Daily News | Temple Owls still searching for their identity
Thursday’s announcement that Temple big man Jamille Reynolds — the most productive inside presence the Owls have had in quite some time — is out probably six to eight weeks after thumb surgery … brutal news on North Broad Street.
How about a four-game winning streak anchored by a win over VCU, followed by the loss to Penn? Four straight City 6 wins, then a loss to a team that hadn’t won a Big 5 game?Let’s simplify this. The 2022-23 Owls have not yet established an identity. They’ve had strong performances, individual and team. But what exactly do they hang their hat on?
Reynolds, the transfer from Central Florida, had been efficient inside, where he’s a force, but he’d been taking fewer shots lately. The injury obviously may explain that.Temple’s top seven players are sophomores. All talented, in different ways. All hungry. All hitting their college primes. Many of them are a bit older because they transferred in. But they’re not quite meshing together all the time, not enough to establish an identity.
“I so desperately wanted to outright win it — because it makes a statement,” McKie said of the opportunity missed to sweep the City Series games. “But it didn’t happen. Nothing worked. I get in front of you guys [in the media] and I talk about the defense and how I want it to get better. It didn’t happen today. We talk about playing unselfish as an offensive unit — didn’t happen.”
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