February 6, 2010
Coppin State(7-16, 4-5 MEAC) at NC A&T (9-11, 5-4 MEAC)
Scouting
We have to stop losing home games!
PG Luke Snipes – SO – 66 OVR – Average jump shooter, good speed but poor quickness. Great defender and good driving ability. We'll let him shoot 3's all day. 6.0 ppg.
SG Walt Killingsworth – SO – 66 OVR Pretty good driving ability but justan average shooter. 6 ppg.
SF Ethan Kennedy – SR – 59 OVR - Best 3point shooter on the team by a lot. That's about all he's good for. 4.6 ppg.
PF Eddie Hayden – JR – 57 OVR – 6'7”, 5.5 ppg/5.1 rpg. Not very good at all.
C Ceslovas Kucinskas – JR – 60 OVR – Only 6'8” Poor post defence, slightly above average rebounding. Good inside shot and good strength. 9.6 ppg/8.0 rpg
They pretty much have no depth inside so we hope to run them over with Hayes and Coleman and Cruz and Shepherd. We'll play a zone and hope it works better than it did vs Howard.
Half
| Time
| NC A&T
| CSU
| Notes
|
1
| 14:25
| 12
| 18
| They have 4 3's already and then a couple easy baskets inside, two off turnovers. We're doing ok but turning it over a bit too frequently.
|
1
| 11:30
| 17
| 24
| They've hit 6 3's now as our backups come in.
|
1
| 5:15
| 30
| 36
| Starters are back in.
|
1
| 3:45
| 39
| 38
| Finally we make something good happen. They score to go up 8. Coleman gets a bucket and is fouled down low. He misses the free throw but Shiloh grabs the board, goes back up and gets fouled. He makes both his free throws. They miss a jumper, and we get Ewing for an open 3. They miss another jumper, and we get out on the break after the board and Alston gives us the lead with a dunk in transition!
|
| HALF
| 54
| 45
| We just went on an absolute tear to finish off the half. We got their big men in foul trouble and they have zero depth so we dominate inside with their bigs sitting. Also as they stopped making every 3 they took we were able to fast break quite a bit more.
Alston, Ewing and Coleman all have 10 points. Hayes has 7. We have a massive 22-10 rebounding edge. They are 7-19 from 3. Kennedy is 3-6 which I expect. The others are 4-13 which is a bit higher percentage than I'd expect.
|
2
| 16:45
| 63
| 48
| We scored the first 9 points of the 2nd half and have pulled out to a pretty big lead. They drain a 3 to end our run.
|
2
| 15:40
| 69
| 50
| They burn a time out. We are just killing them inside, and to top it off, Ewing is making his open jumpers today, so when they zone it up to try to stop our inside game, Ewing is making his 3's.
|
2
| 11:30
| 79
| 59
| Backups are in. Coleman and Hayes are having great games, Ewing and Alston not far behind them.
|
2
| 8:00
| 82
| 68
| A 3 and a couple open jumpers and Coppin State is trying to make it a game down the stretch. We slow it down so that they can't.
|
We push the lead back up to 19 with 5 minutes left and sim it out to the end.
NC A&T 107
Coppin State 92
Heh, we just outran them today. They hit 15 3 pointers but that was out of 45 total and we did a good job running and getting them in foul trouble so that we could manhandle them on the offensive end.
Alston: 12 points/7 assists
Ewing: 25 points (5-9 from 3)
Shiloh: 4 points
Coleman: 21 points/12 boards
Hayes: 18 points/15 boards