Davidson Preview and Game Thread -- 01/04/2023

[ahunte1]

Thomas burned bad on defense, regularly too. #5 just blew by him to the rack

Yup. Alston gets burned not paying attention. Saint just can't keep guards in front of him.

[Mudville21]

We stink. We may not be the best team in college basketball, but we should not be this bad. At this point, we need to be taking a hard look at the coaching staff. We know what are issues are and we are not correcting them.

[ahunte1]

Lot of guys leaving their feet too. None of the discipline that got us so far.

[jdubs]

Turnovers, 5 second violations, technical fouls. All signs of poor coaching. Not to mention continuing to press full court when you’re consistently giving up dunks because of it.

Also it seemed like on the tech, coach Drew was saying something about Tom Izzo (“I learned that from Tom Izzo” or something like that). He can’t expect to have that level of respect from the refs

[goramblers2011]

This is a 20 loss team. Hope it doesn't totally kill the momentum of the past five years.

[Mudville21]

My fear is that this is spinning out of control, not just tonight, but the whole season. Another team shooting well over 50% and Davidson only has 3 3's! Defense is a rumor to this team.

[ahunte1]

Turnovers, 5 second violations, technical fouls. All signs of poor coaching. Not to mention continuing to press full court when you’re consistently giving up dunks because of it.

Also it seemed like on the tech, coach Drew was saying something about Tom Izzo (“I learned that from Tom Izzo” or something like that). He can’t expect to have that level of respect from the refs

Majority of the time I really don't know what our plan is. Hard to be hopeful when he team plays with no discipline whatsoever.

[kato669]

Team has no identity. Not a tough playing defensive team and not a lights-out offensive team. Not anywhere near the middle.

Honestly, playing bad on both sides and it's infuriating, shouldn't be happening with all the success we've had. I agree, I hope it does not kill our momentum we've built with the fans and city.

[Mudville21]

We gave up 47 points in the second half. 47.

[classof63]

As was already evident, this will be a bad year. We must give the young players more playing time to prepare them for next year.