Had to watch late because my wife is sick and I was watching our 3 kids.
Valpo sucks, but they did a good job exploiting the advantage Smits had over Sarr. Sarr could not cover Smits. Physical mismatch. This is a game where I was glad we have Smart... He has size, plays tough, and isn’t a complete liability of offense.
Not a good matchup for Sarr, but been taking that into consideration, he has a long way to go.
Our offense was at its worst when we tried to force it into Hoard, who was basically getting triple-teamed. I’m not saying Hoard shouldn’t get a ton of touches, but those possessions ended in turnovers. Find the open man.
It was me that hyped up Brown this year. I’m not nearly as down on him as some of you, but he hasn’t shown a big jump this season. I did like his aggressiveness early on today, though.
Lewis is not ready. Get him these minutes in blowouts against 300+ teams... Not when we are making a run 10 minutes into the game.
I love having Wright, Brown, and Mucius on this roster. They should all play a ton of minutes.
Good win. 2-1 in this tournament is a positive result. Could be looking at 9-3 or 10-2 before conference play (which I agree, could get ugly).
Now, because I am bored, I’m gonna go back and respond to specific posts 3 hours later than they were originally written.