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Post by Incognito on Oct 22, 2023 9:10:40 GMT -6
Anyway, so on and so forth, the first road test at SEMO will be a good measure of the rebuilt team's grit. MVC road games will be a lot tougher than this one and we won none of them last year. My inner optimist is gaining strength and I see SEMO as a win. Of course, the Aces won the first road game last season and we all know how that turned out.
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Post by aceloverlarry on Oct 22, 2023 9:40:06 GMT -6
Anyway, so on and so forth, the first road test at SEMO will be a good measure of the rebuilt team's grit. MVC road games will be a lot tougher than this one and we won none of them last year. My inner optimist is gaining strength and I see SEMO as a win. Of course, the Aces won the first road game last season and we all know how that turned out. I’d say last years season opening road win was due to having a completely new roster with no scouting report on the team. Once the scouting report came out, we seemed to regress significantly. Since SEMOs staff will have a chance to see how we play prior to the game, hopefully it will be a good indicator and not a fluke like last years first road game. I, too, am getting cautiously optimistic about this season. A 3-0 start heading into Ball State would be nice. It would be great to see a push for a large crowd for our first Saturday game and the Aces to move to 4-0 that day.
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Post by Incognito on Oct 22, 2023 10:39:02 GMT -6
Anyway, so on and so forth, the first road test at SEMO will be a good measure of the rebuilt team's grit. MVC road games will be a lot tougher than this one and we won none of them last year. My inner optimist is gaining strength and I see SEMO as a win. Of course, the Aces won the first road game last season and we all know how that turned out. I’d say last years season opening road win was due to having a completely new roster with no scouting report on the team. Once the scouting report came out, we seemed to regress significantly. Since SEMOs staff will have a chance to see how we play prior to the game, hopefully it will be a good indicator and not a fluke like last years first road game. I, too, am getting cautiously optimistic about this season. A 3-0 start heading into Ball State would be nice. It would be great to see a push for a large crowd for our first Saturday game and the Aces to move to 4-0 that day. I think we have underestimated the importance of Sekou Kalle prior to his couple of shoulder injuries. We won the road game against Miami-O in spite of their extra-heavy big. Kalle had 10 rebounds in that game and double digit rebounds were hard to come by later on, especially after his injuries. His offensive abilities needed work but we needed his wide body later in the season. I hope he is healthy this season and stays that way. I don't know yet about the immediate worth of the newcomers but I do appreciate the skills of the returning players. Coach Ragland could have sent them packing but I believe he understands their value as a foundation to build upon. I trust his judgement.
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Post by austinace on Oct 23, 2023 14:26:08 GMT -6
Taking a peek at the upcoming couple of regular season games (specifically Miami of Ohio and SEMO) and looking at their schedules and roster.
Miami of Ohio has a tall and deep team (after checking out a small sample of comments from their message board). A good challenge for our bigs and team early.
SEMO plays an exhibition game tonight against Jimmy Elgas’s Henderson State team. Jimmy was an assistant under Marty as many on here know. So hoping that we can get a pretty good scouting report on them (especially since we play them twice and early).
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Post by aceloverlarry on Oct 23, 2023 15:00:52 GMT -6
SEMO plays an exhibition game tonight against Jimmy Elgas’s Henderson State team. Jimmy was an assistant under Marty as many on here know. So hoping that we can get a pretty good scouting report on them (especially since we play them twice and early). DJ was also on Jimmys staff prior to coming to UE, so I’m sure that will help as well.
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Post by bballjunkie on Oct 25, 2023 8:54:21 GMT -6
Haven't been on here in a while and looking forward to the season.....I see lots of hidden posts, and some "new" posters have joined the fray.
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Post by ATP on Oct 26, 2023 20:11:36 GMT -6
Thursday 8 p.m. Tenn Tech on ESPN+ in an exhibition. No idea why I wanted to watch this but it's better than that classic movie VIKING WOMEN VS. THE SEA SERPENT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Jis3km0gU
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Post by Incognito on Oct 29, 2023 13:33:48 GMT -6
It's hard to believe but in a few short weeks we'll be arguing over why So-and-so is getting minutes instead of What's-his-name. When I wrote this I was fully expecting that the minutes argument would wait until after the first regular season game. I won't make that same mistake next year.
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Post by austinace on Oct 31, 2023 20:54:19 GMT -6
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