Mens - Duq @ RC - Wed 2/5 7pm ESPN+
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We should be up more than 6. Feels a little uneasy going into 2nd.
Soulis looked good but still think we could use at 4 esp when Duq was hammering us on the O boards.
Spider23 will like that we weren’t tough on the guys post vcu & decided not to watch the tape yet.
Think Tbone gotta be right about the small hands.
Hope the Spids can get another W and break the losing streak
Soulis looked good but still think we could use at 4 esp when Duq was hammering us on the O boards.
Spider23 will like that we weren’t tough on the guys post vcu & decided not to watch the tape yet.
Think Tbone gotta be right about the small hands.
Hope the Spids can get another W and break the losing streak
Happy bday Coach Beilein. Lives down in Florida now. I’d love to have the next John Beilein here.
There's still time for an 8 minute scoring drought. Patience.
I’m still trying to figure out who AP is staring down when he makes a good play. Kid gets all fired up.
We are clueless….have these guys ever played basketball. One step over the. Half court you don’t pick up your dribble
The conference is NOT very good this year.
We were lucky we got that weak call against Neskovic when up 4 or this would be a bigger gag. Could have called travel on us w like 12 secs too up just 3. Some good things tonight but man our end game continues to stink. Maybe only matched by the end of half possession.
Wow, we have a 28-3 record against Duquesne now. If they were our arch rival, Mooney would definitely be coach for life!
Good to get a win as desperately needed. Thought we did some good and better things tonight. Not to take away from a win, but Duquesne definitely sucked and probably the weakest D1 team to come to RC since Maine earlier this year. Duquesne a far cry from even the likes of say…Davidson.
Takeaways :
1 ) Spiders still not good at end of game situations. You gotta know we have 3 timeouts left when you get trapped against the press.
2) Play Soulis ! Most impactful 9 minutes I have seen by any Spider all year.
3) Notice we are better team when Tyne is sitting
1 ) Spiders still not good at end of game situations. You gotta know we have 3 timeouts left when you get trapped against the press.
2) Play Soulis ! Most impactful 9 minutes I have seen by any Spider all year.
3) Notice we are better team when Tyne is sitting
Tyne has digressed from last year. He just does not play smart and a point guard needs to be mentally sharp.
Certainly sounds like GW3 will be done for the year. Nothing official, but Mooney think he's going to be out for an extended period.
Feel badly for the prez. Never really got a chance to get enough mins this season to show us his ability. Had potentially one breakout game kind of, yet Moon only really gave prez breadcrumb minutes in games that followed. This while we needed more out of our guard play. Here’s wishing him speedy recovery and more playing time next season if he returns.
I enjoyed this game, great to see the ball go in the hoop!
8legs1dream
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we should beat a team like this at home so I'm glad to see it happened even with a little patented late game theatrics since us being up by ten with five minutes to go is some kind of curse for this program.
The last few minutes of this game was a perfect encapsulation of what not to do against the press. Inbounding straight to the corners, Walz tossing the ball up in air, picking up the dribble immediately after crossing halfcourt, saving 3 timeouts for who knows what....
Thankfully we had built up just big enough of a lead and Duquesne stinks, or else that would have been added to the long list of collapses.
Props to the guys though for bouncing back from the embarrassing loss last weekend. A real team effort last night with contributions from nearly everyone.
Thankfully we had built up just big enough of a lead and Duquesne stinks, or else that would have been added to the long list of collapses.
Props to the guys though for bouncing back from the embarrassing loss last weekend. A real team effort last night with contributions from nearly everyone.
Add deibble to corner and pickup dribble as double teamed, and nobody move to help.
Happy for you guys getting a win and especially the posters at the game! Didn't turn on game until just after second half started and for a change continued to watch until the end. Didn't look like a full house though?
Do we even work on end-of-game scenarios at all? It was like a masterclass in how to blow a 10-point lead with 1:30 left last night. Jesus. Just ridiculous. Another clear sign of coaching incompetence, and considering how often it happens to us, you'd think it would be the first and last thing addressed at practice every single day.
Happy for the W for the guys because they sorely needed one. Just really ugly. Yes, we won. We shot well, which is an anolomy for this team. The victory was more about what Duquesne offense was not. Duquesne has no formal offense to speak of, just a bunch of big guys sloppily throwing the ball around.
I think people will look at the box score and see Soulis scored 8 points and be like wow, that was impressive. His manner of play was less though in my opinion. The 3 pointer was desperation and fugly (but it went in) and he has a very low release point and generally played pretty tight on offense. Now, I do think he did some good things on defensively and I like how he set himself up lower than Walz does in our offense set (near the FT line) which I think opened up our passing lanes better. This is more where Grant/TJ operated versus where Walz sets up at the 3 point line.
End of the game closeout was atrocious. Tyne was particularly bad. But one positive thing about this team is they are a really good FT shooting team (first in the league, I believe), so you do feel confident about us hitting our FT's to close it out.
I think people will look at the box score and see Soulis scored 8 points and be like wow, that was impressive. His manner of play was less though in my opinion. The 3 pointer was desperation and fugly (but it went in) and he has a very low release point and generally played pretty tight on offense. Now, I do think he did some good things on defensively and I like how he set himself up lower than Walz does in our offense set (near the FT line) which I think opened up our passing lanes better. This is more where Grant/TJ operated versus where Walz sets up at the 3 point line.
End of the game closeout was atrocious. Tyne was particularly bad. But one positive thing about this team is they are a really good FT shooting team (first in the league, I believe), so you do feel confident about us hitting our FT's to close it out.
I thought Soulis looked very good, especially for a 1st year big man. looked comfortable scoring inside. blocked 3 shots. dove on the floor. and while the 3 was forced at the end of the clock, it looked pretty smooth to me.
S-man, you always grade on a curve. He seemed very robotic to me on offense, took a hook shot from the foul line as his first shot that had zero chance, the 3 was a prayer shot, his form was terrible, but yes it was forced at the end of the shot clock. That was a prayer answered.
He hasn't played much yet, so I'd like to see more and he didn't play poorly. His skill set just looked very raw to me.
In fairness, Eight, we are usually down at the end of the games, so we have much more experience with that scenario. But yeah, that was a shit show last 2 minutes. Throwing the ball to Walz in the corner, why in the world would he even be there in the first place. That is not where you want your non-balling handling center to be positioned in a full court press situation.
I texted someone last night. there is a long list of ugly end of half/end of game designs & strategy. I would guess that one still made top 5.
One would think Coach for Life would realize it takes us a full 25-30 second to get a shot off in our normal offense, so holding the ball until there are 7-8 seconds left, we might as well just dribble the clock out and head to the locker room.
