My game observations.

[Dan Marshall]

Game Observations...

Cedric- Showed real leadership and is the Obvious leader of the team.

Williamson- VERY impressive, great energy and has that ability to be in
every play it seems, his energy and tenaciousness kind of reminded me of
Hicks.  He had that "animalness" about him, always headed for the ball etc.
He also has Long arms, I imagine him pulling down some rebounds too.

Warren - I'm pretty sure this is they guy... Playing point.. (still have to
get used to all the names/numbers) had some great dishes underneath and hit
a three, I was impressed with him as well.

Brandon Miller - Loved that he got a dunk... Obviously he will probably be
our next fan favorite.

Allen... Hmmm what to say about him that's positive... He knows how to foul!
:) He had a couple nice blocks, but seems to have that tendency to want to
rebound and want to put the ball on the floor.  It's a shame he has such a
great Basketball body... Someone at the game said if you were picking at a
street game and you saw Williamson and Allen next to each other and hadn't
seen them play you would pick Allen.  But there is no question who the
better player was.  He also seemed to be yelling at himself a lot after his
dumb plays instead of getting back up court right away.

Style of play- it was difficult because frankly NKU wasn't playing very
well, (I know some might argue our defense did that, but really, NKU didn't
look good last night at all) that said, I am sure this is going to be an
exciting style to watch, but we know Cronin was a good coach

Team Chemistry- It was very obvious these guys are a "team", seeing them go
wild on the bench when Miller dunked it etc.  I also REALLY liked that they
team went over to the student section  ( a la the football team) and gave
them all High fives etc.  Very good for helping redevelop a fan base. They
seem to all have great attitudes

Uniforms- I really like them! 

Court design- Nice clean an classy

Arena- they have done a lot of nice things in there... And although I know
the C Paw is our logo, it sure is beat into your head their.. A little too
much for me actually, they have it on every section number, I was surprised
that it wasn't painted in the urinals I'd seen it so much.  I understand
branding... But, it's on EVERYTHING...  I'm also assuming the lower amount
of concessions was due to the fact that it was a pre season game.

Attendance- Does anyone know what the number was yet?  It seemed pretty
scarce, maybe 5000?  I could be way off but there were a lot of empty seats
in all section.  The Rallycats only went about 4 rows deep and didn't fill
the last two row, but there was a pretty hot co ed in white in the second
row... ;)

GO BEARCATS!