(01-11-2019 09:08 AM)Naptown Tribe Wrote:  Tony mentioned postgame that our guys were uncharacteristically “chippy” with each other and getting on each other in the first half and he addressed that at halftime, and in his mind it got better in the 2nd half.

That’s not Tribe basketball at all as Tony implied.

I agree with you TribeInExile that Pierce totally blew Milon off after that hideous end of game turnover. You could see that on the livestream even. That was disappointing. Milon went over to Pierce walking off the court to talk about what happened but JP totally blew him off. I love JP, and Justin is a great competitor but that is not time for a little tantrum. Justin also turns the ball over at inopportune times unfortunately (ie: the late game in bounds turnover that Hofstra converted to an And-1 and went up by 6 late in regulation). We need to pull together and stay together, and our upper class man need to set the tone for the young guys not be the distraction. We need on court leadership and only so much Paul can do from the bench.

We need to stay composed and in control not play and act out of control.

The bad pass happened right in front of where I sit. What I saw was two exhausted kids who wanted to win so badly and I took JP's reaction as nothing more than that of a competitor who wanted to win so bad and Milon's reaction as being nothing more than feeling really bad about the pass. I saw Tony chew on Milon much worse than that when I sat right behind the bench at Hampton. What most probably did not see was Nate almost immediately putting an arm around Matt and basically telling him that everything would be okay and that he needed to make sure that he kept his head in the game.

I have read a lot of posts over the past several weeks beating this team up about some things and suggesting that we were, at best, part of a group of teams that could not hold the jock strap of the big three. To that I say hogwash!! Three of the players in our 8 man rotation are freshmen and two of them are teaching this team how to play DEFENSE!! We just took the best team in the league to triple overtime with the youngest team in the league and we did it while having 20 turnovers. We also stunk up the joint at Delaware, played absolutely horribly on offense and just flat out gave the game away against a team that is 4-1 and has road wins at Northeastern and UNCW, and still only lost by two. To say that we have the highest upside of any team in the conference is not a leap at all. And in case no one is paying attention, Northeastern has already lost at home to Delaware and barely won last night at Elon, and Charleston has already lost at JMU and at home to a Drexel team that we smoked by 18.

Maybe its time to get behind this team.

Thanks for helping me get over last night!!