UND at NDSU 1/25/25

[NewUndFan]

How about some Mayar love too! I think Mayar and Mara are both playing well together. Especially on defense 

[GoodGood]

1 minute ago, NewUndFan said:

How about some Mayar love too! I think Mayar and Mara are both playing well together. Especially on defense 

For sure 

[GoodGood]

Wow they’ve called some soft stuff on us 

[NewUndFan]

Why doesn't coach send a second person at Jackson when Mara has 4 fouls guarding him ! 

[GoodGood]

Wtf is Reggie doing 

[F'n Hawks]

Just now, GoodGood said:

Wtf is Reggie doing 

Just awful. Can’t happen

[SiouxFan100]

We gave up some offensive rebounds late that really hurt

[Kab]

All you have to do is make your fuc king free throws and layups 

[SiouxFan100]

We had 14 missed free throws 

as a scream at the tv

[GoodGood]

Well we battled hard. Unfortunately despite what @jdub27 says, wins and losses are all that matter 

[Kab]

  Beat the spread of 10.5 but who gives a sh it 

[AJS]

1 minute ago, GoodGood said:

Well we battled hard. Unfortunately despite what @jdub27 says, wins and losses are all that matter 

Loss by loss! In one 6 month stretch, we can see turnover of Bubba, Sather and Berry! Believe! 

[SiouxFan100]

I generally enjoyed the game. Expected to get blown out. We are running out of teams we will beat  A piece of me says we can pull some upsets come tournament time. No consistency. Nice to see Trey play hard the second half. Reggie’s is a plus and a few others showed they can play. In baseball we are a warning track team.

[SiouxFan100]

6 minutes ago, AJS said:

Loss by loss! In one 6 month stretch, we can see turnover of Bubba, Sather and Berry! Believe! 

Shake my head at the state of our teams. Boy,  agree that these changes would help

[Hawkster]

4 minutes ago, SiouxFan100 said:

Shake my head at the state of our teams. Boy,  agree that these changes would help

We are already paying Bubba $750,000 to sleep in the office for the next 3 years.   Even if the other two only each have 1 year left, it's still a lot of salary to eat.

[NewUndFan]

26 minutes ago, AJS said:

Loss by loss! In one 6 month stretch, we can see turnover of Bubba, Sather and Berry! Believe! 

Throw Mallory in there too! 

[HoopsFan03]

1 hour ago, GoodGood said:

Mara is going to the hoop with bad intentions. His confidence is growing with each minute he plays 

I can’t believe we wasted a year of eligibility of his last year. That was malpractice. He should be a redshirt freshman this year!

Like you said, you can start to see things click for him and his confidence is only growing! You love to see it!

[AJS]

43 minutes ago, Hawkster said:

We are already paying Bubba $750,000 to sleep in the office for the next 3 years.   Even if the other two only each have 1 year left, it's still a lot of salary to eat.

We really aren’t talking that much $, with the right contacts. Hope there’s enough urgency to secure the funds w/in the athletic department. They should be “quietly fundraising” now. What I find so frustrating is coaching is the final piece of the puzzle for Basketball & Hockey. It will be a night and day difference in Football. That will happen with the other sports as well. 
 

At the very least, no extensions. Who cares about recruiting when you have those coaching staffs in basketball and hockey. Chaves just has to put lofty goals. Berry, Frozen Four & you’ll get an extension. If not, we’re going a different direction. Sather, make the NCAA tournament or we’re going another direction. 

[cowboys5xsbs]

Anouther sad disappointing UND season where we can't even beat our rivals.  All our sports are going down the drain.  

[Oxbow6]

Good atmosphere and fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon watching a couple competitive BB games.

[Sioux95]

3 hours ago, AJS said:

Loss by loss! In one 6 month stretch, we can see turnover of Bubba, Sather and Berry! Believe! 

Please add Chaves to this list 

[SiouxFan100]

2 hours ago, cowboys5xsbs said:

Anouther sad disappointing UND season where we can't even beat our rivals.  All our sports are going down the drain.  

“All of our sports have gone the drain”

[gfhockey]

4 hours ago, NewUndFan said:

Throw Mallory in there too! 

And Berry!

[Hans8891]

There were some positives yesterday.  Reggie played his best game at UND.  Cut down on turnovers.  Played good perimeter defense- most of the time -  and didn’t get sucked down low very often where his size is simply not going to be effective.  Mara really is getting better, although he still tends to find himself out of position at times, not really knowing where to go in a team offensive or defensive scheme.  No doubt about his athleticism.  When we moved the ball, which we did a good chunk of the game, we got decent looks and shot reasonably well - which is why we stayed in this one.  When we got back into the Panoam and Eaglestaff dribbling show, that was typically when we went back down by 10.  Our team defense is just atrocious game after game.  That is what it is and the coaches don’t seem to have any ability or desire to change it.  NDSU moves the ball well and they have outside shooters, which is a bad recipe for a team that doesn’t know to rotate defensively and has a very bad habit of leaving people wide open at the 3.   I was scared going into this we were going to give up 100 given how many 3s they take and our horrific perimeter defense so was at least a little pleasantly surprised.    I am.a little surprised on the comments on here about Eli and defense.  He has made some defensive mistakes and is sometimes making bad decisions being overly aggressive, but most of his mistakes come from trying to help out someone else’s defensive mistakes.  He ends up coming help side all of the time to help someone who gets it handed to them on penetration.  he makes more things happen defensively than anyone else on the floor by a mile.  He is hands down our best off ball help side defensive player and his ability to help out on the boards was a game changer yesterday.  He had 13 board from a guard position yesterday.  If there is criticism to be made of Eli, it is getting him to do more offensively.  He makes great drives to the basket but just has not been able to finish for some reason this year..   Amer has had trouble finishing this year as well, compared to last year.  I went to the game.  It was definitely officiated differently than what we have seen in Grand Forks.  The Omaha game in Grand Forks was a football game.  This was touch fouls everywhere.  43 fouls called and 68 free throws shot. Deng and Mara both had 4 fouls 2 minutes into the second half.  Some of them were just stupid fouls, but a lot of them were just overly quick whistles in my opinion..  Panoam and Mara fouled out.  Deng and Eli playing with 4.   They called it tight everywhere, but there was not a flow to the game with all of the whistles  As noted by others, we hit anything closer to a reasonable free throw percentage and we win this game.  Most of the game, our free throw shooting percentage was in the 50’s.  There is just no reason why D1 basketball players should have that much difficulty at the line.

[Hans8891]

Correction.  46 fouls called…