Rebounding is effort. Embeya grabbing no rebounds in this game has to motivate him for the next. Sulaiman grabbed one rebound tonight in 15 minutes. Tejada had two rebounds and let one hit off his hands late in the game that led to a three-pointer by Sbrook. Jones (5), Lowery (4) and May (10) need help. Also, we did have 12 offensive rebounds, which usually leads to easy scores. Just 20 defensive rebounds. Stony Brook had 16 offensive rebounds and 29 defensive rebounds. Snoddy had 10 rebounds in 39 minutes and Nick Woodard, who I was impressed with his physicality, had 8.
But as I continue to scrutinize the wins because it gets tougher after this one, I applaud this team and staff for getting the job done when it matters. There have been better teams in the past who get off to better starts and have double-digits leads in the second half only to piss them away. It's pretty remarkable how they close games out because the stats aren't exactly in their corner in a lot of categories. But they are great right now at one key stat: winning.