Musketeer Madness

. . . the Atlantic 10 tournament.

The loss dropped UD to the 12th and what would be the last spot that heads to Atlantic City. At 5-8, they have a 0.5 game lead over GW (4-8). GW has the tougher road (URI, @XU, @Char, UMass) than UD (@Ford, @SBU, SJU), but I could see this Dayton team just folding their tents and calling it a year, the way the last two months have gone for them.

And they are eating their young over on udprideless.

from a poster
I will not miss our predictable Brian Roberts dribble the ball till you get doubled, still try to dribble a little more, finally slowly pass the ball to the open man, the open man gets picked up and he fails to quickly rotate the ball to whoever is open. It is our patented offense especially in the second half and in the last ten minutes. Roberts is a heck of a shooter, but in four years he has yet to make teams pay for the double team. He gives up the ball not with visionary crisp passes, but with great reluctance and slowly. In the last ten minutes KH got the ball how many times with Love and Duncan Hines in foul trouble? BR knows a better way, force shots. His 4-14 shooting was a big factor. Not because he missed, but because he forced shots instead of drawing the defense and making good passes.

I will not miss BR walking the ball up the floor, so the defense can get totally set up to double team him.

I will not miss JB scared to death to shoot and too slow to get to a loose ball or rebound.

I will not miss JB and AS unable to make free throws.

I will not miss the second half of this season because it sucks.


I thought Brian was their end all be all.

Can we reopen the Roberts vs Burrell debate about the MVP of the league?

Since Roberts is the only guy not hurt who can play on that team, it's pretty silly to blame him.

On the other hand, another good win for the Muskies. And I give Dayton some credit for playing some good defense today.

muskieman wrote:And they are eating their young over on udprideless.

from a poster
I will not miss our predictable Brian Roberts dribble the ball till you get doubled, still try to dribble a little more, finally slowly pass the ball to the open man, the open man gets picked up and he fails to quickly rotate the ball to whoever is open. It is our patented offense especially in the second half and in the last ten minutes. Roberts is a heck of a shooter, but in four years he has yet to make teams pay for the double team. He gives up the ball not with visionary crisp passes, but with great reluctance and slowly. In the last ten minutes KH got the ball how many times with Love and Duncan Hines in foul trouble? BR knows a better way, force shots. His 4-14 shooting was a big factor. Not because he missed, but because he forced shots instead of drawing the defense and making good passes.

I will not miss BR walking the ball up the floor, so the defense can get totally set up to double team him.

I will not miss JB scared to death to shoot and too slow to get to a loose ball or rebound.

I will not miss JB and AS unable to make free throws.

I will not miss the second half of this season because it sucks.


I thought Brian was their end all be all.

Can we reopen the Roberts vs Burrell debate about the MVP of the league?

P.S. I will miss the tournament! (taps heard in background)

Statman, Very good point. Stranger things have happened. GW has the tougher schedule, but the won this weekend.

And look where LaSalle is. Tied for third.

The thing is whoever we play in the first round will be tough. It will take three good games to win.

At least their fans will be able to attend the "play in game" between 64 and 65.