They were averaging 8.7, tied for 50th in the country.
They were getting to the rim easily too. Way too easily.
This is why I’ve been saying for years, we need to revamp system and philosophy. News flash - what we do isn’t working and hasn’t for a long time. Once every 6 years on avg there is an anomaly.
Nelson did some good things in the second half getting inside. He did so with purpose to score or drop dimes. Need more of that.
It is making sense now why we haven’t played Noyes much this year. He is a secret weapon we were hiding until Brooklyn. We are getting him a few minutes now to warm him up for the tournament.
Your Fired!!!!
Thank you. I'll be moving on. Guess I'll root for wife's team now. They aren't without their issues but they have a real coach, Tony Bennett, and they play defense. I still hate VCU.
This is certainly a Mooney coaching weakness- player development. The other glaring weakness is stubbornness- refusal to adjust.
All our guards turn the ball over too much with poor ball handling and erratic passing. At least Randolph can create shots, inside and out. But our offense requires good outside shooters from all and when your guards are not a threat, it allows defense to key on others. Grace, Burton and Bigelow have hit the wall shooting and teams are not letting Roche breathe.
Am I right 21 minutes first 29 games, 22 minutes last night?
think that might have been PT "disagreeing" with Mooney?
What are you even talking about?
No truer sentence has ever been written.
I laughed at this one. At first it was a "this is funny laugh". Then it was more a nervous, "this is scarily accurate" laugh.
This makes me wonder if anyone on our staff actually watches game film and takes action on it. Like, how can they think that what we are doing is a good idea at this point? It's been YEARS of this, too, not just this year. But it's been blatantly obvious this year, and I've documented how many teams have made more than their season average of threes against us as a result of it.
For three years he did not play up to his well well known potential. The scuttlebut was that his improvement came when he went up to Boston for a summer and worked with a legit big man trainer. Now, you could point out that is his fault. Some legitimacy there. But HC needs to point guys in the right direction for self improvement year to year.
Right, several on here have pointed out some major flaws on defense that never get fixed. The wide wide open weakside threes is one this year. Never gets fixed.
Exactly, you, I and others pointed out from pre-season on that Quinn and Grace is not a good lineup together. Way too weak on defense, too slow, just negative impact on the overall team effort. Both have very good aspects to their games, especially on offense. But just don't work together for long stretches. This is where - despite kneepad's attacks- I was very positive on giving Mooney a chance before the season. He had assembled some good pieces, that should have been slam dunk top 4 in this weak a$$ A10 (weaker than we even thought). But the inflexibility and inability to get the best out of them, and figure out how to use was a big time fail. Noyes - not ready to say he would have been our savior. Probably was jacked up to actually get on the court last night. But between a recent player touting him as our best talent, what all our eyes show us, and now the fact that PT is playing him, is an indictment that he was not given an opportunity that he should have. It's not like other guys were just playing so good that he couldn't get 5 minutes. Would love to see a lineup with Dji (I know he has not been available a lot), Randolph, Noyes, Burton and one of the bigs (or Bigelow) for a five minute stretch earlier in the season. But just never could try lineups, despite losing anyway. Very frustrating year.
I prefer Popeyes, although I think chick fil a makes a better sandwich.
Your first paragraph is exactly correct.
Attacks? If my post was an attack, then you are softer than Quinn gathering for a layup.
