The Atlantic 10 Thread

[SlimKibbles]

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Steve Smith is an amazing player for LaSalle. So far hes my player of the year in the a10.
Defensive player- No question about this one... Lasme

Lasme is a great defender. I always hate when X plays UMass. Between Freeman and Lasme, they've given them all kinds of problems the last couple of years. Hell, Big Deli even had a career game against X last year in Amherst. Never did anything the rest of the season though.

[Mxracer23x]

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Alot of action today

Temple beats LaSalle 68-52. I thought Lasalle would make a closer game then this

GW won pretty easily

Richmond wins a close one over dayton

We got URI/St Bona- I think St bona will win this one, will be close though

Umass/St Louis- Umass is going to have to match the defensive intensity they had against St joes, and give the ball to freeman and lasme.

Xavier/Charlotte- Going to be a great game, but i see the charlotte winning

[SlimKibbles]

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Xavier/Charlotte- Going to be a great game, but i see the charlotte winning

XU up by 13 very early in 2nd half.

[CM1847]

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XU up by 13 very early in 2nd half.

Great game by the X Men, dominated us all night long, really impressed with the Musketeers.

[dkgojackets]

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Great game by the X Men, dominated us all night long, really impressed with the Musketeers.

Disappointing effort, I thought Charlotte was turning things around. Xavier looked really good, though.

[SlimKibbles]

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Great game by the X Men, dominated us all night long, really impressed with the Musketeers.

CM, did you go to the game? I had to listen to it on the radio here. Sounded like the Niners left X's big guys open on the perimeter and they made them pay. Doellman and Duncan had good games shooting. How was the officiating in your opinion? Heard many boos from the crowd coming through the Xavier radio broadcast...

[Chuck]

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Fordham up 57-31 on Duquesne at the half.

[CM1847]

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CM, did you go to the game? I had to listen to it on the radio here. Sounded like the Niners left X's big guys open on the perimeter and they made them pay. Doellman and Duncan had good games shooting. How was the officiating in your opinion? Heard many boos from the crowd coming through the Xavier radio broadcast...

I was there. We left Doellman open a lot in the second half. We started to make a run offensively, but we would get burned by leaving him open for a 3, that really put the game away for X. We pulled within 4, but then gave up a 3 and then fouled and the lead was back to 9 in the blink of an eye, game over. Duncan did more in the first half if I remember correctly, same situation, just open shots all game long for the whole team. The two guys who really impressed me were Burrell and Thorton. Burrell hit some very nice pull up/fade away jumpers and Thorton just controlled the paint in the second half.

The officiating was bad, not an excuse because they didnt' cost us 15 points or whatever the final spread ended up being, but they missed some calls. The biggest gripe I have been hearing is that Cage went over the back on at least 3-5 offensive rebounds, none drawing a whistle, then in the second half we get called for an over the back, the first time they called that all night. Cage being a smaller guy it seemed they didn't care to call it, it was our center who was the first(any only) guy to get called on that foul. Also Doellman is a master of the moving screen and we couldn't get a shot inside the 3 point line off without getting hit on the arm, but it was never called. They were bad, but they were probably more fair than our biased eyes cared to see.

The reason we lost was open 3's, no rebounding and we just couldn't make a shot.

On the bright side, it was our first game with our kick a$$ new scoreboard.

I can't wait to see Xavier vs GW, I am really interested to see who is better. GW is ranked just because of the preseason pub, I find it hard to believe that they are that much better than Xavier, that should be a great game.

[SlimKibbles]

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Well, Sean Miller has tried to get his players to be more aggressive rebounding for the last handful of games or so. Little concerned that Cage needed to go over the back to get some of them. And, yeah, Doellman sets a lot of screens...and some really aren't legal. But, I say after the officiating in the Illinois and Creighton games this year, X deserved to catch a break in that area on the road for once. Sorry it had to come against your Niners.

I'm telling you, and I've said this since before the season started, Brian Thornton is the key to Xavier's team this year. Get him involved every game, get him to average 15-20 PPG, and they'll win a lot of ballgames. I think he's one of the best post-players that most of the country hasn't heard of. In Xavier's two losses BT was in foul trouble and I think had 10 pts or less. No coincidence that they lost.

Looking forward to the GW game. There is a tough stretch of opponents coming up the next six or seven games. But first X needs to handle their crosstown rivals on Thursday night at 9 PM. That's right...it Crosstown Shootout time once again.

[CM1847]

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Well, Sean Miller has tried to get his players to be more aggressive rebounding for the last handful of games or so. Little concerned that Cage needed to go over the back to get some of them. And, yeah, Doellman sets a lot of screens...and some really aren't legal. But, I say after the officiating in the Illinois and Creighton games this year, X deserved to catch a break in that area on the road for once. Sorry it had to come against your Niners.

I'm telling you, and I've said this since before the season started, Brian Thornton is the key to Xavier's team this year. Get him involved every game, get him to average 15-20 PPG, and they'll win a lot of ballgames. I think he's one of the best post-players that most of the country hasn't heard of. In Xavier's two losses BT was in foul trouble and I think had 10 pts or less. No coincidence that they lost.

Looking forward to the GW game. There is a tough stretch of opponents coming up the next six or seven games. But first X needs to handle their crosstown rivals on Thursday night at 9 PM. That's right...it Crosstown Shootout time once again.

If the refs aren't calling it, you should definitely keep doing it. But like I said, the refs didn't cost us the 13 point final spread. Xavier played a really good game, they came in and took the game from us, plain and simple.

The combination of size and skills on Xavier is a little scary. You've got Brunnell who can hit anything and create a lot off of his dribble. Then you can go down low to Thorton, the other guys who played center did a good job in the first half too. Or kick out to a 6'9" guy who is automatic from 3. I haven't seen them play any other games, so I don't know if they were just 'on' against us or what, but it was a textbook schooling on both ends of the court for most of the night. If Charlotte didn't start out on a 10-3(or close to that) run, it would have been a 25+ point blowout.

Good luck Thursday, kick some Cinci a$$!!!

[dkgojackets]

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Charlotte/St. Joes tonight, ESPN2 I think

Get em 49ers

[SlimKibbles]

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Charlotte/St. Joes tonight, ESPN2 I think

Get em 49ers

I'll be watching. Have no clue who will win this game. I think they are two very even teams.

[CM1847]

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I'll be watching. Have no clue who will win this game. I think they are two very even teams.

Yeah, huge for both teams right now. Both with RPIs under 100 and a lot of conference play left, so both are clinging to an outside at-large shot, but neither can afford more than a couple of A10 losses. I don't know much about St. Joe's, their style or players or anything, I guess I will find out tonight. Hopefully it will be a good game.

[dkgojackets]

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Good win by Charlotte tonight. Really turned it on midway thru the second half.

[CM1847]

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Good win by Charlotte tonight. Really turned it on midway thru the second half.

It was scary, we gave up about 15 open 3's in a row, but St. Joe's couldn't hit one until we already took the lead. And then FT shooting almost killed us after that. Oh well, a win is a win, good road conference win. Lets see if they can actually play a good game offensively, they will need it against George Washington Saturday.