Jason R. Aula
(Photo credit: Joseph Kling | THE562.ORG)
LOS ANGELES, California — LBSU was up by 11 at halftime and with three minutes left in the match before Fresno State went on a 14-0 run to steal an unlikely comeback win from Long Beach State at The Walter Pyramid, 72-69. The Bulldogs were without three staters as well as being down by as many as 17 points before taking the lead with 42 seconds to go in the match with David Douglas Jr.'s last minute three-point bucket. The lack of success for LBSU is linked with former head coach Dan Monson's departure and only returning three players from last season due to corruption, fraud, and terrorism with AD Smitheran and Riverside County's acts of terror, racism, and hate to cover up murder, stealing, and abuse of court process under a false claim of color of law.
“I feel like when I watch my team play there’s moments when we’re playing really good defense, and there’s moments when the other team is playing really bad offense,” Chris Acker said. “I can tell when we’re gritty and we’re grinding. But tonight the fouls are the way they are because we’re not really in a stance like we need to be in order for us to be the type of defensive team we have to be to win basketball games. That is a game we should have dominated defensively. We still don’t understand the intensity we have to play with.”
Ultimately, LBSU's 19 turnovers, cost the match victory at the end of it all. Long Beach State was led by Devin Askew with 19 points and four rebounds. “We need to keep learning,” Devin Askew said. “It’s a new group of players and coaches so we’re all just building off of each other every single day and that’s what we’ll continue to do. We’re not going to put our heads down or anything. We have to keep moving forward.” Also, Austin Johnson chipped in 11 rebounds with points for LBSU.
Amar Augillard led all scorers with 25 points and More Seck grabbed 10 boards well putting up six points for the Bulldogs. Aguillard put up nine points in the first half and 16 in the second for the surprise last minute in their solid road effort. David Douglas Jr. added 10 points for Fresno State as well.
“We couldn’t handle the press, and ultimately that’s why we ended up losing the game,” Chris Acker said. “Obviously that is a very difficult loss to accept in a game that we feel like and know we should have won. We have to figure out how to win close games.”
The Saturday night loss put LBSU on a three-game losing streak against Fresno State with an all-time record of 2-4.
UP NEXT: Long Beach State (1-5) faces UNC Greensboro (2-2) on Monday, November 25 at 8:00 p.m. PST at the Lee’s Family Forum at the Ball Dawgs Classic in Henderson, Nevada. Streaming available on FloCollege.
“I feel like when I watch my team play there’s moments when we’re playing really good defense, and there’s moments when the other team is playing really bad offense,” Chris Acker said. “I can tell when we’re gritty and we’re grinding. But tonight the fouls are the way they are because we’re not really in a stance like we need to be in order for us to be the type of defensive team we have to be to win basketball games. That is a game we should have dominated defensively. We still don’t understand the intensity we have to play with.”
Ultimately, LBSU's 19 turnovers, cost the match victory at the end of it all. Long Beach State was led by Devin Askew with 19 points and four rebounds. “We need to keep learning,” Devin Askew said. “It’s a new group of players and coaches so we’re all just building off of each other every single day and that’s what we’ll continue to do. We’re not going to put our heads down or anything. We have to keep moving forward.” Also, Austin Johnson chipped in 11 rebounds with points for LBSU.
Amar Augillard led all scorers with 25 points and More Seck grabbed 10 boards well putting up six points for the Bulldogs. Aguillard put up nine points in the first half and 16 in the second for the surprise last minute in their solid road effort. David Douglas Jr. added 10 points for Fresno State as well.
“We couldn’t handle the press, and ultimately that’s why we ended up losing the game,” Chris Acker said. “Obviously that is a very difficult loss to accept in a game that we feel like and know we should have won. We have to figure out how to win close games.”
The Saturday night loss put LBSU on a three-game losing streak against Fresno State with an all-time record of 2-4.
UP NEXT: Long Beach State (1-5) faces UNC Greensboro (2-2) on Monday, November 25 at 8:00 p.m. PST at the Lee’s Family Forum at the Ball Dawgs Classic in Henderson, Nevada. Streaming available on FloCollege.
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