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Incarnate Word
Topic Started: Jan 11 2016, 04:13 PM (433 Views)
Jude Young
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Folks,

Hope all of you can make it tonight. We wanted to let you all know we have in-house "radio" on 88.7 FM for those who want to hear the basketball home broadcasts in the building this season.

Plus, we will provide the postgame interview with Coach Sless following the final horn and fight song.

Let go UNO!
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reduno
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Thx Jude. that's great. I'll try it out tonite.
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reduno
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Wow, that hurt. And it makes the loss this past Sat even worse.

I knew NOTHING of UIW coming in tonite other than they beat St. Johns and their coach had 10 years there (and they've OWNED us the last 2 years)....but I learned a lot tonite. They're better than lamar by a LOT and maybe even better than SHS. And a lot better than us.

But what I learned that doesn't make me happy is that they are a complete team that runs their offense almost flawlessly, they don't make bad passes or too many stupid mistakes. And they're coached well.

We......well we are indecisive, telegraph passes, force passes and either seem to take bad shots or pass up open looks.

I still really like our defense and even more, I like that our guys never quit and show enormous hustle but we just DO NOT have all that much talent and even worse, no consistent jump shooters (and I'm being kind here guys).

In a year that the Southland is supposedly down, we lose 2 games in a row not being able to finish when we have a lead. That's as much coaching as it is players. so all are to blame. I don't think we're as good as we showed against lamar but I'm not as sure that we're good enough as our competition...in a weak year.

What really concerns me is that in games against some bad teams (Tulane, ULL, UMASS) we couldn't finish and against avg teams, the same thing. We can't keep folding late and not having any confidence every time out.

Now things could get very bad if we lose BOTh of the next 2 home games. 1-1 on the road isn't bad................1-2 at home would be disastrous for the confidences of both the players and fans.
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Steve
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So it looks like we may have some serious trouble finishing games.

2 pt loss to Tulane
OT loss to UMass
10 pt loss to ULL but leading with 5 minutes to go
3 pt loss to Sam
3 pt loss to UIW

Lamar is the only close victory. This is not a young team anymore. This is a veteran team now that, even with just two seniors, has played together for a while.
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reduno
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Steve,Jan 12 2016
07:51 AM
So it looks like we may have some serious trouble finishing. This is not a young team anymore. This is a veteran team now that, even with just two seniors, has played together for a while.

THIS is what I bitched about all the way home last night. I didn't stay to listen to coach's after game comments. No disrespect to him but I just don't want to hear how we are getting there, coming close, should win these games etc ( I have no idea if he said this, I just didn't care to listen this time)........HE has said that we have a veteran team and a team that's had the basic parts together now for 3 years so to me, these silly passes, brain freezes etc in crunch time should not be happening now. I know that sounds negative but guys, this IS what it is. We all saw it the last few games, against mediocre teams at best.

I wondered how a team like UIW can recruit a team with at least 4 really decent shooters and how they can pass the ball and run their offense so damned efficiently but since I know nothing about them, I assume it's a system that their coach has run for 10 years and its just operating efficient.

But we can't keep talking about next year, the next class etc.....the Southland is down this year and we need to take advantage of that.......and frankly, looking at our schedule, other than SFA, UIW and SHS (whom we play only once I believe) and TXAMCC (twice) we should be able to compete with the rest of the teams since they're having a rough time too, right?
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EE_Privateer
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I agree Steve. The Lamar game could be put into that list also even though we won. It seemed like we were doing everything we could to lose that game at the end only Lamar was trying even harder to lose.
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Unofan
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I think Lamar missed 3 3s in the closing seconds which would have beaten us.
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