UCF is 2-0 with two close wins.

Starting junior PG lost to injury 4-6 weeks. His replacement is Drexel transfer, Terrell Allen. No big deal for David. 7'6" Tacko Fall has yet to play due to a hip injury, but he is one tall SOB on the bench. Quite a different challenge for Nathan, if Fall plays on Saturday. Nice challenge for this team at this early stage, and much better than going to Duke or Louisville. Would love to see Nathan be as aggressive and fearless as he was in that Louisville game.

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Early reports are that Fall will play. Should be an interesting matchup. Scoring around the hoop will be tough, but I'd Imagine Fall will have issues with Nathan as well.
I think this game, and further success down the road, require Cohn doing a better job of distributing the ball to guys in spots where they can be effective.

I would imagine that Knight going at Fall to hopefully get Fall in foul trouble might be a good strategy.

Knight will just blow by him if they play man to man from the high post. If they play zone, I'd just try to run with them. No chance Fall keeps un in a back and forth game.

(11-16-2017 07:50 AM)Tribe32 Wrote:  Knight will just blow by him if they play man to man from the high post. If they play zone, I'd just try to run with them. No chance Fall keeps un in a back and forth game.

I agree here. We are a tough matchup for Fall. Nathan's ability to shoot and comfort outside is going to have to pull Fall away from the hoop. If he is content to camp underneath as a rim protector, Knight should take that foul line shot all day.

I don't think Fall will get the bulk of the minutes due to working himself back from injury and our style of play. If teams are scouting us, they know that our weakness is on ball pressure. It takes us out of what we want to do and causes turnovers.

Taco has a huge wingspan. No one is going to blow by him.

Home game for Matt Milon. Let's hope he has a breakout game in front of family and friends.

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Sure they will. Head fake and take it to the hoop. His only chance is to block the shot from behind or foul. Once he engages Knight one on one out on the perimeter he's not under the rim anymore so even if Knight is a decoy, we can use back door cuts, etc.

I worry that they will just feed Fall the ball down low and Knight fouls him early. If that happens, Katit bar the door

(11-16-2017 10:00 AM)Sitting bull Wrote:  Taco has a huge wingspan. No one is going to blow by him.

(11-15-2017 09:51 PM)Tribeheart Wrote:  Starting junior PG lost to injury 4-6 weeks. His replacement is Drexel transfer, Terrell Allen. No big deal for David.

Perhaps, but you should be reminded that the last time David and Terrell faced off, Terrell outscored him 20-10 to lead his team that came in at 3-23 to victory over the Tribe in Williamsburg.

Uh oh.

If I were doing a Preview for the UCF game (which I am not - sorry, a bit busy this week), these would certainly be two of my key Disa & Data points.

So, for Tribal, a special mini-Disa report:


- Over the first two games, W&M is averaging 24.5 free throws made per game and shooting 80.3 percent from the line. A total of 32.9 percent of the Tribe's offense is coming from the free throw line, which ranks seventh nationally.

- The Tribe's top three scorers are all members of the program's sophomore class in Nathan Knight (23 ppg), Matt Milon (11.5 ppg) and Justin Pierce (15.5 ppg). The trio is averaging 50 points per game, accounting for 67.1 percent of W&M's offense.

14 point underdogs.

(11-17-2017 05:32 PM)billymac Wrote:  If I were doing a Preview for the UCF game (which I am not - sorry, a bit busy this week), these would certainly be two of my key Disa & Data points.

So, for Tribal, a special mini-Disa report:


- Over the first two games, W&M is averaging 24.5 free throws made per game and shooting 80.3 percent from the line. A total of 32.9 percent of the Tribe's offense is coming from the free throw line, which ranks seventh nationally.

- The Tribe's top three scorers are all members of the program's sophomore class in Nathan Knight (23 ppg), Matt Milon (11.5 ppg) and Justin Pierce (15.5 ppg). The trio is averaging 50 points per game, accounting for 67.1 percent of W&M's offense.

Thats the time. Good nuggets.

We're going to have to find a way to score away from the charity stripe. While I think our FT shooting will fall back to Earth, I believe we'll start hitting 3s...the mitigator for our liability on defense.

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Line now up to 16.5. (We must have had a bad practice, or something...)

The 14 points was on 5Dimes last night.
This morning, it has now DROPPED to 13 points.

I think the 16.5 must have been the open.

Total is at 160. I guess the books are anticipating UCF to drop about 90 on W&M, and I can't fault them for thinking that...

Tacko Fall upgraded to probable for today

That's how you attack the press Cohn. Keep doing that and make them pay for the full court press

Wow! The announcer just said Knight could "play for any team in the country."

Not calling any over the backs on UCF. That spells trouble for W&M