Goo Moo Visit
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Mooney has seemed very robotic at times this season, I agree. It's like he has about four catchphrases in his repertoire and when he gets flustered, he just blurts them all out one after another repeatedly. It's been almost comical a few times this season.
I don't know of any coach that is as overly cautious with answers as Mooney. It's almost like he's petrified of saying the wrong thing to the point that he has previously scripted go-to talking points that he can rely on. As a result, he brings more heat on himself by coming across as scripted and robotic. Just doesn't seem genuine
This is only 13 seconds of it. I sat directly across the court from him, and he was up and down for 40 mins. At one point, one of the refs was on the sideline where Mason was inbounding the ball. PQ was leaning over the courtside seats, within a couple feet of the ref, yelling into his ear. lol.
I don't think there was a fan in entire building last night with as much intensity as PQ. Make no mistake, winning matters to him. There's the evidence.
I don't think there was a fan in entire building last night with as much intensity as PQ. Make no mistake, winning matters to him. There's the evidence.
10, good stuff. I have been known to get a little rowdy with the refs myself. I find it very odd that he doesn't see that Mooney is the problem. Probably just a little too close to the tree to see the forest.
My take on the game is that we shot 47.6% from 3 point range with a total field goal percentage of 56.6%. That is a recipe for winning close to 100% of the time. Add in that Paulsen somehow does not realize that victory against the Spiders is guaranteed by playing zone D. Or maybe it's ego. Either way he gets to live with a really bad loss on the resume.
Saw that video last night. PQ likes to win, that can't be disputed. Why he likes Mooney, a coach who is uniquely bad at it is beyond me.
My takeaway from last night was the liberal substitution pattern from Mooney. It was like all of a sudden he had a epiphany and was like, I just can't run 6 guys out there and compete. Glad, 23 games into the season he has come to the realization.
Also, Sal is first guy off the bench and lo and behold, the dude can play a bit of basketball. He must have just learned that in the last 4 days of practice. Why in the hell was Mooney not managing his bench like this the first 22 games.
Finally, liked Goose's game last night. Made a number of big plays. On the other side, Wojcik continues to reenforce to me that he is a one tool player (3 point shooter). I knew GooMoo was screwed when Yates banged in a couple of 3's in the second half. If Yates is lighting you up, it is just not your night.
Happy for Jake and Grant. You could visibly see the weight of the world being lifted off their shoulders with that win. Grant had some type of primal scream after he hit the bucket to stem the Mason run.
Good to see Sherod back on the bench as well.
Jacob made a good point looking at the stat sheet. when we lose, we shoot poorly from 3. and that's a real problem because we have too many poor shooters. as good as we seemed to play last night, if we don't hit those 10 3's we lose and look horrible.
for all the good Nathan does attacking the rim, he doesn't shoot well outside of a few feet. that's fine to have one guy like that, but Andre is also starting and he's not a perimeter shooter either. Noah's supposed to be a good shooter, but we haven't seen it. that's a lot of minutes from guys shooting poorly from outside. can't count on Jacob to carry that load every night. hopefully Sherod and Francis solve this problem next year and the young guys continue to improve, but that's a long ways away.
and more from the glass half empty side ...
defensively, I'll give credit for the steals. that's certainly an important part of defense. but when we don't get the steal, we're still not good. I'd like to see the shot chart. I felt like they were getting non-stop point blank shots. and that was against a 2-3. we're not very good individually in man either. and this is a problem I don't see improving much when we do add Sherod and Francis. we'll have to score 80 every night next year.
other thoughts from last night ... really impressed with Grace. not just those boards. he was active and confident. Sal showed great body control again. so glad he hit that 3 after the air ball. I'm still not sold on his shooting, but that was a good sign. solid minutes from Yates on both ends. solid game from Woj. nice job with the ball.
obviously goes without saying that Jacob and Grant were amazing.
for all the good Nathan does attacking the rim, he doesn't shoot well outside of a few feet. that's fine to have one guy like that, but Andre is also starting and he's not a perimeter shooter either. Noah's supposed to be a good shooter, but we haven't seen it. that's a lot of minutes from guys shooting poorly from outside. can't count on Jacob to carry that load every night. hopefully Sherod and Francis solve this problem next year and the young guys continue to improve, but that's a long ways away.
and more from the glass half empty side ...
defensively, I'll give credit for the steals. that's certainly an important part of defense. but when we don't get the steal, we're still not good. I'd like to see the shot chart. I felt like they were getting non-stop point blank shots. and that was against a 2-3. we're not very good individually in man either. and this is a problem I don't see improving much when we do add Sherod and Francis. we'll have to score 80 every night next year.
other thoughts from last night ... really impressed with Grace. not just those boards. he was active and confident. Sal showed great body control again. so glad he hit that 3 after the air ball. I'm still not sold on his shooting, but that was a good sign. solid minutes from Yates on both ends. solid game from Woj. nice job with the ball.
obviously goes without saying that Jacob and Grant were amazing.
You know as open as we were on several 3s, we should have hit a high percentage. Last night a majority of the shots taken were good choices. What bothers me is when there is less than 10-12 seconds and we pass to someone open at the 3 pt line and they instead pass to another person who is not set to shoot or is less open. Jake W is bad about that as last night he had two situations where he was wide open and bypassed on the three and we ended up with a time clock violation and a poor last second shot selection.
Correct, Carolina. This is Mooney's style. He must ingrain it in guys so much to pass first, second and always that it ends up taking most of them out of the natural rhythm of playing basketball. Or at least it often appears that way. They frequently pass up open shots to pass to someone else. At some point that stuff has to mess with your brain.
Problem is, 10 is not really a crazy number of made 3's in 2019 college basketball. It only seemed like a ton because we have been such a bad 3-point shooting team. Not really surprising that when we make 8 or 10 threes we win or are at least in every game. When we're making two or three we get the doors blown off .
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I’m pretty sure we played man to man for a little bit in the first half (when Sal first got into the game). That combined with the quick substitution pattern, I was wondering if Mooney had a stroke or something. Glad he changed things up a bit.
Nice PQ. Yeah I can’t fault the guy for being into the game & intensity as a fan. Could use more of that from UR fans in general. I don’t read too much into that re: Mooney. Fan part was there first. Like Hardt he probably realizes things will really start to turn on him if they don’t put make the right decision for the program. Whether he cares I don’t know.
Also wtf with that Goo Moo twitter. By George that is bs. Ha. Giant Killer all over that feed & site. Spiders original giantkillers. I had that handle on original rivals board in the 90s. I don’t remember giving him permission.
Nothing new though. 5 of the last 6 years we’ve been below average or worse in 3s.
I figured he subbed more often because the gym was warm. we'll see if it continues. don't change something that worked.
I first noticed we were in man when Nathan got beat badly on a baseline drive. I wondered if he was forcing baseline expecting help. there was none. not sure if we got more steals in man or the 2-3.
Noticed this too. I chalk it up to experience, and expect he will get better at this.
Cayo stands up really, really straight on close-outs and when defending on the perimeter. Bad fundamentals that can and should be able to be fixed.
Man, i thought he switched defenses more than I had seen in a while. He went to the 2-3 when Grant was out a lot, and he was 1v1 when Sal, Grant and Cayo were in together. If Sal could develop and hit his jump shot, I would like to see more of this bigger lineup as the rebounding was less an issue. I also think he goes to the 2-3 to rest the players a little and take other team out of the flow. Did Mason go to a zone at any point or was it all 1v1? With us having problems with zones I would think more teams would go to that.
This scenario would put us at 14-17 for the year. If back to back losing seasons in year 13 and 14 earns him a 2 year ($2.5 mil +/-) extension I predict you won't see me spending a dime on the program for the foreseeable future.
His lack of athleticism will always hinder him being ready for the big stage. Wojcik could be a great Patriot League player, just too slow, not enough lateral quickness to stay with other A-10 level guards on either end of the floor.
Googe is not ready for the big stage yet and could develop because he has A-10 level athletic ability to work with.
Not sure how “quickness” has anything to do with the point of Carolina’s post below.
He had worked into the right spot, just not mentally ready to take the shot in crunch time. I think this is something that can be overcome.
Agreed, but I think Woj will be a good A10 player off the bench (a role he will hopefully be able to fill next year)
I think Mason was in a zone for a little bit, but mostly man. I also might be misremembering as that’s not something I looked for yesterday
Getting up by 20 over a good team like the GooMoos is a feat all by itself. I'd fully expect a lead like that would be difficult to keep against them. It was plenty enough to get the job done. Just get the win and don't worry how it happened. Be happy and move on to the next.
Would have sucked, but it would have been good advice all things considered. He'd not have been happy with you, but then again, no one should bet CBB. It's incredibly unpredictable. Take it from someone who knew better but did it anyways last night. The Law of Large Numbers tends to take a nap when teams go on the road.
..... but you still stated Mooney's team can get a top 4 seed A10 seed after a 6-7 OOC record result from the 338th ranked strength. Wow!!!
