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Post by kiyoat on Feb 14, 2021 12:23:08 GMT -6
Good start to the game. Great defense
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Post by easmus on Feb 14, 2021 12:31:28 GMT -6
Bench continues to be a liability. Kunzer immediately turns it over and gets yanked because of it. Bad finish to quarter.
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Post by yote18 on Feb 14, 2021 14:14:52 GMT -6
Great response to yesterday’s showing. I really do think part of our problem is that we haven’t played a home game since January. A lot of people can argue that theirs no home court advantage this year, but that’s not true. UND played well, but you put them in the SCSC and those games are both blowouts.
I’d like to say Krull is going to be a phenomenal player. If we can get a couple of the seniors to return we will be in an amazing position. I know this has been said before but I am starting to get kind of concerned about our bench. It’s not like none of them played before, a lot of them played quite a bit at the end of games last season against these same teams.
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Post by yote18 on Feb 14, 2021 14:21:00 GMT -6
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Post by fightsd on Feb 14, 2021 15:21:37 GMT -6
USD got shafted by the the SL this year. I get it's an unprecedented situation, but the way the scheduling lined up is ridiculous. Men's and women's both. |
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Post by sdyotefan on Feb 14, 2021 16:18:52 GMT -6
Great team D by the Lady Yotes and way less silly fouls were the difference from yesterday to today!!!
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Post by easmus on Feb 14, 2021 16:49:09 GMT -6
Not as many silly fouls helped this situation, but Dawn rode the starters hard in 2nd half. Not many subs until it was over.
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Post by easmus on Feb 14, 2021 21:32:14 GMT -6
A lot of PT for Hempe today, especially in the 2nd half. She isn’t afraid to shoot, and if she can find away to chip in 4-9 points per game in non-garbage time these last couple weeks, that would be huge. I was very discouraged in the 2nd quarter today by a couple plays where the 2nd unit executed the offense but then missed the layups. Mazurek is really struggling to finish at the rim, and we cannot have that happening. If Dawn has to ride the starters for 35 minutes per game, that’s not gonna work very well in the SLT. She rode the starters very hard in SLT championship game last year, but not every game up to it.
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Post by kiyoat on Feb 15, 2021 11:25:27 GMT -6
I think you under estimated us at North Dakota because of our record we have played everyone pretty much competitive games this year... Sorry for the late response to this, but I have to disagree that Coach P under-estimated the Hawks. At least it would shock me if that were the case. You don't sweep the conference on two separate occasions by being in the habit of under-estimating your opponents. I don't know all the reasons for the uncharacteristically close game on Saturday, but generally speaking I'd say it probably points to issues we need to address on the team, as well as UND playing a great game. When our big 3 get in foul trouble early, and Lamb gets cold shooting, we suddenly look pretty ordinary. Our team defense and a non-fouling Sjerven made all the difference on Sunday. Hopefully we can get that figured out by tournament time. I've been saying that UND is better than their record for weeks. I doubt the Yotes were not aware of all the close games you guys have been in. Whoever gets hired to coach UND this Spring will be in less of a re-build situation than Jory was, so it might be a more favorable job position. Who knows. Jory has proven to be pretty exceptional, though. You can't afford to make another Brewster hire. Here's hoping we don't meet again in the SLT. |
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Post by hoopsmom on Feb 15, 2021 13:21:38 GMT -6
My only comment about the games this past weekend is that when all of the posts on both teams are in foul trouble or fouled out, and some of the guards who have been in for a large part of the game have zero fouls, you need to look at the referees. Quite a few of these so-called fouls that were called, on both teams, were non-existent or relatively ticky-tacky, and they would’ve never called those in a men’s game. They did not let the posts play on Saturday. The girls adjusted on Sunday, but they were all afraid to go up for rebounds or blocks. Both teams.
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Post by sdyotefan on Feb 15, 2021 13:29:35 GMT -6
The refs were very erratic with their calls. The game(s) could have easily gotten out of hand physically but fortunately didn't. Consistency with calls by refs I believe is very important!
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Post by ndfan on Feb 16, 2021 16:11:01 GMT -6
Kiyoat i was not referring to your coach i think she is exceptional coach and would never think she would underestimate her opponent. I was referring more to people on this discussion forum with there expectations of UND. I do think no matter how hard you work with players they can overlook a opponent especially like we have been when you don't how you going to perform from quarter to quarter. I think our AD just threw away this season because of covid and we lost year to rebuild this program and its reputation when he put off what he was going to do with the basketball program. Like i have read in other tread lines you guys do need us to become better competitor to help improve this conference and i believe that both UND and NDSU have financial resources and local backing to be better programs than we have been in last 4 years. I truly believe that Summit conference could become one best mid-majors women's basketball conferences where we could have multiple qualifiers for various tournaments.
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Post by kiyoat on Feb 16, 2021 16:44:06 GMT -6
Kiyoat i was not referring to your coach i think she is exceptional coach and would never think she would underestimate her opponent. I was referring more to people on this discussion forum with there expectations of UND. I do think no matter how hard you work with players they can overlook a opponent especially like we have been when you don't how you going to perform from quarter to quarter. I think our AD just threw away this season because of covid and we lost year to rebuild this program and its reputation when he put off what he was going to do with the basketball program. Like i have read in other tread lines you guys do need us to become better competitor to help improve this conference and i believe that both UND and NDSU have financial resources and local backing to be better programs than we have been in last 4 years. I truly believe that Summit conference could become one best mid-majors women's basketball conferences where we could have multiple qualifiers for various tournaments. No offense taken at all! You are right that fans tend to under-estimate opponents. Hell, I do that all the time. There's an online record of it on this site. We've been pretty spoiled with our women's programs playing in the SCSC over the last several years, but I'd have to say that Yote fans have done a good job of being proud of those programs' accomplishments without stooping to arrogance. We will have to leave that to the state colleges. I agree 100% that the Summit could become a routine at-large conference in WBB (and Volleyball). Jory has proven that good coaches can elevate BB teams in this region in a relatively short period of time. Despite our low population there are plenty of talented female athletes in the region to build all four Dakota programs IMHO. And fans actually support those teams around here. The best players want to not only play for the best teams, but to play in front of fans (post-Covid). It will be interesting to see how the addition of St Thomas affects recruiting for the Dakota 4 (in all sports). It is one more mouth to feed, but MSP athletes might also get more exposure to our teams playing there, too. |
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Post by ndfan on Feb 18, 2021 1:25:52 GMT -6
I think addition of St. Thomas is going to be good thing for the Summit conference and especially for us in North Dakota and i also can see it for South Dakota too. My reasoning is Twin cities media in Twin Cities are going to start paying attention to our conference once there is college competing in division I athletics in Minnesota in the Twin cities. ST. Thomas will only be second division I school in the state of Minnesota after University of Minnesota which now means kids are going to be exposed to other division I schools not just U of M and other big ten schools. Majority of Division I athletes in Minnesota were leaving the state already playing in number of other states. I think this will mean alot of kids in the future will look at playing in Summit because of local exposure now and now playing in front of home town fans even if they are at schools in North and South Dakota. I look at number kids that were playing for Wisconsin and Iowa teams because these teams competed against U of M in sports. Second State of Minnesota is big state in population it produces number of division I athletes and there are number of athletes that stay home and compete at the division II level in the state which might change now that ST. Thomas is going to be in the conference. I can't help this extra exposure is not going to be good thing for our schools here in North Dakota but as well as for South Dakota. When our teams play in the Twin Cities is also good for getting our Alumni out in full force which again help keeps interest in our athletic programs as well as getting financial support. UND has most alumni living in the Twin Cities and when our hockey teams play in the Twin Cities its like home game for us we have as many fans in the stands as does Minnesota. Also fans from here like going to Twin Cities to support our various teams so i got to believe this will happen with ST. Thomas. I think in all this going to be big boost to our football, basketball, and Volleyball programs.
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