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The Fighting Hawks are at Mabee Center tonight to take on the Golden Eagles....UND is 8-9 and coming off a home loss to Omaha....they played some good ball in December with road wins at Nebraska and Denver....but ORU is the better team and we should win this one....it's much needed to even our Summit record at 2-2....ORU is an 8 point favorite with the O/U at 152.5.....TheEagleman loves the home team and the Over again tonight....no excuse to drop this one and ORU prevails 88-75 over UND....GO BLUE!!!:shield-logo:

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https://forum.siouxsports.com/topic/28580-und-8-9-2-1-oru-8-8-1-2-111-7-pm/  - a very detailed breakdown by the UND board. However,  I’m guessing none of their fans have watched an ORU game this year, we haven’t run a minute of zone defense all season. The color commentators for the Omaha game the other night, along with not having pronunciations for our players names, kept commenting about how they were expecting us to play zone all game.

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Glad RJ changed out of those gawd awful shoes he started with...SMH...but his shooting % didn't improve. ND daring him to shoot.  

We can beat these guys, but too many unforced TOs on our part early.

Let's go. Clean it up 

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If you would have said KO and Eman would only score two points at halftime then it would seem ORU is in big trouble. The guards stepped up big and the Golden Eagles lead by 5, 37-32. Max on 🔥!

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Anyone else see the flagrant 2 foul they called on Lufile? Not even sure he deserved a common foul, certainly not a flagrant 2.  

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2 minutes ago, EagleFan21 said:

Anyone else see the flagrant 2 foul they called on Lufile? Not even sure he deserved a common foul, certainly not a flagrant 2.  

Completely ridiculous. 

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Officials stink....Obanor already gone...but ORU kicking A$$ anyway...Pour it on!😁

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BTW, the ESPN3 coverage has been pretty good for those of us that couldn't make the game. 

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Big win for TheEagleman tonight...it's already in the bag.....GO BLUE!!!😁

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Two really nice home wins for the Eagles this week!  Now time to go on the road and win all three.  

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Oh yeah.....ORU rolls over UND by 88-73 on 58% shooting and 44% from three....26 for Abmas and Burns for 20....Fuqua 13 and E-Man 10.....real good weekend for ORU getting two must home wins at Mabee…..TheEagleman is feeling a lot better....but now the Good Guys have to show they can win on the road.....:tb-white:

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As much hype as the bigs get, tonight was all about guard play. Good news: RJ looks like he is healed up and back from injury. Maybe the best game the backcourt has had all year. Max can literally change a game in just a few minutes with his scoring ability.

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This team has played 2 solid games in a row against 2 decent Summit opponents.  They have shot 53% and 57% from the field and only had 11 turnovers in each game even though they ran an up-tempo and at times a "fast break" offense.

On the previous weekend, they lost 2 games on the road to 2 other decent Summit opponents after shooting 38% and 44%.

In tonight's game, the 3 big men shot 11 of 14 for 79%.  The guards combined to shoot for 51%.  Because this team rebounds well, shoots free throws fairly well, and takes pretty good care of the ball, they will win most nights when the shots are falling.  However, for the nights when the shots aren't falling, they will need to run the offense through their big men, or they will end up only about 8-8 in the Summit League, losing the games when the jump shots aren't falling.

The problem with running the offense through the big men is that we only have 3 big men, and we cannot overly rely on them due to the risk of foul trouble.  To offset that, you need some guards who can drive to the basket and get some easy buckets.  We have some guards who can do that, and RJ coming back healthy has definitely contributed to some easy buckets on drives to the basket.  That will work against most of the Summit League opponents, but against better opponents, I am not sure we can rely on consistent scoring from our guards driving to the basket.

So my take is that this team has taken a step forward and has the talent to succeed in the Summit League this year.  If they rely too much on jump shots and a guard-oriented offense, then they will end up about 8-8.  If they walk the fine line of running a more big man oriented offense supplemented by guards who drive to the basket rather than shooting a bunch of jump shots, they could win 10-12 Summit League games this year.

Then next year they need to replace Nzekwesi with 3 other big men so they have more depth in the post (a total of 5 forwards).  I am not sure however that that will happen.  If even one of our big men has a significant injury this year, we will be running a 4-guard offense, and that is not a recipe for success.

I am encouraged however that the talent level has increased to the point that this team should be able to compete for a top 3 spot in the league this year and I am happy for Coach Mills because I would like to see him succeed here and this is an important year for him and for this team.

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4 hours ago, EagleFan21 said:

Anyone else see the flagrant 2 foul they called on Lufile? Not even sure he deserved a common foul, certainly not a flagrant 2.  

 

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Not sure what that ref was watching...at best its a double foul...Flagrant 2??..please...ORU gets no breaks even at home...😳

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11 hours ago, theeagleman5 said:

....no excuse to drop this one and ORU prevails 88-75 over UND....GO BLUE!!!

Wow. Eagle man was Downright prescient. 

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3 hours ago, Dr. Cornelius said:

 

Poor officiating. There was a bit of arm flailing, but nothing appeared to be excessive and they are able to separate themselves with little to no assistance. Common fouls both ways and move on. 

 

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