Drake Game Thread. State started out slow but settled down.

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Drake got a couple of early threes and got out to a lead but Murphy has come into the game and provided a spark. Made a couple of rebounds and made a three. Drake starting to just Jack up shots.

 

[pseudonym]

Is this our game thread? Quad 2 win opportunity. 24-21 State 5:20 1H.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Reed is bombing threes. Wow.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Drake does a good job of ball movement and finding the open man.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

2 straight blocks by Drake.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

27-23 state 3:43 left

 

[Drebin]

27-23 3:43 left

In other news Jim Ellis is struggling.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

In other news Jim Ellis is struggling.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Tolu and 1. 29-23 State

 

[pseudonym]

31-23 State, "longest" lead

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

State smothering on defense but getting sloppy on the offensive end. Poor pass by Jeffries.

 

[BHAMDawg33]

Anyone else pay for baller TV only for it to buffer like I'm on my grandma's dial-up?

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Whoever the commentator is he sounds just like coach Purcell and he’s really good. Needs to be on ESPN and not BallerTV

 

[pseudonym]

2 fouls on Tolu

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

31-23 halftime. Solid first half.

 

[pseudonym]

no scoring final 3:08 of the first half. 31-23.

 

[pseudonym]

2 fouls for both Tolu and Cam Matthews. Drake's leading scorer DeVries (10 points) also with 2 fouls.

 

[Drebin]

 

[pseudonym]

Drake shot 28.6% in the first half compared to 45.6% on the year. That's got to be frustrating. We didn't shoot great (40.6%) but pretty much on par for the year (43%).

 

[Mr. Cook]

In other news Jim Ellis is struggling.

I'm listening to him on SXM 191. How is he struggling?

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

 

[Mr. Cook]

31-23 halftime. Solid first half.

Considering that when I tuned in, Drake was up 15-6....I agree

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Cam with 3 fouls.

 

[pseudonym]

3 fouls on Cam early 2nd half.

 

[Drebin]

I'm listening to him on SXM 191. How is he struggling?

He's not keeping up with the action. Gets tongue tied at times. Misses things. He spoke for 10 seconds after final horn sounded before Richard came in and told us that it was halftime. He's a legend, he's just not as good as he once was.

 

[Mr. Cook]

He's not keeping up with the action. Gets tongue tied at times. Misses things. He spoke for 10 seconds after final horn sounded before Richard came in and told us that it was halftime. He's a legend, he's just not as good as he once was.

I understand. Well, I still like listening to him and think highly of him. "Father Time" gets us all eventually

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

They making it hard on DeVries to get a quality shot.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Arena playing Three Six Mafia during the media timeout. Nice.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Drake with a deeeep 3

 

[Seinfeld]

There aren’t a ton of teams that have a guy down low that can match Tolu’s strength and size, but 51 from Drake is a monster

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Drake on a run. State settling for 3s.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

There aren’t a ton of teams that have a guy down low that can match Tolu’s strength and size, but 51 from Drake is a monster

Yeah that dude is huge.

 

[Drebin]

Yeah that dude is huge.

Our offense is atrocious.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Drake takes the lead. State looking totally lost on offense. Calhoun with a big three for Drake.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Drake is getting out and running to score. If they get in the halfcourt State has been able to handle it.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

They are denying Tolu the ball.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

My gosh. Calhoun just hit a three from well beyond the nba 3 line.

 

[Drebin]

Drake is getting out and running to score. If they get in the halfcourt State has been able to handle it.

They're starting to call touch fouls on us. That's a bad sign.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

43-41 state. 7:43 left. Davis with a couple of mid range baskets.

 

[GhostOfJackie]

I would like to see Tolu go up a little stronger to the basket at times. I feel like he could overpower his man but he doesn't try to do that enough. He also forgets to block out sometimes.

Also, Jeffreys is on the edge of becoming a really really good player if he could finetune his touch on the ball just a bit. And shoot a little better of course. He's got he body of an NBA player but needs a little work.