Please empty bench Coach! Someone has to have more hustle and fire than this bunch..

I just can not believe what is happening in this game.

Up three with the shot clock turned off, I start yelling "FOUL!  FOUL!"  The cat was giving me a judgmental glare of disappointment.

Wow, two games of terrible play in a row and we storm back to win it.  Great comeback boys!

The place looked and sounded dead from the opening tip. No energy until the defense chant after we made our big run.  

Mo with 21-11 on 7-11 shooting.  Nick had a horrible game from the field but was 8-8 from the FT line. Jon a rebound shy of a double double.  TJ with a nice bounce back game in the offensive end (but the high foul rate continues).

Made the the same number of FG and 3s as CMU, but took 5 and made 4 more FT. One thing I will say Is this team will not give up... No 'tater how bad it looks.

Per ESPN, no Campbell tonight.  I don't remember seeing him. Did I miss why?

 I just can't get a read on us or the rest of the MAC. We could reach NCAA tournament or finish tenth in the MAC and a first round exit in the tournament.  We got a couple really nice wins vs good teams Mercer and Richmond, but we struggle with 200 plus rpi teams at home in conference play.  If tonite's game was in Mt Pleasant we likely lose by 25. We woke up just in time to pull us out of our own butts.  We won't be lucky against Toledo. Team that are 17-2 know how to put teams away and early.

Had class tonight, so missed this one.  A win is a win.  Hope the boys have their sh!t together Saterday !  

I guess there are a couple ways to look at it:

(a) This is a team that doesn't know how to play together. And when they're off, you get a horrible first half @ NIU, a horrible loss to BG, a really ugly win @ EMU that only worked out because EMU went into prevent-offense mode, and a really ugly win against a really bad CMU team. That isn't going to work the rest of the schedule and into tourney play.

(b) This is a team that was an unknown at the beginning of the season, and now that conference opponents have had a chance to scout a little bit more, is finding it more difficult. The slow starts are unsurprising given that the team is still learning how to play as a unit, but there is enough talent there to pull out the wins.



What I would like to see is a leader on the court.....the guy who you know will take over a game when you need some momentum, or die trying. At times it's looked like that would be NDour, others Nick, and others Stevie. Mo probably has the skills to be that guy, but I don't know if he has the personality (he's shown glimpses....he was a rebounding machine at EMU for example), and JC has a pretty short leash on Stevie. So that leaves Nick, but again it seems like he disappears at times he should dominate.

Just some rambling thoughts.....the rest of you seem happy with the way we've played. Maybe I'm just spoiled from the successes of the past few years, but I really thought we would look better than we have these past 4 games, especially with how we looked in non-conference play.

I'm really not looking forward to Saturday. Hoping the guys surprise me.

I love this team.  I have from the beginning.  I love them because they are not the most talented group but they play hard.  Although, they are much, much too unselfish.  On a side note: I don't think I have ever seen a team with so many willing, yet poor, interior passers in my lifetime. 

To everyone else, start drinking the kool-aid, it is going to be a really fun and frustrating rest of the season.