Mens - @ Auburn who will be #2 in the nation - Sun 12/8 noon - SEC network
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Fairly close. I know I'm Mr. Negative but with good reason. I haven't missed a home football game in nearly 50 years, missed 2 home lacrosse games since we started playing, catch as many baseball games as schedule allows but have not darkened Robins Center since James Madison ran us off newly named DT court. This is why. I won't be back until Mooney is gone. My conscience is clear.
Looks like Auburn fans were waiting for that next & final Richmond tweet too. Clowning us like their players.
Understandable. Nice little Sunday. Win by 44. With 17 dunks. & Bama didn’t make the playoff!
By the other team’s walkons.
really, they held themselves under 100. Do you think we could have stopped their walkons in the last possession if they tried to score? It probably would have been a Mac McClung level alley oop to some volleyball player who rounds out the deep end of their bench.
The guy that watched our first secret scrimmage called it out right away. Unless we hit a million threes looks pretty sketchy.
Love how we have our best shooting team ever. They must get really comfortable shooting vs our defense.
Love how we have our best shooting team ever. They must get really comfortable shooting vs our defense.
Walz seems to have really regressed quickly. Today looked like his first game as a freshmen. Terrible turnovers, really passive play, didn't want the ball. His confidence that we heard after the opener and hoped he now possessed to take his game to the next level, as well as add physicality to a team that really needs it, seems to have vanished.
The Mooney Magic has sucked the life out of him.
Mooney can beat the competitive life out of the best. Most passive aggressive personalities can.
Come on now. He's a great coach - - I am sure he told him to play better!
And this will be the new refrain from Mooney lovers - - - well he's the same coach etc. its not his fault these players can't do what he tells them!
Non basketball Game report
Arena is more intimate than I expected. Only holds 9100 and probably no bad seats
Given 11 am starting team, students were packed in and we heard some have been camping out since 4am. Loved how basically 2/3 of the lower section except for behind the benches were reserved for students. Students had creative and in synch cheers throughout the game.
Auburn fans at the game and throughout the weekend were very friendly .. most knew about our strong basketball history and I think expected a closer game
The town and Main Street of Auburn appear to be thriving - lots of near 4 to 6 story multiuse building ... campus has great open spaces and such.
Arena is more intimate than I expected. Only holds 9100 and probably no bad seats
Given 11 am starting team, students were packed in and we heard some have been camping out since 4am. Loved how basically 2/3 of the lower section except for behind the benches were reserved for students. Students had creative and in synch cheers throughout the game.
Auburn fans at the game and throughout the weekend were very friendly .. most knew about our strong basketball history and I think expected a closer game
The town and Main Street of Auburn appear to be thriving - lots of near 4 to 6 story multiuse building ... campus has great open spaces and such.
Hardt was at the women’s game today and totally accessible. If I weren’t so proud of our women’s team today I’d give him a talking to about Mooney.
So, big hat no cattle
8legs1dream
Graduate Assistant
two pros and a con
1. we didnt let them double us up
2. we didnt let them reach triple digits
and 3. they made us look like the varsity team scrimmaging the JV team in high school
1. we didnt let them double us up
2. we didnt let them reach triple digits
and 3. they made us look like the varsity team scrimmaging the JV team in high school
From possession #1, it was clear UR would never be in this game.
The baffling turnovers, the hot-potato passing of the ball, the inability to start an offensive set within 30 feet of the basket, the defensive scheme that proved right away to be terrible (double down low, let them shoot/make wide open shots that are worth 3 points rather than 2) yet persisted, it's a game where you could go on and on and never run out of critiques.
Overall, the four non-centers that start all shoot sub-30% from 3 after 9 games, which is (somewhat appropriately) a 30% of the season sample size. Defense has been atrocious all over the court. Does anyone still know what the best (or even a good) 5 man group is?
How unprepared UR looked on both ends, how the mistakes were those you'd expect in preseason scrimmages, not game #9, is a scathing indictment of what the HC has put together. How these questions persist this far into a season, is the most damning thing I can put out there. Moonball.
Never had any inclination of having a mindset to try to win the game. Happy to be on the same court, etc, etc.
There is no excuse for experience level of who we have, to play so unexpired and so scared. I want some toughness and never give up attitude.
Torvik without preseason. Is now:
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What an embarrassment - especially given the nature of our weak OOC schedule other than Auburn.Torvik without preseason. Is now:
T-Rank - Customizable College Basketball Tempo Free Stats - T-Rank
T-Rank College Basketball Ratings and Rankings. And fun.www.barttorvik.com
Some notes from the numbers:
335th in eFG%
360th in offensive rebound %
323th in opponent FT rate
349th in 3 point FG % (but 53rd in 3 point rate, lol)
340th in 3 point rate defense
309th in adjusted offensive efficiency.
To summarize: shoot a lot of 3s, can't make 3s, allow tons of looks from 3, can't offensive rebound, foul a lot.
Moonball.
EDIT: Also, can't schedule, as that 2-5 vs D1 competition sticks out.
335th in eFG%
360th in offensive rebound %
323th in opponent FT rate
349th in 3 point FG % (but 53rd in 3 point rate, lol)
340th in 3 point rate defense
309th in adjusted offensive efficiency.
To summarize: shoot a lot of 3s, can't make 3s, allow tons of looks from 3, can't offensive rebound, foul a lot.
Moonball.
EDIT: Also, can't schedule, as that 2-5 vs D1 competition sticks out.
8legs1dream
Graduate Assistant
Top 10 tenured coach though, that's all that matters to some people!
Feels like something isn’t quite working. If only we could put a finger or 10 on what it is.
I wonder if any team in statistical history has been this bad at shooting (eFG 335th) yet is also rebounding basically none of their many misses (360th.)
Well, you actually have to try to go for a rebound, so it’s not super shocking given our preference to quickly get back on D and allow easy buckets.
Losingest coach in school history. Don't let anyone take that away from you Chris.
