Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
No player has been more vital to Wright State’s success — and more confounding to coach Scott Nagy — than junior star Loudon Love.
The team’s leading scorer and rebounder earned All-Horizon League honors last season, and he’s a player of the year candidate this year. But the big, strong, agile center is still only poking around the fringes of his potential, at least in Nagy’s eyes.
The coach zeroed in on Love after a subpar first half against Youngstown State on Saturday, and it’s certainly not the first time he’s been the target of a halftime harangue.
“He wasn’t playing very good. What’d he have, five points and three rebounds?” Nagy said, though it actually was eight and three. “He needs to lead us. He needs to be our emotional leader. Guys follow him. Obviously, he had a lot more energy in the second half.”
He finished with 21 points and nine rebounds, and while Nagy was hesitant to be critical — “It’s a pretty good player if you can get 21 points and nine rebounds and they say you’re struggling,” he said — he was far from pleased because Love’s production would have been higher if not for several close-range misses.
