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Defense has been better the last 3 games. The effort, which is 90% of defense, seems to be at another level. Agreed - positioning and helping is key, but if you got guys flying around, hustling, and just being gritty and annoying - it can improve and has improved.
Our issue here was the long scoring drought. Said this before - it seems to be a characteristic of all Mooney teams. And yes - within a game, there are runs and droughts on both sides - but UR always seems to have extended drought at the worse times, usually 2nd half. In this game - we went from 2 minutes left in first half to almost 12 minutes in the 2nd half without a bucket. That is just too long. Especially with, and I am a big believer - coming out at half time, especially on the road with a lead - we were up 4 I think at half, coming out to start the 2nd half is really where you can deflate a team. Having a strong start to 2nd half - maybe build lead to 8 or 10 really puts the home team down. Instead - we go 8 minutes without a bucket. And if you look at GMU - they didn't have any of those lapses, they just kept chipping away, kept building their lead and next thing you know - they went from down 4 to up 9.
Effort was good - tough loss, this was one we let get away, and to get to my 9-10 game A10 win prediction - we really need to win these games. But who knows - Dayton has now loss to GW and UMASS.
Our issue here was the long scoring drought. Said this before - it seems to be a characteristic of all Mooney teams. And yes - within a game, there are runs and droughts on both sides - but UR always seems to have extended drought at the worse times, usually 2nd half. In this game - we went from 2 minutes left in first half to almost 12 minutes in the 2nd half without a bucket. That is just too long. Especially with, and I am a big believer - coming out at half time, especially on the road with a lead - we were up 4 I think at half, coming out to start the 2nd half is really where you can deflate a team. Having a strong start to 2nd half - maybe build lead to 8 or 10 really puts the home team down. Instead - we go 8 minutes without a bucket. And if you look at GMU - they didn't have any of those lapses, they just kept chipping away, kept building their lead and next thing you know - they went from down 4 to up 9.
Effort was good - tough loss, this was one we let get away, and to get to my 9-10 game A10 win prediction - we really need to win these games. But who knows - Dayton has now loss to GW and UMASS.
Guys, Mooney doesn't win at Mason when he has good teams. Did we expect him to win there with this year's team. We did enough to compete and stay close, never felt we were going to win this game.
If D-Lo is out for a while, that will give Mooney something to fill his press conferences with other than talking about how and why we are Quad 4 team this year.
If D-Lo is out for a while, that will give Mooney something to fill his press conferences with other than talking about how and why we are Quad 4 team this year.
Is there no limit to how much force an offensive player can use in attempting to move a defensive player out of the way? Or were the refs just ignoring what Hanes was doing? Walz absorbed some very hard elbows/shoulders in the stomach area.
we've been good on the defensive boards this year. not last night. GMU got to almost half of their misses. that killed us. other than that, the defense was pretty effective.
one thing that annoyed me was our unwillingness to take advantage of our size when GMU sat both Haynes and Emejuru. they went really small but we just ran our normal stull and let them rest their bigs. I know Walz isn't a low post power, but if he's covered by a 6'8" 200 lb kid, ffs get him the ball down low. or put in Beagle who can take advantage of that inside.
I keep expecting B Artis to get hot every time he makes one. he looks like a shooter. his resume says he's a shooter. I figured if he stays healthy he might be another J King. but he just can't hit shots yet. maybe that changes. sure need him to, or one of our guards.
one thing that annoyed me was our unwillingness to take advantage of our size when GMU sat both Haynes and Emejuru. they went really small but we just ran our normal stull and let them rest their bigs. I know Walz isn't a low post power, but if he's covered by a 6'8" 200 lb kid, ffs get him the ball down low. or put in Beagle who can take advantage of that inside.
I keep expecting B Artis to get hot every time he makes one. he looks like a shooter. his resume says he's a shooter. I figured if he stays healthy he might be another J King. but he just can't hit shots yet. maybe that changes. sure need him to, or one of our guards.
late in the game Haynes pushed Dusan so hard in the lane, he would have hit the floor at the 3 point line ... if Walz' chest didn't break his fall. I'm not looking for every bump to be called but that was egregious.
They held Hunt to only 6 points, 10 points below his average. Even more striking, there were 22 fouls called against Richmond and ONLY 10 against Mason. I understand giving the home team a little advantage in fouls, but 22 to 10? That is one thing I do not like about NCCAB- the inconsistent fouls called.
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That answers Hunt's lost production, but it doesn't explain 22 fouls to 10 fouls.
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