So I was driving
tonight and got a call from my ole buddy Chris. I was asked to be a special guest tonight on CTC as Chris or Lee
couldn’t attend the game due to other reasons, but lets get to the point….
Tonight the
Colonials played the Campbell “Fighting Camels” with dreadful crowd at the Sewell Center Campbell University
The Colonial’s
starting line up was pretty solid tonight with Jones (F), Worthem (F), McFadden
(C), Anderson (G), Myers-Pate (G) in what turn out to be a group who clicked
from the start. The first media time out came around 17:45 in the first with
the Colonials converting 5 of their first 8 shots. Coach Toole was pushing the
guys all night to get a fast pace tempo going but that failed with the
Colonials not having a large double-digit lead in the first half. The Camels
bench outscored their starting five 10-7 at the 7:22 mark in the first with RMU
leading the Camels 27-17. I loved seeing the hustle of RMU in the first half
diving after lose balls and winning a majority of those possessions. The Sewell Center woke up mid way first half
with a nasty 2 handed flushed by Mike McFadden to give the colonials a
comfortable lead before their offensive breakdown toward the end of the first
half. The Camels had many opportunities to score in the first half but failed
with the tough 2-3-zone defense the colonials were throwing out at the Camels.
I am happy that the colonials were shooting 14-28 (50%) from the Field and 6-12
from the 3-point range at the end of the first half.
The second half
started off just like the first with the colonials taking a early lead against
the Camels. The 12-5 run gave the Colonials the seal in the second half with
Jones having a game high 18 points along with the man himself Karvel Anderson
with 16. Karvel Anderson impresses everyone, as his touch is so natural
shooting 4-7 from beyond the arc tonight. The Camels came back tonight against
the colonials as they started breaking down the 2-3 zone around the 10minute
mark in the second half. As we started to see the defense break down it surprises
me that Coach Toole didn’t go into a man-to-man press to frustrate an already
shaken Campbell
team. As we hear in the basketball world
free throws wins games and tonight the Colonials came out shooting 73% from the
free throw line tonight and shooting 46% from the field compared to Campbell 41%. Finally as
we can see Myers-Pete is emerging as the true point guard with 25 assist and
only 5 turn over in the past 5 games with 12 points to add tonight as well.
Robert Morris
came out with passion tonight and even though they were not playing any mid
major team we saw a team find some idenity and start a 2 game win streak. The
prediction made earlier this week was pretty close of a final score RMU
72-Campbell 61. Coach Toole said in his conference, "We wanted to take
away the three. They average 9 a game but hit 7. That's six points that
could've made a huge difference." Coach Toole was right those 6 points
could have made a difference tonight but at the end of HUMP DAY the Camels went
back down south on a losing note.
--Tyson Kulukan
First off,
thanks to Tyson who knocked one out of the park as our pinch hitter last night.
I didn’t get to watch a lot of the game, but a few things I noticed was Toole
played Kavon Stewart, Stephan Hawkins, Aaron Tate, and Chuck Oliver all in the
last seven minutes. I think he’s starting to trust his bench a little more. Even
Juanie Newton played three minutes!
-Nice game again
from Lucky and Karvel. We just expect it at this point.
-I was a little
surprised RMU went with the 2-3 zone all day again. I think the general feeling
is Toole believes he can win with his gritty style of man-to-man defense and
believes that’s how they’ll have to win come NEC time. This would have been a
good game to try and go with some more man defense; Campbell is capable of shooting the three
ball well but doesn’t really like to get to the rim.
-I personally
like the zone and it seemed to be effective yet again so no complaints from me,
but another thing to keep an eye out on is the rebounding. RMU has never been a
strong rebounding team and a zone does not help that, but they were getting
dominated on the boards for most of this game. The centers really have to
rebound better.
-25 assists and
five turnovers the past five games from Anthony Myers-Pate. He’s shooting the
ball better as well. This is good.
Overall it’s
nice to get a win streak going. It doesn’t sound like RMU played extremely well
by any means, but a win is a win and you have to beat the lesser opponents. A
five game road stand starting at Oakland
is up next.
--Chris Cappella
--@C_Cappella
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