Sadly on offense we went back to not passing the ball around. At the very least would have liked to see some guys moving around instead of standing in one place. Beyond James and Jamison, a lack of a reliable third option is hurting us at times, allowing defenses to key in on them. Despite all of that, I think we did enough offensively and would have hit 70 points had we made some free throws.

Defense was really bad today though. Credit Duquesne for being patient and passing the ball around until they found the open man. The team was consistently burned in the corners of the zone again and are still terrible with the fundamentals. Our rotating was awful. We were clearly at a depth disadvantage, which will benefit Duquesne tomorrow as well but our energy is just simply not there in general. Perhaps the most maddening thing is the lack of hustle plays, which is one of the things we can control. Lincoln did well trying to save a ball from going out of bounds at one point, but no one seems willing to dive on the floor for any loose balls or make an effort to tie the opposition up. How many jump balls have we generated on defense this season? Also need to be better about boxing out and preventing second chance opportunities. If we don't play with energy defensively, we will simply not give ourselves even a chance at winning.

I am probably a bigger Chase fan than most on the board, but several times this season he just hasn't gone for the loose balls when it's near him. He was one of the best finishers in the conference last season but has really struggled down low offensively as well. We need to get him going.

Liked Hunter's energy early on and would like to see us do some more things with him offensively, perhaps a pick and pop to extend defenses. Had a nice game overall despite the missed FTs.

Nice to see Matt step up down low when Sloan's shots were not falling today.

Lincoln and Tyler have done well stepping up so far with the departures we've had. Unfortunately with our lack of depth though we will need to unfairly expect them to become key options on this team.

We were much better with turnovers today as we slowed things down a lot but only generated one steal on defense which is less than ideal.
 

There is a bright spot. We didn't have to pay for tickets to see this. 

In addition to agreeing with Block or Charge about how the lack of movement and creativity in our offense is making us easy to guard, I also want to say that I didn’t think the D was, exactly, horrible today.

We got beat by two guys who were almost certainly not even in the scouting report.  Kelly and Okani scored a total of 2 points in 21 points over their first two games.  Both players got hot and combined for 27 in 40 minutes, with each getting a career high. Kelly did play against us last year and had 2 points in 17 minutes - I doubt he was in the scouting report for this game and Okani had literally done nothing to give the team reason to key on him. 

The guys we did prep for we did a decent job against. We held Dunn-Martin to 2-8 from three.  Michael Hughes only had 12 points and 5 boards on 3-9 fg. Lamar Norman and Maceo Austin combined for just 3 points, and even weathers’ 14 wasn’t horrible.

And Moyer did a nice job on Carry, holding him to 3 points and 2 assists (one of the three or four worst games of his career).

Where we did poorly on defense, aside from stopping//adjusting to the two hot hands, was forcing turnovers and generating steals.  Duq only turned it over 8 times and we only had 1 steal.  With our bad half court offense, we need to do a better job forcing TOs - plus, it allowed the game to be played at a slow tempo.

I was out at a winery and getting game updates....and not drinking enough wine.  

I thought the defense was a little improved, particularly Moyer, along with better weakside recovery to the corners which produced only infrequent, rather than routine, wide open looks. If Seymour isn't 5-5 from 3 he shouldn't see any time at all. We also are poised to be shredded on the boards most nights in the A-10.