Tiger12

Tonight’s win should tell you something about this team. I don’t think this is a game we win last year and especially not two years ago. A friend of mine is a big UNCG fan and told me at half that this game wasn’t over. 
 

This team is winning in spite of themselves right now and I think this group is going to be something special when it all clicks. To win on the road, down 13, without Gibson is remarkable. There is stuff to be critical of sure, but let’s also enjoy this win. This was as impressive as come

4-0 feels sweet

I’ll gladly take a work in progress 3-0 than the alternative. They’ve got stuff to clean up but so does everyone else. They’re going to keep getting better as they gel.

Yeah no chance would I pay $30 a month for their POS product. It’s a shame, guess I won’t be watching many games this year. That or I’ll be streaming best I can

Flo being $30 a month is outrageous 

Really love the idea of the new tailgate spot. Awesome for folks who don’t want to do their own set up 

So much of it goes back to tailgating and the atmosphere the university has unfortunately created.

in 2011, my fraternity, along with a bunch of others would set up in the corner of Lot 11. We would all grill, brought generators and speakers. It was a giant party. We did a good job of policing our own and never really had any issues. I can remember us racing to get to Unitas so we would get a good tailgate spot

Now, you have a bunch of rent a cops hassling both students and alumni about what is in their coolers. It’s absurd to me that we treat our guests like children and then expect them to want to come to games.

I’m not saying we can have a bunch of 18 year olds just ripping shots from handles of vodka in plain sight, but a bit of discretion can go a long way. If students have stuff in cups, just let them be for the most part, otherwise they’re just going to go uptown and do the same thing there. 

Two homecomings ago SAFE got on our ass, despite our tailgate being a mix of students, alumni, families and even some folks in their 60s. It’s never pleasant with them either. Never “hey guys, mind putting that in a cup?”. Always just a flex of their wanna be powers.

Cam just retweeted this, feels very tongue in check. Guess that interview he did earlier about how much he loved his teammates and this program was a lot of fluff. Really a shame that he views brining Sylla in as a diss against him and not a plus for the program. He also deleted a tweet that said he won’t ever forgot how they did him dirty and I imagine that is also in reference to this 

Good for Terry. Zero % chance he is drafted but hopefully he can carve out a living overseas and support his family. 

Interesting tweet from Cam. Hope he’s back 

Didn’t mention us at all. Crazy 

Aged like milk. Can’t believe I’m defending the chickens 

Glad it’s UD and not the Seahawks. Congrats to the hens, heck of a run. 

1 hour ago, Tiger93 said:

Went to the tournament last night and it actually stings a little more this morning that we are not playing in the title game than it even did last night. Two notions that I find silly reading this board last night is the amount of blame Skerry gets and notion that the everything but the conference tournament is meaningless. 

We won 25 games (all D-1), were consistently ranked in the top 75 in the NET rankings for a good part of the year, tied for first in the conference and are going in the NIT. If the loss yesterday flushes that all down the toilet I don't even know why you follow this team during the regular-season. 

As for Skerry, he did a great job for most of the season. He brought in three impact transfers, incorporated in them into the team, actually had some shooters and still kept some of the good parts of Skerry ball to make this team tough. Here is where I will be critical of him as a coach. In watching tonight's game and the 2014 game that we lost to William & Mary in-person, our players seemed tight and like the they just wanted it so bad that when it went badly they were not sure how to react. It felt that way tonight, and I do agree that mentality trickles from the coach down to the players.

Even saying that, I am in complete agreement with a lot of the defenders of Skerry that the shots were not falling. We were 4-23 from three-point land tonight and at least 2/3rds of those were good solid looks that just did not fall. I don't know if you want to call that choking or bad luck, but Timberlake had at least 3 or 4 shots go halfway down and come out (which was very reminiscent of the Northeastern loss in the regular-season). I would start calling people chokers if they were taking awful shots and making dumb decisions. However, that did not start until the last 4 or 5 minutes when we really panicked because we could sense the loss was coming. 

I give Charles Thompson a ton of credit for fighting through the ankle injury, but he was missing just that extra amount of explosiveness to grab a big rebound (11 in two games) or block a shot (he had one). The lack of that extra lift also made it tough for him to get up high enough on that mini-baby hook that his been so solid this year. Also, I have been the number one person (or at least right there with everyone) driving the Terry Nolan Jr. train, but he was just awful tonight. We can't win against a good team when Nolan Jr. goes 0-6 with 2 points, 1 assist and 4 turnovers. His bad play with Thompson's injury came at the worst time, and I know both are probably crushed that they couldn't give their best when it was truly needed. 

 There are two things I hope we can accomplish right now. One is get a meaningful experience out of the NIT and hopefully beat a good team and use it as a springboard to next season. That has always been the point of that tournament, and the regular-season champ auto-bid is one of my favorite college basketball rules. The other is find out who is coming back and continue to use the transfer portal effectively to fill in some needs. As has been mentioned, the additions of Monmouth and Stony Brook will make this conference more competitive in hoops, and we rally need to raise our level. 

Going into this year, I was bashing Skerry as well. I think he took a good, honest look in the mirror last year and became a better coach this year. We finally got some good shooters, it felt like we were able to press more effectively, and he made adjustments when things didn't go right more this year than previous ones. I think the next step is taking a look at his defensive principles and seeing if there are some wrinkles he can throw in to make it more difficult to scout from conference teams that see us three times in a year. I am sure he has already done this, but trying to look at some successful programs and possibly even working with sports psychologists to figure out if there is something missing from the mental preparation that is causing his higher seeded teams to come out so tight (seemingly from an untrained eye like mine) in these big games. 

This was the greatest D-1 regular-season in the history of our program. Rather than criticizing what went wrong with the coaching, we should be asking how do we take what was fun for everyone this year and build off it in the productive manner. We hit the checkboxes for a successful season in two big ways, 15-3 tying for first in the CAA and top 75 NET ranking for most of the year. How do we replicate those accomplishments and figure out a way to overcome our poor tournament performances. People can evolve and get better. Skerry did that in many ways this year, and now he has one more giant step to evolve and figure out why his teams come up short in the tournament. However, with what he accomplished we should have some confidence that he will turn over every rock to try to this offseason. 

This is a fantastic post. Nothing to add save for  go Tigers! 

Look this sucks. I feel like my heart has been ripped out for the millionth time but this was still a hell of a season. No postmortem from me yet. Let’s go win a game in the NIT. Important for the program.  

Not down plying the loss, it’s as bad as they come but we’ve got at least one more game to look at these guys. 

I have been pretty critical of Chase but man did he bail us out with that bucket last night. If he can play with a bit of a mean streak, some additional toughness, he could really help us 

I feel better about Udel than I did NE. Cohen teams are pests that never go away, always give us fits. I think maybe we got some of the jitters out. No CT would change things a lot but I think if our shooters can get into a rhythm, we stand a good chance. If both Gibson and Timberlake get hot, we should win. 

Flo stream is already garbage JFC

Hoping Terry is the difference between last meeting. Mix of nerves and excitement. Let’s get it done 

Rock fight is good for us, going to be some tired legs tomorrow 

No one shooting well in this game, read that this is tough arena for shooters 

21 hours ago, sr16 said:

Cam Holden on a pod - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0CCH0sho0rElj91VYBw3Kh?si=wI49G4uGTYKJij3rUFRnZw 

Man what a great interview. Loved how Cam talks about sacrificing stats for wins. He seems like a great teammate 

Winner of 8/9 has a less than 24 hour turnaround, that’s tough for anyone. Hoping for a hard fought game between NE and W&M. Not going to lie, NE scares me but we are really playing well 

Love them both! Would look great framed 

Going to the ship Tuesday if we make it, no question 

Does anyone know if this graphic is going to be turned into a poster? Want one for my basement and one for my office