The Lions fell to 2-3 on the season today after dropping a game to Rider College 73-63. Rider, which is a strong team, improves to 4-1.
Drew Viney led the Lions with 17 points on 7-10 shooting, despite playing limited minutes due to cramping. In addition to Viney's cramping, Ashley Hamilton, Godwin Okonji, and Ayodeji Egbeyemi all suffered injuries in the game. Only Hamilton would return, and contributed 14 points.
The most glaring statistic of the game was Rider's three-point shooting. The team shot 58 percent from behind the arc in the game and knocked down 11 threes.
Defensive issues guarding the three have plagued the Lions all season long, and after the game Head Coach Max Good said in a press release "We are one of the worst teams at defending the three-point shot. If a team is struggling, they should schedule us."
The Lions led by one point at halftime, and even led by as many as eight midway through the first half.
Vernon Teel was benched for the game, a decision made by Good prior to tip-off. In the pre-game interviews on KXLU, Good eluded that this decision had something to do with the fact that "a couple guys were thinking about next year, rather than this year."
The Lions, who are still looking for their first win against a D-I team, will next play at Cal Poly on Wednesday.
I think I heard Good say at one point " I would rather be kicked in the teeth than play zone". However, I think we have to try out some new sort of defense...maybe the match up zone like Syracuse because what ever we are doing now it isn't working!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely. I think we'll see it soon enough. We've already seen starting lineup changes which means no one is content with how things are going.
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