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Great effort today. Proud of the team despite the loss - and an outstanding play at the buzzer, just rimmed out. Zane and CT were beasts today....

what player is missing from C of C? Are the brothers back today?

Great class. Hat's off to Rob. Is DeBerry back for one more year? Love the focus on the secondary.... Excited for Pass, love his upside.....Reminds me of when JMU got Vad Lee a few years ago. The DL from St John's was a huge get. He had an offer from Purdue!

Let's take a look at where Towson stands statistically across a few key categories in D1. It's shocking and pretty much a statistical anomaly to be historically bad across so many categories. In 7 of these major categories we are in the bottom 10 teams of all of D1 (340 teams). It cuts across assists, steals, turnovers, and shooting. Based on this, you'd have to conclude, statistically, that we have the least effective offense in all of D1. Knowing we were losing Fobbs, who did Skerry recruit to fill his scoring and passing? Bieku, a seemingly offensively challenged bruiser and Darrick Jones, a highly recruited athlete, and while I am thrilled to have Jones, how did Skerry not address the needs of the team at guard, again? We are getting two guards out of 3 scholarships next year. Hopefully he hits on both. Depressing details below: - 3 Point Shooting %: 26.11% 338 our of 340 teams. - 3 Points made/game: 4.3: 336th - Assists per game: 9.2: 336th - Assist / Turnover Ratio: .66: 330th - Turnovers Forced: 10.4: 331st - Turnover Margin: -3.5: 316th - Steals per Game: 4.3: 332nd - 3 point FG Defense: 38.4%: 323rd - Rebound Margin: +3: 92nd

Yes - some of the SWAC teams are worse in a particular category, but no team is as bad across the board as we are. It's remarkable. What's crazy is that after each game Skerry always glances at the stat sheet. Is he and his staff aware of these numbers? I agree, I wish we could clean house.

And based on these numbers, don't tell me we are not winning based on our defense, or more specifically our 3 point shooting defense. We are not winning because we are the most inept offensive team in all of D1. We can't shoot, pass, handle the ball, or create turnovers. It's not our defense that is holding us back.

Disagree about gibson....He has to shoot 5 feet beyond the line - if we had more outside threats to spread the floor / or if he got the wide open looks that Nick gets, he'd shoot 40% This system and lack of offensive production holds him back.

thought this was a better effort overall. I disagree taht we are not a good enough defensive team at the moment. The issue is that we do not have the dead eye shooters like JMU (Lewis) or Hofstra has (counting last year, they have had like 5) and we can't compete cause we don't have the marksman like most everyone else has......We only have Gibson as a reliable outside shooter and the other teams can sell out on him since there is no one to take the pressure off of him. Skerry AGAIN didnt focus on shooters with this class either......It's an important part of the game and we can't beat good teams with brute force.... Still, liked the ball movement and liked the fact that FINALLY Skerry ran a press - it was effective, hope he keeps it in his arsenal. Good effort and some nice progress......

Yes! Skerry does this every year. Gorham should have started over Alex Thomas - yet Skerry loves to start guys who do not contribute offensively. It's maddening. Thought the ball movement was pretty good in the first half.

I'm impressed. Smart guy. CT really reps the university well.

good win(s). Lets see if we can keep it rolling against a much stronger Hofstra team. Also, I'd like our brand to be 3 point shooting in addition to defense, rebounding and toughness. the last 3 will only take us so far.... I don't fault Solly or Gibson for those T's. Gibson got kicked in the face (inadvertently), so how can you blame him for throwing that guys foot off of him. Solly has looked good all year. He and Charles Thompson were really good recruits (held good offers). Wish Skerry could pull in similar high profile recruits at guard - then we would be onto something.....

Gibson too. Once again, zero offensive flow. Same old stuff, no 3 point shooting and minimal assists....Get the ball inside and move it around...

Walden was a Pat Kennedy recruit....He's from here in Richmond....Smart kid, but he had no other D1 offers, despite playing for a good school that was heavily scouted (Justin Coleman, a 4 star recruit who signed with Louisville was on that team)....Walden transferred to Delware State, then I think he may have went D2..... It's utterly pathetic that Walden has been the number 1 assist man under Skerry's 10 years. That says it all. Can Spiro, or anyone start to question PS about the Tigers ALWAYS being in the bottom 10% of D1 schools in assists year in / year out? If the administration won't question it, perhaps someone else that has his ear can....

As pathetic as PK was, his offense was light years better than Skerry's. I think Skerry is the worst offensive coach in all of D1 - the stats bear this out. Oh yeah, we are 310th in turnover margin too, despite having some athletes.

Well Said 88....... Lets have some fun with stats: - We are 303rd in the nation (out of 338) in 3 point shooting as 29% - We are 335th (out of 338) in assists at 9 a game - We are 329th in assist / turnover ration It's like this each year under Skerry. Just once can we have a team that can shoot 40%+ from 3? Be in the top 1/2 in assists? We won the rebounding battle tonight though, so I guess Skerry is satisfied. Oh yeah, and it appears he whiffed again on another recruiting class. No CAA all-rookie team members to be found, yet again.... When is PS contract up?

With Gibson out, we have one offensively skilled player on our entire roster. Skerry's one track mind on defense has left us with a team incapable of scoring. I actually enjoyed watching the PK teams than I do under Skerry. I think Ja Morant could walk through the door and Skerry wouldn't offer him since he's not built like a tank...... Coppin is 1-7

I think we will sweep William and Mary, but that's probably it. Unreal. And think if Zane didn't fall in our laps late - I think we'd go winless without him. Even JMU, where pretty much the entire team left, looks light years better than us.

It's unbelievable. Each year I get excited about our potential and each year reality blindsides me. The stats don't lie, we are always dead last in assists, all skerry talks about it defense and rebounding, and we have athletes, but shackle them to a half-court game where we don't leverage their athleticism. Why would a competent player come here?

How is the WBB coach? Maybe she/he could try and teach the team to run a competent offense? Another game with less than 5 assists.

entering tonights game we had 13 assists vs 33

please get dottin out of the game.

better spacing and ball movement. finally.

We have not outside presence either.....This is just awful. Wonder how we would do in a D2 tourney instead of this one?

I'm sure Skerry will only talk about the rebounding after the game.....Outside of Zane, does anyone have an assist?

we look so awful on offense, again. We seem 100% reliant on Zane to generate any offense...