Spiders4ever said:

Beat Auburn and at large chances improve exponentially

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gospidersgo said:

I haven't read this thread, couldn't bear to after the game last night. My initial thoughts on the game:

• Zero production from the 5 spot, if we can't even bully around Marist a little, this season is going to be much worse than we anticipated
• Hunt is going to be very good, may need to take over at times to keep us in games this season
• We lack a Dji type of "do a little bit of everything" guy right now, who can/will step into that role?
• Not sure what happened that made Roumoglou react the way he did late in the game, but that was not good, and especially given the score and time remaining, beyond that though he has a pretty sweet looking shot

Much more to discuss too, but what a disappointing start to our real schedule. I still think we have the talent to put together a good season, but we better start to meld as a team fast or it could get ugly.

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• DeLo did everything he could, but we’ll be a better team when he’s not our leading scorer—or at least when he doesn’t have to score a ton for us to have a chance to win.
• It felt like DeLo was out from about minutes 11 to 7 in the second half, during a couple of timeouts. Momentum completely shifted, and he, like GilyarD was , isn’t a guy who needs much rest.
• AP’s technical – Coach was understandably hard on him post-game (probably even harder in the locker room). Obviously, it can’t happen again, but I loved his game up until that point and hope it doesn’t impact his minutes on Wednesday. The last Spider with a similar mental error was GG during the @Drake game, which was just as costly as AP’s last night and I honestly think a kid's mistake in his first game of career with good minutes is more forgivable in the moment.
• Dusan played 19 uneventful minutes… felt like he was on the court less than that, honestly. He has to be a double digit scorer for us or we are a double digit seed in A10 tourney,
• Mike Walz – love the guy, but it was a real rough game for him. Twice late in the game, he seemed glued to protecting the basket versus attempt to intercepted passes when they were trying to break our press.
• Beagle had some nice passes but seemed uncomfortable on defense most of the game.
• Like a lot of us have said, we’ve got to try having Walz and Beagle on the court together to see how it works. Right now, it seems like the only option Coach has is giving Ryan S. some backup minutes to make that happen. Still think, if Robinson hadn’t redshirted, he might’ve made this rotation easier to pull off.
• Tanner is smooth at the line and can hit threes, but his ball handling continues to looks shaky to me.
• Despite all the threes Marist hit in the first half, I actually liked our defensive intensity for the most part and felt we got unlucky with a few loose balls.
• Weird lineup in at least two of the last three minutes, with Delo, Tyne, and White all in together. Really missing our Big Guard in moments like that.
• Right now, it looks like GW 3 is the last scholarship, non-redshirt player off the bench. Didn’t expect that.

• Zero production from the 5 spot, if we can't even bully around Marist a little, this season is going to be much worse than we anticipated
• Hunt is going to be very good, may need to take over at times to keep us in games this season
• We lack a Dji type of "do a little bit of everything" guy right now, who can/will step into that role?
• Not sure what happened that made Roumoglou react the way he did late in the game, but that was not good, and especially given the score and time remaining, beyond that though he has a pretty sweet looking shot

brooklyn brownstone said:

1 at large bid.

3 NCAA tournament appearances.

There are no other goalposts, as far as I'm concerned. Other things are nice and all but they're all a shortening of the real goal to justify the fact that 3 NCAAs is what we got in 2 decades.

Hardt is probably already pregaming in Lewisboro.

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Dr. Spidey said:

You’re right, we’re not vcu. Gotta be better than that.

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Spiders4ever said:

3-1 - 4-4 overall

Tennessee +1.5 @ Louisville
Seton Hall - 11 V Fordham
Boise State -3.5 @ San Francisco

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KE Spider said:

What a joke. How anyone could believe this amazes me. No offense intended and hope non taken, but damn.

Do you believe these to be impartial arbiters of truth or rank partisans suffering from TDS?

Voters answered the question Tuesday. Most folks do not believe this BS anymore.

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whampas said:

Some/most on this board will never learn. All the talk about running through this OOC schedule with the exception of Auburn was wishful thinking. Mooney is a Princeton grad. He knew what he had when the schedule was put together despite all the it's so hard talk. Keep drinking whatever is in Mooney's cup. LOL.

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Eight Legger said:

The article made it sound like the coaching staff overall was somewhat involved, possibly. Hope that's not the case.

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SFspidur said:

We'll certainly pass URI even though Delaware is a solid team...but we beat Delaware and are now in sole possession of first in the CAA.

Only other team ahead of us that lost was #6 SEMO, which fell to a pedestrian Lindenwood squad, but I don't know that they'll fall far enough in the polls for us to pass them. They've had a weak schedule and their biggest bounce was an early win over a highly ranked Southern Illinois team that then lost 6 in a row before finally beating Youngstown today for their first MVFC win, so maybe they see a big drop like Tarleton after losing last week?

Tarleton was only 3 points behind us in the STATS poll this week, and they had a fairly easy win today, but it was over West Georgia that's in its first year moving up from D-II, so I don't that that moves the needle for them even given our close shave.

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GKiller said:

I said it b4 the summer extension…they wouldn’t risk a poor season this season and then having only 2 years left & being in situation where much harder (for anyone else tho maybe not UR) to extend again. 24 year job security for what we’ve gotten is amazing.

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