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Sanford and sons fan forum saying that some players had the flu... should be cry for them any?? haha

Good to hear CBR so excited on the postgame on radio. The coaching staff has been thru all heck the last month or so

Great team win tonight. Everyone stepped up in some manner. Tremendous job handling their press despite a few turnovers. Carter is a much better ball handler this year. Refs weren’t calling much against Samford. Despite a 3 min scoring drought, we showed a lot more consistency shooting the 3 - better shot selection and moving the ball around.

Sad Din wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 24, 2024 9:26 pm

Sanford and sons fan forum saying that some players had the flu... should be cry for them any?? haha

Good to hear CBR so excited on the postgame on radio. The coaching staff has been thru all heck the last month or so

Well we knew it was going to be one excuse or another. So some of their players had the flu so they just wanted to give it to everyone else? Spread it around. So nice of them. Thought it would be the refs fault but I guess that is coming.

Paladin91 wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 24, 2024 9:37 pm

Great team win tonight. Everyone stepped up in some manner. Tremendous job handling their press despite a few turnovers. Carter is a much better ball handler this year. Refs weren’t calling much against Samford. Despite a 3 min scoring drought, we showed a lot more consistency shooting the 3 - better shot selection and moving the ball around.

Actually the scoring drought was a little over 5 minutes. Overall best defense of the year. SU was 0-9 from 3 in the first half but hit a bunch in the second half to keep them in it.

Timmons was hoppin. That was really fun in there today.

#Paladins put an end to nation's longest win streak. By the way, when I talked to Bucky McMillan, as he walked away to get on the bus, he said the team had some players down with the flu. He even asked if I'd had it and said it's a whole lot worse this year. -- MD
https://wellpilgrim.wordpress.com/2024/ ... g-no-more/

They played 12 guys, who had the flu? Does Samford usually run 20 deep?

Sounds like a case of excuse-uenza.

It will be interesting to see what adjustments these two teams make when makes when they play again.

Furman was obviously ready for Samford's "Bucky Ball" and even started to punish the Bulldogs for sticking with it. Samford really didn't have any answers for Furman's ball movement.

I'm not basketball tactician, but it looked like Furman had success running a good bit of the offense through Hein. It drew their big man out to the perimeter, and the smaller Samford guards had a tough time rotating to the wings to close out on our shooters.

Here's Hein beyond the arc running the offense, drawing their big away from the basket, and making the entry pass. When Williams catches this pass, there are four Furman shooters unguarded at the three point line.

Tip my hat to PJay Smith, thought he did an excellent job handling the press.

NEPA wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 25, 2024 6:49 am

Tip my hat to PJay Smith, thought he did an excellent job handling the press.

Yeah the whole team did that well. Samford got a few turnovers out of it but we seemed to have a solid plan in place for defeating it.

Monday wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:20 am

They played 12 guys, who had the flu? Does Samford usually run 20 deep?

Sounds like a case of excuse-uenza.

See analytics below …

Basically, Samford did not use the 4 guys that always sit on the far, far, far end of the bench. Marshall is injured and Stramaglia is the only Samford Player who did not play that typically plays more than a Player that did play - Loveday…who played 2 minutes.

So…unless other flu-ridden Samford Players were in the game spreading their disease to Furman’s Players and throughout Timmons Arena, only Stramaglia (and/or the 4 Players that average < 2 min/game between them), who averages 8 minutes/game, may have been ill and it seems highly unlikely that playing the 13th most-used Player for 2 minutes instead of the 14th most-used Player would have had much impact on the 10 point difference in the outcome.

FUBeAR’s Verdict … Monday’s “excuse-uenza” call is CORRECT

vs. FU
## Player MIN % of game Diff from Season Avg
14 Achor, Achor 33 82.50% +28.5%
21 Jones, Rylan 32 80.00% +18.75%
05 Staton-McCray, A.J. 25 62.50% +7.75%
25 Johnson, Nathan 20 50.00% +14.5%
12 Graziani, Dallas 19 47.50% -1.00%
02 Campbell, Jaden 15 37.50% -12.25%
01 Holloway, Josh 14 35.00% 0.00%
03 Leopard, Chandler 12 30.00% +8.25%
10 Hicks, Garrett 12 30.00% -14.50%
00 Walls, Lukas 10 25.00% +1.00%
35 Allenspach, Riley 6 15.00% -16.00%
32 Loveday, Zach 2 10.00% -6.5%
04 Marshall, Jermaine 0 0.00% 20.7 51.75% -51.75% (injured; not flu)
13 Stramaglia, Paulie 0 0.00% 8.0 20.00% -20.00%
15 Walters, Grayson 0 0.00% 2.6 6.50% -6.5%
23 LaRocca, Owen 0 0.00% 2.3 5.75% -5.75%
31 Hughes, Joshua 0 0.00% 1.6 4.00% -4.00%
22 Kizer, Thomas 0 0.00% 1.4 3.50% -3.50%
Totals - 200 100.00%

Season
## Player MIN % of game
21 Jones, Rylan 24.5 61.25%
05 Staton-McCray, A.J. 21.9 54.75
14 Achor, Achor 21.6 54.00%
04 Marshall, Jermaine 20.7 51.75%
02 Campbell, Jaden 19.9 49.75%
12 Graziani, Dallas 19.4 48.50%
10 Hicks, Garrett 17.8 44.50%
25 Johnson, Nathan 14.2 35.50%
01 Holloway, Josh 14.0 35.00%
35 Allenspach, Riley 12.4 31.00%
00 Walls, Lukas 9.6 24.00%
03 Leopard, Chandler 8.7 21.75%
13 Stramaglia, Paulie 8.0 20.00%
32 Loveday, Zach 6.6 16.50%
15 Walters, Grayson 2.6 6.50%
23 LaRocca, Owen 2.3 5.75%
31 Hughes, Joshua 1.6 4.00%
22 Kizer, Thomas 1.4 3.50%
Total 200.0 100.00%

Samford football and basketball play so unconventional the games are difficult to analyze but to me, Bucky ball looks like a brilliant coaching effort to compensate for a lack of talent. They could be a load if they get Marshall back though. As to the flu, it has run through most every Socon team. I wonder what would have happened if we had pressed them. They appeared exhausted.

tim wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:14 am

Samford football and basketball play so unconventional the games are difficult to analyze but to me, Bucky ball looks like a brilliant coaching effort to compensate for a lack of talent. They could be a load if they get Marshall back though. As to the flu, it has run through most every Socon team. I wonder what would have happened if we had pressed them. They appeared exhausted.

Both their basketball and football teams play a style, and they stick with that style.

In both sports, Furman's coaching has cracked the code a bit on stopping that style. Samford doesn't have a lot of other go to options when their preferred style of play isn't working.