I’ll leave the X’s and O’s to other posters but my one word description of this year’s team is: SIZE

As for the result, let’s just say GW fans left today’s game happy 😉

The game had the feel of a Kenner Leafue game.  Looks like we can rebound and score inside.  And this was without 6’11” Vukovic who was out with an ankle injury.  We did not shoot well from the 3 and turned the ball over too much.  I was impressed with Witherspoon, Arceneaux and Dylan James.  Looks like Frost will slide in easily to the Garrett Johnson role.  If you liked Aranguren last season, you should like c him again this season .   For you old timers, it was nice seeing and chatting with Brian Magid.

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GW0509 wrote:

Alum1 wrote:

GW0509 wrote:

I’ll leave the X’s and O’s to other posters but my one word description of this year’s team is: SIZE

As for the result, let’s just say GW fans left today’s game happy 😉

 
Nice. Anything or anyone stand out to you besides size?

The worry about Jean being PG is overblown.

The freshman N’Landu looked confident. I’m sure he’ll make some freshman mistakes but he’ll be able to hold his own.

We were short on a bunch of 3s but we were able to get good shots. Nothing was really forced.

I think Dylan James is going to be very good. Not sure I would say he’ll be Castro 2.0 but I feel comfortable with him manning the paint.

Old friend Christian Jones was randomly in attendance. Wonder if Murray State is in town for a scrimmage of their own?

 
Thanks for this. Was score kept?  Did we win?

Long Suffering Fan wrote:

Until I actually saw a “secret” scrimmage, I didn’t fully appreciate how meaningless the score was. The game was 2 20 minute periods plus one 10 minute period   score reset after each period. We won all 3 by a few points

 
Ahhh….I see. No idea if Temple is any good, but sounds like we were more than comply.

We appeared to be better than Temple.     I don't recall Deng Manyang (Australia) being in the game, and I doubt very much that in a scrimmage, it would be a DNP-coaches decision.   The other 2 who didn't play were Vukovic (ankle injury) and Aldan Shaw (who I believe was away at the court hearing in which he is one of the named plaintiffs seeking a 5th year of eligibility.    He is definitely on GW's current roster and presumably practicing with the team, but will probably need a court decision to actually play in a game.

Long Suffering Fan wrote:

We appeared to be better than Temple.     I don't recall Deng Manyang (Australia) being in the game, and I doubt very much that in a scrimmage, it would be a DNP-coaches decision.   The other 2 who didn't play were Vukovic (ankle injury) and Aldan Shaw (who I believe was away at the court hearing in which he is one of the named plaintiffs seeking a 5th year of eligibility.    He is definitely on GW's current roster and presumably practicing with the team, but will probably need a court decision to actually play in a game.

Both Manyang and Shaw were in attendance but didn’t play. Shaw was wearing a uniform; Manyang wasn’t dressed and sat behind the bench. Manyang is also dealing with an ankle so it wasn’t a DNP-CD.

Agree that Shaw definitely is on the roster. He had a  locker in the locker room.