This started right away, by the way. He changed their approach early. They started 0/5, with four of those being missed 3s. After that? Estrada dribbled in a bit and hit a jumper off the left elbow and then he hit a mid-range jumper along the left baseline.HUSID74 wrote:Gutty win for us. Ray and Estrada put this team on their backs in the second half.
Great display of mid range shooting from both when the threes wouldn't drop.
Other guys (like Dubar, Ray, even Silverio) started taking Estrada's lead and shooting 2s themselves after that. That was big because they were 25/43 (58%) from 2 and only 4/16 (25%) from 3 today.
When you consider the 4/16 from 3 and getting outscored by 25 in the paint (38-16) and off turnovers (11-4), especially when they needed a big 35-10 advantage off TOs just to win by five last game, it's a wonder how they were even in this game. Good teams find ways to win games when numbers like that are badly against them.
The late FTs were the difference. Hofstra entered the game as the best FT shooting team in the nation since the start of the 2018-19 season, spanning 109 games (76-33 record). HU went 9/10 at the stripe today.
And when you're talking about beating the preseason pick to win the league and then the defending champs, that's a good holiday weekend, to finally put two Ws together against those two and get off that L,W,L,W pattern they started CAA play with.