Game 10, 2023-24: vs Portland (DHC, 12/22)

[Berkman]

They flew out on Tuesday from Boston non stop.

[Camby4Life]

What? We're better off losing last night's game? Loser talk. We should have walked into the winners side of the bracket if not for free throws. That's a surprising statement from you, the eternal over-optimist.

read carefully my friend. i said in terms of winning two games in this tournament the best shot was losing last night and winning next two. Of course I would rather a win last night, tonight vs Hawaii and then game 3 for the cherry on top

This is actually a pretty interesting hypothetical. What are the percentages of going 1-1 vs Hawaii and then Nevada/TCU or 2-0 vs Portland and then Temple/ODU.

We having any analytic nerds here?

[WillHerndonFan]

I'm not worried about Keon , very strong kid, defends & rebounds well.
When did the team get out there? The time change and flight might have taken a toll

Agree about Keon as his strength can be a factor especially when he take it hard to the rim or bodies up the players on the defensive end. The kid has build of a full grown man.

[Sheck]

I said after last night I wasn't gonna watch this and yet here I am.

[Camby4Life]

Game time! How many of you psychos are up watching?

[Camby4Life]

I said after last night I wasn't gonna watch this and yet here I am.

Portland definitely looks better in the first few minutes. Umass better wake up fast.

[BullmooseGEO]

Whoever stays up to watch the entire thing live is an amazing fan, bonus points if you're on EST!

I'm on the road so planning to watch this when we get home on Christmas Day. Probably won't be hard to keep myself ignorant of the outcome.

Hope we have a few people in Oahu watching this live.

There are a few UMass fans here in the arena. Plus some of the families made it out. But arena has emptied out after the Hawaii-GATech game.

They are certainly playing with less intensity than yesterday.

[Sheck]

Up 8 at the half, I'll take it. Nice job by Ndjigue getting in there and getting the tip in before the buzzer. Awesome half by Cohen.

[Jackson96]

Slow start, got better. Should keep attacking the hoop — they are 15 for 18 on 2’s. Cohen and Cross beating them up inside and Jayden was really good.

Defense has been kind of meh…not terrible but not very good either. Gave up some offensive rebounds and got beat a little off the dribble (as a result some open threes.)

Keep taking care of the ball they should be able to score - 48 points in a half with only 3 threes is hard to do. Then just raise the defense level a notch and they should win.

[Upstate10]

What time do we play if we win?

[Sheck]

It'll be either 1:30 or 3:30pm our time.

[Jackson96]

Letting Portland stay a bit closer than they should. Doing some dumb shit and letting the foot off the gas defensively and Portland’s hanging around.

[Jackson96]

Welp starting to pull away. Getting whatever they want offensively and defense got some stops and turnovers when they weren’t fouling.

[Upstate10]

Hell of a response from this group. Get one on Sunday and the trip is a success and we have real momentum going into conference play.

This team has nuts. Haven't felt that way about a UMass team in a long time. Excited to see what they grow into by Brooklyn.

[stevemaz]

nice to see 21-23 from line. The A10 games are going to be closey contested so we need to perform well at the line.