The Bobcats have defeated a terrible Detroit team picked to finish near the bottom of the Horizon conference. They have lost to YSU and CSU. Youngstown and Cleveland St were selected 4 and 5 behind Northern Ky, Milwaukee and Wright State. Hopefully no more Horizon teams left on the schedule. Marshall is bad, so Ohio should have no problem with them and throw in a sure win with Defiance.

I think we need to pump the breaks as though the season is lost after last night. It was a clunker of a game, those happen. Multiple P5’s lost buy games this season to mid-majors. YSU is a tough team and will probably finish higher than the projected 5th in the Horizon.

None of our losses have been bad. Meaning, we haven’t looked overmatched due to our lack of size we were all concerned about coming into the season (s/o AJC and Hadaway’s progression) We beat ourselves each time whether it was poor FT and/or 3PT shooting.

There’s a good chance the outcome of these games are different with Miles playing; we might only be a 1 loss team.

This isn’t a bad team, but they played bad last night. We’ve seen what this team can be when clicking on cylinders. We’ve gotten more out of AJC and Hadaway than we were expecting this season. We went 15-19 from the line last night which is a significant improvement from previous games. Jaylin and EJ4 were both perfect.

Getting Miles healthy helps our 3PT shooting and spreads the ball out more. No idea what’s going on with AJB, but we all know how integral he is to us offensively. He’s been so bad recently I’d like to think he can only go up from here.

We had people open and they chose to dribble into a crowd and get stuck. It was painful to watch. Definitely want to see more passing except not what we have been doing, to the other team. Seems they need a reset and get back to our game. There is talent, it just seems like we have no direction.

Let's give YSU some credit. They're loaded with athletes and have a solid coach.

They were on my list of predicted losses. They're always a tough, fast team. Calhoun has done a hell of a job.

We have our issues, but I wish we ran more. I'm talking push for 100+ every night. Get up and down. Our PF is 6'4" I can't believe the whole offensive gameplan isn't just run dudes off the floor and if we lose some nights bc shots aren't falling - then we lose some nights, but at least we have an identity. What is our identity right now? I've watched almost every game, and I have no idea what to expect from anyone on the floor, outside of Jaylin. I don't even know what I expect from a gameplan perspective. We have no inside game, but we hardly have an outside game either. We're stuck in a 4-guard purgatory where none of them know they should/want to step up and be the one to take the shot.

That was Cleveland State, but your point still stands.

Cleveland State trending up... YSU trending up....

I never like to see these inter-state losses from outside the conference. Especially not multiples.

They are good no doubt. I just didn't like seeing how lost we looked during the game. I hope we can get some rhythm offensively.

I feel like, for a team with so many guards, we don't have a lot of consistent shooters. The best shooting guard we have, in my opinion, is Miles Brown. Obviously, he has been out with injury for a while. We've had some good shooting games, but nothing consistent. Last night's stats will be skewed because we finally caught fire in the last 100 seconds when the outcome of the game was already decided. As others have mentioned, the ball gets "stuck" at times with our guards, also.

I know the last two games have been against decent quality opponents, but they still make me hesitant with expectations for this group. Right now, this team feels like it can beat or lose to anyone on any given night.

Ugh, this was a difficult one to watch. Some takeaways:

Reef is still a spark plug on this team, came up with big baskets down the stretch to keep us somewhat in it.

AJC had the best block I've ever seen watching OU basketball. Hope he isn't hurt too bad, was grimacing after he got up.

What the heck has happened to AJB? Seems like a mental / confidence issue - him not being his normal smiling self pre game and during game really gave it away for me - I hope he can bounce back.

Hadwaway - My guy Aiden stepped up big for us and scored a season high - he should get AJB's starting spot with how well he is playing. Aggressive and hustles. Still think he can be a loose cannon at times but #CaptainChaos


Overall, just thought YSU bullied us in the paint and capitalized on mistakes we made passing in the second half. Onto Marshall, I'm not taking this loss too hard as YSU is shaping to be a power in the Horizon this year. The guys will rebound back. God, just hope we get Miles and IJ back soon.

Dealing with potentially fragile ego here. Start AJB but insert Hadaway as soon as you see AJ is struggling. Hadaway seems willing to contribute in any way he can.

That was 2 minutes and 40 seconds into the Youngstown State game.

+1. A bunch of guys here felt AJB was off to U. Florida after this year. Chances are slim and none at this point. Sadly, at my age I can still hit 7 out of 10 FT's.