Idaho Vandals vrs Portland Pilot's Sat. 11/20

Big game tonight coach and players need to bounce back quick...remember this crackerjack gym is hard place to win games at...

Team had to take 3 small aircraft (wonder if big Jasonn, Luke, Rev & Kramer all got into one of them???)late last night out of portland to get into Moscow, IDAHO EARLY this am, nothing like a pregame handicap, lol...

Indeed, honestly I think this game is far bigger than the Kentucky one as far as a lesson in both focus and winning the games that need to be won. Ever since last year I can't help but get worried about a trip to Idaho, a trap game if there ever was one...even if we did just kind of let Kentucky walk all over us. (Well except for a very nice block by Kramer and a hard foul by Nem...)

Looking at the box score from last night, some of the few bright spots that Rev has to draw from include 12 points by Waterford and 12 boards by Sikma. But, 48 total points. Ouch!

The big question is: Can we be an improved road team over last season? Or really...over the past 2 seasons? The second queston I have is: How will our offense adapt on nights when the perimeter game isn't going well for us?

At least with the blow-out, the starters got lots of rest in the second half. No excuse about being too tired at Idaho.

Going into the game I was hoping it would be a blowout so that we could rest our starters. I was just thinking we would be on the other end of it. Time to rock the Kibbie Dome!!!

sorry to disappoint mattywizz, but they won't be playing in the Kibbie Done, it's still being used for the Vandals intramural grade football team...

or maybe an indoor track meet? Featuring Outhorn vs. JaWarren Hooker rematch?

LOL

DaTruRochin wrote:sorry to disappoint mattywizz, but they won't be playing in the Kibbie Done, it's still being used for the Vandals intramural grade football team...

According to this link, it looks like the game will be in the Idaho equivalent of Howard Hall. LINK

h/t Rev's twitter

Does anyone know if you can watch or listen to the game online?

http://www.truetalk800.com/

All games will be available online on the 800 AM in the Portland/Salem area or streaming on the website everywhere else.

EDIT: Here's a link directly to the streaming player:

http://den-a.plr.liquidcompass.net/player/flash/audio_player.php?id=KPDQAM&uid=173

Anyone find live stats?

Nope.

1:40 to go, 62-49 UP leads.... hold on, Pilots!

It should be in the bag as long as we hit our free throws. I wonder if we're in the bonus? I haven't heard the announcers say anything about that, but, I tuned in recently...

Final, Pilots win 66-53!

Sikma has another moster game on the boards, with at least 17 tonight.

Great first road win!

66-53 final.

Nice win. 4-1 is a lot better than 3-2 and the short turnaround didn't make it easy.

It looks like the Kentucky game didn't do anything to their heads, because it sounds like they are back to playing good basketball.

Here's the O story
http://www.oregonlive.com/pilots/index.ssf/2010/11/portland_66_idaho_53_jared_sto.html

18 rebounds for Luke! 8 - 14 on 3's. That's more like it.

FT's could have been better, only 10 - 18, 56%.

If a winning season is the goal this year*, the first thing the Pilots have to do is beat the teams they ought to beat. They took care of business tonight. Well done.

*Until I wrote this and decided to check, I didn't realize that our last stretch of three winning seasons in a row was (gulp) 1979-82.

Rev's latest tweet

CoachReveno Eric Reveno
Great win tonight at Idaho. Gut check after UK game last night. All in all, 36 hours of getting better. Thanks to charter, home by midnight.
6 minutes ago

Purplegeezer wrote:Rev's latest tweet

CoachReveno Eric Reveno
Great win tonight at Idaho. Gut check after UK game last night. All in all, 36 hours of getting better. Thanks to charter, home by midnight.
6 minutes ago

I know one young man that took his first chartered flight last night...a good experience for these young 18-22 year old men to have during the "overall Pilot Basketball life"....


MesaPilot1

I know Idaho is not the greatest team in the world, but I think it was an excellent test of character. This Pilot team, so far, has shown some good signs of competitiveness.