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Home with EWU & UI

oldrunner

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I guess we can hope that lessons were learned on the road last week. We will certainly have to clean up our game to beat EWU. They are the hottest team in the league right now and are sitting on top with a 3-0 record. They have several guys who can hurt you if you let them. Coward is a tall wing, power forward combo who is a load to gaurd. Casey Jones is a 6'6'' wing who can do a bit of every thing, much like our Jones. Price is a 6'10'' post who can also step out and hit the 3. They are well coached and it will take a much better defense and rebounding game from our Wildcats than what we saw last week.

The keys for us to win are playing a solid, switching defensive game and holding our own on the boards. We need to get back to the defensive form that got us past UM.

The formula to win the BSC hasn't changed. Win your home games and at least half of your road games. From here on out we need to get at least one road sweep, win all of our home games, and split the rest of the road games. It is within our capacity to do that, but it will take a much greater effort in all of our games. We can not just go through the motions and expect to win. Most all teams get better as the season goes on and if we don't do it as well, we will get left behind. That would be awful because this team has great potential. They also have the potential to hang with the bottom feeders. It's a choice they are going to be making real soon here.

It's all about defense and rebounding.
 
Wildcats better come out with high energy defense and play with a sense of urgency…otherwise, EWU wins and possibly by double-digit margin.

Hopefully dropping both road games was a boot in the face and has them realizing they aren’t good enough to show up and win. We’ll see how they respond.
 
This is a hard team to analyze. But if there is one glaring issue it’s inconsistency. But two low hanging fruit losses in a row?

Time to start a dominant run or forget it. Wiggle room is over.
 
With EWU having no losses and Wildcats having three, regular season title is pretty much out of play. Wildcats just need to try and figure it out and try to get playing we by conference tournament. Very disappointing last three games.
 
Took advantage of the America First Night and took the family. It was fun to see the 99 team at halftime and see Jones break the steals record. Very sloppy first half, but they put it together in the second half. At Montana on Monday will be a big test to see if they can keep the momentum going.
 
Chex said:
Took advantage of the America First Night and took the family. It was fun to see the 99 team at halftime and see Jones break the steals record. Very sloppy first half, but they put it together in the second half. At Montana on Monday will be a big test to see if they can keep the momentum going.
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Yes, the first 10 minutes were brutal. After that bad stretch, we beat them by 35 points to eventually win by 23. Once again, we did not put a full game together. Hand it to UI, they played with a lot of enthusiasm the whole game long. There are some good young players on that team and they will win some more games before the season is over.

Montana is playing better and we will need a more complete game to beat them at their place.

For now, EWU is the team to beat. They pulled away late to win up at Pocatello.
 
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