If they weren't fouling us every other time down the court we would have shot and made a bunch more shots. That was either the coaches game plan, or their big men got beat like a tin drum every other time down the court and had to foul to stop easy baskets. Silly remarks. And they were fouling us, not getting jobbed by the refs. That coach was just an ass. plain & simple.
Cal Baptist Game Thread
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I also wonder if Taplin was hurt in the second half. Haith even subbed him out for a couple of minutes later in the half. He played below average defense for him & was just “off” down the stretch.
For those not at the game, Cal Baptist ‘s PG is a transfer from Washington State & he played a great game. If that’s anywhere near his normal game, I’d love to have him on our team.
We averaged exactly 1 point per shot- 52 points on 52 shots. The 40 free throws gave us 30 points. If the 40 free throws had been 20 shots it would have been 20 points - or 10 less in a game we won by 3...
Indeed.
And to have a 6’10 guy that can hit 4 treys in a row... and look pretty good doing it...
On the fouls, they played physical and very aggressive defense which I think was to intimidate our guys. It didn’t and resulted in a lot of FT’s for us.
We didn’t play great but, if they play like that in the WAC, they’ll be competing for a conference championship.
Haiti’s defense didn’t have an answer today. He typically makes adjustments outside of the corner three but, they didn’t kill us on that. I actually commented to my buddy while watching the game that we seemed to have the quickness to cover those this year vs years past.
Haiths teams also always struggle with rebounding early but dominate when they need to do so,!I’m not overly concerned there.
I would like to see more and higher percentage 3pt shooting from us though.
The shots we got fouled on would not have averaged 1 point per shot. Otherwise they generally would not have fouled us. You foul on shots you think there is little chance they would not go in if you didn't foul. That's the general concept behind fouling. To gain an advantage when you can't stop the shot, whether it's intentional or not.
Well I suppose if the players are perfect and only foul optimally and all the fouls were shooting fouls, neither of which is true of course. They had 28 fouls so I’m sure a lot of those free throws weren’t shooting fouls. There’s no way we’d average 1.5 points per shot if they hadn’t been fouls. Maybe a bit more than 1 point per shot but when you win by 3, a little less efficiency is trouble.
We just can't expect to get bailed out by the refs all season. There will be games where refs swallow their whistles and we have to be able to make shots and defend better than we did today.
Yeah, and we might get into more of a rhythm if they didn't foul so much. You can't predict one without the other, and expect the same result.(especially this early in the season)
True but, it’s apparent you didn’t watch the game in regards to the fouling situation.
Had to listen to it on the radio. I'm not saying we didn't get fouled. I'm saying there are certain games (usually Cincinnati at least) where the refs tend to swallow their whistles.
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