PL Game 3: Loyola

[travismParticipant]

That’s a bad loss. Bad loss. Did Tim and Kr get off the bus. Terrible effort. Where is goldy. Talk about decline. And Tyler Jenkins is the last guy I want to see taking last shot. Come on Brett. Have to beat American or we may be in early trouble

[StablerBumParticipant]

Obviously Ross is fouled out, but not sure how the inbound doesn’t go to Price or Leufroy with under 5 seconds left. Mind blowing.

[RichHParticipant]

Ugly,very ugly. Good players,playing badly. Pathetic performance.

[travismParticipant]

Yea why price or Kyle didn’t get the ball is beyond me.

[RichHParticipant]

Is JG still hurt. Or is it senioritis? He is a neuter on a team that has noone else.
Inbounds play totally unexplainable.

[RichHParticipant]

Doc summed it up in his postgame,ineptitude on offense and at the foul line.

[LU65Participant]

Bad Night All Around – but the highlights had to be:

TK – Preseason Player of the Year

10 pts. – season low
1 Offensive Rebound – season low
2 of 8 (.250) FT% – season low

KR – thought to be one of the League’s finest PGs

1 Assist – season low
5 Person Fouls – season high (has had 3 other games with 4)
29 minutes – second lowest (had 24 vs. Rochester)

Team Play

5 Assists – season low
5 ORs – 2nd lowest (had 3 vs. Stony Brook)
15 for 26 FTs (.577) – 2nd lowest rate (was 10 of 20 or .500 vs. AWP)
16 MFGs – 2nd lowest (had 15 vs. Syracuse)
3 M3FGs – 2nd lowest (had 2 vs. Syracuse)
4 Steals – 2nd lowest (had 3 vs. Virginia)

And, finally my pet peeve…………5 Assists/16 Made FGs = .313
Vs.
41 Assists/59 Made FGs (previous 2 PL games) = .695

Maybe KenPom knew what he was talking about.

[travismParticipant]

I was very high on goldy past two years. Really talked him up. He looks awful this year. What happened

[lfnadminKeymaster]

If we can’t win a game with TK on an off night we’re going to finish with 10 wins, tops.

I said the backcourt would need to step up and play well to win and what happens? KR fouls out.

I wish I could say I was surprised but I wasn’t. If this team wants to be taken seriously they need to pick things up as a team and pick each other up. They could have done that yesterday but didn’t.

[toddcuddParticipant]

It shouldn’t be any surprise to this board the Goldy had become one of my favorite LU players. Coming into this season, I would have made the argument that given different circumstances he might have evolved into an all-PL player. Last year he started 22/30 games and shot a fantastic .581 from the floor.
I honestly can’t figure out what has happened. Trying to remove any personal feelings, I think it’s got to be one of two things. Either something went wrong in the off-season – whether that’s an injury, conditioning, commitment, or something else. We heard unconfirmed rumors of a preseason ankle injury. I can only say that he doesn’t look hurt when on the floor.
The other possibility is that losing the starting spot did him some damage. Maybe that’s an ego/confidence blow, or maybe it’s the inability to get the feel/rhythm that comes with floor time.
Feels like a chicken-or-egg scenario to me. I would love to know why he is not starting at the 4 this year, but doubt that I ever will. It’s not like the front-line depth changed dramatically. We only lost CB, and he was very limited with injuries last year. And we added no post-players.
Did staff believe we needed another 3-pt shooter on the floor? With our 2-pt struggles this year, that seems unlikely. Even moreso now that KL has proven to be an effective scorer.
For what it’s worth – puzzling observations from last night: In the second half, we took a total of two 3 pointers, both by KR. That means none from AP, KL, or JC. Then why not play another paint player?
I’m really struggling to understand our vision or identity for the offense.

[travismParticipant]

I agree Todd.

[lehigh90Participant]

I can’t think that Goldy is 100% healthy. Good players at this level don’t regress, unless they are battling injury, especially as a senior. He’s given us a lot over his career so I have to give him the benefit of the doubt.

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