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No A/N B'ball Thread?
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Posted: 2/16/2013 4:10 PM
No A/N B'ball Thread?
Is my iPad broken?
I cannot believe that there is no Army - Navy basketball thread today? Both teams beat the mids on the Alumni Hall court today, and nobody has anything to say? I'm hoping that maybe my iPad is broken somehow...
Beat 'em! (We did!!!)
Last edited 2/16/2013 6:09 PM by wp1994
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Posted: 2/16/2013 4:25 PM
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Yea!! Go Army..The WBB team won also...Apparently w/o the same degree of drama. Congrats to both squads..I dont know why we have so much trouble shooting free throws against Navy..Tight, I guess
Go Army!!
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Posted: 2/16/2013 4:47 PM
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Watched on TV: the boys pulled it out playing a little less tight in the final minutes. As usual these games are hard fought but not esthetic.
Hope this group stays the course they could have it working next few years
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Posted: 2/16/2013 10:41 PM
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This game looked eerily like the game at West Point. Frustrating for the fan and the Army Team I'm sure. Except for the stretch in the second half where we took the 6 point lead, Ella Ellis din't play all that well. For that matter, no one played very well and you got the sense that Navy would just take that 7 point lead to the final buzzer. They made a near half court shot at the first half buzzer to put the lead to 6 after Ellis scored his first 2 pts of the game at the free throw line w 9 seconds left. At any rate, it's the first time Army has won 3 in a row on the road in the Patriot League ever. That's a sure sign the freshmen are growing up. No Colgate like collapse, although...a bad foul call on their best foul shooter(the old kicking the leg out on the shot to get contact and falling down trick), and a missed goal tending call on a Wilson layup, allowed Navy their last opportunity. I have one coaching question. We seem to pride ourselves on our man to man, never switching, which I like. But Navy's freshman guard doesn't seem like a 3 point threat. They ran a high pick for him all game and Cox trailed him over the the top of the pick and down into the lane where he caused all kinds of trouble, making baskets, dishing off, or drawing fouls. Why wouldn't Cox just go under the pick and pick him up on the other side? Anyway congratulations to Coach Spiker, his staff, and the entire Army team. Great result!!!!
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Posted: 2/17/2013 8:36 AM
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BobMac72 wrote: This game looked eerily like the game at West Point. Frustrating for the fan and the Army Team I'm sure. Except for the stretch in the second half where we took the 6 point lead, Ella Ellis din't play all that well. For that matter, no one played very well and you got the sense that Navy would just take that 7 point lead to the final buzzer. They made a near half court shot at the first half buzzer to put the lead to 6 after Ellis scored his first 2 pts of the game at the free throw line w 9 seconds left. At any rate, it's the first time Army has won 3 in a row on the road in the Patriot League ever. That's a sure sign the freshmen are growing up. No Colgate like collapse, although...a bad foul call on their best foul shooter(the old kicking the leg out on the shot to get contact and falling down trick), and a missed goal tending call on a Wilson layup, allowed Navy their last opportunity. I have one coaching question. We seem to pride ourselves on our man to man, never switching, which I like. But Navy's freshman guard doesn't seem like a 3 point threat. They ran a high pick for him all game and Cox trailed him over the the top of the pick and down into the lane where he caused all kinds of trouble, making baskets, dishing off, or drawing fouls. Why wouldn't Cox just go under the pick and pick him up on the other side? Anyway congratulations to Coach Spiker, his staff, and the entire Army team. Great result!!!! As a coach you try to drill it into guys to "break through" screens, not to go behind. It's like a Bible tenet of man-to-man that going behind a screen is bad defense. Unless a guy has a proven label that he's not a perimeter threat, coaches aren't going to instruct a defender to go under a screen. I can't tell you how many times I've been in the stands, heard discussion around me about a player not being an outside threat, and when his man goes under a screen - swish! Great win, on the road in probably as hostile an environment they'll play, and the star game. You have to win some games where you aren't playing your best, but you find a way to grind it out. Wild day in the PL, with both Bucknell and Lehigh (to Colgate!?) both losing. Ponder that Lafayette has lost to us twice, but has gone into Sojka and came away a winner.  |
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Posted: 2/17/2013 4:23 PM
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In addition to two Army wins (men and women) over Navy yesterday, the Army Prep basketball team defeated both Air Force and Navy Prep this weekend. They beat AF by about 15 points on Friday and beat Navy by 25 points today. Some very talented players, including a big man, on the way to add to Army's Fab Five Freshmen. I like the way this team is shaping up for the next few years. Beat Navy!
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Posted: 2/19/2013 1:09 AM
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BulldogDad wrote:
Ponder that Lafayette has lost to us twice, but has gone into Sojka and came away a winner.
Well, partly right. Bucknell lost at Lafayette, not in Sojka. BU's all-time record vs Lafayette in Sojka currently stands at 14-0. Congrats on the star win at Navy. |
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Posted: 2/19/2013 10:03 AM
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Bison137 wrote:
BulldogDad wrote:
Ponder that Lafayette has lost to us twice, but has gone into Sojka and came away a winner.
Well, partly right. Bucknell lost at Lafayette, not in Sojka. BU's all-time record vs Lafayette in Sojka currently stands at 14-0.
Congrats on the star win at Navy.  Once again Dr. BulldogDad, we see there is nothing you can say that I cannot take away! |
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