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Hines continues to get the nod at the point as the 3rd begins.

BTW, Gillmann hasn't missed a shot on this trip so far. 4-4 from the field and 5-5 from the stripe. He's a complementary player at best though. If we're relying on him we're going to lose a bunch of games.

True, Crawford looked good Saturday. AY, I'm beginning to think is going to be a disappointment. Would hate to see it after the high hopes we all had for him.

Early observations: Our froncourt should be MY, MN, and EW with MC spelling MY and AG spelling the others. I know our backcourt guys are trying and DR has a strong desire to succeed but we need someone to get better in a hurry.

31-31 half as we got stung by a 9-0 run to end the half. I am not jolly about some of the players who are seeing court time.

You can't stop Elliot Welmer, you can only hope to contain him. As for Jolly, my momma taught me if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.

6-0 bad guy run and we're only up 3.

Have to wait for the video. I swear maybe one of the travelling calls the other night was close to travelling. The rest of them were nonsense.

It's the Elliot Welmer show as the Bills go on an 11-0 run to lead by 8. EW is a force to be reckoned with.

Welmer with 2 steals and a bucket and we're tied at 19.

Turnovers continue and it's an 8-0 Stinger run and we're down 3.

6-0 run to start the second with 2 Gillmann buckets and one by Bishop.

Through 1, we're stinking up the joint trailing 11-10. Shooting under 25% from the floor and turnovers on a 38% of possessions. Travelling continues to be the refs' call de jour as we have about 4 called against us so far to none for the bad guys. Also, fouls are 8-2 against us.

Fify So they would be the Duke of any other country? Don't know how we're going to pull off the upset then.

Been looking for the link. Thanks.

I think we'll play much better today. Hoping for different officials who have to be better than the ones Saturday night. The travelling calls against us were so bad it was ridiculous. Those three made A-10 refs look very competent by comparison. Not only did we have about a dozen travels against us that were bogus, I'm not sure the cabana boys had a single one against them.

I hope we can get to a nine-man rotation as soon as possible this year. That would leave Bishop, Hines, Agbeko, and Jolly on the pine. The others are all capable of contributing and, it's just based on one game but I think Reynolds will be much-improved over last year. The hardest call would be who plays between Welmer and RA. Reggie battles on the glass but Welmer has more upside.

Correct. The stats were pretty accurate, he was 1-4 from the floor, 1-2 from the arc. The missed three was taken in the flow of the offense and didn't miss by much. He might have missed some driving layups but I thought he was clearly the most improved player from last year. Had 5 boards, 6 assists, and 3 steals to go along with his points. His 12 FTs, the only stat glitch I saw were the two he missed that didn't show up in the boxscore, were in the flow of the offense, not from being fouled late to regain possession.

Reggie worked hard to get those boards then couldn't finish. Recurring problem.

He has a number of tweets about various exhibition games. Said Louisville will be "televising" their games in Puerto Rico online.

I thought MR was our player of the game, DR and MC very solid. MN and EW are promising freshman. AG will get some minutes, I think Jolly will be the odd frontcourt player out. The player rotations and minutes were mystifying as was the officiating. We were OK with the ballhandling in spite of what the turnover count was. At least a dozen travelling calls would not have been called in NCAA games. Messed up the flow of the game badly. We were actually 31-39 from the stripe when you count the two MR misses that didn't show up in the stats and we should be a good FT shooting team this year, especially good if AY and MY can step it up from the stripe. We're better than last year but a long way from an NCAA Tourney team. Overall, should be a fun group to watch.

These travelling calls against us are mind boggling. Would not be called at the college level.

When we do these trips in the future, we probably should pay to bring our own refs on the trip. Not sure these three have ever attended a basketball game before.

All of Welmer's first half fouls were touch fouls or less. He got the short end of it. Hines looks like a scholarship player at this point. Lots of mid to low major programs would like to have him on the point, but between MR, DR, MB, and AY, I don't see how he gets minutes. 2nd half starters were: MR, DR, MC, MY, and AG.

After about 4 turnovers which wouldn't have been called in any other place, we got sloppy with some bad passing which led to easy baskets. Neufeld is definitely a keeper. If he's not starting to begin the year, there ought to be an investigation.