Quite a different pace so far tonight

[BoilersRock]

Half-court game from Serbia rather than the constant running from yesterday.

Inside and out game is working nicely for us. Clear difference in footspeed (we're faster). I know it's early, but this game should be ours....VE just banked a three

 

[buffboiler]

Nice. Thanx.

 

[BoilersRock]

Since Canada, I've seen Carsen use the quick dump down low when driving, which is nice to see - late last season, defenses were keying on his drives. He and his teammates just need to keep improving on the timing.

We are in the midst of one of our dry spells right now

 

[02Boilermaker]

Solid first half on both ends of the floor.

I guess Vince's ankle is ok. 23 points & 4 rebounds in the 1st half!

 

[JohnnyDoeBoiler]

Vince is just an incredibly difficult matchup for other teams on offense. When he begins hitting the elbow jumper, it totally opens up his entire game. You saw this with him attacking the basket more when Serbia began really rushing toward him when he caught the ball at the arc.

Nice to see Cline hit a few threes near the end of the half but really would like to see Mathias get heated up again. Only hitting 1/5 from the arc is incredibly poor shooting from him BUT I assume he'll shoot much better in the second half. Same could be said of Isaac as well as he went 0-3. Two of our better shooters (admittedly Haas only shoots inside 7 feet) going 1-8 isn't the norm and will help stretch the lead even more in the second half to get some bench players more minutes to rest the starters for the gold medal game. It would be nice to see Wheeler, Ewing, and Sasha get some time in the semi's.