Phillip Campbell
March 3, 2008
Game Story 1
The Bengals lose to the Big Sky doormat thanks to a lackluster effort.
The rollercoaster ride continued on Thursday as the Bengals again demonstrated their lack of consistency for playing good basketball. The Bengals didn’t look like a team riding a three game winning streak. They lacked effort and trailed most of the ballgame.
The sudden lack of effort by the Bengals surprised everyone especially their coach.
“It’s unexpected, unacceptable and it doesn’t frustrate me, it really makes me mad,” said Coach O’Brien.
The Bengals came into the game on a three game winning streak. Their only game this week was against Northern Colorado. Coach O’Brien gave the team a few days off and lowered the intensity of practice in preparation for the Bears.
“I don’t understand our lack of energy and our lack of execution and our lack of commitment,” said Coach Obrien. “I apologize to our fans that were here tonight and have gotten excited about what we have done over the course of the past couple of weeks. That performance is just totally unacceptable. It’s totally unexpected and it’s back to the drawing board.”
The players shared the frustration in the loss. Matt Stucki who is one the leading scorers on the team struggled to score just three points.
“I think a lot of the time the effort is there, said Matt Stucki.” Were trying and there’s a lot of mental breakdowns that we had. Whether it’s switching and picking up at the right places or not boxing out it’s just little things like that we work on in practice. I think everyone is trying, trying our hardest but it’s just we got to eliminate those mental breakdowns.”
Donnie Carson felt like the team lacked energy from the start.
“We didn’t bring our hard hats and lunch pales,” said Donnie Carson.” We didn’t execute like we were supposed to.”
A win would have set up a first place showdown in Portland next week. With just three weeks left the Bengals will have to pick up the pieces quickly if they want to contend for a conference championship.
“ We’ve got a week now before we play at Portland State and we are going to do whatever it takes to find that basketball team that left here last Saturday night and failed to show up tonight,” said Coach Obrien. “The things we hang our hat on we didn’t even pretend to do tonight.”
March 3, 2008
Game Story 1
The Bengals lose to the Big Sky doormat thanks to a lackluster effort.
The rollercoaster ride continued on Thursday as the Bengals again demonstrated their lack of consistency for playing good basketball. The Bengals didn’t look like a team riding a three game winning streak. They lacked effort and trailed most of the ballgame.
The sudden lack of effort by the Bengals surprised everyone especially their coach.
“It’s unexpected, unacceptable and it doesn’t frustrate me, it really makes me mad,” said Coach O’Brien.
The Bengals came into the game on a three game winning streak. Their only game this week was against Northern Colorado. Coach O’Brien gave the team a few days off and lowered the intensity of practice in preparation for the Bears.
“I don’t understand our lack of energy and our lack of execution and our lack of commitment,” said Coach Obrien. “I apologize to our fans that were here tonight and have gotten excited about what we have done over the course of the past couple of weeks. That performance is just totally unacceptable. It’s totally unexpected and it’s back to the drawing board.”
The players shared the frustration in the loss. Matt Stucki who is one the leading scorers on the team struggled to score just three points.
“I think a lot of the time the effort is there, said Matt Stucki.” Were trying and there’s a lot of mental breakdowns that we had. Whether it’s switching and picking up at the right places or not boxing out it’s just little things like that we work on in practice. I think everyone is trying, trying our hardest but it’s just we got to eliminate those mental breakdowns.”
Donnie Carson felt like the team lacked energy from the start.
“We didn’t bring our hard hats and lunch pales,” said Donnie Carson.” We didn’t execute like we were supposed to.”
A win would have set up a first place showdown in Portland next week. With just three weeks left the Bengals will have to pick up the pieces quickly if they want to contend for a conference championship.
“ We’ve got a week now before we play at Portland State and we are going to do whatever it takes to find that basketball team that left here last Saturday night and failed to show up tonight,” said Coach Obrien. “The things we hang our hat on we didn’t even pretend to do tonight.”
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