@Temple

[justinhub2003]

Let the reign of Bearcat AAC dominance commence today.


Bearcats by 40

 

[skyblade]

Not pretty so far, but Temple is struggling as well. We have more players available than expected, only Diarra and Harvey seem to be out. Hard to say how many players had Covid. Can guess that Keith, MAW and Eason did, since they didn't start.

 

[justinhub2003]

Temple is awful.

I’ll take John brannen over Aaron Mckey all day

 

[waterhead]

Nice little run there. Seems we brought some energy which is nice. Was wondering how we would come out after so long

 

[justinhub2003]

Nice little run there. Seems we brought some energy which is nice. Was wondering how we would come out after so long

Look excited to play which is a nice change.

If we could play temple 30x we’d be undefeated

 

[waterhead]

Temple is awful.

I’ll take John brannen over Aaron Mckey all day

Let’s lock Brannen up for 6 more years

 

[Lawrugby]

Eason seems fatigued to say the least.

 

[Lawrugby]

Vogt made one of his free throws! Amazing.

 

[Lawrugby]

Vogt did get rid of his hitch. It looks a little better.

 

[Lawrugby]

I like Madsen. Dejulius on fire.

 

[Lawrugby]

Vogt playing respectably for 10 minutes.

 

[justinhub2003]

Let’s lock Brannen up for 6 more years

6??? How bout 600

 

[waterhead]

Well hell. Harvey looking more important than ever right now

 

[cincyguy13]

Played hard. DD can definitely play on my team any day. Davenport had 14 and 7. He’s a sophomore. Some of the young guys struggled but got experience. And a win. I’ll take that

 

[sedziobs]

You'd think with all that time off some guys would at least practice free throws on their own. I was just glad to watch a game again. Effort was good and the defense looked a lot better. Hard to tell how good it really was against Temple though.

 

[justinhub2003]

Temple is the worst offense we’ve played all year so it’s a good sign to jog make them look better than they are.

That said, the guys have been through a tough stretch, so this win no matter how ugly is a good start.

DJD needs to continue to play like he is an alpha scorer and stop pretending to be a team first distributor. We need him to be aggressive like he was tonight.

Keith made some key plays late but man, the fouling has to stop.


All in all, it was a good effort.


I think Tulane will give us a better game than temple though

 

[cincyguy13]

Temple is the worst offense we’ve played all year so it’s a good sign to jog make them look better than they are.

That said, the guys have been through a tough stretch, so this win no matter how ugly is a good start.

DJD needs to continue to play like he is an alpha scorer and stop pretending to be a team first distributor. We need him to be aggressive like he was tonight.

Keith made some key plays late but man, the fouling has to stop.


All in all, it was a good effort.


I think Tulane will give us a better game than temple though

We get it, temple sucks. We haven’t played a game in a month. Haven’t practiced. Rob banks played significant minutes. Enjoy the win. Don’t need to add disclaimers.

 

[TheLivingLegend]

Winning is better than losing

 

[waterhead]

Only 3 guys scored a bucket except Mason who had a put back layup. This should have been a game for MAW to step it up a bit. Harvey is going to be crucial as a guy who will put some pressure on a defense with more aggressive play than MAW.

Vogt got the Hackashaq treatment when he was in there and will probably always get that treatment. Who wants to watch him make 65% of his paint shots when he's shooting 37% from the line. It would be a crime not to foul him at those numbers.

Down the road if we get these guys all playing good ball consistently together we might just be okay. Williams, DD, Harvey, JD. And then sprinkle in some Eason fast break points, defense, rebounds, put backs, and an occasional 3. That's a pretty solid lineup.

 

[skyblade]

We get it, temple sucks. We haven’t played a game in a month. Haven’t practiced. Rob banks played significant minutes. Enjoy the win. Don’t need to add disclaimers.

Why not? You complain about Justin being nothing but rain, but you are nothing but rainbows. Temple played horrible and their coaching was bad enough that I bet a lot of Temple fans are not happy with McKie right now. We beat them and that's great (more than I and most of us expected), but they were terrible.

As for Rob Banks, he barely counts as a walk-on in my mind (could have had a low D-1 scholarship). I think he showed he should be getting minutes over Saunders and possibly Mason right now. Banks defended, he fought for rebounds and he brought the energy and intensity this team often lacks. He didn't contribute much on offense, but neither did anyone not named DeJulius, Davenport or Keith.

I don't know if Temple's players thought it would be a cakewalk game or their coaches are just that checked out. They looked less prepared than we were and that's saying a lot considering our long layoff. Look at their strategy of pounding the ball inside on Vogt, the entire play-book on attacking Vogt says make him defend the pick-and-roll, instead they just went at him on the interior (where he is good at defending).

DeJulius making threes and becoming more assertive was a nice positive and we had more players available than expected (the way Brannen talked I was expecting close to half the team to be out and Sam Martin to get minutes along with Banks). Besides that, there weren't many positives.