MacKenzine and Olaniyi both look they're going to be good. I'd like to see more of Garcia but I don't think you could take minutes away from Saintel or UC and/or Cornish.
No chance, AV. Garcia isn’t ready for prime time, and Junior was a monster defensively today. That is going to be a big part of this team down the stretch. We ran away from Lowell when we turned up the intensity defensively - on-the-ball pressure, deflections, challenging shots, etc. Junior had three steals and five blocks today. I wonder when that happened last at SBU. Maybe some Warney game. Junior is fairly limited offensively, but if he can fill a stat sheet with his energy, between steals, blocks and offensive rebounds, fantastic. He’s the closest thing we have to a shot blocker, and the shots he didn’t get he may have challenged or at least got the opponent thinking about it. He helped out on Calixte’s last drive and shot, which he short-armed. Olaniyi has been tough defensively too. His deflection made Calixte go get the ball past halfcourt and attack our defense starting at 60 feet away.
I don’t get the complaints about the threes - at least not today. You realize they were a big reason why we won, right? 7 for 16 in the first half, 4 for 13 in the second. I’ll take 11 makes every time. We won this game because we shut down Calixte in the second half and some guys not named Yeboah hit some big shots, including, lo and behold, some free throws.
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