Northwestern (3-1) hosts Montana State (1-3) tonight at Welsh-Ryan Arena. The game is set for an 8 pm tip off and will air on BTN.
Game Thread: Northwestern vs. Montana State
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Good rotations on both ends. I think Matt can’t stop his guy on the drive, they may need little faster Luke to wear him out a bit first.
Martinelli coming back down to earth too with the length that Montana has already had a shot blocked twice
So much for Barney playing only 10 minutes tonight. He's the best player on the floor and it's not even close. Brian Butch slurping him is getting embarrassing, but I'm glad someone notices.
Still, Cats have been really sloppy tonight, especially defensively.
Still, Cats have been really sloppy tonight, especially defensively.
Hard to believe Montana state has lost three games already. They've got Great Heights, excellent athletes and are hitting three-point shots as well.
It’s not just bad defense. They’re also slow and lazy. Playing with zero effort. They’ll be getting an earful at halftime.
It looks to me like Cats are already convinced they can’t win. They seems slow and dispirited. Letting the bobcats get away with play ground moves.
Exactly, you're right about the one-on-one play. And even worse we can't shoot from three point range.
Well if we keep playing like this we don't have even a dream of the tournament. The last few games have not been very tournament worthy to say the least
Berry has had a rough start to the season. Obviously the shooting hasn’t been there, but his passing has been really sloppy. Gotta get him out of this funk - he plays a really important role on this team and has not played even close to what we need yet this year.
I mean maybe that 1 point loss at Denver was to the Nuggets?
Absolutely brutal first half of basketball. The lack of energy and focus defensively was particulary upsetting for a team that needs a lot of ... energy and focus defensively to be successful.
Well ... no ... but it would really be bad. Something needs to happen to change the energy, because that was particularly devoid of it.
But let's be real, if Nicholson and Berry do this little on offense this year ...... it's going to be ugly.
When Berry makes a shot, I always think, "good for him, he really needs that" like he's a little kid who really really needs to score. I'd like to see him shooting more, but only if he's, you know, hitting more shots too.
I'm not too worried...yet, but the team needs to come out strong in the second half. This isn't a clearly better team getting its act together and imposing its will in a five-minute overtime. They need to show they're better in the next 20 minutes, because they certainly didn't in the first 20.