Observations from the Red-White game

Got there early with some friends and family. Chili was good - a good deal to get all you wanted plus snacks/chips and drinks...
Also plenty of chance to talk with lots of other fans & some posters -- JeffSU, Patrick O'Brian, Da Coach, Mr. Coachdude, Big Mike, and quite a few others..

The women's game was 2 - 15 minute halves of a running clock...so the 30 minutes of running clock was the equivalent of only 20 minutes of play. Thus, the scoring was pretty awesome. The ladies finshed their Red-Black game with Black winning 51-39. They swapped some players at half but still they scored well!

The men likewise played one half with a running clock that ended Red 19 - White 17, then the 2nd half was a situational period of 10 minutes but clock stopped and bonus FT's shot...and that situational half was only 10 minutes, but the Red team started that period down 17-7...

But here were my assessments...
-a little sloppy but that was due in part to good defense, active hands, and a lot of tipped and stolen passes
-decent shooting...with five different players nailing 3's (Dodie Dunson, Jake Eastman, walk-on Aaron Ganson, Walt Lemon, and Dyricus)
-several quick blocked shots and I think the big guys played well, very active and finished well with the ball
-Sam Maniscalco, Taylor Brown, Will Egolf, and walk-on Jordan Brown all sat out with no risk of reinjuring their minor problems that are being rehabbed
-I thought defense overall was better than I expected for an early season exhibition

Here are my unofficial scoring totals..

#0 Charonn Woods missed a couple shots and was scoreless but did a decent job handling the ball

#1 Dodie Dunson looks to be in good shape, hit a "3" and a 2-pointer and I had him for a couple FT for 7 pts

#3 TB sat out

#4 Jake Eastman 4-4 on FT's, 9 pts total

#5 Sam Maniscalco sat out

#10 Aaron Ganson hit two 3's and a 2-pointer for 8 pts

#13 Jordan Brown sat out

#23 Andrew Davis, freshman, has a little way to go, had a nice blocked shot and a layup for 2 pts total

#24 Andrew Warren very active but didn't shoot a lot - 7 pts

#25 Walt Lemon, Jr. this guy will surprise and please many. He's all over, a great defender, quick and can finish with dunks.. he had 7 pts, and several steals

#32 Dyricus Simms-Edwards 3 pts, but did fine runing the point

#34 Milos Knezevic his shot was off but had had 4 pts

#41 Anthony Thompson did very well, he's much improved. One super-high flying blocked shot, a couple nice putbacks, 7 pts

#44 Jordan Prosser - also very active and he'll do fine in a backup role in frontcourt...8 pts and led with 6 rebs

#54 Will Egolf sat out

Overall -- like I said, pretty sloppy and a lot of likely starters sat out...
The guys with the most turnovers (Charonn Woods 4, Aaron Ganson 3, and Milos 3) are not the guys who will be handling the ball a lot in the season.
and some of the play just looked like everyone was being careful so nobody else got hurt...
If I felt anything really good it was that the guys who will likely be the subs like Lemon, Prosser, Thompson, and Jake all did very, very well...

The arena was beautiful and everything ran smoothly...the clocks, shot clocks, video...all did fine - no glitches..

and I disagree with sme who said the crowd was small...what I saw was that at all times many people were still just congregating in the mezzanine and in the Braves Club areas...
I talked with some who were in "authority" and all thought like I did that the crowd was 1500-2000...not at all bad for a late Sunday evening event that wasn't even a game. Agree that not many students were there -- but a whole lot of the old time BU fans were....