St.Joseph's Hawk are flying.

[MrTbone]

The lack of boxing out is maddening. Like honestly if our coaches started telling guys to actively not box out, I don't think we could tell the difference.

And on offense, it's almost like they are wearing electric dog collars that will electrocuted then if they touch the ball again after we shoot it. There was a play today when someone took a short for us (might have been Burton) and the rebound canned out a bit long and bounced on the court, headed toward Burton. No SJU player was nearby. Burton literally backtracked away from the ball that was bouncing toward him. What are we doing??

Same thing happened (coincidentally with Burton) in the first half on D. Missed three with mid-length rebound that was headed straight toward him while he watched it. I think he was preparing to run up court before anyone on our team got the ball.

Thats coaching, every basketball player alive is instinctually wired to go get the ball. That has been trained out of these guys.

 

[Eight Legger]

And it has happened to so many of our good recruits, year after year. He turns them into robots who don't play instinctive basketball anymore. And this year more than ever, it's happening in a negative way on offense too. We can't ever get into a good flow because we don't make spontaneous plays. We just come down and set up the ol' offense, pass the ball around for 25 seconds and see what happens.

 

[MrTbone]

And it has happened to so many of our good recruits, year after year. He turns them into robots who don't play instinctive basketball anymore. And this year more than ever, it's happening in a negative way on offense too. We can't ever get into a good flow because we don't make spontaneous plays. We just come down and set up the ol' offense, pass the ball around for 25 seconds and see what happens.

Of all the things I could criticize, I don’t have a major issue with the offense. It’s definitely got issues and we get very out of sorts when we can’t establish our interior game, but overall the offense finds a way, it’s good enough if we could just put together a more capable defensive effort.

Defensive rebounding is the absolute pits. We are 310 in rebounding margin. Again, that’s 310 out of 340.

 

[Eight Legger]

The most mystifying thing to me is how did we get noticeably better at defense last year and then just completely regress this year? It's stunning how inept we are.

 

[MrTbone]

Well once they proved they could do it there was no need to keep proving it. I mean duh.

 

[ChoppinBroccoli]

Things I observed tonight:

1. Jacob has to assert himself in the offense (same observation from a week ago)
2. We still don’t execute basic rebounding fundamentals. This is a coaching problem, every guy here has been taught to box out before they ever made an AAU team. We do not emphasize it, they literally watch the ball on a third of possessions hoping it bounces their way.
3. Our matchup decisions are really suspect. Goose on Daly was a disaster, put Jacob on him or bring in Isaiah.
4. Liked Graces effort but why no Sal. Put Sal on Funk, his perimeter D is loads better and Funk isn’t a post type guy.
5. Defense: too much to say

The players just need more experience, and Mooney needs more time. Geez, you guys are impatient.

 

[8legs1dream]

The players just need more experience, and Mooney needs more time. Geez, you guys are impatient.

yes exactly, "best class ever" was referring to the current freshman class. All Mooney needs is about 3 or 4 more years if they use their extra year of covid availability and you are looking at a team that will be able to COMPETE at a high level in the A10! Have a little patience!

 

[I-M-UR]

A whole team shows upunprepaired to play. How is that ultimately not on the coach?

 

[PalmTreeSpidUR]

Sal injured?

Anyone know why he didn't play in the second half?

 

[mr.spider]

And it has happened to so many of our good recruits, year after year. He turns them into robots who don't play instinctive basketball anymore. And this year more than ever, it's happening in a negative way on offense too. We can't ever get into a good flow because we don't make spontaneous plays. We just come down and set up the ol' offense, pass the ball around for 25 seconds and see what happens.

That's why I have said for years, and I mean it - that we would be better with no coach on the sideline.

 

[97spiderfan]

That's why I have said for years, and I mean it - that we would be better with no coach on the sideline.

Agreed. At least they would go after it with aggressiveness. Instead of this passive fluidity BS that Mooney runs, guys running away from balls in order to get back on defense.

 

[SouthJerseySpiderFan]

Things I observed tonight:

1. Jacob has to assert himself in the offense (same observation from a week ago)
2. We still don’t execute basic rebounding fundamentals. This is a coaching problem, every guy here has been taught to box out before they ever made an AAU team. We do not emphasize it, they literally watch the ball on a third of possessions hoping it bounces their way.
3. Our matchup decisions are really suspect. Goose on Daly was a disaster, put Jacob on him or bring in Isaiah.
4. Liked Graces effort but why no Sal. Put Sal on Funk, his perimeter D is loads better and Funk isn’t a post type guy.
5. Defense: too much to say

Good post on every level! And the way it looks now love to see Jacob just take as many shots as possible going forward. GG and Blake are ? and Tyler is in a funk. Cayo did a great job last night but never imagined him being the go-to guy getting fed the ball over and over again.

 

[SpiderK]

Agreed. At least they would go after it with aggressiveness. Instead of this passive fluidity BS that Mooney runs, guys running away from balls in order to get back on defense.

And then play no defense.

 

[Eight Legger]

UMass, a terrible team, destroyed the mighty Hawks by 34 today. But clearly we couldn't be expected to "compete" with them once they started to get so scrappy on us. Ryan Daly is so amazing! Taylor Funk, impossible to stop! Mooney was just happy our guys played all 40 minutes!

 

[712_VT]

UMass, a terrible team, destroyed the mighty Hawks by 34 today. But clearly we couldn't be expected to "compete" with them once they started to get so scrappy on us. Ryan Daly is so amazing! Taylor Funk, impossible to stop! Mooney was just happy our guys played all 40 minutes!

They had a good feel of the game that night.

 

[GKiller]

UMass, a terrible team, destroyed the mighty Hawks by 34 today. But clearly we couldn't be expected to "compete" with them once they started to get so scrappy on us. Ryan Daly is so amazing! Taylor Funk, impossible to stop! Mooney was just happy our guys played all 40 minutes!

But but...they’re such a different team with Ryan Daly! The emotion of senior night. It was a tough challenge.