On the night, Mooney received his 14 year participation trophy in front of half full Robins Center who gave him a polite golf clap for his efforts, he gave all of us a perfect summation of his tenure, but putting together a putrid performance against a team that had 1 D-1 win and was sub 300 in the RPI.
A couple of the lowlights:
1. After the team came out with tons of energy and aggression in its last 2 games, they came out in the more typical Mooney cerebral approach to the game. There was little sense of urgency, going through the motions of the Mooney style offense and defensive approaches.
2. After 2 games, where Mooney used his bench liberally, he was back to his old ways, essentially playing a 6 man rotation. Sal, who showed us something the last 2 games, got a grand total of 2 minutes.
3. Yates and Johnson played a combined 47 minutes, scored a combined 3 points on 1-11 shooting. No need to get other players in the game, when your getting that type of contributions from these two, I suppose.
4. Gilyard got ZERO rest. I wonder why his 3 pointers were a bit off in the second half, maybe he could have benefited from a blow or two during the game?
5. Energy in the building was again slightly above the resting heart rate of Mooney. Biggest cheer of the nights was when ORU missed 2 FT's and everyone got a free Bojangles coupon. If fairness to the crowd, there is not much to get excited about when you go 4-30 from 3 point land and the players on the court look like they are half beaten most of the time (except for Gilyard, feel bad for that dude, he plays so hard, wants to win so badly).
At the end of the night, we all got what we have become very accustomed to from our all time losing coach, another loss. The whole night was on Mooney, the disinterested crowd, another unacceptable home loss against a terrible team, and the worst part of all, no sense of being upset about the loss from Mooney postgame. He too has become all too accustomed and comfortable with losing.
A couple of the lowlights:
1. After the team came out with tons of energy and aggression in its last 2 games, they came out in the more typical Mooney cerebral approach to the game. There was little sense of urgency, going through the motions of the Mooney style offense and defensive approaches.
2. After 2 games, where Mooney used his bench liberally, he was back to his old ways, essentially playing a 6 man rotation. Sal, who showed us something the last 2 games, got a grand total of 2 minutes.
3. Yates and Johnson played a combined 47 minutes, scored a combined 3 points on 1-11 shooting. No need to get other players in the game, when your getting that type of contributions from these two, I suppose.
4. Gilyard got ZERO rest. I wonder why his 3 pointers were a bit off in the second half, maybe he could have benefited from a blow or two during the game?
5. Energy in the building was again slightly above the resting heart rate of Mooney. Biggest cheer of the nights was when ORU missed 2 FT's and everyone got a free Bojangles coupon. If fairness to the crowd, there is not much to get excited about when you go 4-30 from 3 point land and the players on the court look like they are half beaten most of the time (except for Gilyard, feel bad for that dude, he plays so hard, wants to win so badly).
At the end of the night, we all got what we have become very accustomed to from our all time losing coach, another loss. The whole night was on Mooney, the disinterested crowd, another unacceptable home loss against a terrible team, and the worst part of all, no sense of being upset about the loss from Mooney postgame. He too has become all too accustomed and comfortable with losing.
