up 7-6!!

Brutal start. 4 possessions, 3 turnovers. EZ could go one on one but won’t.

3 possessions, 2 turnovers.

Hadn’t thought of it that way. We’re gonna cloud up and rain all over the ‘blers!!!

Aw heck, we’re smoking those bums tonight.

Traitor.

We’ve got no chance, we suck, Jimerson can’t shoot, Parker is a turnover machine, Eziwero is out of shape, Ford and May suck, worst freshman class ever. Thought I’d get the primary themes of tonight’s game out of the way. I’m very exci…. Go Billk… OK, not really that excited about it.

I said Medley was unproductive. Isn’t that what you are saying?

Some random thoughts: 1. Would like to see Meadows at the point for 30-32 mins. which limits Medley to 8-10. He’s just not a productive PG at this point. 2. Parker has got to get his decision-making under control. Granted, he’s our only one on one threat, but he just can’t throw up anything to the rim. If it’s not there, keep the ball moving. 3. Hoping Van Bussell is now the first back-up to EZ. We need his energy on the floor. Bruce is just too weak to consistently compete in the paint. If he knows he’s the backup, maybe he stops fouling so much. 4. Get Curcic on the floor for a 3-4 min. stretch each half and see if he can knock down some threes. I like the fire he plays with and his shot mechanics are excellent. Looks like a pure shooter and not just a streak shooter. 5. EZ has got to stop fouling. He’s got to stay on the floor for us to have a chance. Sat. we get off to a great start, he commits a touch foul, goes to the bench, and UMass starts its rally back.

You’re correct that the lead was lost during Parker’s 7 first half mins. He was 0-4 from the floor with a turnover in that stretch. His +/- was -12, Gibby’s -15 while the Big EZ was -12. The only positive player was Hughes at +9. Really hoping Hughes found his game last night as he finally looked like the player he could be last year.

TJ hits a runner at 2:28 to make it 74-70. They make a tough driving layup at 2:04, miss the and one and the ball hits heel of the rim going right to the UMass rebounder. That allowed UMass to kill another 20 seconds off the clock. After an EZ FT to make it 76-71, Parker gets beat on a back door and it’s 78-71 and ballgame. Re-watching it, Parker’s terrible play, 0-6 from the floor and his lackadaisical defense, along with being beaten by 10 on second chance points cost us the game. Not only was Parker 0-6 but his shot selection was awkward guy at the playground bad. Jimerson’s 5-13 from the floor with 3 turnovers didn’t help either. Sad to lose a game when you shoot 44% from the arc, 88% from the line and have a turnover rate of 18%.

If you go, you may be the only fan there wearing blue.