MBB: Little East

[7express]

http://wcsuathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2014-15/roster

Western roster posted.  Couple of things here:

1) How many times between now & February 21 when the season ends will Russ Payton (who I thought had already graduated) be off and then back on the roster??  I'll set the over/under at 1.5 roster moves for Payton.
2) Hopefully I get proved wrong, but looks like too many cooks in the kitchen, in this case too many shooting guards on 1 team.  I remember back in February of 2006 when Stephon Marbury got traded to a Knicks team already featuring Steve Francis, and the running joke the first couple of weeks was: "if 2 teammates go for the same ball, is it still a jump ball??  Russ Payton, Phil Starks, Kendall Marquez & Jerry Washington are all shoot first guards, how will coach Campbell (and to begin the year coach Quick who is coaching the team wile Campbell is out) generate enough shot attempts for each of the 4 to be happy??  Payton, Starks and I think Washington to a lesser extent all have attitude problems as well as all 3 have been removed from the team during the season in years past, so if they don't get out to a fast start or one of them isn't scoring enough, this has the possibility of blowing up quickly.
3) Still have no height (again!) so will get slaughtered on the boards when we play a big team like RIC, Eastern or Keene.  Should've made runs at 4's and 5's who will stay on the team all year long instead of hot heads at the guard position who they have more than enough of.

[AllStar]

How bad is Rivier?   

[7express]

How bad is Rivier?   

Of course if you look at the boxscore...

As for your question Allstar.....probably pretty terrible.  As I said last night they've been terrible for the last 6 or so years so probably not a big surprise.  After seeing the Boston/Colby-Sawyer score, maybe the Beacons won't be so bad after all either.

[AllStar]

How bad is Rivier?   

Of course if you look at the boxscore...

As for your question Allstar.....probably pretty terrible.  As I said last night they've been terrible for the last 6 or so years so probably not a big surprise.  After seeing the Boston/Colby-Sawyer score, maybe the Beacons won't be so bad after all either.

I know Rivier is rarely good...they made the NCAA's one year but got throttled at Keene by a ton...but they may be especially bad this year.  I think they may win 1 or 2 games and that's it.  There next one is against Albany Pharmacy...I'll give them that win.  Other than that I really don't know who they will beat.

[7express]

Tuesday results:

Boston over Colby-Sawyer 75-62.
Wol Majong & Mike Dias each has 16 points for the Chargers, while Carl Joseph lead the Beacons with 21 points and had 10 rebounds.  Karl Agenor added a team high 17 points off the bench to go along with 14 points and Gregory Young also added 12 points.  The Beacons have been a free throw missing machine the past few years, but at least for today finished 13-15 from the free throw line.  Boston returns to the hardwood Thursday night to take on city rival Suffolk, while the Chargers get a 1 game reprieve from the LEC as they take on Fitchburg State @ Rivier on Friday evening (other team is Albany Pharmacy) as they resume play aginst LEC teams on December 4.

Keene edges Elms 70-68.
Jerry Buchanon lead the Blazers with 16 points while Kenny Lockett added in 15 points and a team high 9 rebounds.  Tom Doyle had a game high 26 points for the Owls.  Paul Emdin hit the game-winner for the Owls to keep them undefeated.  Keene's off until Saturday when they take on Lyndon State, Elms is @ Springfield on Thursday.

Plymouth destroys Rivier 81-32.
Not even the Plymouth women got beat this bad!  Ande Ruff had 8 points to lead Rivier.  Curtis Arsenault (20) and Alex Burt (13) outscored the Raiders by themselves.  Plymouth finished shooting 56.1% from the floor (64.3% in the first half) and the score at halftime was 42-10 as Rivier finished the first half shooting 3-21 and had 16 of their 28 turnovers in the first 20 minutes.  Rivier will look to bounceback from this beating at their own tournament this weekend featuring Colby-Sawyer, Fitchburg State & Albany Pharmacy (who??)  They will face Albany Pharmacy in the opener and Fitchburg/Colby-Sawyer in the consolation/championship.  Plymouth plays Endicott at Colby their next game on Friday evening.

With the sweep, LEC gets over .500 as they go to 8-6; I go to 10-4.

Wednesday schedule:

Nichols (+6) @ Eastern.
The Bison are 1-1 losing to Bates by 3, before crushing Salve by a 99-63 final in the consolation of Babson's tournament.  Last year the Bison lost by 15 at home and only got 9 points on 2-13 shooting from All-American Ryan Sheehan who has moved on from the program.  Eastern 78-65

Dartmouth (+10.5) @ Brandeis.
This is the Judges season opener.  Dartmouth has 2 close losses at home to Trinity & Staten Island and now go on the road to face a very talented team.  Corsairs haven't beaten them @ Brandeis since 2008 and have lost 4 of 5 overall in the series.  Brandeis 78-70

UNE (+5.5) @ USM.
UNE is usually the state cupcake for the Maine teams to chew up & eat on.  The Nor'easters have finished a combined 16-84 the last 4 years including a dreadful 1-24 last season.  This year they have already matched last seasons win total as they beat up another hapless Maine opponent; Maine-Maritime by 25 and only lost to perennial NESCAC power Middlebury by 2.  USM has already played 2 awful teams and have looked awful in those 2 games including an embarrassing 15 point loss at perennial NESCAC cellar dweller Conn College.  Huskies have won 4 straight in the series and haven't lost at home since the series resumed prior to the 06/07 season.  I'll cut my losses with the Huskies while I still can, UNE doesn't look like the punching bag anymore; UNE 68-67. 

TCNJ (+3) @ Western.
This series has actually been relatively close.  The first meeting in December 2012 saw the  Lions win by 4 after Western turned the ball over down 1 with 14 seconds left and some free throws from TCNJ padded the lead.  11 months later, but a different season in November down in New Jersey Western escaped with an 83-80 win.  This is Western's opening game while the Lions are 1-1 beating Delaware Valley but losing to Virginia Wesleyan.  Western 83-79

[7express]

Wed results:

Eastern rolls Nichols 80-56. 
Matt Langadas had 13 to lead the Bisons and irving Eggelston finished with 12.  For the Warriors, Kevin Leumene had a career high 31 and Tarchee Brown finished with 20.  Hugh Lindo ONLY had 12 rebounds after pulling down 17 each over the weekend.  Eastern returns to action Friday evening as they travel to Oneonta, NY to take on the Hartwick Hawks Friday night, Nichols starts a stretch of 3 games in 3 days when they play Lasell on Saturday.  They also play division-1 Holy Cross on Sunday before ending the stretch against Husson on Monday.

Dartmouth edges Brandeis 78-76.
Samuel Dowden lead the Judges with a game high 21 points and Carlin Haymon added 18 to lead the way for Brandeis.  For the Corsairs, Jordan Rezendes had another good game leading the team with 20 points and John Genkos finished with 15.  Dartmouth returns to action Saturday vs. Salem State; Brandeis goes to RIC on Saturday to get another crack at an LEC game.

USM rolls UNE 69-51.
Drew Coveney lead the Nor'easters with 11 points off the bench.  Sean Caddigan was one of 4 Huskies in double figures with 11, while Zach Leal had 10 points and a game high 11 rebounds.  Both teams have the rest of the week & weekend off and return to the court Tuesday night against NESCAC state rivals: USM plays Bates, UNE plays Bowdoin.

Western leading 91-73 with less than a minute left so I'm calling that a win for Western.  if I can get a boxscore I'll po0st numbers.  TCNJ returns to the court Saturday against Montclair State; Western is back in action Friday against Magicman's Plattsburgh State Cardinals.
Jayson Johnson lead the Lions with 23 points; Bobby Brackett had 21 points and a game high 15 rebounds.  Bobby Bynum lead the Colonials with 16 points.  As expected, the small Colonials got absolutely crushed on the boards (and I don't even think TCNJ is that tall of a team): the Lions outrebounded the Colonials 34-23 but 17-7 on the offensive glass which resulted in 25 second chance points for the Lions. 
12-6 LEC & 12-6 for me.

Thursday schedule:

Suffolk (+6) @ Boston.
The only time either school have finished a season with double digit wins in the last 8 years was the 2012/13 season: Boston finished 12-13; Suffolk was 10-16.   Beacons have won 6 straight over their city rivals dating back to the 2007/08 season when the Beacons finished 2-24.  Even in years the Beacons won 4, & 5 games they were still able to beat the Rams.  Time to push the streak to 7!  Boston 88-79

RIC (-1.5) @ Lasell.
The Lasers opened their season Tuesday night with an 18 point loss to Babson.  RIC split 2 games down in Alexandria, VA downing Brockport State before losing to the host Marymount Saints.  Lasell beat them in overtime last year at the Murray Center 98-94, RIC returns the favor 76-74

[LECFAN32]

Been awhile since I've posted. Has anybody had trouble with the new live broadcast site? I'm on an iPad but it used to work well, I go to the broadcast and the site comes up with a blank screen, doesn't say to download anything etc.

Westerns roster- very surprised Joe groski didn't exhaust his last year of eligibility, he had redshirted his second year at southern so there was one left to play. Maybe a second semester add on, who knows. Rest of front court doesn't look great, outside of Cassius there isn't many bangers, the guys with size and length fit more of the finest type of 4, seldon, perry who has reappeared etc.

Guard situation, here in lies the problem with coach Campbell in that nobody can screw him over enough for him to give up on them. Payton is clearly not a good teammate, gets frustrated and quits every time quick and Campbell don't let him play 2001 allen iverson style. I believe that they have more or less recruited by guys like Payton and Starks, who in my opinion works best as a off the bench 3 pt threat, and gotten guys like Bynum and the juco point guard who really appear to be more about winning then stats. No matter how bad tcnj is, a 20 pt win over an njac team is a good sign.

Interested in Friday's game, plattsburgh has a few guys from down around my area including jordan moody who I coached for 3 years. They are a very talented team with a alot If options. Definite ncaa tourney team. May check it out.

Other then that, eastern looks like they've reloaded. The kid leumene from my trinity catholic has been let loose by Geiger, matchup problem at this level, played behind Salzillo last couple years. Love the kid lindos game as well, veryyyyy unique. Ric has a lot of talent back, will be interesting to see if this guy who was a big time prep school coach at one point. Will get the same type of talent that Walsh did who had legitimate division one contacts and arolodex a mile long of coaches.

[7express]

Welcome back LECFan!

Haven't yet looked at the LEC.tv broadcast site.  Maybe for conference play I'll take a look??

[magicman]

Well, LECFAN, good to see you back on the boards. Yes you should check out the game Friday night between Plattsburgh and the Colonials. And yes Jordan Moody is back on the court for Plattsburgh State. Jordan who missed the 2nd half of last year is coming off an MVP winning performance in the Cardinals season opening tournament championship at the Lycoming Tip Off Tournament.

Jordan, a senior, who is the first player off the bench this year as the 6th man, scored 36 points in the 2 games, including a game high 22 against Lycoming in the championship game last Sunday. He has the quickest first step on a Cardinal team that is loaded with quick, athletic players. He is exciting to watch as he can blow by you for an easy layup, slam one down with his ability to get to the rim, or pull up and drain the 3 ball if you back off him a bit trying to prevent him from driving to the hoop. He is shooting 62.5% from the field at the present time. Plattsburgh's Coach Curle has 10 very good players this year that give him plenty of options both offensively and defensively. Jordan who's started most of the games he's played in the past 2 years provides quite a lift when he enters the game off the bench. I'm not sure if that will be the plan all year long or if he will start some games but so far in the scrimmages, exhibition and first 2 games, Jordan has been the first guy off he bench. Last Sunday, Plattsburgh's leading returning scorer of the past 2 years, Shamoy McIntosh, got in early foul trouble and Jordan replaced him and led the team in scoring with 12 point at the half. McIntosh picked up his 4th foul 2 minutes into the 2nd half and Jordan once again took over and led the team in scoring in the 2nd half. Tough to take as the opposing team when you force the opponents top scorer to the bench early, only to get hammered by his replacement.

So if you get the chance to watch this game Friday night I would definitely recommend  doing so. It would appear that there is no webcast of the game unless I'm missing something. If you or anyone (are you listening 7express?) know of a video link please let me know here on this board or by a PM.

Hope to see you here again LECFAN.       

[magicman]

Hey 7express I left a post for you over on the SUNYAC board. Check it out.  And before I forget, how about a side bet of 3 plus K's on the outcome of the Western-Plattsburgh game? The loser has to give the winner a plus K for 3 days in a row. Winner gives the loser 1 plus K for being a good sport.

[ECSUalum]

Been awhile since I've posted. Has anybody had trouble with the new live broadcast site? I'm on an iPad but it used to work well, I go to the broadcast and the site comes up with a blank screen, doesn't say to download anything etc

LECFan I have had no issues with the Stretch Internet side.  It does take a few seconds for it to download all it needs to show the broadcast so you might want to give it a second. I am using a new HP laptop with windows 8. There is a little help tab on the upper right margin you can click on for more info, however here is comment from help section on requirements to use the Stretch Portal:
If you're on a desktop or laptop computer, we suggest using the latest version of Chrome or Firefox. If you're using an alternate browser, please ensure you're using the most updated version of that browser. To access audio or video content, you will also need Flash 14 or later, which requires Max OS X 10.6 or late, or Windows XP or later. To access live or on-demand video, you will need a download speed of at least 1.0 Mbps (1,000 Kbps) for standard definition broadcasts and 3.0 Mbps (3,000 Kbps) for high definition broadcasts. You can measure your download speed atwww.speedtest.net. Our broadcasts are also compatible on any Apple mobile devices running iOS 7 or later and on Android devices running OS 4.4.4 or later. If you're wishing to view the broadcasts on your TV, we suggest using AppleTV to wirelessly stream content from a Mac or Apple mobile device â€" or connecting an HDMI cable from your computer or device to your TV. While some Smart TVs can also be used to access our streams, we cannot guarantee compatibility

Saw Westconn first game, no audio but in HD, and they looked pretty good, with excellent transition and some good 3 pt shooters.  I think they will need to focus on playing defense IMHO

Coach Geitner now has a Warrior team that looks to be the most athletic I have ever seen.  Freshman Tarchee Brown is playing like an upper classmen and his  6'3" 220 frame sets up some matchup problems for opponents. He is also a very good 3pt shooter, and has also shows to be effective inside.  Kevin Lumene is coming into full effectiveness this year after being injured freshmen year and gaining his confidence in his game last year.  Expect more high point total games from him.
This kid Collin Jordan has been playing some point guard like he has been around awhile.  With him at point, allows Treshon Preston to do some other thing on the court.  Jordan had exposure to a good full court press last night and handled it pretty well fo a freshman 3 games into college basketball.
Hugh Lindo is already a star!! He needs to work on hi offense and particularly on his FT shooting, but he can outrebound and compete with players much taller than him and his quickness and defense are outstanding.
So far Brandon Yarbourough has had a bit of a slow start, but is a team leader and the lone Sr on the team.  I have not seen 6' 11" David Canny play yet, ( I think he has has a knee problem, but hopefully he has improved his inside game from what I saw last year.
Trechone Preston... well is Trechone Preston and will provide a lot of offence both inside and outside this year!!
The Warrior defense is as good as ever!!!

Overall, it is still early, but I dare say this years ECSU team may be better that last years team that included 3 pt specialist Salzillo and All America Mike Garrow.

[7express]

Hey 7express I left a post for you over on the SUNYAC board. Check it out.  And before I forget, how about a side bet of 3 plus K's on the outcome of the Western-Plattsburgh game? The loser has to give the winner a plus K for 3 days in a row. Winner gives the loser 1 plus K for being a good sport.

Deal!

[amh63]

ECSU....thanks for the technical help...since I use an IPad often.  Seems that both your MBB and WBB are on a roll.  Lindo, your "jumping jack" forward almost out rebounded Colby by himself.  Colby last season was the only team to beat Amherst during the season.  It should be interesting when the LJs visit Williamatic.  See that the WBB team visits LeFrak soon.  It will be a good game as Meg Robertson, our senior center maybe still be out.  Expect her to start playing later in Dec.

[ECSUalum]

ECSU....thanks for the technical help...since I use an IPad often.  Seems that both your MBB and WBB are on a roll.  Lindo, your "jumping jack" forward almost out rebounded Colby by himself.  Colby last season was the only team to beat Amherst during the season.  It should be interesting when the LJs visit Williamatic.  See that the WBB team visits LeFrak soon.  It will be a good game as Meg Robertson, our senior center maybe still be out.  Expect her to start playing later in Dec.

Good to hear from you amh63,
Yeah ECSU WBB play a lot of NESCAC teams this year, Trinity the first tonight @ Geissler Gym.  Coach Bierly always puts a demanding program for the women.  Hopefully the Warriors can make a good showing vs the always strong NESCAC.  I am happy the Warriors are finally back to strength after the roster disaster of 2 years ago
I am really looking forward to the Lord Jeffs' visit to Willimantic for the mens BB game, and I think it could be a great matchup this year. I am excited about this years squad after watching 3 games so far.   Last year we thoroughly enjoyed our visit and stay in Amherst, a beautiful, historic campus and village
BTW continued success to Amherst men's soccer in Oneonta NY this week end and to Thomas Bull and Justin Aoyama on their All America awards

[magicman]

ECSUalum,

Thanks for the link to the Western Connecticut-Plattsburgh game. 7express also sent me the same link earlier today and I appreciate the thoughtfulness from my friends here on the LEC board.