MBB: Skyline Conference

[Raptormania!]

You know why, Knightstalker? Because Wednesday night, the Raptors delcared Newburgh "officially closed."

[msmc alumni]

I was in the gym for that game between MSMC and bard, and going into that game you just knew msmc was going to lose. They only beat bard by about 8 when they played at bard in the hudson valley tip-off. Msmc got beat on the boards, but the lose doesnt belong to msmc I would place it on the coaches. We have more coaches on the bench of that college then players. None of them do anything and Coach Duane Davis is still putting his team together how he sees and by not picking up the best athletes at the tryouts. He kept the captin (charles Morris) on the bench the whole game. If you look at the stats charles plays very little but when he does come in he is more productive on Defense and rebounding along with scoring then Matt Cunningham and Alex Kuchar. Matt cunningham started the game yesterday and hasnt been productive at all. Alex Kuchar is a great scorer but doesn't play any defense, He is coming from centenary college where he shoot 1/3 of the teams total shoots. Looking back on his stats he has never shot 40% in any of his games expect 2 while at centenary college. Coach needs to count on Tim morris to get it done, he needs alot more touches on the ball. Coach kept Tim on the bench the whole second half. It is time for coach davis to retire, just like in D-1 when you start losing games that you shouldnt lose it is Time to go. The mount is losing recruits by the minute, I have never went to a game that wasnt packed, the attendance at this game was maybe 75 people. About 45 of them were for bard, But I want to let everyone know that the bard game was the best game Ive seen in a while. Bards guard justin White is the future, hopefully he has more years to play for them. I would say the best point gurad in the skyline conference hands down.

Overall the mount is washed up, Coach davis needs to start recruiting from the area he is in, Section 1 high school basketball is some of the best basketball in NY state. Coach davis has yet to send a recruitment letter to a section 1 prosepect. His time is over.

[NYBB]

Hah i love that someone finally noticed that stat about Kuchar shooting 1/3rd of Centenary's shots last year.  "The dude only shoots and plays no D" is also a correct assessment. 

As for their team, losing Hoyt just put them in the dumps.  They'll lose their first game in the Skyline tournament and then not make the cut next season.

Justin White however, is very talented.  If Bard could get a few decent 6'4'' athletic guys to compliment him, they could be pretty good from here on out.

[Rhodes Scholar]

As for their team, losing Hoyt just put them in the dumps. 

Actually, MSM has a little better record this year than last year.
2007: 9-16, 6-10
2008: 11-13, 8-9

Hoyt was a very good player but I don't know if the way their offense was structured last year was a good idea or not.

I agree with both of you about Justin White. He looked very good against Poly.

[msmc alumni]

yes they did only win 9 games last year in a great skyline conference, but this year the three teams that came in the league poly, bard and purchase have a combine record of about 10 wins and 66 loses last year. I think the mount should have finished with more wins then just 2 more then last year, they dropped  about 6 games by 5 points or less. The mount should be ranked 3 in the skyline but bad coaching and bad offense.

[Rhodes Scholar]

I wouldn't call last year's Skyline Conference "great," although it was certainly much better than this year's version. I haven't seen MSM play this year so I can't say if they're underachieving or not. Also how can you say MSM should have finished ahead of Old Westbury? The Panthers finished 15-3, one game behind Farmingdale and St. Joe's.

[NYBB]

next year's skyline will be much better...i promise.

[Rhodes Scholar]

Why will it be much better?

[Rhodes Scholar]

Final Standings

Farmingdale St.  16-2
St. Joseph's  16-2
Old Westbury  15-3
Maritime  9-9
Mount St. Mary  8-10
Yeshiva  7-11
Mount St. Vincent  6-12
Polytechnic  6-12
Bard  5-13
Purchase  2-16

[Rhodes Scholar]

Farmingdale State 73, Yeshiva 43

Farmingdale State
Damien Santana  25 pts
Warren McAllister  13 pts
Peter Lipka  12 pts

Yeshiva
Alex Claster  10 pts
David Schaulewicz  10 pts
Yoel Sarraf  9 pts

This one was never in doubt as Farmingdale dominated the contest from the start. Yeshiva's defense gave far too many open looks to Santana and Lipka and the Maccabees paid the price. In addition, the Rams played solid defense with very few lapses, which prevented Yeshiva from mounting any kind of comeback.

[NYBB]

why? because i'll be in the skyline conference next year and i'm a wild and crazy guy.

[Rhodes Scholar]

It looks like you're going to have your work cut out for you at Purchase.

[NYBB]

well at the athletics open house for incoming players i saw some guys that look like ball players...there was a 6'8'' dude that looked completely unmoveable: whether or not that translates into ability, we'll see.  other than that, lots of long island white dudes who can prob. shoot and do nothing else.  we will see my friend, we will see.

[Raptormania!]

Don't let the long odds get you down. At every stage of Bard's transformation from HVMAC bottom-feeder to Skyline Conference power broker, people were saying it couldn't be done.

Looking forward to seeing you play.

[NYBB]

yeah, i hear ya.

i've been playing in a men's league at the Reebok Sports Club & Sports Club L/A with some ridiculous competition and i run twice a week with two 7 footers (Ex-Michigan/UNC-Greensboro), ex-Cornell, Colgate & Virginia Tech players & a guy from the Harlem Globetrotters.  I should be in shape by the time the season rolls round, we'll see what's up though.  Coming into a new school where things aren't going great is a new adventure for everyone.  Purchase might not have been good this year but they're returning their entire team and that means lots of existing comradery and people not happy about getting replaced by a boatload of recruits.  It's an interesting scenario and i'm hoping everything works out but like i said, we shall see.