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YsuPride:
Good to see some fans out this early in the season we will need a solid crowd this Friday against Utah Tech.  They are D1 and been impressive to start the 23-24 season. They played two away games beating Jacksonville state in OT and losing a close one to Santa Clara,   1-1 on the season.  Like coach Calhoun said on his postgame they are a good team and we need a big crowd out Friday,  I'll be at the game.

YsuPride:
By the way seemed like Rush was shooting out of his slump this game as coach gave him the green light to score and take as many 3 pointers as he did.  he never attempted a 2 point shot all game.  32 points on 10-18 from 3 pointers.  Plus a pair of free throws as well.  99 points just missed the century mark.  Played 11 players and 10 of them scored.   99-71 final

ucfpengbuck:
I have to lower my expectations of this team.  I keep on hearing the narritive that with all the newcommers we are a work in progress and it will take time to jell.   I know we're an extreme case with a ton new players but most teams also have the same issue maybe they're not incorporating as many but they all can have that excuse.

Not seeing our wing players Farmer and Ziggy hitting shots and we need production from that area because the backcourt of Langdon and Rush look to be solid and Byrnes and the 7 footers will be ok in the post.

Wondering about the overall basketball IQ.  Not saying the guys don't have it but it's not showing .   No one is cutting like Covington did through out his career and the offense looks stagnant.  Even the passes into the post have been off and not being thrown from the right angles.

Playing a 2-3 naia team with a player not over 6-5 I thought we would win by 40 but Ohio Christian had really good shooters and looked like a team that was in post season form.  #20 played like he was a D1 off quard he smoked us the 1st half and he hardly played the 2nd half.

Like I said I need to lower my expectations but I believe in coach C and hopefully he'll get these guys to another level.  Where they're at now would probably be mid or maybe lower in the Horizon.

I'm coming up from Florida and will be at Friday and Sundays games hopefully will have a great crowd for the Utah Tech game.

YsuPride:
I agree with ucfpengbuck on your thoughts as we are definitely not the same team as last year,  Seems like Rush is going to be our go to player,  i like the Langdon kid.  Ziggy Reid looks out of sorts.  Gabe Dynes for a thing big is impressive to some extent but Zorg is not impressive.  Cannot say time will cure this as we have played 5 pre-season games and 3 regular season games to continuity is not the issue.  Looks like playground ball out there.
Thoughts anyone??

Double ET:
UFC and pride, I concur with your assessments after watching on the game on ESPN+.
We don’t have the mid range jump shots that Cohill used to make when he pull up from his drives towards to the basket. Our power forwards also had difficulties in scoring near the basket comparing to our guys from last year.

Let us be really, we played against a d3 team and we had trouble defending their outside shots. We also should not have given up 70+ points to this team.

As for Rush, I am encouraged that he finally broke out of his shooting slump. However, having said that, we need to point out that most if not all of his shots were uncontested. If you recall the first two games, he was unable to make those shots when he was well defended. We will find out if he has regained his shooting when we face other d1 competitions.

At this stage, we are not even close to last year’s team. We had 4 solid players (including Rush) in last years team.

Excluding Rush, who do we have for this year in comparison to the other 3? Langdon is pretty good, but he is not Cohill, Q or Perry. He can’t takeover the game like those guys when things are going well.

We need to make lots of progress for us to be competitive with the top 4 league teams let alone winning another league championship.

Just my thoughts….

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