Fort Wayne Mad Ants season 2024/25

[Scoot McGroot]

unless I'm misreading it, a moderator needs to delete the prior post.

Yeah, I reported it so hopefully someone swings through shortly. Looks like user got hacked.

[Grang33r]

Thank you guys.

Sorry about that. I will try to be quicker in the future to catch and delete spam messages. Apparently its been a major problem recently on realgm but i think thats the first time its hit our board. lol

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[Wizop]

Wasn't Bell playing in Europe? Good g league center

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Wasn't Bell playing in Europe? Good g league center

I looked it up as I thought the same. I found that he was playing for Puerto Rico.

[Scoot McGroot]

Wasn't Bell playing in Europe? Good g league center

I looked it up as I thought the same. I found that he was playing for Puerto Rico.

He left the Mad Ants for an offer in China, and then went to Puerto Rico where they play "off season" from the NBA/most of the rest of the world.

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Mad Ants have had some good individual performances early on this season. As a team they’re 1-3 and need to get to know each other and gel. There’s a lot of new faces this season on the team.

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[Wizop]

some worried that the Pacers dressing the two ways in Toronto would cause trouble for the Ants as both teams played on Monday. it turned out not to help the Pacers or hurt the Ants

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Mad Ants lost 108-102.

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Really cool moment after the game. Former Mad Ant teammates Elfrid Payton(on a recent contract with the Pelicans)and Quenton Jackson exchanged jerseys tonight after the Pacers win over the Pelicans.

Payton had a career game with 21 assists, 7 rebounds, and 14 points on 7-11 shooting.

Quenton Jackson had 12 points on 4-6 timely three pointers.

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Mad Ants win 112-109

[Grang33r]

Saw that the Mad Ants won.

Jahlil Okafor and Tristen Newton stood out to me from the box score.

Okafor: 9-13 FG, 23 pts, 10 reb, 4 ast and 1 blk.
Newton: 6-9 FG, 5-7 3PT, 21 pts, 6 ast, 4 reb

Speaking of the Mad Ants, hows the construction going on the new Pacers/Mad Ants facility ?

[Scoot McGroot]

Saw that the Mad Ants won.

Jahlil Okafor and Tristen Newton stood out to me from the box score.

Okafor: 9-13 FG, 23 pts, 10 reb, 4 ast and 1 blk.
Newton: 6-9 FG, 5-7 3PT, 21 pts, 6 ast, 4 reb

Speaking of the Mad Ants, hows the construction going on the new Pacers/Mad Ants facility ?

Parking garage and structure are fully up and weathered in, so they can work inside all winter. I wasn’t able to get a picture when I was in town for Thanksgiving, but it’s towering over the local area now. Will grab one around Christmas.

It’s VERY weird to see it go up over the farmlands of kids I grew up with. The arena would have been on my elementary school bus route!

[Wizop]

There were some pictures on yesterday's Inside Indiana Business TV show.

[Grang33r]

Parking garage and structure are fully up and weathered in, so they can work inside all winter. I wasn’t able to get a picture when I was in town for Thanksgiving, but it’s towering over the local area now. Will grab one around Christmas.

It’s VERY weird to see it go up over the farmlands of kids I grew up with. The arena would have been on my elementary school bus route!

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I meant to post this earlier but forgot. I saw your post at like 5:55PM, right before tip off. So i decided to watch it. So thanks for the heads up.

I thought the best player was Tristen Newton and Dakota Mathias. Indiana started shooting really hot, started like 11 for 12 and 5-5 from three point range, but had issues separating themselves because of turnovers and lack of defensive rebounds. Newton i thought played very good defense, finished with 19 pts, 9 ast and 7 reb. Mathias, slightly worse on defense but had 27 pts, 8 ast and 4 reb.

Newton and Mathias combined to shoot for 16-22 FG and 10-15 3PT range.

Enrique Freeman finished with 16 pts but i thought maybe were easy buckets. He wasn't aggressive at the rim and wasn't getting to loose balls. I thought he played a pretty poor game, but his box score kinda filled out as the game went on. Quenton Jackson had a very quiet first half, i didn't keep track of stats too closely but i believe he only had 2 pts at half time, on 1-2 shooting. He finished 17 pts.

This team scored very well anywhere on the court. They could score by the rim or they shot the 3 well. But they had no urgency in grabbing loose balls and they couldn't stop turning the ball over. If they had some fight and aggression on the defensive boards and cut down their turnovers they could've won this game by 50 the way they were shooting.

As for the team they were playing, Rio Grande, old friend Nate Hinton is their starting shooting guard, he finished with just 5 points. I was impressed Jermaine Samuels Jr, o thought he played well, made some tough shots, looked confident and N'Faly Dante who i thought was the best player in this game. He finished with 18 pts and 5 reb. He was dunking and scoring at will in the paint. Shocked he only finished with 5 reb, seemed like he got a lot more.

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I haven't given up hope for Newton post TJ.

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I meant to post this earlier but forgot. I saw your post at like 5:55PM, right before tip off. So i decided to watch it. So thanks for the heads up.

I thought the best player was Tristen Newton and Dakota Mathias. Indiana started shooting really hot, started like 11 for 12 and 5-5 from three point range, but had issues separating themselves because of turnovers and lack of defensive rebounds. Newton i thought played very good defense, finished with 19 pts, 9 ast and 7 reb. Mathias, slightly worse on defense but had 27 pts, 8 ast and 4 reb.

Newton and Mathias combined to shoot for 16-22 FG and 10-15 3PT range.

Enrique Freeman finished with 16 pts but i thought maybe were easy buckets. He wasn't aggressive at the rim and wasn't getting to loose balls. I thought he played a pretty poor game, but his box score kinda filled out as the game went on. Quenton Jackson had a very quiet first half, i didn't keep track of stats too closely but i believe he only had 2 pts at half time, on 1-2 shooting. He finished 17 pts.

This team scored very well anywhere on the court. They could score by the rim or they shot the 3 well. But they had no urgency in grabbing loose balls and they couldn't stop turning the ball over. If they had some fight and aggression on the defensive boards and cut down their turnovers they could've won this game by 50 the way they were shooting.

As for the team they were playing, Rio Grande, old friend Nate Hinton is their starting shooting guard, he finished with just 5 points. I was impressed Jermaine Samuels Jr, o thought he played well, made some tough shots, looked confident and N'Faly Dante who i thought was the best player in this game. He finished with 18 pts and 5 reb. He was dunking and scoring at will in the paint. Shocked he only finished with 5 reb, seemed like he got a lot more.

You probably meant to mention Okafor but left out his 8 of 10 shooting for 21 points and 9 rebounds. Just like the others he had 5 turnovers. Did he look very good ? Thanks for the write up as I haven’t watched a Mad Ants game this season.