1 UCR is guard driven, their 3 best players are 6’1 Moses, the Point, 6’ Hargress, the shooter, 6’3 Pickens. BYU will be much taller at all positions, big advantage BYU.
2 UCR was outrebounded by Oregon 45-29. BYU is always a great rebounding team. Advantage BYU
3 Because of their height, UCR will throw up a lot of 3s (52%), BYU will shoot more (61%)
At home, BYU hits their shots
No answer for Egor and Catchings
Vegas: -17 BYU. BYU 85-68. I say BYU beats the spread.
Trevon Knell just about shot BYU out of the game late missing 3 three point shots late in the game.BYU couldn’t get offensive rebounds late in the game and let Riverside drive hard to the basket and draw fouls and Riverside was hitting all of their FTs and BYU was missing a lot of FTs. Not a good game. Denim was impressive again. Lots of talent but needs a lot of work to mesh as a team. They had a big lead with just under 8 minutes left and let Riverside back into the game.
It looked like Young is trying to work out his rotation and was shuffling players in and out a lot late in the game trying to figure out the best combinations.
I think he knew BYU was going to win but in my mind he was doing a lot of experimenting late. I was yelling at the TV to get Knell out because he wan’t hitting his shots and he adds very little defensively and shouldn’t be on the floor when his shots aren’t falling particularly late in the game…
I am still puzzled by the Knell thing. He will get hot about once every seven games and actually add something but for the most part he doesn’t bring enough outside of the three point shooting to have any impact on the game. He is more of a detriment. Don’t get me wrong, he is a good player, just not at the high level needed to make an impact.
Well, until Baker, Boskovic and Hall are more ready to play and fell the game better, Knell will play a lot of minutes. It’s weird that while we look at the bad 3 point shooting, we still scored 86 points, shot 53% from the field. Where we really did bad was from the free throw line. I bet the players are in shooting free throws right now and a lot of them.
He is a step below the rest of the team. I’m guessing it was his childhood dream to play at BYU and congratulations to him. However, he should be watching from the sideline most of the game and only come in at the end when other players his same level come in. It’s not a knock, it’s just reality. I wish I was half the player he is when I played basketball.
My guess is that Knell is a streak shooter, not a pure shooter. When he is on a streak he can help you out, when he isn’t-better watch from the sidelines
I think everyone on this board knows where I stand on the Knell. Knell has one potential skill in B12 play, but In conference play (where he was actually defended), Knell was awful at that one thing. Last year he went 7/10 from deep in the first game. The rest of the league said “ok let’s just guard him,” and for the rest of the year he was .316 25/79 from deep in conference play. That’s BAD for any player but especially one who can’t defend, break a press, or excel in some other category. KY sees everything we see, and he’s truly a “best player plays” guy, so I don’t think we will see Knell much when Hall is back.
Mostly agree with you…but it should be noted he was injured for most of conference play…and a foot injury tends to affect 3 point shots more than closer in shots
UC Riverside squeaked by Cal Baptist in a cross town rivalry game. Didn’t look anything close to the team that played in the MC the other day. BYU would beat Cal Baptist by 40… or maybe 10 depending on which team showed up.
It’s not the result that I care so much about but how the players played. I forgot about Keba and Saunders, they were good as well. Honestly though, everyone should be good against a team like that. Demin looked better than he did tonight vs. Queens, but I chalk that up to the level of competition… one reason why Knell was so good.
