Vs Dayton
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Did not watch the game in order to protect my mental health, but sounds like this one was extra heartbreaking. I am very sorry for all Spider fans.
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Exactly. That’s my point. Not picking out individual players on a game by game basis.
What a way to lose a game! Feel like I’ve said that too many times even just this year. Idk who else listened to the post game show tonight but it was comical. Mooney and the crew talked all about how there should have been a foul called on the inbound play to Burton at the buzzer. Mooney said even if it wasn’t a shooting foul it still would have put them at the line and Bob responded with “wow great point chris”. Absolutely no accountability for allowing the inbound dunk play, just blaming the refs for not calling a foul. Even mentioned “we know we can’t beat any team in this league” which I also found hilarious. This the oldest team in the history of college basketball and still can’t close out these kind of games. Lastly Mooney’s tone didn’t sound like a guy who was dejected to lose that kind of game, any normal coach would be. Just an all around clown show and proves that he isn’t going anywhere.
I admire your ability to endure listening to Mooney kubuki theatre postgame.
8legs1dream
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Sure, it is just a coincidence that Mooney coached teams (multiple teams in multiple years) execute poorly and lose regularly when the game comes down to an important play or two. By that logic, there clearly have been some very bad players at UR in 15 of the past 17-years.
Of course, everyone with a brain knows that players have to make plays, but, when it fails to happen consistently game-after-game, year-after-year then you have a coaching problem.
The post game was all about the no call on Burton. Totally avoid the easy dunk question with Mooney. Poor shooting by both teams. Totally blew it.
UMass took out their trash. Our turn.
When push comes to shove in important games against good teams, we get pushed and shoved, and we lose. The outcome of this game should not be a surprise to anyone who's been paying attention the past 17 years.
Have you completely lost your mind? Please explain to me how a game ending alley-oop dunk with no time left on the clock is not a coaching blunder.
as much grief as Grace gets here, I would have felt better with him in at the end than Cayo. Grace is one of the few guys on our team that actually tries to play defense.
Grace has better post moves than Golden too, and he doesn't take half an hour to execute them. I hope he comes back next year.
Yes Spidey, it was heartbreaking. We finally played a little defense, shot free throws ok, still out rebounded by double digits. Tied with 2.4 seconds left and UR coaches didn’t talk about guarding the only play Dayton really had left, Anthony Grant did talk to his players about it. We lose.
We looked really good with Grace and Golden on the floor together. I'd like to see more of it.
Thank you, SpiderK for the run down. I am proud our guys made improvements. Too bad the conductor ran our collective efforts right off the track.
I think that is the first time I saw a coach get a foul for a flop…
I don’t see this one as CMs fault. We just have a really bad pattern of being unable to close out on these games. Here and there we win one but too often we don’t.
we actually played decent defense but didn’t shoot well, some of which is attributable to Dayton being a good defensive team themselves. But winning teams make a few more shots.
we actually played decent defense but didn’t shoot well, some of which is attributable to Dayton being a good defensive team themselves. But winning teams make a few more shots.
Golden was clearly emotional in the post game presser. I feel for the guys tonight because the effort was 100% there - just didn’t get the win
Our back sides pucker up at crunch time. Reflection of coach.
Read your second sentence and rethink your first sentence.
We're right where we want to be... Needing to win four games in four days -- including, most likely, two against teams we couldn't beat at home during the regular season.
As much as I want to blame Mooney for this loss, the players just did not play well enough to win. Our all everything Burton just looked lost tonight. Just an average performance tonight by him and we win.
Mooney Basketball: The Parts Are Greater Than The Sum, Since 2012.
I thought this was Goldens best (toughest) game of the year. Awesome defense and rebounding from him
I like how we sat Burton for almost the entire first half, and then he played the entire second half without committing another foul.
There were a lot of shots blocked. More shots got through. They can't stop every shot, they must stop the launchers and the tanks down low. Leaving the heavies unchecked has devastating consequences for the future. Otherwise they will be encircled.
Some Dayton fans after the game said the Spiders got the wrong end of the stick on those calls on Gilyard. And what was with the refs killing so much time reviewing footage at the end of the game? Anthony Grant got his way with a free timeout by questioning whether the last foul was intentional when a first grader could have said it wasn't. And thought he got off lightly on his childish flop on the side of the court with his arms outspread when he didn't like a call. No the refs did not cost us the game but the officiating was awful.
We didn't make any game winning plays. Refs have nothing to do with that.
You are correct about that, but that does not change the fact that the referees were awful for the reasons I stated in my post.
I’m on record as being highly supportive of change, don’t confuse my statement above as any form of statement of support. Everything rolls up to the coach, I’m just saying that the team didn’t perform when needed which is a common occurrence.
Did Queally make all his money by competing or winning?
