GDT - Turning Davidson into Mildcats

[billikenbill]

Our ball, down 10

[billikenbill]

JJ down 8

 

[CBFan]

JJ hits down 8

[billikenbill]

Defensive lapse and we're down 11

[CBFan]

They just freak out when they get it close and the nonsense starts.

[billikenbill]

Turnover DR, killer

[CBFan]

Crawford back in

[CBFan]

Crawford hits down 9

[brianstl]

Nobody should ever question Crawford's toughness.

[billikenbill]

MC finishes in the paint, down 9. Reggie gets smoked on D and the bad guys will shoot two, up 9 at the under 4.

[CBFan]

SLU outscoring Davidson 30 to 20 this half.  FG 47.7%, out rebounded 29 to 26, SLU 12 turnovers Davidson 6 the difference of the game.

Crawford 16 points, Hines 13 points

[CBFan]

Crawford misses the bomb.

[billikenbill]

MC in and out on the three which would've cut it to 7, now down 13. Ballgame

[billikenbill]

Obvious charge called a block and we're down 12

[billikenbill]

DR and one, down 9 with 2 to go

[CBFan]

Our guys are playing hard down the stretch.

[billikenbill]

Another terrible Roby turnover and that will do it.

[billikenfan05]

8 minutes ago, CBFan said:

SLU outscoring Davidson 30 to 20 this half.  FG 47.7%, out rebounded 29 to 26, SLU 12 turnovers Davidson 6 the difference of the game.

Crawford 16 points, Hines 13 points

I would say defensive rebounding or lackthereof

[CBFan]

3 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:

I would say defensive rebounding or lackthereof

Rebounds SLU 31 Davidson 32 6 offensive rebounds for SLU, 7 for Davidson.

SLU 38-30 second half, FG 46.3%, 56.3% 3 pointers, FT 75% 21 fouls for SLU 16 for Davidson, 13 turnovers for SLU 6 for Davidson, 3 guys in double figures Roby 13, Hines 13, and Crawford 16.

The defense did not create enough turnovers and too many on our side.

[billikenbill]

Guys played hard the second half. Still might be able to steal a conf win or two if they play like that.

[HoosierPal]

Hopefully this will convince Ford to dump the zone and play man. By my count we played five min zone all at the end of the first half when Davidson had their best run running the lead from 10 to 16. 

[HoosierPal]

Coach complimentary on crowd in post game interview.  Liked the teams edge in second half. More + than - per Coach. Crawford hadn't practiced last two days due to leg issues. 

[Soderball]

didnt watch. bills shot nearly 60% from 3 and still couldnt win.. purge this roster.

davidson 3 shooting was not great.. what the hell.

[Taj79]

I believe you play the defense that gives you the best chance to win.  In the case of Davidson, we can't match up man=to=man with Aldridge and Gibbs soa zone makes sense. But a zone has holes and that leaves jump shooters open.  Which is where they ran away and hid from us closing out the first half.  Pick your poison I guess.  Davidson had better personnel today.  Most team will and do.  In the first half, five of Hines' six drives resulted  in bad things ....prayers, forced shots, bad passes. not all official turnovers.  But Aaron did  have an overall decent game.  Agbeko's blown dunk was pitiful for him.  Highlight reel material gone bad.  Going to be interesting to see where Crawford's hamstring goes as he cools down.  Again, not much from Welmer, Johnson and Moore overall.  Neufeld and Gillmann equally the same.  

Let's see ..... 21 days left in January.  Only 28 in February and with one and done in March, we'll be done by the Ides,  Ergo 64 days of pure hell left.

[Zink]

I'll say that this is probably the best we've looked in a while. A number of individual errors, but we looked like a collective for most of the game, which is a big improvement. 

 

As the Wiz pointed out in an earlier thread though, we can't force 6 TO's and expect to win. Our defense needs to get more aggressive and our players need to be active in the passing lanes. Teams run their offense too easily against us.