Gotta love these type posts where someone else being terrible at something should make you feel better about being terrible yourself. At least they both competed.BEAT PROVIDENCE
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Gotta love these type posts where someone else being terrible at something should make you feel better about being terrible yourself. At least they both competed.MY bad! You or the another of the "Mooney can do no wrong" group @Wood Hall please explain ti to me. Possibly Kelvin and Mooney are equals in not preparing their teams?
Sometimes even good teams (like Houston, or us) just have horrible shooting days. It has nothing to do with a coach "having them prepared to play" or their "facial expression when they came onto the floor," as was claimed by several on this board after our horrible day against Providence.
Shooting is fickle. Sometimes you just can't throw the ball in the ocean, which happened to us, and to Houston. Coaching and/or game faces have absolutely nothing to do with it.
Sh** happens. It's the only viable explanation for what transpires in life far more often than people might assume.
When you play poor defense as well, there just isn’t much room for error. Lose by 28
Sorry. Wasn't trying to upset you. Just figured you might have misread his post and missed his point. That's all.
Thank you and I agree. Though I think enough Spiders fans here have had to endure too many instances of Mooney coached teams non-sh** losses.
Yep woody is a funny guy. Houston got this far two years in a row playing defense. Kind of like UVA, defense give you a chance every year and when you have good offense like wahoo had with Kyle Gut, etc you can have special years.
And Houston played great D yesterday, too. But its normally-competent shooting was awful. Sh** happens.
I do agree on our game, in addition to playing so many games in a row affected our legs, Providence just shot uncharacteristically well. Happens. I would just like a little more emphasis and creativity on defense. I mean when Hardt, a certified basketball genius has to have a discussion with you about you defense , not a great sign.
Per kenpom, Houston was #10 in offense and #8 in defense in the country this year. Last year, their offense was ranked better than their defense. Pretty sure their offense helped them win games just as much as their defense did. Nobody is going to overcome shooting 1-20 from 3, it happens sometimes.
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Agree but while both UR and Houston had a TERRIFICALLY bad 3PT shooting game, Houston lost by 6 while Spiders lost by 28 and were never in it. I guess the Houston defense being >>> UR's kept their game within a chance of victory late against Nova.
