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Both teams blow.
But the Lady Spiders will be in attendance for this one.
Richmond wins.
But the Lady Spiders will be in attendance for this one.
Richmond wins.
You guys ready to be 2-0? UMass probably sucks worse than we do.
On paper Mass doesn’t look very good, but the game is played on bb court not paper. We are not a great road team. Need to do a turnaround on that.
8legs1dream
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if this game was at the RC I would be heckling Coach Frankie all game about going to the MAC
8legs1dream
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light dive time:
= current NET 243, second worst in the A10
= 0-1 in Q1 games, a 6 point loss at West Virginia
= 0-4 in Q2 games
= 0-3 in Q3 games
= 4-1 in Q4 games, their best win would be a home victory over NET 164 Northeastern 77-72
= 0-1 so far in A10 play after a road loss at St Joes 81-72
= one thing that stuck out, they are 28th in the nation in offensive rebounding and we are 347th.
= one common opponent, Louisiana Tech. We lost that game 65-62 and UMass lost theirs 76-66
= current NET 243, second worst in the A10
= 0-1 in Q1 games, a 6 point loss at West Virginia
= 0-4 in Q2 games
= 0-3 in Q3 games
= 4-1 in Q4 games, their best win would be a home victory over NET 164 Northeastern 77-72
= 0-1 so far in A10 play after a road loss at St Joes 81-72
= one thing that stuck out, they are 28th in the nation in offensive rebounding and we are 347th.
= one common opponent, Louisiana Tech. We lost that game 65-62 and UMass lost theirs 76-66
Offensive rebounds equals second chance opportunities. Deemphasizing offensive rebounds equals foregone opportunities.
UMass may be very
It also intentionally takes the competitiveness out of a part of the game. It creates a softness in our brand of basketball.
Agree. Some on here point to different metrics when talking about the Mooney way. But those don't account for this, his teaching and style does not seem to instill toughness and taking opportunity. Yes, when we have a Gonzo, or a Bigs, or a Dji, or Kevin Smitty, it looks fine. But when we don't have the talent - it really looks soft.
I mean, that press conference about how difficult Mooney has made it on the team the last couple days prior to the GW game is just un effing believably priceless. I guess he was leaving all of that to Dlo. Not knocking DLo at all, but this is something he should have seen 1st week in practice, that he would have to drive with this team. If not the first week in practice, then the scrimmage when we allowed ECU or whoever it was to shoot 90% from 2. THough I got criticized on here for pointing that out (How could one Spider23 draw conclusion from not seeing the game itself - even though the other team made 90% (i know it was probably only 78%) of their twos?
But no, Mooney just decided we would again not worry about defense and toughness and enforcing effort - while waiting for best shooting team ever.
Yes, kind of funny it took repeated embarrassments to a bunch of nobody programs for us to have a hard practice. Perhaps if that was the standard from the get go, we wouldn't be where we are. I believe it was Burton said as much when he went to Nova about how much harder their practices were than ours. Again, softness is our brand.
I have said this many times, but I really think the OOC is treated as a preseason or proving ground for Mooney. The conference schedule though is more important and obviously the “trend” was going in the wrong direction after the FGCU game.
Hopefully we see a focused team again tomorrow, but we all know “winning on the road is hard”.
8legs1dream
Graduate Assistant
well the OOC is actually more important. so if that is true it would say a lot.
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