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I think we are going to find out how much our team may have matured over the past two weeks. Will this be the team that laid an egg at UNCO, or the team that laid a beating on UND?

This is a winnable game if they go in with the right mindset. NAU is a much improved team, but have shown vulnerabilities at times. The key to this game, as always, is rebounding and defense. I love it that Joel is showing his monster side on the boards. The rest of the team needs to step it up a bit. We have always played well at NAU. I don't expect that to change. I do expect NAU to put up a good fight. Like I said, they are much improved this year.

We win a close one. 65-60 :nod:
 
Tres needs to show up. End of story. He is facing the best big in the league on Thursday night. He should be the best in the league, but Jacobsen has looked better, and is a HUGE reason why NAU has been much improved this season. Not saying Tres isn't the man, and not playing well. He is...just saying that he needs to bring his A game on Thursday. It is going to be a battle down low.
 
Yes. Trez needs to show up. So does Kyndahl, Jordan, Jeremy and anyone else who steps on the floor, at least for defense and rebounding. Our scoring will take care of itself as long as the rest of it is there. I'm not even as concerned about turnovers, as I am about stops and rebounds. Those things are all about effort and determination. It's the difference between good teams and great teams.

Bring It!!
 
I like what I'm seeing early with Gittens. He's playing in control, using his athletism and we haven't seen the o-for-floater yet. Me likey!
 
Same ref having some problems getting the call right, not in Weber's favor of course (sigh). Joel with 6-7 boards already and a nice strong post move-- go Joel, GO WEBER!
 
I like coach murphy's answer at half time. when asked about what to tell his team about playing defense his answer is "idk, probably tell them to not play defense."
 
Other than that, still not liking our free throws being at 66.7% Hopefully that picks up but everything else is looking pretty good so far. Bolomboy looking like a beast
 
it amazes me that we have beat nau 12 straight after the way 2007 and 2008 went. it used to be a tough place for us to leave with a win, down in flagstaff. nau has dropped off over the yrs especially with baldy gettin the boot, its good to see them starting to improve.
 
PSU with the quick jump on UNC.

NAU has a nice program going. Their broadcast is quality. "Mostly student run everything here at NAU-TV," as they should. Their students are located where they should be; behind the visitor's basket in the second half.

Good win. They seem to be gelling, growing, and getting better from top to bottom. Berry playing very well right now. Senglin with a good game and playing well too. Joel getting stronger. Hill coming along. Hajek and Fulton getting some minutes and doing OK. I really like the changes I saw in Gittens this game. I hope this ball keeps rolling.
 
I was at the NAU game, man they need a different place to play, and I do not mean the Rolle Activity Center.

There was no energy in the building before the game, no buzz, no cheering. If not for the band being behind a basket near the Weber bench, you could have heard a mouse f*rt in the dome.
 
Way too many TOs in the final 5 minutes, allowing NAU to get back into the game. Will we see any improvement on Saturday?
 
by Purple_Posse » Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:57 am

Way too many TOs in the final 5 minutes, allowing NAU to get back into the game. Will we see any improvement on Saturday?
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NAU threw a different style press at us, more of a diamond type press. One issue from my viewpoint was that the refs swallowed their whistles the last 5 minutes, after calling a number of limited contact fouls. Seems like anything in the paint was called, but our guards could be mugged on the inbounds and got no call. :wtf:

All we look for is consistency in the calls, but it was all over the place at NAU. Coach Rahe had several "discussions" about this with the refs
 
Our turnover to assist was terrible last night. Yeah there were times that fouls should have been called but also a lot of times to pass and we didnt. I can think of two times alone where joel was open and we passed it up. Good thing we shot well froom the floor and played good D
 
I was at the game in Flagstaff, my first live look at this year's version of the Weber State Wildcats. And I must say that I was more impressed than I have been after watching them on Big Sky TV and on TV.

First… they are quick across the board. Very quick and athletic. More than any other team I can remember.

Secondly, their defense is impressive. Quick to the ball, athletic enough to contest every shot. NAU is a good shooting team and also good with the 3-pointer, but Weber shut them down.

Next the half-court set offense is designed well and they execute it most of the time flawlessly. Most of the times that it is not executed well has to do with a "freshman" mistakes. And now even their 3 point shooting is getting close to the standard we have come to expect after viewing the past few years.

Their running game is impressive; albeit a few bonehead mistakes mostly coming from trying to go to fast.

So thats the good news and I only have one constructive criticism to make. Scrap that piece-of-garbage offense design to break the press. It is predictable, outdated and needs to be completely rethought. It just doesn't work and every school we have played this year is pressing us because they know that our approach to breaking their press doesn't work.

In the last 5 minutes of last nights game NAU used all five men in the front third of the court, completely ignoring anyone further down the court. Every time Weber threw the inbounds pass into the same corner where mostly Richardson was trapped and scrambling to advance the ball. Because they threw 5 men into that part of the court any short pass was dangerous and many of them were intercepted. Meanwhile, all Weber would have had to do to break the press was to throw the ball downcourt to a streaking guy who would have had an uncontested layup. They never did. Their whole approach to breaking the press is just wrong. And last night it was so wrong that it let NAU come from 19 points down with about 5 minutes to go and to close the gap all the way down to 5 points in the last minute before they were relegated to fouling repeatedly and Joel hit 4 free-throws to pull the game out. It should never have been close. With a good press breaking approach Weber would have easily won by 20. Come on RR quit being stubborn, find a new approach to press breaking. You have the talent to do anything you want to. You are far too good a coach to let this part of your game design be so feeble.

I predict that if Weber looses any Big Sky games the rest of the season it will be because their press busting doesn't work.
 
Well...that was an ass whooping.

NAU's starting to show their inexperience as conference play goes forward. The 5-1 start in conference is a distant memory.

Weber's proving to be the cream of the crop as I expected.

Still wish I could have made it up the hill for this one. Maybe next year. Good luck, Webers.
 
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