Dana Altman did not mince his phrases when discussing Oregon’s turnover-laden males’s basketball exhibition recreation loss to Stanford on Oct. 30.
“Terrible,” is how the coach described the Ducks‘ 19 turnovers, which led to 17 factors for the Cardinal of their 77-70 victory.
Aside from the ultimate consequence, it did not get any higher for Oregon (1-0) when the season began for actual Tuesday at Matthew Knight Area.
The Geese had 21 turnovers towards Hawaii and the Rainbow Warriors took benefit with 23 factors off these misplays in what turned a 60-59 win for Oregon, a victory secured on a last-second basket by Takai Simpkins.
Oregon returns to its residence court docket Friday, Nov. 7 for a 7 p.m. nonconference recreation towards Rice (1-0).
“We have been involved after that recreation towards Stanford and that recreation did not calm us down,” Altman stated Tuesday. “Loads of work to do.”
The dearth of depth at guard as a consequence of accidents coupled with the addition of so many new gamers has Oregon scrambling to discover a move on offense, Altman stated.
The Geese are with out starting point guard Jackson Shelstad for the rapid future as he recovers from a damaged hand. Reserve sophomore guard Jamari Phillips additionally missed Tuesday’s recreation.
Newcomer Wei Lin has began in Shelstad’s place via the exibition season and in addition on Tuesday when he had two factors, 4 turnovers, three rebounds, one help and was 0 for 7 from the sphere and 0 for 4 from 3-point vary. Simpkins, a senior switch from Elon, additionally began and led Oregon with 18 factors on 7-of-12 capturing, although he was 1 for six from 3-point vary. He had only one turnover however no assists.
“It’s going to take some time for us to seem like we all know what we’re doing offensively,” Altman stated. “It’s gonna be a piece in progress.”
Altman additionally leaned on walk-on level guard Drew Carter towards Hawaii, and the two-year veteran was at the least in a position to get the Geese into their correct units and hold the ball transferring. Carter performed 19 minutes and had one help. He was the one Oregon participant with out a turnover and had the very best plus/minus on the group at plus-13.
“I believed Drew gave us some stability there,” Altman stated. “He had that good stretch within the first half the place he lastly bought some ball motion and did not flip it over and we rating on 5 or 6 possessions in that stretch simply because merely he bought the ball transferring.”
The Owls, who went 13-19 final season, opened their season Nov. 4 with a 109-38 victory towards School of Biblical Research in Houston.
The ESPN Analytics matchup predictor provides the Geese an 87.0% likelihood to beat the Hoosiers.
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Chris Hansen covers College of Oregon soccer, males’s basketball, observe and subject, cross nation and softball for The Register-Guard. You’ll be able to attain him at chansen@registerguard.com.
