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calpoke25 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2017 8:44 pm We look to be largely the same team. When the 3s fall it looks good and when they not we look like a really sloppy, undisciplined team. I hope it’s just the early season rustiness but judging by how we played last year I’d say probably not. The team is just not consistent and commit way too many turnovers.

calpoke25 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2017 8:44 pm We look to be largely the same team. When the 3s fall it looks good and when they not we look like a really sloppy, undisciplined team. I hope it’s just the early season rustiness but judging by how we played last year I’d say probably not. The team is just not consistent and commit way too many turnovers.

Cowboy Junky wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2017 9:20 pm

calpoke25 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2017 8:44 pm We look to be largely the same team. When the 3s fall it looks good and when they not we look like a really sloppy, undisciplined team. I hope it’s just the early season rustiness but judging by how we played last year I’d say probably not. The team is just not consistent and commit way too many turnovers.

I don't think so. We've got more length. We we're missing Moemeka, Gorski, and Mack.

With Jones, Dalton, Herndon, Moemeka, James, Maldonado, and Meuller, we've got the ability to have 3 or 4 guys that are 6'6"+ on the floor together. We have several different rotations with suffocating length. We must have had eleventy blocks. With Moemeka back, it will get better. I think that defensive intensity slipped in the second half, but we have a very good defensive basketball team this year. We lost assignments in the second half.

Too many turnovers killed us tonight, as expected for the season opener. We'll get that number down.

Offensively, I'll hold out judgement until we have two of our better three point shooters back in the line up with Mack and Gorski. James wasn't aggressive offensively at all. I think he's still coming back from ankle problems. I like Maldonado's ability to attack. With him, Dalton, and James attacking the rim, we have more offensive options on the road. Lou Adams will wash off the bad game and get after it sooner or later. We've got more offense this year, but didn't get the full flavor without Gorski, Moemeka, and Mack out there.

It could have been a lot prettier, but you can see the makings of a pretty good basketball team this year.

Cowboy Junky wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2017 7:51 am I'm surprised no one else noticed. I know Gorski, Moemeka, and Mack are missing due to injury.

Why didn't Naughton see the floor last night? Is he hurt or suspended?

seattlecowboy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2017 9:14 am

Cowboy Junky wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2017 7:51 am I'm surprised no one else noticed. I know Gorski, Moemeka, and Mack are missing due to injury.

Why didn't Naughton see the floor last night? Is he hurt or suspended?

I started thinking about this also. How come Naughton didn't see the floor? Is he so bad now in Edwards eyes that he can't even get on the floor against Chatanooga when we are missing 3 other players completely and 2 or 3 others are playimg hurt?

Maybe Naughton has an injury or something also cause that makes no sense to me.

FarmerPoke wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2017 8:30 am Happy the pokes won, definitely showed some rust, but a win is a win. Dalton was unconscious from the arc in the first half, hit a couple fairly ridiculous shots. 30 pts 13 rebounds.... monster game! Team as a whole cooled off quite a bit in the 2nd half.
James definitely didn't look like himself and wasn't much of a factor, didn't play many minutes. Assuming his ankle is not 100%.
Really like our length, it seemed like we blocked a gazillion shots! Did that without Moemeka as well! As Junky mentioned above, I also wondered what the deal with Naughton was? He was the only supposedly healthy cowboy that didn't play.

I didn't really see anything that set off alarm bells for me. I like our versatility on the offensive end because of our length, and defensively pokes have the potential to be very very disruptive if they really focus on that end of the floor.

If I had any gripe at all, it's that the offense virtually never ran anything that went towards the basket. Seemed like most of the motion offense and set plays either led to a 3 or a perimiter shot. That's not really anything new as that seems to be how Edwards likes to run offense as that's what the Pokes did last year as well. If the Pokes shoot well from the arc they'll compete with most anyone in the country. If they shoot poorly, they'll have to rely on their length and ability on the defensive end.

Excited for the season! Monday night at Oregon St will be a tough test for the Pokes. I feel like that game will tell us more about the team than last night's game did. Beaver's were terrible last year, but their best player missed most of the season with a broken wrist, and he's back along with a few other new good players. Depending how their season goes, they could be a bubble tournament team at the end of the year, so this game should be a good barometer of where the Pokes are at early in the season.