Wake In Game

[Eight Legger]

We are so lazy on defensive rebounding "attempts" it's brutal. It's as if we just expect every shot to go in, and when it doesn't, all of our guys just stand there watching Wake go up, get a rebound, miss, get another rebound, then stick it home. This is as bad as I remember it, and that's saying something. Wake has nothing at all, and its best player is injured and not playing. WTF are we doing?

 

[TBSpyder]

3 point shooting has kept us in game. Terry was stymied by foul trouble. We really need for him to score inside in 2nd half.

 

[fan2011]

Does Mooney think PF is our best Big Guy defender? Or is Mooney protecting our other big men from fouls since they are being handed out left and right? PF getting some serious minutes in a very close game against a good team on the road. Mooney is going deep into the bench, as I have said before he plays the players that give us the best chance to win no matter what year they are.

 

[Eight Legger]

Obviously we were fed a line of BS that rebounding would be a priority this year. Either that or we really have no coaches who are capable of teaching rebounding. I would prefer the former. If we really wanted to rebound, it would actually have been made a priority. Clearly it wasn't.

 

[Eight Legger]

Does Mooney think PF is our best Big Guy defender? Or is Mooney protecting our other big men from fouls since they are being handed out left and right? PF getting some serious minutes in a very close game against a good team on the road. Mooney is going deep into the bench, as I have said before he plays the players that give us the best chance to win no matter what year they are.

He's protecting Allen, who got two fouls in 4+ minutes. And Wake isn't a good team. It's a team that beat UMBC on this same court by 5 points and is missing its best player and another starter.

 

[TBSpyder]

Terry was stymied in first half by foul troubles. Hopefully, he is able to score inside in the second half. We need to score inside to set up the 3 point shots.

 

[spiders13]

On another note, wake's crowd is woeful. I remember back in the day that place was rockin.

 

[PhillySpider]

The stats I see say they got 9 offensive rebounds and we got only 5 defensive rebounds. That is beyond beyond awful. Your team getting like 33% of the available defensive rebounds may never have happened before in the NCAA!

 

[fan2011]

The stats I see say they got 9 offensive rebounds and we got only 5 defensive rebounds. That is beyond beyond awful. Your team getting like 33% of the available defensive rebounds may never have happened before in the NCAA!

What is more ridiculous is that we are still winning despite that fact. If we don't start pulling down rebounds and start making it harder for them to score inside we will get buried in the 2nd half. We are still in the game because of the huge number of turnovers Wake has had, I doubt we get another 13 turnovers in the 2nd half.

 

[PhillySpider]

Offensively we were good. Shot well, got some backdoors. Very few turnovers. That kept us in it.

 

[Eight Legger]

What is more ridiculous is that we are still winning despite that fact. If we don't start pulling down rebounds and start making it harder for them to score inside we will get buried in the 2nd half. We are still in the game because of the huge number of turnovers Wake has had, I doubt we get another 13 turnovers in the 2nd half.

We're also lucky they are only 8-16 from the FT line. Not sure that will continue, either.

 

[PhillySpider]

Some of those rebounds where we look like we have position we really don't. we've been pushed too far underneath so we have the inside position but to rebound, the rebound must be in front of you not behind you or even straight over your head - - it has to be in front of you. When you get pushed deep under when you start out with good position its gonna be very tough!

 

[spiders13]

Well we will see extended time sans DT as he just got his 4th

 

[PhillySpider]

cline just standing there and NOT going for the rebound. just waiting for it to come to him

 

[spiders13]

Agreed philly. I was alway taught the second a shot goes up put your ass on someone and box out.

 

[Eight Legger]

First one to 125 wins.

 

[PhillySpider]

solid minutes from PF.. Just leave him in too bang until he's too tired or fouls out. He's our most physical guy (which doesn't say much for us)

 

[spiders13]

We should win this game but I fear we will not. We don't seem to want it as much. We need to hustle on every play, get after it. Too much standing around, waiting for the ball. we've got to dictate tempo and take it to them in order to win this game.

 

[Eight Legger]

If we could rebound even a LITTLE, we'd get some separation and they'd probably start jacking up bad shots. But since we can't rebound at all, they will be right there at the end, and some randomness will happen at the end like the last two years, and we'll blow it.

 

[PhillySpider]

13 - - after you box out you have to GO GET THE BALL too. If you wait a player who is moving will go get the ball! TJ is so good on offense, but he's a primary offender for bad D and rebounding

 

[PhillySpider]

the refs keep doing there thing - -- the whistle blows every trip

 

[Eight Legger]

Is this Keith VanHorn's son? God I feel old if so.

 

[PhillySpider]

uh oh - - the dreaded zone against us

 

[PhillySpider]

another dumb foul DT had 4 of 'em and SDJ has three of them

 

[Eight Legger]

Thomas takes 5 steps, no call.

 

[Eight Legger]

BTW, are these ESPN3 announcers on Wake's payroll? Or is this a local broadcast team that was hired out for the game? They aren't hiding their Wake bias.

 

[3genspider]

No No yes. Trey

 

[PhillySpider]

cline contributes a dumb one. If you take a giant swing like that on an entry pass it will be called a foul 99% of the time whether you hit the guy or not

 

[spiders13]

Agreed philly. Most basketball peeps know that going after the ball follows the boxing out ha, but this is Richmond basketball so I need to be more clear! Great point

 

[Eight Legger]

Julius Johnson sighting.

 

[PhillySpider]

we are just weak on D. Guys just go by us to the hoop. Offensively this is the best we have looked in awhile

 

[Eight Legger]

Trey Davis doing some nice things on offense tonight. No jumpers, except for that three – smart. Scoring on drives to the hoop – smart again. Solid performance.

 

[3genspider]

Announcers terrible. It was Davis and Mooney called the TO.

 

[PhillySpider]

and by a while I mean like 3-4 years

 

[fan2011]

Has a Mooney team ever scored over 80 points 3 games in a row? This offense is really good, the defense is at least forcing a lot of turnovers, but they are not stopping the 3 or rebounding well. It is unbelievable that we are up by 12.

 

[spiders13]

Hopefully the d will come, and if it does, we could be awesome.

 

[PhillySpider]

rebounding a bit better in this half and wake has continued to turn it over and miss FT

 

[I-M-UR]

Keep it up Trey

 

[PhillySpider]

We are gonna need to score 90 to win this!

 

[Eight Legger]

Some of the point output this year is obviously the result of the shot clock change, but I do think overall we are better there than we have been for a few years.