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Congrats Coach Mooney

Mooney is great at keeping the players playing to their own strengths and adjusting to the game situation. Great win especially with Zo on the bench. They played great team defense by constantly helping each out and sliding over to double team with a teammate.

Side note: Jason Whitten (Cowboy tight end) was sitting right behind the VCU bench in front of me. Lots of Cowgirl fans getting their picture taken with him. Apparently he's friends with Smart or one of the other VCU coaches.


This post was edited on 2/26 11:37 AM by rickschofield
 
RPI, for a team full of "3 & 4 Star" recruits, they are not that good. Other than Graham and Lewis they really have no one that you fear on offense. The other guards are mediocre at best. I maybe wrong, but I just did not see the talent gap between them and UR. We definitely have the coaching advantage over them. I like Shaka, but he is a one trick pony.
 
I though Larrier looked good and should have played more. only a freshman. kid's going to be a player.
and Cox is so tough, but played too unselfishly on offense. he should stop looking to pass from inside and go strong. no way to stop without fouling. might take a charge call or two, but he'll leave a bruise.
 
Agree, Spider K. Their O is built on getting easy baskets from press/traps (or as I call it "keep on fouling unless refs blow the whistle"). Good guard play simply negates that and why we've had some success. Always surprises me that other A10 coaches don't find ways to duplicate that part of our game plan. Some of them have the players to do it.
 
not just our guards (Kendall and SDJ). our bigs were tremendous helping against the press. Trey, Terry, and TJ all played a big part in negating the full court pressure with very few mistakes.
 
Yes Spiderman, the bigs did help a lot. TJ was a great outlet and Terry did a nice job bringing it up a few times.

I agree, and have no idea why other teams with good guards don't use the blue print Mooney has laid out to beat RPI.
 
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