Comments on: Evans leads #13 Memphis over UMass

By: Rizzo

Rizzo — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:46:12 +0000

I just graduated from UMass this past May and saw the A10 grow the past four years before my eyes. Definitely an underrated conference and should be getting a little more national attention when it comes to non-BCS conferences.

By: imamuskiefan

imamuskiefan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:26:06 +0000

Rizzo- I’ve been an avid reader for a while and just recenty began commenting. I really enjoy your commentary. As someone who is a big A-10 fan, it’s nice to see that there are still some good A-10 believers out there

By: Rizzo

Rizzo — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:24:12 +0000

Xavier can easily beat Memphis, IMO. UMass was in the game the entire way (until about 6 minutes left) and they played absolutely horrendous. X is too experienced to get rattled and turn the ball over as much as we did, let alone shoot as bad as we did. Plus X’s size down low will definitely limit the easy put-backs the Tigers had against us.

By: imamuskiefan

imamuskiefan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:44:30 +0000

I want to see the way that X matches with Memphis. Should be a nice preview of the XU UMass game, always one of the better matchups

By: Goodtymes

Goodtymes — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:46:54 +0000

Lynch needs some time. He’s definitely out of shape. In fact the entire UMass squad looked out of shape vs Memphis.

By A10 play this team should be running on all cylinders. I question if Lynch can run an gun. He’s a promising looking prospect and only a freshman. I think he’ll turn out to have a “Rashaun Freeman” like career at ZooMass.

Boyden gym lol, Doug Wiggins will be a member of the league this year.

By: Rizzo

Rizzo — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:06:19 +0000

Lynch seemed to me to look very lazy at times on the court. If only he had half the drive and desire that Gaffney showed last night, Lynch would be a very valuable player to us this season. He’s young and is probably adjusting to the speed of the college game, because I know he wasn’t prepared for it playing against me at Boyden last year.

By: Goodtymes

Goodtymes — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:02:58 +0000

He deserves it. You did a great job! You covered all the bases, ESPN commentators were highly impressed with his performance.

To bad he doesn’t have another big to compliment him this year. I’m hoping Lynch comes along rather quickly.

By: Rizzo

Rizzo — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:25:27 +0000

I had to hook Tony Gaffney up with a huge shout out.

http://biggreenmachine.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/umass-shout-out-tony-gaffney/

By: Goodtymes

Goodtymes — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:15:38 +0000

To many turnovers. Ricky Harris is the foundation of the UMass scoring attack. He’s on his way to have a great year and making a possible bid for A10 player of the year.

Anthony Gurley sparkled at times but was very turnover prone. Scouting report was that he was a great defender I saw him get crossed up several times.

The most disappointing player on the court was Chris Lowe. I expected him to come out his senior year and flourish. Thus far I’ve yet to see how NBA scouts have him getting drafted in the second round. He may trying to hard at to impress losing all focus on being a playmaker.

Derek Kellogg tried runing with a much deeper Memphis squad big mistake. DK should have slowed it down at times to give Gaffney a breather.

Gaffney was the man last night. Dominant performance, kid has the heart of a lion. I’d take 5 Gaffney’s on my team any day of the year.

Right now I feel more comfortable with Gibbs/Correia running the point till Chris Lowe comes back to his usual self. Turnovers really killed UMass. Memphis had about half their points on easy outlets lack of transitioning back on defense.

Still alot of ball to be played. Lynch looks promising. To bad Sean Carter/Hashim Bailey are on the shelf this year. UMass could definitely use them.

By: Rizzo

Rizzo — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:28:09 +0000

It was an ugly game for the UMass offense as we committed 24 or 25 turnovers, most of which led to uncontested fast break layups for Memphis. Chris Lowe had another sub-par game as well as everyone on the team, except for Tony Gaffney. I can honestly say that I was getting chills watching Tony play last night. There wasn’t a player on the floor that could match his intensity at all last night. He was a beast on the boards, swatted a few shots and hit the offensive glass with reckless abandon. Add to that the fact he was the only one that didn’t freak out against Memphis’ press and he was easily the best player on the floor last night.

It was a good game to see UMass play against the nation’s elite. Definitely makes me feel like we can hang with anyone. Hopefully Matt Hill’s injury is not serious because our front line is already hurting with Bonner out for a month.