Why?Will Wade is a bona-fide prick. If I ever see him on the street I'm going to punch him in the face and dance on his chest.
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Why?Will Wade is a bona-fide prick. If I ever see him on the street I'm going to punch him in the face and dance on his chest.
If you need proof that he chokes in big games as it gets tight, then this is it.Or count time outs. He is simply overwhelmed in tight end of games.
what more can you ask for?
Coach I agree but CM wouldnt have called a to at last shot and if he did it would have been the same play. Its been the same play for two years.i thik bad timeout after 3 then no timeout for last shot
I totally agree, they coach didn't give the team they need, you can't expect 6'4" player to battle 6'8" on the boards and win. Every conference lose we had was in large part because they pounded out undersize guys on the boards. Out rebounded today 45 -29, gave up 13 OR.The guys we've got gave it all they have!
The guys we've got gave it all they have!
Why give it to one guys hands? There were 27 seconds left. 27 seconds!! No one else touched the ball. He drew the D and never even looked in anyone elses direction. Give me a brake saying thats all we had.That is ridiculous.Guys step back from the ledge. We played a great game had a three point lead got to give props to VCU for hitting that clutch shot and even then we had a chance to win it at the buzzer.
what more can you ask for? You have to put the ball in one person's hands with that amount of time left and it's going to go in the senior's hand. Shawndre got a great look at the baskets just missed the shot.
Really sucks though because it always seems VCU has it in for us.
My dog knows our playsEvery a-10 foe knows our end of half/game play.....poor coaching
Horrible. I have said this all year about end of clock play. SDJ one on one and he hasnt converted in a long time. Our four other players were just standing around the perimeter watching. Frustrating to not try better than that knowing OT would be really tough w TJ having 4 foulsEvery a-10 foe knows our end of half/game play.....poor coaching
I think this is frustration. Shawndres carried us many times this season. He had a great look at the basket just missed a shot what more do you want?We need to be able to recruit bigger, more physical players Not expected to happen. Will be glad to see SDJ graduate.
We had a chance to win the game in regulation time, and SDJ hogged the ball as he often does, and took a bad shot which he missed. Never passed the ball.
This game was a tough pill to swallow. Spiders had it at the end, Lewis made a great shot to force OT, and we dialed up a midrange shot that was a decent look but didn't execute.
5 starters all in double figures but a total of two points off the bench. 2? I thought that was a typo. We had 29 minutes of bench play. They had 80 minutes and 35 points.
Thats about it.
Fatherspider, I owe you $20, please shoot me your address.
I also realize that I have a family and I need to spare them the despair that I so often experiece following the basketball program. I think it may be time for me to take a vacation from this board and from otherwise following the program. I'll ponder that as well.
Our guys battled. We weren't going to win that game in OT. Great shot by Lewis.
The fact that we went iso for that last shot to try and do something that never works and not get a touch by the conference player of the year is all on the coaching staff.
Good showy by our team and fans in Pitt today.
Hindsight 20/20 we should have tried to foul to force free throws. It's a tough call, I believe the statistics are in favor of it, but only marginally.I think we should have committed a foul to keep Lewis from taking a three at the end of regulation.
Yes. We got as much as we could this year out of this lineup. The guys worked hard. However, it goes w/out saying that we need 2 big guys on the floor together to compete against the bigger & more aggressive teams.Forget the system, without a big man who can play with the front lines of other A10 teams the result will be....54%.
But you dont get it, its the same play we have drawn up in thise situations whether galf or end game and it never works. That play isnt his fault because cm told him to do it but he hasnt hit a shot in that situation in two years.I think this is frustration. Shawndres carried us many times this season. He had a great look at the basket just missed a shot what more do you want?
How many times does a play have to fail before Mooney realizes that it does not work? Sending Dre to penetrate for the winning basket with 6 seconds left on the clock has never worked. Not the entire year. Not even once (if memory serves), though it has been attempted numerous times. Never a thought of passing it out after having Dre drive as far as he can and then finding an open man. Not even a thought of such a thought. And three VCU players converged on him so there had to be someone open.
Since the play did work at times with KA and KO in prior years, Mooney apparently has it in his mind that the play works regardless of who is at the point. He does not have the capacity to change the game to fit the particular talents of the players. Let Dre pass it out. Let, for instance, KF drive and pass it out to Dre or whoever is open. Nothing unusually creative or novel about that. Just different. Different is good when the alternative is certain failure. Selecting a different plan should be second nature for a basketball coach with knowledge of how often he has seen the play he called fail during the prior 20 plus games. There must be some type of learning disorder at work here, one that has no cure or means to work around.
Everyone else in the world gets it. Why not Mooney? This loss is on his coaching. That alone. We had a great opportunity to win in regulation, but chose to use "the play" that VCU knew we would, and a play that even a 7th grader should know would not work.
How can a coach be so obtuse? One would think one who had never even seen a basketball would catch on to call a different play as often as we have seen the Dre drive for a layup fail this year. How can one ignore such an obvious proven failure of a plan, especially a man who had been around the game his entire life...especially a former college player and an Ivy grad? I would love to see him recognize his limitations and resign.
No f%^king excuse. All I can think right now is what a wasted trip for so many Spider fans.
I'll ponder this quite a bit more on the long drive back to Richmond and resign myself to the loss...and, more importantly, accept with further resignation that it will never change while Mooney is at the helm. Then it will sink in that in the eyes of many, especially those at the top, it's just a game and otherwise we did OK this season so we will remain committed to the status quo for, at the very least, another four or five years. That's the inevitable truth. There is nothing any of us can do to change it. Nada.
I need a drink, though it may well take more than one more to drop my blood pressure to within a normal range. Hope to find a bar with 100 proof liquor, or higher, and no one wearing yellow and black.
I know that there are those who will disagree with me and I know that I will simmer down in time.
I also realize that I have a family and I need to spare them the despair that I so often experiece following the basketball program. I think it may be time for me to take a vacation from this board and from otherwise following the program. I'll ponder that as well.
Fwiw, 3 of the 5 bench players for vcu are freshmen. Our problem is that our freshmen are starting, mostly because they're very good but also because we have few alternatives.Our starting 5 vs theirs, and we would 50-50 against them what separates us is the
bench. When is last time we had bench that did not hurt us when they came in? 2 vs 35
bench points is a telling tale. Unless we have 2-3 freshmen that will play, we are in the same
boat next year. It will take 3-4 years of solid recruiting for depth to build up, but history does
not seem to indicate that will happen.