nice win tonight

[elonfirefighter]

Hopefully with the win we can put the past in the past. even if we dont win the conf were still a long way from last place like we were predicted

[ontheair]

Aside from the first 6 minutes of the second half, THESE GUYS RESPONDED WELL. We're back to business as usual.

The defense in the first half was amazing. They shutdown the low post pretty easily and forced Wofford into LOOOOOOOOOONG one shot possesions.

Chris Long.....wow. This guy can really get a turnaround jumper and shake off his defender. He's not that bad on defense, either. He's gonna have to run this team next year at the point, and he's getting great experience.

Monty is a two-way guy....he can shoot and can rebound. He had a solid night.

How about Ola going 8-8 from the line? Wow. He has really become a great post player....he got a little lazy in the low post on the boards in the second, but he got the job done tonight!

Montell did very well shooting. It was like reliving old memories of his grandma yelling "Come on Montell! Shake and bake, baby! Shake and bake" at the Richmond game in '04-'05. His leadership was real well tonight, especially when he had to calm down Waters after that bogus foul on him in the second.

Like I said, based on what I saw, we're back to business as usual with this season. I would recommend the next time a team counters with a full court press, be a lot quicker. We let them get set one too many times on the full court press. I know we run a slow, effective offense, but when you see a press....RUN please!

Good crowd for this time of year. They are really doing things at Elon nowadays!

[firebird]

Monty was the one who "took the ball" & turned the team around in the 2nd half to put the team back on track. That was a nice bit of leadership on his part too.

Bob McKillop was scouting us last night.

[elonpride]

ontheair said:

Aside from the first 6 minutes of the second half, THESE GUYS RESPONDED WELL. We're back to business as usual.

The defense in the first half was amazing. They shutdown the low post pretty easily and forced Wofford into LOOOOOOOOOONG one shot possesions.

Chris Long.....wow. This guy can really get a turnaround jumper and shake off his defender. He's not that bad on defense, either. He's gonna have to run this team next year at the point, and he's getting great experience.

Monty is a two-way guy....he can shoot and can rebound. He had a solid night.

How about Ola going 8-8 from the line? Wow. He has really become a great post player....he got a little lazy in the low post on the boards in the second, but he got the job done tonight!

Montell did very well shooting. It was like reliving old memories of his grandma yelling "Come on Montell! Shake and bake, baby! Shake and bake" at the Richmond game in '04-'05. His leadership was real well tonight, especially when he had to calm down Waters after that bogus foul on him in the second.

Like I said, based on what I saw, we're back to business as usual with this season. I would recommend the next time a team counters with a full court press, be a lot quicker. We let them get set one too many times on the full court press. I know we run a slow, effective offense, but when you see a press....RUN please!

Good crowd for this time of year. They are really doing things at Elon nowadays!

Good analysis of the game!

I wish I could see these games that we're winning! I live in Richmond and went to the VCU game. The boys looked a little soft in that game and wasn't a good matchup.

You're right about Chris Long though....the guy has a sweet looking shot.

[euphoenix99]

Agreed. Nice summary OTA. This team has a whole lot of promise right now. They are capable of playing great defense and the FT shooting has been awesome as of late. It should be interesting to see what they do at Chatt on Tuesday. They have yet to win on the road, but have played well in most of their road games. We tend to play well in the roundhouse, so let's hope they can come out of there 4-0 going into a winnable Penn game.

It was a decent crowd last night considering the students were gone. It actually looked like more that the 612 reported. I imagine the next home game (Davidson) will be packed. Students will be back and Davidson travels well for hoops.

Go Phoenix!

[ontheair]

It was a youth hoops night over there, so that boosted the crowd. It being a Saturday Night also helped. There were a few students there, including our esteemed Phanatics president. I wonder what kind of crowd we'll get for a 9:00 game against Davidson.

Chattanooga is better than expected this year. They handled College of Charleston last night on a bad shooting night for the Cougars. Chatt heavily outrebounded C of C as well. You can't give Stephen McDowell an open look....he is their main shooter. Get these guys to the line, though....they are about 66% on the season and last night's 21-32 from the line pretty much maintained that percentage.

You're gonna have to be physical against these Mocs and well, every game in this road trip. Penn isn't as good as expected, but there is always something about the Palestra. Virginia's another one of those physical games, too.

[phanatics0708]

I'm really pleased with how the boys responded last night with an increase in momentum and desire to win. It was exciting to see the team come out with that much intensity. Big win for us eve though I thought Wofford was worse than in year's past. Outside Gibson and Nichols, they were not that strong.

I thought the officiating was terrible from an Elon perspective, but maybe that's just looking through a Phoenix lens. There were some ridiculous calls, and that lame foul on Waters where he almost flipped out.

A couple things I worry about as we march into tougher league play:
-Shot selection. We turned the ball over on so many posessions just from poor shot selection.
-Team Nucleus. I guess it's true Nestor basketball and just the personnel of this year's club, but I still can't figure out our "best 5" or "go-to's." It depends on the night and it comes in shifts. The beginning of the season I thought Ola and CLong were our key players, now it's Monty and Montell, who knows when Grable and DC will rise up and take control. I feel that Nestor just plays who played the best in the previous game. This needs to be improved. I'm stoked on Monty though!

McKillop was shaking in his boots - GO PHOENIX!

[topher99]

The thing about Chris last night was he was playing on a bad ankle. He had injured it early in the week during practice and was still recovering. And Adam should be back on Tuesday.