I am FAR too excited for this exhibition game.   

Well, ok, maybe not far too excited... I think my excitement is understandable.  I'm so sad to not be in Malibu for this season, but will be watching/listening to every game possible.  By the way -- in case you haven't noticed, from the looks of the website, I think Wavecast video will be free tomorrow night.

I'm really looking forward to getting a look at our team.  It's only an exhibition, but I'm interested to see a) how big our bigs have gotten, b) how cohesive our team play is... and these may be a little bit more difficult to tell without seeing us against some stiffer competition, but c) how our point guard play looks (smart play, good passing, limited turnovers), and d) if we will have an inside/post scorer emerge.

btw - I am also really excited to FINALLY get to post the first game of the year thread.  The wait is almost over.

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I'm not sure where Lorne is physically, but I am really interested in our PG play and who can emerge.  And, the battle between Corbin, Shannon, and Agre as well.

Corbin is looking GREAT on D! Saw a nice offensive post move from him too earlier, he just wasn't able to finish. But he is just absolutely dominating them inside right now.

btw - "Bell may be as good of an on-ball defender as Pepperdine has ever had."  - Al

Good news, Pepperdine is winning.

Bad news, Pepperdine has scored only 28 points against a NAIA school, and is shooting 48%.   Got to do better if we are going to hang with the guys in WCC.

The guys are playing better this half.  Good job guys.

Westmont plays the Princeston-style which will keep the score down..

As of the 7:14 mark of the 2nd period (when the 'live' stats went 'dead')...

The good:  now shooting over 50% for the game, including over 70% from 3, lead extended to 20+ pts

The bad:  turnovers - 14, although the Waves have 15 assists.

Yep - NO turnovers by either Lowry or Kerry.

Pacific, Long Beach, CSSB, UCLA---it only gets harder from here.  The next 3 or 4 will tell a lot more about this team than tonight's win...I'm holding my breath.

I want to try and hold back on jumping to my own conclusions about individual players... Keion's distributing was a great sign but I was surprised by how often he got himself into trouble with overdribbling or overdoing it.  He obviously was frustrated, as was Lorne who I think is still working his way back into things.  They'll come around, as Fro touched on.  Myc and Darby looked real aggressive, but what I loved the most from our new PG's was not their penetrations and dishouts but the firey clapping and barked demands for tough D from themselves and their teammates.  Great to see two freshman PG's with so much push out of the gates.

Thought it was a great idea to feed the students beforehand in order to lure the fair-weather ones out to a blowout win like this one.  I was confused when I thought I heard the students chanting "USC".  Rest assured it was "KFC" for a new promotion where if we score 75 you get a KFC coupon out of the door.  Sure enough our guys hucked up 3's and made 'em to help the fans out.  We can't say the Athletic Dept. isn't trying, on that end.

Thanks for the posts, missed the game and the video feed:(  Hope to make next week's game.  Great to have the season underway! Sounds like all the play time our guys got last year is going to be a plus we can count on this season. Bottom line...good coaching, good recruiting!

I was at the game, in the middle of the student section, and was quite surprised to see the place packed for an exhibition. Before I mention anything about the game, I was QUITE excited for the KFC we were entitled to as evidenced by the loud cheering at the 75th point, but VERY disappointed its just for one single, solitary piece of chicken. I mean really?

Let me just say Lorne looked terrible. I'm sure there were a thousand reasons why, but by the end of the game he was buried on the bench. It said something that he already lost a starting spot to a freshman...in preseason... but his play did not help his cause at all. The turnovers, poor decision making, and lack of creation were all disappointing. He didn't contribute much of anything playing off the ball, too.

Keion reminded us once again why he led the WCC in turnovers. Lots of it was pretty disheartening. Just some poor decisions on a bunch of possessions. That being said, he fed the ball well to his teammates and had he spent more time on the court as I suspect he will during the season, he would have scored more.

Mychal had an all around fantastic game, the type we were waiting all last year for. If he can keep it up against D1 opponents, he has the opportunity to shine. Darby also looked fantastic around the boards and Moore looked vastly improved.

I was most impressed with our freshmen point guards. They came out of the gate ready to play and didn't make any boneheaded mistakes that stood out in my mind. This will only serve to limit Lorne's minutes. Even Tanner Kerry looked good in the frontcourt and I would expect him to be more of an option for Asbury than Andy Shannon who, while bigger, doesn't look any better. We'll see.

The most exciting part once again was the students in the crowd. Lots of excitement for an exhibition game... probably 10x more students than our home game against Portland last year (in which the most excitement in the crowd was a razzing of Andy Shannon). If we can translate that to our games, there could be some exciting times in our high school gym.

Excuse me, didn't Lorne make 2 threes? I think judgement should start a least with the next game. This was justifiable a warm up. Pepp will need all to play well whether starting or off the bench.  I'm sure the best of the players will come out . Dane made 2 threes too if I recall.

I wouldn't necessarily take last Friday's exhibition lineup as this Friday's regular season lineup. It may be, but maybe not. I thought he gave all three points a chance to show what they could do.

I personally liked Willis.  He is very solid (in more ways than one)!  He also has a magnetic personality which can be related to leadership skills. A team and perhaps a student body can unite around a guy like that.  Time will tell.