Dayton Flyers get to work in California

This will be Dayton’s second game with nine scholarship players. They Flyers get three games in four days to build for the weeks ahead. The Flyers will hope to get forward Kendall Pollard back at some point, but until that happens, roles will change.

“Ryan (Mikesell) is in a pretty good mode right now as far as understanding what we’re asking him to do,” Dayton coach Archie Miller said. “He’s got to make better decisions with the ball. Xeyrius (Williams), these are his first extended amount of minutes playing out of position in many ways. As you evaluate him, he’s going to get better.”

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Miller advises the players it’s about the little things.

“It’s not about scoring points,” he said. “It’s about blocking out, rebounding the ball, playing extremely hard on the defensive end, intangible offensive rebounding, not quick shooting. Those are the things we’ve got to get out of guys’ systems. We’ve got to continue to build our rotation as well. We’ve got some guys playing a lot of minutes, like Scoochie and Charles. They’re not going to be able to play that amount of minutes effectively. We have to get them out. We have to get other guys in there. We’re still developing as a team. We need guys like John (Crosby) and Darrell (Davis) and even Trey (Landers) as we keep moving forward.”