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by Acorn
Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:40 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: Newest Kool Aid recruiting thread
Replies: 8182
Views: 9034062

Re: Newest Kool Aid recruiting thread

ACC Championship features many players Davidson recruited to some degree. From NC State: DJ Horne, DJ Burns, Ben Middlebrooks, and Breon Pass. From UNC: Cormac Ryan.
by Acorn
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:27 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: The Bright Side of Not Being in Brooklyn Now
Replies: 16
Views: 5839

Re: The Bright Side of Not Being in Brooklyn Now

This article (https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/news/police-suspect-bashed-man-over-the-head-with-a-metal-pipe-at-queens-subway-station/) from February 19 says 266 incidents of subway crime year to date (all of which are bad, of course, but not all of which are violent). For ease of calculation, l...
by Acorn
Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:10 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: The Bright Side of Not Being in Brooklyn Now
Replies: 16
Views: 5839

Re: The Bright Side of Not Being in Brooklyn Now

You can look at FBI data here: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend You can use the explorer tool to look at trends from 1985 (earliest year available) through 2022 (latest year available). Violent crime in the US has dropped dramatically since a high in 1990 or ...
by Acorn
Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:47 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: This Season - A Tale of Shooting (or Lack Thereof)
Replies: 70
Views: 14026

Re: This Season - A Tale of Shooting (or Lack Thereof)

I’m not shocked if our dunks were down, but I’d see that more as a sign of the offensive system being broken by the bad outside shooting. It’s not like Davidson’s dunks have come from our players dunking over defenders—usually they come off of passes to an open guy in the lane.
by Acorn
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:44 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: This Season - A Tale of Shooting (or Lack Thereof)
Replies: 70
Views: 14026

Re: This Season - A Tale of Shooting (or Lack Thereof)

We finish the year at 31.375%. That's probably enough to finish better than 300th. Poor shooting (especially from three) seemed to clearly be the biggest problem this season. I don’t agree with the complaints I’ve seen about athleticism. Davidson has had a lot more success with teams that had athle...
by Acorn
Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:22 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: Newest Kool Aid recruiting thread
Replies: 8182
Views: 9034062

Re: Newest Kool Aid recruiting thread

RichmondCat wrote:
Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:14 pm
Davidson interest in transfer 6'1 PG Clark Slajchert, Jr, U. Penn.

https://x.com/ThePortalReport/status/17 ... 55154?s=20
https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/03/c ... basketball

Looks like he’s going to be a graduate student.
by Acorn
Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:15 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: In Game: A-10 Round One vs Fordham
Replies: 126
Views: 18392

Re: In Game: A-10 Round One vs Fordham

raptorcat wrote:
Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:11 pm
Acorn wrote:
Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:09 pm
https://youtu.be/Jfe8qI68Bg0
Great choice to put a coda on this game and the season!
I just hope Travis shot better than we did.
by Acorn
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:18 am
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: In Game: at St. Joe's
Replies: 132
Views: 16849

Re: In Game: at St. Joe's

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by Acorn
Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:37 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: In Game: at St. Joe's
Replies: 132
Views: 16849

Re: In Game: at St. Joe's

No one else could get more out of this young group of student athletes. You’re probably defining “throwing the players under the bus” differently than I am. For example, I consider the statement above to be an example considering the team just posted a losing record. Essentially “we posted a bad re...
by Acorn
Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:43 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: In Game: at St. Joe's
Replies: 132
Views: 16849

Re: In Game: at St. Joe's

I am really worried that some of the lame excuses I’m reading on here are coming from the staff, who need to be owning the last two seasons and not whining about the world they live/work in or—especially—throwing their players under the bus. I worry about my memory as old age approaches (or has alr...
by Acorn
Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:29 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: In Game: at St. Joe's
Replies: 132
Views: 16849

Re: In Game: at St. Joe's

I am really worried that some of the lame excuses I’m reading on here are coming from the staff, who need to be owning the last two seasons and not whining about the world they live/work in or—especially—throwing their players under the bus. I worry about my memory as old age approaches (or has alr...
by Acorn
Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:51 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: In Game: at St. Joe's
Replies: 132
Views: 16849

Re: In Game: at St. Joe's

I don’t see “the coaches genuinely but wrongly believed both that the players had improved their shooting and that the team was deep” as a very strong defense of coaching ability. I don’t think it’s fair to Bob to argue for an analogy to his first few years. Davidson was in a totally different (and ...
by Acorn
Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:10 pm
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: In Game: at St. Joe's
Replies: 132
Views: 16849

Re: In Game: at St. Joe's

Lee’s departure was a surprise to me, but so was the fact that he had to complete military service by a certain age—a fact that definitely shouldn’t have been a surprise to our coaches. Jones’s departure was very predictable. As was Brajkovic’s. Lanier didn’t play much and I hadn’t heard of any hope...
by Acorn
Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:42 am
Forum: Men's Basketball
Topic: In Game: at St. Joe's
Replies: 132
Views: 16849

Re: In Game: at St. Joe's

Also, to be clear, I don’t find the roster to be so bad that we couldn’t win a lot more games. And had Skogman not been hurt, Davidson might have won several more games. Before we lost and posters were lamenting the lack of athleticism, someone had posted that we looked like the quicker team. This s...