should look at points plus boards minus fouls and turnovers.

I get we are perimeter oriented, but a bit too much dribbling. Let’s move the ball.

Why isn't Cornish playing?

Three point shooting was rough. Wiz actually looked formidable in the second half. AJB and EJ4 — my god those two are fun to watch.

And yes, I quoted my own post.

Kudos to The Whiz.

4 points
7 rebounds
2 fouls

For a very productive 13 and well above the projected O/U. He also set a solid screen and didn't commit a moving screen. Easily one of his two top performances in a Bobcat uniform. We would sign up for this every game. Keep it going Whiz.

Other thoughts....Hunter way off...hopefully that means the ball goes in on Saturday.
I LOVE Mitchell. Instant spark plug off the bench.
AJ Brown...smooth...think he got a little tired at end. 1-5 from free throw line. That won't ever happen again.
Elmore...baby bull does what baby bull does.
Miles..something was bothering him...on a bike most of the game...hopeflly good to go full-strength Saturday.
AJ Clayton...seemed committed to staying down low as much as he could. Only one 3 point shot attempted. Liked the discipline.
Hadaway...still a big question mark. Still very chaotic on the floor and no shooting touch. Carry over from last season.
Sheldon....put some more muscle on. I need to see him play more games to see if he's improved.
Cornish...incomplete. Looked timid...very timid.
CELLIS....shout-out my man. The losing team...winning team was loud and done at the right time.

All in all..win by 18 with Hunter playing perhaps the worst game of his Bobcat career. We were aided by 32 foul shots. Going to be very difficult Saturday in Cleveland, but glad to get this first one out of the way with a "W".

Agree - plus he had 2 blocks - and (not sure) 0 turnovers. - 13 plusses and 2 minus = 11

If he can get to 10 (plusses over minus) - very solid

points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks minus fouls, turnovers (offensive fouls count as minus 2)

Cleve St over under?

This is going to be a fun season. Great start tonight at the Convo, crowd seemed good from the broadcast.

We go 10 deep pretty nicely. That is exciting.

 

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Good start. I really really like our starting 5. Forced a bunch of turnovers and scored well despite being pretty poopy from 3 (28%) namely because of Hunter & Mitchell. I think the calls went our way, and they had a bunch of in and out 3 pointers. Flip those 2 things and it would've been uncomfortably close.

Mitchell is suffocating on defense, insanely aggressive which at least last night yielded many fouls. Fouled out in 17 minutes. I like this role for him, go in and shake things up and don't be afraid of fouls as you're only expected for about 20 mins per game. I thought he was too quick to shoot but also had some nice assists.

AJB & EJ4 were fantastic...love their scoring ability. Happy to see them both as bonified starter / 30+ min guys now. They could be the key to this being a special team if they continue to develop and become all-MAC like performers.

I've been preaching Clayton in the paint for a year now...he does a lot better there than many of you give him credit for. He has good ups, good positioning and and timing. Boals split Clayton & Wiz almost exactly last night, just like he did with Wiz & Dwight last year. Only 23 mins for Clayton but he was in a little foul trouble early...I am hoping the split is more like 30/10.

Sorry I am not praising Wiz (shocker). His rebounds were simple. He had at least 2 he totally whiffed on, one he got manhandled by a much smaller dude in a much worse position who got a put-back bucket. He had 2 fouls but should have had 4. His one basket was awkward if not terrifying. I could be wrong but I feel like our +/- was much better with Clayton than Wiz. He didn't have a bad game but still looked like the same player to me, but with a headband.

Cornish didn't really get a chance to do much, will wait to see more from him down the road.

Take out AJB's 1 for 5 and we were 26 for 27 from the line. Damn.

We were outrebounded 40 to 32. And that is with Miles, Elmore and others having a few really nice hard fought rebounds. This will be a challenging area for us this season.

Why did the Ohio bench have like 48 people on it? Was there like 10 trainers, and will it be like that all year? I thought it looked silly how we wrapped around the baseline with chairs.

That first half defense was tremendous. Now, I only was able to start watching at the 13 minute mark or so and Boals presser said the defense was slow to start. But I can remember only one sequence where Troy's half court set worked us out of position and one other sequence that was chaotic and ended up with a tough three. Everything else was met with the right rotation and every shot was challenged. That lagged a bit in the second half, but good film work and adjustments can keep that going.

Only seven turnovers suffered and three of them were TEAM turnovers (shot clock, etc). That's what pops off the box score the most for me. That was a legit full court press Troy put on us and we seemed to make the right decisions and executions all game.

Shereef's on ball defense broke a dribbler's ankles. That was really cool.

Boals was asked directly about IJ in the postgame presser and gave a little bit of an evasive answer, but if it were an injury, I trust he'd say it's an injury. Sounds like some business IJ has to handle in some way. That's the one thing that has me biting my nails on the season. FAU just went to the Final Four playing only two bigs in their rotation, but we're on thin ice if AJC or Gabe goes down if IJ isn't available.

On the flip side of that coin, we shot 32 free throws and 25 of them were shot by guards. Any position can get to the line, and any player can be a good free throw shooter, but I'm much more trusting of a guard to make them. The referees were whistle happy last night, but having five guards who can get to the line is a place that will probably win us a share of games this season.

I noticed it too and thought it was very odd. There has to be a reason as to why.

NBA teams have about a dozen coaches but use a second row to seat them all. Ohio seems to have that many student trainers but extend the bench around the baseline. Was like that last year.