We had 20 offensive rebounds against Siena, we've been a solid rebounding team this season, it's one of our strengths IMO.stuball888 wrote:HUsid you said our forwards dont crash the boards because they are not athletic enough. How about our guards. You dont think they are athletic enough. Sienas guards Penn 5ft11 had 4 boards Clareth 6ft5 3 boards Bentley 6ft2 5 boards and shivers 6ft4 5 boards and kahil 6ft0 2 boards. Thats 19 rebounds., Our back court Forman with 3 and Pemba with 7. While in the grand scheme of things yes the OOC loss does not have as much weight as a conference game its still important to keep up and create new fans. By your way of thinking even conference games mean squat as the only games that are important are the 3 to 4 games in the CAA torurnament. A team could go winless and win 4 games in the tourney they are in the NCAAs.
I have to side with HUSID as the voice of reason on this one, we've flashed potential, and looking back, we really didn't hit our stride in '16 until conference play, late in conference play. I actually think we have a better team this year, but it's going to take some time to get all the pieces working together. I cant look at this season as a success or failure until we're about half way through the CAA slate. Note that the CAA is down this year, UNCW is getting smoked, Drexel just lost to NJIT
The one caveat being, hey, let's utilize our depth a little and switch the defense around, then maybe we can win some games shooting 40%, Pecora made a living doing that.