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« on: November 15, 2025, 08:42:09 pm »
I was at to the game. Kudos to Stony Brook for an encouraging effort against a bigger, stronger Yale team. Nick Townsend is a very good player and they really struggled with him. Big, strong forwards will be a challenge to guard all season.
Good athletic performance by SB. This is the Eric Pratt show now, which is fine, give the ball to your best player. But maybe a little too much iso. Pratt picked up two quick fouls and had to come off for a few minutes and I felt like ball movement may have improved during that time. Also there were like 3 or 4 shot clock violations, cant have that.
Size is going to be an ongoing issue, there will be many games where they will have to live or die by the three, and basically have to be perfect rebounding, and they gave up a couple of offensive rebounds that should never have happened. Kojenets needs to be more aggressive using his size to muscle those boards. Good effort though.
Geno Ford is animated, always teaching and communicating throughout the game.
Brown seems streaky, if he can get going as a 1-2 guard punch with Pratt, this team has the depth and talent to be competitive in the CAA. Really like Butler and Valentiny off the bench. This felt like a winnable game, honestly I thought Yale was going to be better.
Biggest pops- Mullin draining an open three (his first after being 0-4) after SB cut it to 4 with 2 minutes left. That was the dagger. Also, the Yale Club Jump Rope team who put on a ridiculously cool halftime show. I had no idea that was a thing.
Dave