A10 Game 7 - VCU
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Mooney is shameless. And I don’t feel sorry for him. We’ve paid him probably close to $20M for 3 NCAA appearances. He had to put up with one billboard. I refuse to believe we’d win less paying a coach half as much.
I will continue to be a fan of Richmond and I love the school. But UR > Mooney. I can root for one while being disappointed with the other.
Loudest cheer of the game is for free tacos down 20. VCU chants in the Robins Center. Woof
Hopes are always high for the Spiders, but at 8-22 v VCU my expectations were low tonight. Once again our coach met expectations, yet we have folks on here who advocate for 15-20 more years of this mediocracy. Can't fathom the thinking, insane, blind to the overall record...but then again we were 24-7 in 2020.
Over and out. So sick of this BS year after year after year from a school that professes to be serious about basketball.
Over and out. So sick of this BS year after year after year from a school that professes to be serious about basketball.
Sadly, they’re not serious. Facilities, maybe. Not about winning.
KE, we are the fake, negative fans. The little old ladies they interviwed after the billboard and Matt Smith are the real fans.
Like Mooney, team became unglued, no offense or defense to finish. Signature Mooney.
Mooney must absolutely dread VCU week. I know how he feels. Actually, I don't. I don't get paid to get my gut punched.
This game highlighted EVERY weakness of this year's team. We saw horrible guard play (3-turnovers in the first minute, no offensive threat, and low ability to get the ball to teammates in reasonable scoring position), turnovers out the ass, LONG dry spells on offense, poor to mediocre play in the post, no adjustments from Mooney (until 3-minutes left when he finally acknowledged that his starters should be removed), horrible play off the bench (Bigelow was awful tonight, Roche did next to nothing).
Sorry to say, but this team (especially the starting 5) just isn't very good. They beat teams that are really bad (like they have done all year), but they won't win many against a decent opponent. VCU is not that good either, but they were 20-points better than Richmond tonight.
Sorry to say, but this team (especially the starting 5) just isn't very good. They beat teams that are really bad (like they have done all year), but they won't win many against a decent opponent. VCU is not that good either, but they were 20-points better than Richmond tonight.
Mooney got the score competitive at the end. Once VCU pulled all their starters. What does Mooney do? Keep them in for a pointless morale victory.
So you want Quinn to play outside and pass the ball to who???? Burton gets plenty of shots on his own so does Grace. There isn't anyone else that has shown to be a consistent double figure scorer. I would rather see Quinn down low taking even more shots. I would also like to see Quinn and Grace on the low blocks at the same time. They could set picks for each other and have a better opportunity for offensive rebounds. This offense, the way these guys run it, just isn't working. It takes way too long to try to get a good shot resulting in firing up rushed three pointers or Burton going one on two or three half the time. If the threes are falling, as they do against poor defenses, fine. If not chances for a win are greatly diminished. The freshman big kid needs to be playing much more than he has played so far.
This is so lazy and stupid.
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Spent my evening drywalling a bathroom rather than watching the game...at least I had something to show for my time.
Vcu came to use our bathrooms & left us an upper decker.
One thing I’ll never understand is why we don’t pick up our pace (both ways but particularly on O) when we’re down double digits and a waning clock.
Really the only way is to get buckets fast or force turnovers fast. Yet we rarely do either.
At least the crowd wasn’t heavily VCU. Sad statement.
Really the only way is to get buckets fast or force turnovers fast. Yet we rarely do either.
At least the crowd wasn’t heavily VCU. Sad statement.
8legs1dream
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This is the epiphany that came upon me over my whisky sour. Conman Moonie is the blind squirrel that eventually finds a nut or the broken clock that is right twice a day. He is just a guy who says the right things and knows that given enough time he will “succeed” through sheer luck every decade or so and that is good enough for our pathetic athletic department.
I spent my evening contributing to Mooney’s $20,000 per hour.
He never seems to change his game plan once it is set. Sometimes this works like when he beat us at the Stu (game Briante Weber got hurt)-stayed in a zone and dared us to shoot 3's and we couldn't. Tonight je needed to make some halftime adjustments and did not.
To let them go on a 15-0 run and not do anything besides allowing us to have empty possession after empty possession was coaching malpractice - but he’s the smart guy getting paid the big bucks.
I’ve thought the same re: your first paragraph for years. BUT the system is the system come hell or high water.
That game was over well before he got hurt. You guys had built an 11-12 pt.lead by that point. The match up zone killed us
