MBB: Little East

ECSUalum · November 30, 2009, 10:55:12 PM

Quote from: thatdude 30 on November 30, 2009, 09:30:17 PM
Quote from: BornBalla on November 30, 2009, 07:00:04 PM
How does ECSU stack up with RIC & UMD? Seems like they are playing decent ball and finding ways to win. Always a good mark.

ECSU is playing great of late but I'm not quite sure if they can compete with both RIC and UMD quite yet

Probably correct, lets wait and see!

LECFAN32 · December 01, 2009, 11:39:51 PM

New poster to this board but playedthe last 3 years of my career in the lec.. ECSU tends to be able to stay in games with their grind it out style and patient offense, they are one of the veteran teams in the league and will be a tough out. Im bias having played for WCSU but I dont think their strong start is smoke and mirrors, they have size and depth up front for the first time in years along with strong guard play could make a surprise push for contending in the league this year.

1) umd establishing a floor leader with freeman graduated, and bringing their best guy off the bench

2) RIC finding their way after that highly succesfull class graduated

3)Keene losing the core of their front court from the last few years is showing, although they have talent they
appear to be a year or two away from contending for the league..

Any thoughts??

KeeneST8 · December 02, 2009, 09:10:15 AM

LECFAN32 I agree with you, but I think that as the season goes on, UMD and RIC will figure things out and get on a roll. Both teams have new looks, but both teams are very well coached, so it is just a matter of time before they start to look like they did last year.

As for Keene State, I also agree that they have a very talented team, but in the guard positions. They do not have any big bangers like they use to have that can score, and also defend other teams bigs. This could cause problems for them this year, but I think that once keene figures it out and some of the rookies get some confidence they could cause match up problems.

For the league, it seems like is down again this year. It seems through the past 3 or 4 years as a whole, the league has gotten weaker. So I feel that this opens things up for a lot of upsets in the league, and could cause problems with getting more than one team into the tourney

LECFAN32 · December 02, 2009, 10:57:41 AM

I would agree with you there.. I think the league is a little down as a whole with the bottom feeder teams being especially weak compared to other years.. as for Keene the loss of Kathan obviously hurts but Nate Anderson as well.. In my opinion he had been underutilized during his career.. as he was a difficult matchup for most teams (I know from personal experience).. I believe that UMD and RIC will most likely break away from the pack eventually in league play however as far as the tourney goes it could be a little more wide open as outside of UMD the talent gap is fairly small. should be an interesting year.

thatdude 30 · December 02, 2009, 01:21:58 PM

Quote from: LECFAN32 on December 01, 2009, 11:39:51 PM
New poster to this board but playedthe last 3 years of my career in the lec.. ECSU tends to be able to stay in games with their grind it out style and patient offense, they are one of the veteran teams in the league and will be a tough out. Im bias having played for WCSU but I dont think their strong start is smoke and mirrors, they have size and depth up front for the first time in years along with strong guard play could make a surprise push for contending in the league this year.

1) umd establishing a floor leader with freeman graduated, and bringing their best guy off the bench

2) RIC finding their way after that highly succesfull class graduated

3)Keene losing the core of their front court from the last few years is showing, although they have talent they
appear to be a year or two away from contending for the league..

Any thoughts??

UMD's best player had off season knee surgery so thats probaly why he doesn't start. West Conn in my opinion has a chance to be a top 2-3 little east team if they can be consistent. RIC lost alot and im not sure if they will ever figure things out because of so many new faces. Keene is good also but they might be too young. East Conn has started off to a great start and might be the sleeper team in the conference.

LECFAN32 · December 03, 2009, 12:05:55 PM

thatdude 30 - I agree with everything you say, thats interesting about shelton and explains alot.. once he rounds into shape UMD will be a difficult team to stay with especially since they appear to have an inside presence this year in the transfer - my colonials start the lec season this saturday at southern maine in a game winable game, although it is a difficult place to play for those traveling from CT, as they havent won there since the 06-07 season and even in that game I believe we were down 20 with about 8 minutes to go and came back to win, will look to go 7-1 for the first time since at least the 04-05 season ( didnt happen while I was playing)..

ECSUalum · December 03, 2009, 10:23:18 PM

ECSU 5-0 with win over Univ. New England this evening 65-51

ECSU looked sloppy, Courtney Simmons was great. ECSU with 18 T/O's!!!

UNE could not buy a 2, or 3 pointer.

ECSU plays tough D

UNE played a very unorthodox offence, set everyone outside 3 point line, waits for 10 seconds on the shot clock, then mainly lets Thompson drive the base line, otherwise they shoot 3 pointers.

LEC TV video of game was POOR with audio having technical problems most of the game. Need to get that fixed!

dribbledribble · December 04, 2009, 10:29:41 AM

Has anyone seen the kid from USM play yet........heard he was legit, he was given high accolades from a very, well respected coach in the North East. Said he was the best player in the little east and quite possibly one of the best barring division in the North East.........Hope Hendrickson reaps the benefits....one of the good guys in basketball

ECSUalum · December 05, 2009, 05:24:25 PM

ECSU dominated RIC until last 3 minutes then loses 89-87.

COULD NOT INBOUND BASKETBALL UNDER RIC FULL PRESS AND BLOWS A 10 POINT LEAD!!!!!

21 T/O's

Unbelievable

LECFAN32 · December 07, 2009, 11:09:22 PM

that would have been a great statement win for ecsu early in the season.. saw the end of the game via lectv and it indeed looked pretty sloppy, it appears that eastern has had a problem with turnovers in the early going, which is surprising because they are nto especially up-tempo and return veteran guards... also caught wcsu vs. southern maine and was fairly impressed with the kid from southern maine.. appears to be an athletic wing who has to be respected from deep as well.. as for being one of the best players in the east regardless of division.. i dont know about that.. he has to do EVERYTHING for a southern maine team that may struggle this season.. on a better team the statistics would be nowhere near as gaudy.

ECSUalum · December 08, 2009, 01:23:05 PM

Quote from: LECFAN32 on December 07, 2009, 11:09:22 PM
that would have been a great statement win for ecsu early in the season.. saw the end of the game via lectv and it indeed looked pretty sloppy, it appears that eastern has had a problem with turnovers in the early going, which is surprising because they are nto especially up-tempo and return veteran guards... also caught wcsu vs. southern maine and was fairly impressed with the kid from southern maine.. appears to be an athletic wing who has to be respected from deep as well.. as for being one of the best players in the east regardless of division.. i dont know about that.. he has to do EVERYTHING for a southern maine team that may struggle this season.. on a better team the statistics would be nowhere near as gaudy.

LECFAN,

Yes, the Warriors will have to improve thier inbound passes under pressure and reduce the turnover ratio to be competitive this year.
They had a big lead in 2 half and could not hold it, mostly due to sloppy play. However, the RIC game did show that they can play close with a very good RIC team. Proof will be when WestConn and UMD come to town and away. They must split these games to have a chance at the LEC crown or come on very strong in the LEC tournament.

WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE LECTV BROADCAST? THIS GAME WAS BETTER THAN LAST BUT SOUND IS STILL POOR

LECFAN32 · December 08, 2009, 03:59:07 PM

Sound was very poor during the wcsu game and had to be turned off.. sounded like the action was a couple seconds infront of the announcers.. Im suspecting it was a similar problems during the ric game..and answering ECSU alum these are very fixable problems and ECSU from the sounds of it shopuld be fairly happy with the way they played because they are not far away at this point.

ECSUalum · December 08, 2009, 04:47:41 PM

LECFAN,

During the UNE LECTV broadcast, there was no background sound, and cound not hear the anouncers for most of game.

During the RIC game the background noise drowned out the announcers voices.

We much appreciate LECTV's Live coverage, and do not want to be picky. Hopefully they will fix as they move higher on the experience curve.

Thier coverage of the NCAA men baseball Regional was supurb last MAY

Hugenerd · December 08, 2009, 04:59:42 PM

Why doesnt Mass-Boston have coverage on LECTV?

ECSUalum · December 08, 2009, 05:38:22 PM

Quote from: hugenerd on December 08, 2009, 04:59:42 PM
Why doesnt Mass-Boston have coverage on LECTV?

Huganerd,

According to LECTV schedule, (GO TO: www.littleeast.tv), the 12/12 UMB vs RIC mens BB game will be broadcast live.
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KEEP CHECKING FOR ANY CHANGE IN SCHEDULE. You can also watch all LEC Fall/winter/spring games already played
in the archive section on above web site.

You might want to contact LEC Commissioner Jonathan Harper, (jonathan@littleeast.com) for why UMB Mens BB has little coverage this season. He is a great guy and always replys to e-mails