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And the officiating fun starts up in earnest. Only about 8 bad calls out of 9 - all one direction. Welcome to bison land. UND 61 - bison 50 plus the bison stripes add of 12 for 62

Keep attacking the rim. We have the height mismatches in the backcourt and Morgan has 3 fouls. Wheeler Thomas gives up 4 to 6 inches on our guards…

Officiating is interesting. Some touch fouls on the drive but letting everything go down low.

Need pace and penetration this half. Playing at a snails pace plays right into what they want to do. Good start to the half. Going to the rack before the d settles and 4 points as a result…

Our shooting will improve when we move the ball. Too much holding the ball on the perimeter and settling for shots rather than creating them so far.

First 13 shots for UND 9 have been 3s and only a few have been good 3s. Need to Get back to penetration and movement.

Agreed. Tyree and Eli absolutely shutting down Brunner and McBride the last 2 games has been masterful. Phenomenal d against 2 high end scorers with multiple blocks each to boot. Eli starting to emerge as a scoring threat, along with Trey going low on mismatches is huge as well. Now have 4 great threats getting to the bucket plus can’t leave people to cheat on the drive if all 4 can drop a 3 with a kick out off the drive. Didn’t hit the 3 well in the second half last night but have proven now that we can. And when we do, we can score in a hurry - just ask Denver…

Anyone going to see the women play this year would have to look very very hard to find ways to compliment Mal. I have never seen worse unorganized chaos in a UND uniform than We have this year. My 8th grade girls travel team knew better how to beat a press than Mals team did today. 28 TURNOVERS in one game. She had them all bunched up in one side of the court wondering why there is no room to beat the press. Then we try to dribble through double teams. When we do finally get across the half, we ignore the wide open players ahead and don’t pass it to them to score. Instead, we wait until hurst and Kacie cross the half so we can hand it to them, and let them dribble until they throw it away or drive into 3 people. That is apparently our entire offense. We have been to every one of the women’s national championships including the beautiful Pine Bluff Arkansas, so it’s not like we aren’t diehard fans. We have been for years. But It is hard at this point to convince myself to go to this hot mess. I spend more time asking myself how Mal cant see what is happening on the floor. Her frustration with the officials today was laughable. I agree Kacie got 2 bad fouls and I certainly felt bad for her finishing a hell of a career at home the way it went today. But that does not explain 28 turnovers and a 50 point blowout. Maybe worry about what you can control. There was plenty of that to address today. They have no offense. They play no defense giving up a hundred every other game. They can’t break a press. There is no team concept whatsoever. This program is a mess. Period. Sad to say but it’s where we are at…

It was too bad. Decent crowd today and we just didn’t show up. The first 10 minutes, we could have been fine if we could have hit any shots at all. Tyree should have had 5 assists right off the bat and we couldn’t finish any wide open shots. After that, Kudos to KC coach. He took a page from the first St. Thomas game. They doubled us and took away Tyree, Trey, and BJ drives. We couldn’t or didn’t find the open guy when the double occurred. When we can’t penetrate, we have no offense. Trey, who should be our best outside shooter, finished with 0 points after 28 on Thursday. Need to find a way to get him looks. BJ made some nice drives but not due to the offense - just individual effort. Amer was a monster on the boards again and finished well, but we don’t really look to get him the ball. Eli finished with 6 steals and shot well. Those 2 were the bright spots, but not many others to talk about. Finished with a total of 47 points. That should say everything that needs to be said about the offense. Didn’t make any adjustments and don’t seem to have a half court offense that doesn’t get a look other than slash to the hoop or penetration kick. We aren’t a good half court offense team. They were physical and we played slow right into their hands. More concerning is when we were down 20 with 7 minutes left, we are still walking it up the court and letting them stall playing a sagging man to man with no pressure and letting them kill clock all the way to the end of the game. Not much heart shown out there today, which is not how we have been playing. Hoping this was a just a one off. We absolutely have to play with pace though. Our half court offense is non-existent without individual penetration.

Amer has gotten to be a monster on the boards. That was huge today. Nice to see T hit a couple from outside as well. Trey and BJ struggled to drive on much smaller defenders. Wished they would have just gone low and called for the ball. Would have been a bucket or a foul. To answer the question why Trey was out at the end of the game, that answer is simple. Eli was simply better. Eli was a game changer in the last 10 minutes. Blocks, steals, rebounds, defensive shutdowns, assists, and hustle plays. When Trey came back in, the first thing he did was give his man an open layup on an out of bounds play on the block. That was clearly the right move to get Eli back in. SU didn’t cheat at all on Trey. It was clear they were not going to give him any room on the 3 and he couldn’t get himself open. Granted, i would like to see a bigger effort to get him open on offense for an open look - but he didn’t have many today. If he is not serving as an offensive threat, Eli is hands down a better defender and playmaker. Regardless of a few issues to clean up, we showed a lot of grit to win a game when we were simply not getting much to fall. Congrats to the team and Sather. We will shoot better than we did today. When we do, look out.

Bison play good d, but if we even shoot 45 percent, it’s a different game. It’s a 3 point game shooting 35 percent…

The bison aren’t cheating off Trey. They are keeping him covered at all times. Need someone else to step up and hit an outside shot. They are there.

Getting open looks. Just can’t put them in. Need better than 33 percent shooting to put this away. Need the second half SD game shooting…. They get Eli for every touch foul and 10 for the bison should have assault and battery by now without a single call.,,.

I can’t believe Sather didn’t have them review the clock on the foul before half. The foul was as we caught it. No way a full second should have gone off. That was the difference in counting Tyree’s 3.

Trey and Tyree need to post 10 every time that matchup comes up. Don’t dribble on him. Go to the block and call for the ball…

Yntil Mallory figures out an offense with movement and how to switch on d without leaving someone wide open every posession, it won’t matter who we have on the floor. Our entire offense is whatever Kacie and Hurst can create. No flow whatsoever. We are giving up 100 to our rival. That should say everything there is to know about the state of our defense…

Just sent the post and we get a push up the court from BJ with a foul. Keep doing that…

Would still like to see us get up the floor a little quicker. We are way more athletic than the totes, but still have a very slow half court offense…

Interesting that Bruns was summit freshman of the year for us and doesn’t start for a worse USD team 2 years later?? He regress?

I do think there is an integrity issue. If I hired someone, counted on their word, and they turned around and went to my competitor in 2 weeks time, I would be pissed. Coordinator and position coach positions open and close all the time. Saying the Bison position wasn’t open is an excuse. Jake made a commitment that UND relies upon. Something better is always a possibility. At the end of my days, I want my word to mean something. Doing this to his Alma mater knowing it puts UND in a terrible predicament to find someone at the last minute, potentially affecting recruiting, and retention is not a class act in my opinion. Not a real class move for NDSU either but that should come as no surprise…. Should be a definite motivator to stick it up the Bison next year on D.

Wouldn’t be a game against DU without a phantom penalty….

We played the body and gave them no skating room for a period and a half but are starting to go back to what we did in St. Cloud. Giving way too much rooom and not playing physical…

35 3s taken. If we really picture ourselves a 3 point shooting team, we need to find some shooters and find an offense that will actually allow open looks. Our offense sucks for getting open looks. We continually hold the ball far too long with each catch. The ball never reverses in rhythm for an open look. And our center is taking most of our 3s. Not really working.

Tough to lose Eli on fouls. He has been our best player the last two games. Tyree has been a good second. I’d be hard pressed to find even a decent effort out of a third player for us in the last two games.

We attack and we start catching up and then we think we need to have T and Eli shooting 3s again. Stick with what is working. T cant find the broad Side of a barn and shouldn’t even be thinking of looking at another 3 right now.