VT4700 said:

If he is not in the rotation based on a few months of practice and you start off looking good and winning, then all good, but when we are playing like this a few games in, if he is healthy, I think we have to give a guy who has a great shooter reputation like that some minutes.

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if a coaching staff sees a guy 5-6 days a week for 5+ months, I'll assume they know where he stands right now.
I'm not playing him over other guys based on high school rankings.

I am concerned the most about Tanner and Tyne. Most of the others are shooters who are just not making shots right now. Tanner has the 3rd most minutes, but has very little to show for it, and has only 1 assist with 6 turnovers. Tyne has the 2nd most minutes, is 4-16 from 3, and has 3 assists with 7 turnovers. Both are starting and getting good minutes, but just not making a positive impact right now.

Spiders hold steady at #7 in the coaches poll as we were already a spot ahead of Villanova last week.

AP's shot is a mess right now.

Tanner needs to be more aggressive offensively but at least he looks like he's defending.

I'm ready to try double big if Walz is healthy, now that Soulis is there to backup:
Hunt, Tyne, Dusan, Beagle, Walz

Roussell has shown how you actually build a program and that you can build a basketball program at Richmond. They are well-coached, fun to watch, and represent the University really well. Super proud of this team!

How many of those in attendance didn't have all their adult teeth yet?

I am calling it now. Everyone starts to do less thinking and more doing with the Belmont game.
That is when shooting improves.
We improve from a predicted 9-20 vs D1 to 9th in the A10.

We had 2900 for education day against Gardner–Webb on Friday.

welcome back from the bunker VT!! All is well out here in the hellscape, thanks for visiting.

Fire Bennett, Extend Mooney for life

Villanova drops with their loss this weekend, so the Spiders move up to #10 in Stats.

He definitely has some unusual stats. He has one 2 point basket against D1 so far in his career.
3 of 5 from three last season against a “decent” Purdue team,
1 of 13 against all other D1 teams…

I am ready to try:

Hunt
GW3
AP/Dusan
Robinson
Walz/Beagle

Soulis didn't look great vs Bucknell, but it will take a bit of time to get his sea legs - and I think we need to keep putting him out there for 5-10 minutes per game.
Really need to see GW3 get some minutes, can't believe the disparity between Mooney's hype + h.s. ranking vs his ability at this level can be such a chasm.
I think Walz will be fine - just needs to again stop thinking so much and play.
Roche has looked solid - but really we need Glou to be a taller version of him. Glou has not looked great, but again he has been in moth balls for two years - only playing garbage time. Like Soulis need to keep running Glou out to get his reps and hopefully be a postive player for us.
Still like Tyne, but he is not doing enough to justify the deficiency in length on defense when paired with Hunt.

Somehow, Mooney has all these guys - other than Hunt - really playing below their historical type production. Hopefully they get more comfortable and a couple become scorers or it could get really ugly.

Robinson - we need someone in the frontcourt besides Beagle that has some athleticism.

I am almost always a play 3 guards guy, but I am ready to try:
Hunt
Roche
AP
Dusan
Beagle

* anything to make our offense look better. I would say GW3, but I have no idea what is going on there.

spiderman said:

we deperately need shooting so I'm up for anything,
but either GW3 isn't healthy, or he's shown in the past 5 months that he's not one of our top 8. otherwise he'd be playing.

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If he is not in the rotation based on a few months of practice and you start off looking good and winning, then all good, but when we are playing like this a few games in, if he is healthy, I think we have to give a guy who has a great shooter reputation like that some minutes.

I just looked up that game, so VCU was able to pull 6000 fans for a loss to an average Temple team and we will be lucky to have 2000 fans, half of which will be elementary schoolers that got in free, against a top 5 ranked SEC team in our home arena.

It is the best $1.50 per hour entertainment in Richmond!!!!

Caitlin Clark made Iowa women's bball the flagship bball sport. I have a feeling these women may take the matter into their own hands at UR. I have been a lifetime UR Men's BBall fan. But right now I am having a lot more fun at the Lady Spider games. And when we get into the top 20 and host a team like #4 ranked Texas at the Robins Center you guys will see what I mean. My rec is to get on the bus now. That way you can say you were a fan before we BLEW UP

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They had a dozen local elementary schools show up to the Gardner Webb game. My ears are still ringing from the noise. But the ladies fed off it.

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VCU does an elementary school day as well. This is seperate. It helps on two fronts. 1) Get a lot of fans to show up and support women's athletics. 2) Get some new people in the door to see a game for the first time, and maybe they return.

Or why not have a men's and women's doubleheader? But have them literally back to back. And at this point - I would put them men's game first, and women second - with hopes that some of the men's fans stick around to watch the women.

They had a dozen local elementary schools show up to the Gardner Webb game. My ears are still ringing from the noise. But the ladies fed off it.

It’s hard(t) to be on the front foot about anything at UR athletics apparently.

Time for Hardt to go was yesterday.

we deperately need shooting so I'm up for anything,
but either GW3 isn't healthy, or he's shown in the past 5 months that he's not one of our top 8. otherwise he'd be playing.

SpiderTrap said:

Is UR doing anything like this - especially with the success our program had last year and is having this year?

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you know the answer 😐

mojo-spider said:

ha! thanks for ramping up the expectations...sounds like you're promising fans a lot...didn't someone say earlier in the season that the Prologue's should be patented as good medicine for insomnia!...sometimes I work better under pressure...it's a giant game, a great team of Championship players that have earned everything they've received...defeat the Indians and there could be even better times ahead...I'll do my best!

Go Spiders!

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Yes, it will help with insomnia.