MBB: Landmark Conference

[Great Day to be a Royal]

Changing the question. Over/under 5.5 wins.

[NEPAFAN]

Coach Danzig was by himself today. Not sure if the rest of the staff was under the weather. Don't want to speculate

[ronk]

Dean said assistant Frank was under the weather. 30 turnovers would put a lot more under the weather.

[saratoga]

Royals play recently is a lot like COVID...its made many people sick.

[NEPAFAN]

Scranton has had two historical performances in the last few weeks;

Fewest Points (Shot Clock Era, 1985 to the present)
1. #41, at Randolph Macon, Mar. 4, 2023
2. 42, at The College of New Jersey, Dec. 5, 2005
3. 43, at Bloomsburg, Jan. 15, 1996///43 points on Saturday at Juniata
4. 44, at Misericordia, Nov. 19, 2014//44, at Juniata, Dec. 2, 2017
17. 48 Points at Wilkes on 29 November

Source:

https://athletics.scranton.edu/documents/2023/8/3/Men_s_Basketball_Record_Book_2023.pdf

[ronk]

 I suggest they use true PG Colin Merriman more to cut down on the turnovers and go with a transition offense(3 on 3, eg.) rather than their 5 man half court offense. They need to appreciate the value of ball possession rather than the risk/reward they been achieving with 30 turnovers in the most recent game. They only had 11 turnovers against their strongest foe to date(Mount Union) and that included an OT period.

[Great Day to be a Royal]

The offense may have more of these nights to come. Not sure where the offense is going to come from.

[saratoga]

Let's see what tomorrow may bring.
We have an undefeated Drew team coming in that scores a ton of ppg.
And, we have an essentially winless Royals team that as NEPA points out, simply doesn't score, period.

If Will plays:
Drew: 74/Scranton: 62

If there's no Will:
Drew: 80/Royals: 54

Should the Royals get thumped in this game, take Saturday's line & put all your extra cash on the Gophers.
Justin will have a triumphant return. 

[ronk]

 For some unknown reason, Etown/Juniata have deviated from the standard Landmark schedule by moving their games to the 3rd weekend in Dec. Juniata women will play Lebanon Valley instead tonight.

[Great Day to be a Royal]

So we wait all year for games, but I am having a hard time finding the drive to go to the game tonight. I know that makes me sound like a fair weather fan, so I need some talking into...

[ronk]

So we wait all year for games, but I am having a hard time finding the drive to go to the game tonight. I know that makes me sound like a fair weather fan, so I need some talking into...

It could be the bounce off the bottom, then again, maybe not. They did play a good game against Mount Union not so long ago. If Will is back and they have focused on possession basketball, they have the ability to make the conference playoffs.
And you would be there for the awakening. How's that for a pregame speech? 

[Great Day to be a Royal]

Well said! 

Isn't that the beauty of sports though?  No matter where you are, you always feel like you have a chance, at least you should, or you shouldn't be playing. You always believe that this game will be the start of something. Here's to moving forward!

[saratoga]

Great Day:

Have no fear...I have it from a very reliable source that Danzig is going to use the pre-game speech he gave the troops in 2006 right before they played William Patterson in the 1st. rd. of the NCAA tourney.
He will then modify some aspects to fit the speech's he gave in 2008 vs. Elms, 2009 vs. Brandeis, 2011 vs. Becker, 2014 vs. Hobart and 2016 vs. Lynchburg.

On second thought...you may want to just listen to Dean. 

[NEPAFAN]

Well said! 

Isn't that the beauty of sports though?  No matter where you are, you always feel like you have a chance, at least you should, or you shouldn't be playing. You always believe that this game will be the start of something. Here's to moving forward!

Please give a full debrief on the atmosphere tonight. Maybe bring a paper bag for your head?

[CardsFan]

Guess I was right to not be confident about tonight's game.....now 6 losses in a row to Susquehanna. Lost the last three games in Selinsgrove by a total of 9 points. Didn't watch the game, so I'm only going off the box score. Missing 6 FTs in a game you lose by 2 always stings. Oh well, gotta recover and get ready for the trip to Moravian Saturday.