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I guess the Towson game was so bad we didn't even start a thread for JMU last time.

Here is a preview with Matt Leon interviewing Spiker. http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/01...aight-jmu/

The most disturbing thing in there is that we have lost eight consecutive games to JMU so no one on the current team has ever beaten them. Looks like we are about 3 point favorites. Hopefully we can build on the momentum of last week.
01-31-2018 11:57 PM
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I got a lot of crap about my prediction for the Elon game, so today I'll be more positive. Drexel plays well at home. They're facing the 10th place team at home. It's not an easy drive up from the Virginia boondocks. It's tough to beat a team twice in such a short period of time, especially when two teams are pretty evenly matched. And that 9 game losing stream to JMU has got to be in the players minds.

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In order to really start building for a little run in the CAAT, we need to continue making progress with each of the 8 remaining games. In this one, I'd see progress as making this a comfortable win. Not another prayer of a dramatic comeback needing a 7-0 run and a lot of lucky bounces at the end to pull it off. Take a solid lead in the 2nd half and protect it to the end.
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Wonder how many other teams these players have never beaten.
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Ok, so I 'm answering my own question. JMU is the longest current streak of losses at 9. Our last JMU win was 2/8/14.

Towson and UNCW are next at 5 straight losses - beat Towson last on 2/10/15, UNCW on 1/31/15. Stretch, Sammy and Myles were freshman on that team. Only Sammy really contributed to those wins, 17 pts in 30 minutes vs UNCW, 5 pts in 17 minutes vs. Towson.
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(02-01-2018 10:24 AM)bdragon Wrote:  In order to really start building for a little run in the CAAT, we need to continue making progress with each of the 8 remaining games. In this one, I'd see progress as making this a comfortable win. Not another prayer of a dramatic comeback needing a 7-0 run and a lot of lucky bounces at the end to pull it off. Take a solid lead in the 2nd half and protect it to the end.

I would give a hearty second to this proposal.

I wouldn't expect it to be easy though, JMU has been steadily improving throughout the season and have kept most of the conference games fairly close including overtime away games against William and Mary and Hofstra. JMU's start with Lou Rowe has been as shaky as our with Spiker, but if nothing else he brought in a quality freshman class this year.

The schedule certainly does get any easier with 4 of the next 5 on the road (3 of which are at the 3 teams currently tied for first) mixed in with a home game against Towson. At this point, it seems like a long shot to get out of the bottom four of the league, but if we're going to do it, this game is a must win.
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(02-01-2018 10:24 AM)bdragon Wrote:  In order to really start building for a little run in the CAAT, we need to continue making progress with each of the 8 remaining games. In this one, I'd see progress as making this a comfortable win. Not another prayer of a dramatic comeback needing a 7-0 run and a lot of lucky bounces at the end to pull it off. Take a solid lead in the 2nd half and protect it to the end.

This. We've been playing better of late which has allowed us to hang in and eventually overtake some better teams. In order for me to buy in, I'd like to see us convincingly take care of a team that we were greatly expected to be better than preseason.

(02-01-2018 11:05 AM)bdragon Wrote:  Ok, so I 'm answering my own question. JMU is the longest current streak of losses at 9. Our last JMU win was 2/8/14.

Towson and UNCW are next at 5 straight losses - beat Towson last on 2/10/15, UNCW on 1/31/15. Stretch, Sammy and Myles were freshman on that team. Only Sammy really contributed to those wins, 17 pts in 30 minutes vs UNCW, 5 pts in 17 minutes vs. Towson.

Didn't believe that we've lost 9 straight games against JMU, but you're right. Amazing. We need to pick up a win on the road in conference play at some point too. We've lost 14 straight.
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nice win.

they've already done enough to make this season a success in my view. i wasn't so sure this time last week. we couldn't go through the whole league schedule getting blown out night after night.

harper seems to be buying in. the isabell/harper combo could be reason to get excited about next year.
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I like the Lee Isabell Harper Tri-Combo
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I might hesitate to call this a nice win but I suppose all wins are nice. I hope Isabell didn't tweak his injury, he seemed to disappear towards the end. If he was deferring to Lee and Harper since they were doing well, I have no problem with that. Hopefully that was the case.

Demir looked bad tonight, hopefully he bounces back next game.

3-0 on the home stand was nice, now it is time to show some life on the road. William and Mary was up by 20 with 10 minutes to go against Elon, who cut it to 3 by 3:30. They are a streaky team, hopefully we can put together a full 40 minutes against them.

We are now tied with the chickens (sea and blue) for 7th, a game behind Elon for the all-important 6th spot. We are going to need some of those road games though.
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I'll take the win, but too close to call it a step forward. That purple team is not good. DU had them down 9, needed to be able to maintain that for the final 8 to 10 minutes. Couldn't do it.

I don't like the Lee Isabell Harper combo, unless one of them is on the bench. Thats too many guards on the court at the same time that need the ball in their hands to score. Need one of them to and a consistent catch and shoot to their game. None are better than 35% and Harper is just bad from 3 land.

Win is a win though. Hoping for a much stronger performance at W&M. Will need it to stay in that game.
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3 way tie at the top...

Towson and Hofstra still in the running..

Elon with a game lead over a 3 way tie behind them..

And JMU at the bottom by themselves.

This is quite the interesting year in the CAA.
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(02-01-2018 10:02 PM)MedicSBK Wrote:  3 way tie at the top...
No. Charleston's game at Northeastern was guaranteed to break the three-way tie. Charleston and William & Mary are 8-3. Hofstra and Northeastern are 7-4.
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DAC Magic continued last night. That's 3 straight wins at home by a total of 7 points. 8 wins so far at the DAC for Drexel with 6 of those 8 wins being decided by 4 points or decided in OT. Of their 10 wins, their only really solid win was against Rider.

I don't have the stats to support it, but with so many of Bruiser's teams, it seemed as if whenever the games would go down to the buzzer at the DAC, the opponent would make some crazy shot at or near the buzzer to win the game or Drexel would find a way to screw up a potential game winning shot on their end. This year the bounces keep falling Drexel's way in the final seconds. While I'm not yet sold on Spiker as a coach yet, it is amazing how this year's team is just so much better in the last minute of games.
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A win is a win. I was hoping for a bigger win against a bad team. It looked promising to be up big at half after not playing well ourselves (at least shooting wise). I predicted 78-74 on the JMU boards, so there is that. Like everyone else here, need to see the team show up and truly compete on the road still. 3-0 home stretch was excellent, we need to carry those positive vibes to wins on the road. I think it will still be hard to avoid a bottom tier finish but the 3-0 stretch here really makes it look more possible.
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(02-01-2018 10:21 PM)EvanJ Wrote:  
(02-01-2018 10:02 PM)MedicSBK Wrote:  3 way tie at the top...
No. Charleston's game at Northeastern was guaranteed to break the three-way tie. Charleston and William & Mary are 8-3. Hofstra and Northeastern are 7-4.

My B I misread the standings.
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(02-02-2018 07:54 AM)J.B. Wrote:  DAC Magic continued last night. That's 3 straight wins at home by a total of 7 points. 8 wins so far at the DAC for Drexel with 6 of those 8 wins being decided by 4 points or decided in OT. Of their 10 wins, their only really solid win was against Rider.

I don't have the stats to support it, but with so many of Bruiser's teams, it seemed as if whenever the games would go down to the buzzer at the DAC, the opponent would make some crazy shot at or near the buzzer to win the game or Drexel would find a way to screw up a potential game winning shot on their end. This year the bounces keep falling Drexel's way in the final seconds. While I'm not yet sold on Spiker as a coach yet, it is amazing how this year's team is just so much better in the last minute of games.

I cannot speak directly to last second shots, but I can to games that were close late. At the end of the Bruiser Flint era, I took a look at the team's performance in games with a difference of 4 or less points with 4 minutes remaining. I'm WAY behind on a couple of statistical projects I've worked on and this is one of them. I want to do the same comparison statistics for the Spiker era. I can tell you that the team is 2-11 in these situations during Flint's last season. Here are the articles;

http://alwaysadragon.com/close-and-late-part-i/

http://alwaysadragon.com/close-and-late-...continues/
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I don't have access to the stat but I was told that DU is top 4 in the league in scoring offense and scoring defense out of timeouts this year. We tended to be at or neat the bottom in offense under Bru. This isn't just your eyes JB, it's what a real x's and o's basketball coach with situational preparedness looks like. That doesn't make Spiker a great overall coach, the jury is still out on that, but we kind of all know that offensive plays/ x's and o's were Bruiser's weakness. As has been the case seemingly over and over again as it relates to the program, the majority of fans of the program were correct. Your eyes and the current stats are just proving this out.
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A win is a win. Not the best performance of the year and thankfully not the worst either. Maine did not look like himself down the stretch. Harp had a HUGE steal at the end. Glad to see that the team is pulling out some of these close games. Last year - not so much.
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