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Post by Free Weyinmi on Jan 27, 2016 6:09:14 GMT -5
I'm thinking the snow storm benefitted them @ Nova with an additional day of rest and low turnout/no Nova pep band or cheerleaders, but then backfired on them vs Xavier with the quick turnaround/loss of a day of rest after an OT game and a long trip home.
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Post by thumper on Jan 27, 2016 7:30:31 GMT -5
That may be the problem 71. We may have shot average. At least our average. And our HC effd up tonight... Don't fall off that stage you think you're on. When we win, you're tolerable. When we lose, well ... Ed did not lose the game. 31% overall shooting and 20% from the arc doomed us. We do not match up well against Xavier, especially when we can't fill it up. While I also don't like the Georgetown matchup, I hope we can pick up the pieces and prevail. A very tough week matchup-wise. PIZZA, SODA, GRINDERS!!!
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Post by drairf on Jan 27, 2016 7:43:11 GMT -5
Going into the game I didn't think we matched up well with Xavier.
In hindsight we matched up fine if we could shoot like a decent high school squad.
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Post by Rock on Jan 27, 2016 7:45:02 GMT -5
We have our limitations, no doubt. But to be playing as a top-10, top-15 team heading to February is rarefied air for the program and I'm trying to enjoy that as much as possible. Each missed shot threatens my enthusiasm, especially the degree in which we miss those shots - good grief, is the basket moving at the Dunk this month? Is it on wheels? Or maybe it's just the wind developing from the excess condensation with the ice thawing under the court? (Al Gore taught me about that.)
I have to believe that before we hit late February, one of the two, Zeek or Lindsey, gets it going and we take a step out of this offensive darkness. In fact, I'm counting on it. Either that or we get Bullock to actually win a 50/50 ball now and again, finish a contested shot or catch a pass cleanly. Any of all that will spark us down the stretch.
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Post by yankeefriar on Jan 27, 2016 8:01:10 GMT -5
Going into the game I didn't think we matched up well with Xavier. In hindsight we matched up fine if we could shoot like a decent high school squad. I thought Dunn did a tremendous job of passing out of the double team and not over dribbling last night. He hit the open guy and the open guy missed shots. Plain and simple. Almost all were open looks. We must have thrown up at least 6 air balls, and doesn't include the line drive that Junior threw up that hit nothing but the backboard. Onto G'Town!
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Post by thewalk on Jan 27, 2016 8:40:33 GMT -5
Save it thump...our HC is allowed to be questioned. You did the same bullchit with keno.
I took a look at UVAs stats today. They shoot 39% from three and average 14 attempts per game. We shoot under 30% and average 21 attempts. farr was out of the game for the last five and a half minutes. Get the ball to the hoop.
Rodney's inability to cleanly handle a basic pass is more concerning than our shooting.
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Post by thumper on Jan 27, 2016 9:02:55 GMT -5
Save it thump...our HC is allowed to be questioned. You did the same bullchit with keno. I took a look at UVAs stats today. They shoot 39% from three and average 14 attempts per game. We shoot under 30% and average 21 attempts. farr was out of the game for the last five and a half minutes. Get the ball to the hoop. Rodney's inability to cleanly handle a basic pass is more concerning than our shooting. Just because YOU think something is a fact doesn't make it a fact. The sad truth is YOU think you know more about coaching than our coaches. As a message board, you are entitled to your opinion. State it and be done. But your modus operandi is to harp on something (in the same thread you repeated and repeated your accusation that Ed was one of the big problems last night). PIZZA, SODA, GRINDERS!!!
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Post by thewalk on Jan 27, 2016 9:59:14 GMT -5
You'd like to use facts thump?..here are some FACTS. We regularly shoot under 25% from 3 in BE play...our best BE game we took 8 second half threes. Our two best games of the nonconf schedule we took 15 in each game. We took less than 15 against uri.
But I'm not allowed to question our strategy after we've fouled out one of their two interior players?
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Post by thumper on Jan 27, 2016 10:20:39 GMT -5
Possibly the best point guard in the country couldn't break through that 1-3-1 to make the easy pass inside. Maybe in the biddy ball team you coach, you can get your team to get it inside but Xavier is a final four candidate with more than two bigs. In fact, since you claim to like facts, with everyone knowing Bentil is, at best 6'8", Xavier has 6 players taller than Ben. Their best big last night, btw, was Reynolds. And they have 4 6'10" guys. I'm sure you know a 1-3-1 gives up the corners but collapses on anything coming inside. Facts, facts, facts.Twist them all you like. Xavier is a tough matchup for almost every team in D-1 basketball. Have a good day ruminating.
PIZZA, SODA, GRINDERS!!!
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Post by billblairsmom on Jan 27, 2016 10:43:53 GMT -5
We have 4 losses an are in top ten, are selling out Dunk. Only issue as I see it is our damn coach won't listen to message board genius who has changed from hating on Lindsey and Cartwright to now it's Bullock can't catch and Cooley can't coach.
I sit up at night dreaming of the success we'd have with you as our coach, Walk. If only Driscoll knew how much he hurt the program by dragging your naked ass out of that dunk bathroom stall...
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Post by Rock on Jan 27, 2016 11:00:47 GMT -5
Xavier's better than us. No two ways about it. A win last night would have been a real accomplishment.
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Post by friar71 on Jan 27, 2016 12:24:12 GMT -5
Xavier's better than us. No two ways about it. A win last night would have been a real accomplishment. They also have more BE experienced players as well. We just have to hope our outside shooting improves, which I think it will, before we run into them again. We caught them last night w Sumner just coming back from an injury. He will make them even better once he regains his game.
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Post by billblairsmom on Jan 27, 2016 12:27:51 GMT -5
I just sent Cooley an e-mail telling him how we missed alot of open 3's....I hadn't noticed and I don't think staff did either. Thank God for "message board Woodens" was Cooley's response.
Shooting owes killing us lately. Shots fall last night (many were wide open looks) and we win. Simple as that. Hope it ends soon.
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Post by drairf on Jan 27, 2016 12:44:13 GMT -5
Xavier's better than us. No two ways about it. A win last night would have been a real accomplishment. I think they are better than us and I've been extremely impressed with them when I've watched (other than the Nova game). However, I didn't think they were fantastic last night. I honestly think we shot ourselves out of that game. Xavier made someone other than Dunn beat them and other than Bentil everyone failed to answer that challenge. The game was there for the taking with "normal" below average shooting. Was watching at a bar with a PC friend and we were astonished at the airballs. I really don't think I've seen that many airballs in a college game - ever. It was quite an embarrassing display of shooting and I can't imagine it's going to earn them any goodwill with the Top 25 voters.
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Post by Rock on Jan 27, 2016 12:53:29 GMT -5
I just sent Cooley an e-mail telling him how we missed alot of open 3's....I hadn't noticed and I don't think staff did either. Thank God for "message board Woodens" was Cooley's response. Shooting owes killing us lately. Shots fall last night (many were wide open looks) and we win. Simple as that. Hope it ends soon. Good grief, really? We can't express anything that's obvious? We're freaking fans! Look, Ed is letting them hoist the shots because he has an insufficient amount of low-post options, it's that simple. Or is that too obvious to state as well? And BTW, some were wide open looks. Many were rushed, mildly altered or contested by a very active Xavier D. We weren't shooting in an empty gym, for crying out loud. In truth, that helps to explain, in at least some cases, the air balls and Scott Norwood misses.
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