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29. He's a 11th year Rs, Covid, Medical Rs who completed every grade twice.Just how old is Blackshear?
29. He's a 11th year Rs, Covid, Medical Rs who completed every grade twice.Just how old is Blackshear?
Blackshear is too strong for Gapare and Tafara is very foul prone. When a player is having a game like blackshear was last night there's not a lot you can do. Trying to deny him the ball is very difficult. Blackshear is a 5th year senior (grad student). I think his sister said he is 23.0I kept hoping they would put Gapare on Blackshear as he was just muscling Reeves. Blackshear isn’t a typical guard but they isolated him and made it work.
We do need to come up with a way to double a hot guard and make somebody else beat us
Actually, they got to Hawaii a few days earlier than we did and played a "non-conference" game against University of Hawaii a couple of days before the tourney started.... True, but Nevada had the same number of games in 4 days and a 4 hour time change. But after being there basically a week the time change difference should have been negligible/non-factor.
Let there be NO DOUBT about that!I felt like the refs swallowed their whistles quite a bit when our guys were in the paint
Thanks for that info.Actually, they got to Hawaii a few days earlier than we did and played a "non-conference" game against University of Hawaii a couple of days before the tourney started.
I agree. It doesn't take 3-4 days to adjust to the time change. We lost last night because 1) Nevada is a good team, 2) we didn't shoot very well, 3) Nevada did,, and 4) Blackshear and Lucas had career nights in the same game.Thanks for that info.
Hats off to the team for a good run at the Diamond Head Classic.
In a nutshell, I don't think that getting to Hawaii on the 15th or 16th, then having a game on the 24th that the time change was a real cause in any of the reason why we lost last night, Especially for a game that started at 9PM EST.
Relax, if you having anxiety over the team’s play. This is a rebuilding year. We have one returning player starting and two playing significant minutes. Through my gold shaded glasses, I see us progressing very quickly into a very good team. We are making mistakes, but we are learning fast. Recruiting is going very well. We can replace our losses. Our biggest recruiting problem appears to be adhering to the thirteen 13 scholarship limit.
Well looky there we made 14 FTs!You have to apply the "playing against GT factor", multiply that 36 by 0.5
We're neutral court, so multiply the 18 by 0.8, so we probably get 14 FTs.
Sports psychologist?FTR, the "conversation" about Kelly, it's not that he's turned into a bad player, or that he's even taking bad shots. He's playing good defense, and he's one of our best rebounders. The reality is his shots are not falling like they were in the past. IMO, I think he's pressing a bit and he's probably in his own head. Obviously, Stoudamire still has confidence in Kelly or else he wouldn't be playing the minutes he's gotten.
So how do we get the Kelly of 2022? That's the money question for Kelly and Stoudamire.
As a "gunner" in my playing days, LOL, the mental aspect is HUGE. When I 'knew" I was going to make it I did, and when I had doubts, my chances were really low. Why it varied from time to time, I haven't a clue. Maybe Mama wasn't "treating" me well. LOL. He'll get out of his slump. Just keep putting it up. I'm sure that what CDS is telling him.Sports psychologist?
Merry Christmas everyone!I agree. It doesn't take 3-4 days to adjust to the time change. We lost last night because 1) Nevada is a good team, 2) we didn't shoot very well, 3) Nevada did,, and 4) Blackshear and Lucas had career nights in the same game.
A few points:Merry Christmas everyone!
Lucas put up 25 in their game against TCU, averaging over 17ppg. Definitely not a career night for him. I thought we kept him in check, relatively. His twenty did not beat us.
Blackshear did a Michael Jordan on us. He was playing with us. The one guy we had that Nevada could not match-up was Ndongo and for some reason Stoudamire took him out of the game with 4:02 left in the game and that was the game. Gt was +9 with Ndongo on the floor and -17 without him on the floor.
But it is pretty remarkable that we stayed with them the entire game with a shooting differential of 49.1% to 38.6% (31.8% to 23.1% from three).
I think the heat on Miles Kelly is legit. The fact that he tested the NBA waters after last season makes his shooting performance this year, more than a third of the way through the season, a bit of a joke. He actually had to be pulled from the game last night. He deserves all the, "C'Mon, man!" cries he gets.
Since I am not a Claude (-15+/- last night) or Dowuona believer, Gapare becomes an important player as we need another post player to take some pressure off of Ndongo. Gapare is a player who too often plays off balance, and way too often shoots off balance. He needs to use his athleticism to get where he needs to go then set himself to shoot or rebound or make a block. He needs to IQ-up and let his athleticism work for him instead of against him. If he can get himself under control, he could be an important player for us.
If not, then we have to hope that Ndongo can hold-up as our only competent post presence.