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Friday, January 16, 2009
Frosh Williams out for Duquesne game
Freshman guard Paul Williams will miss his second straight game with an inner-ear infection when Dayton plays at Duquesne on Saturday.
Williams, who is averaging 1.5 points in 9.3 minutes per game, will be cleared to start workouts on Monday, coach Brian Gregory said.
Chris Wright and London Warren, who missed practice earlier in the week because of the flu, are back at full strength.
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Flyers need to forget about Fordham game
Dayton needs to turn the page quickly to get ready for a resurgent opponent in Duquesne on Saturday, but it has to be hard for the players to shake the bitter aftertaste of that 72-71 win over feeble Fordham.
Yes, the Rams have a couple of nice freshmen guards in Jio Fontan and Alberto Estwick — both starred on the undefeated prep national champion St. Anthony’s in New Jersey last season and were recruited by bigger schools — but that was the kind of foe that the Flyers flattening during their 14-1 non-league season.
I’ve never seen a more subdued locker room after a win than what I encountered when I interviewed UD players in the aftermath. A stone-faced Rob Lowery looked like he had just made the play that lost a game, not a clutch drive to pull out a one-point victory.
Chris Wright, like the others, was troubled that Fordham had given UD such a scare.
“You’ve got to focus the whole game. You can’t have ups and downs during a game. You can’t have peaks and valleys,” he said. “When you have a lead, you have to continue to play at that level. You can’t let your energy drop off or your focus to drop off.
“We can’t win like that. A win like that, you’re happy you got the win, but you have to understand you could have easily lost that game, and you can’t put yourself in that situation and let it come to that. We have to pick it up. We can’t play like that.”
Certainly not if they want to reach the postseason. The Flyers set themselves up for an NCAA tournament bid with their non-league effort, but two straight clunkers have all but erased the momentum of that feel-good start.
“There’s going to be a lot tougher opponents (than Fordham),” Wright said. “They played well, they played hard. But we can’t let that happen.”
