This is embarrassing. I am calling it, time of death 7:42 pm. For the first time, I am doing my thoughts early:
1. Ugly: The entire game/night was ugly. There were ZERO redeeming aspects of the game. Yes, SBU had a crazy shooting night, especially from the FT line, but we played scared, our defense was atrocious. We fouled all night long and at the time of this writing, SBU was 24-25 at the line. Should have pressed SBU earlier in the second half. At time of writing, SBU 24 points off of turnovers. Our FTs were horrible, at time of writing we just missed a front end on a chance to cut it to 11. We are 11-17. Lack of execution, lack of intensity for most of the game. This looked like last year’s team. Sad thing is we jumped up 9-2 and SBU looked lost and then we started getting loose with the ball, series of empty possessions, began fouling, leading to a 14-0 run by SBU and game changed. Let SBU get confidence. WE ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO COME OUT LIKE WE DID TONIGHT AND EXPECT TO WIN.
2. Bad: See above. Looked like team was not ready to play, reading press clippings?
3. Jaden Dawson made 3 3’s . This is a good sign. OK, that’s the one redeeming factor. Just hard to find much.
Final Thoughts: Teams will lay eggs at times during the season. After winning 7 in a row, we were due for a clunker and trap game (looking ahead to Dayton?) and hopefully we can flush it, forget about it, get back to Chicago and have a couple of good practices, get in the Joe and get back on track. The goal is not turn this loss into a losing streak. I would think the team is upset and embarrassed by this performance. I expect a big bounce back Friday.
Final Stats: LUC: 37% from the floor (20-54), 32.3% (10-31) from the arc, most were late when we were out of it, 57.1% (12-21) from the line. We had 18 TOs and SBU scored a ton of points, at least 24. SBU: 45.1% (23-51) from the floor, 41.2% (7-17) from the arc, and 89.7% (26-29) from the line, including making their first 18. SBU turned it over 14 times, several late when we pressed. Game came down to TOs by use and the 26 FTs we gave them. Lost by 15 and they outscored us at line by 14 at the line. I would play them again and feel good about it. We got homered a little by officials and we can’t play any worse
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