by CoachC » Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:38 am
Nov 4: Our first exhibition against Winston Salem St. Obviously I'll have a lot to assess in these exhibitions.
After playing in some of the barns in the Big South, coming into The Pit with it's huge capacity of 18,000 + feels reallly strange. Of course for the exhibition most of those seats sit empty, and season ticket sales are down for the 3rd year in a row, thanks to recent mediocrity and a losing campaign last year. I'm confident we'll be able to turn that around eventually, as the Lobos have a loyal following. It'd be great fun to get THIS place filled to the rafters, let me tell you! Having played here with the Aggies, and having worked as a graduate assistant after I had the experience coming here 2 or 3 times in the annual showdown between UNM and NM St. and let me tell you it could be pretty intimidating being on the opposing side, because those games always had huge crowds.
There a couple of very positive things we were able to see in this game. One is that we looked pretty confident and fluid on offense no matter who was in the game. Secondly, although we will be playing very little Amoeba Zone this season because of the high learning curve and only sparingly at best early in the season, we still managed to 25 times on 12 steals which was pretty impressive. We also have a lot of depth at the point and our 15 to 10 a/to ratio was very satisfactory.
On the negative side, we need a lot of work in our man to man defense, and we appear to be rather thin at the 3, meaning we'll probably be playing a 3 guard offense much of the time.
Worst of all though was our rebounding which was atrocious. 16-36, 7-12 are numbers we certainly can not live with.
Individually, Fernando Martin is most likely going to be our go to guy on offense and impressed to night with 12 points in 14 minutes. Nobody on the team rebounded well, however, and that's a big concern.
we win the game 61-59