Props to Shaka

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I have been critical of Shaka at times this year, but I have to give him credit. The degree of fire the team is showing so far in the CAA tourney is a notch above what we've seen recently. In addition he has recognized Skeen is the answer on offense and is making sure the team is feeding him consistently, he has made DJ into a factor on D and the boards, he has switched up our identity enough that it is throwing teams off a bit (stretch zone) and he is in a zone of sorts (pun intended) in his subbing patterns and defensive switches. I thought we were dead in the water, but I was wrong. Now, if he can keep it up for 1 more game...
 
i couldnt agree more...FINALLY he decided to use a zone defense like we did when we played at ODU. For the life of me i cant understand why he would not play more zone after that win. We played well and held our own on the boards and then he totally went away from it. I knew from his pre-tourney press conference that it was coming back. He said there would be changes in our defense. We have to play zone tomorrow and cant give up lots of second chance opportunities. Shaka will have em ready !
 
wavevcu said:
For the life of me i cant understand why he would not play more zone after that win.
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ODU's perimeter shooting, aside from Iliadis, is pretty unimpressive. Other teams could simply shoot over a zone. As soon as Cam Long and Andre Cornelius hit 3s in 2 of 3 possessions, we switched back to the M2M, and as soon as Long was out of the lineup, we switched back into it. Very nice adjustments there.
 
need to send the following question to the coaches show thursday:
Do coaches normally hold back from showing defensive schemes and offensive sets - keeping some surprises for the tournament?
 
I will agree wholeheartedly with this. I thought we were going to be utterly massacred today. Shaka and the team made me eat my words, and I am SO happy they did. Wow, never saw a gutsy effort like this coming after Friday.

We're still the underdogs tomorrow. We just have to let it all hang out and hope that we're the last one's standing at the end of the day.
 
major ram said:
impressive ...congrats to the coach and staff...
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Shaka made all the right moves today and did anyone notice how he went after the refs? I wouldn't say it was Bruiser worthy but he was giving them an earful.
 
BimboBinns said:
Today's game plan woulda made Chuck Noe proud!
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Chuck's teams didn't play a lot of defense. Today, Shaka's team did. So you can tell me all you want about the 3 point shooting, but I'm here to tell you that defense won the day.
 
Shaka made all the right moves and adjustments today. I thought he also did a good job at letting the officials know when calls were questionable or just plain wrong. What ever his words were for the team coming into this tournament seem to have fallen on receptive ears. A lot of teams would have folded after our last couple of outings at the end of the year. This team has chosen to come together under Shaka's leadership and play like the unit we saw from November through the end of January. Great job today from everyone associated with the Rams.
 
agree Vic...biggest number from the first half? 23 as in the points for GMU
 
I would like to respectfully disagree with you. Chuck Noe was one of the finet defensive minds oin coavching, and oine of the few coaches that taught D to his players back then.
 
Best coached...AND, best executed game of the season.

The mix of the zone, half court man, and full court traps is great. Skeen has done a great just so far of taking it at the other team and getting guys put on the bench.

In these first two games we've played much smarter basketball.

...we need one more just like today.
 
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