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Re: Game 3: at George Mason, 11/11 7pm
By: NoVA_Seawolf Date: November 11, 2024, 7:12 pm
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If this team cracks 10 wins this season I’ll be shocked.
Did literally everyone from the CAA title run graduate/hit the
portal? The hell…
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Re: Game 3: at George Mason, 11/11 7pm
By: sbu1991 Date: November 11, 2024, 7:15 pm
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I thought Gorman was a three star recruit. Where’s Nahar?
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Re: Game 3: at George Mason, 11/11 7pm
By: Checkmate Date: November 11, 2024, 7:18 pm
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[quote author=VA_Seawolf link=topic=1128.msg44550#msg44550
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If this team cracks 10 wins this season I’ll be shocked.
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I'd say "it's too early to tell" ... and it is ... but I dunno,
this is such poor basketball. We aren't good enough offensively
to make up for Octave and Luster being invisible (I know
Luster's been in foul trouble). Snoddy at point guard, Snoddy
taking the ball up, Wight getting fed, Philip taking threes,
that is a script to a disaster movie.
O'Connor's like a rookie quarterback who's getting killed behind
an inept offensive line. He can have all the talent in the
world, but this season will be a gauntlet.
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Re: Game 3: at George Mason, 11/11 7pm
By: steveoh Date: November 11, 2024, 7:25 pm
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Besides the offensive issues, we're really gonna have problems
protecting the rim this season.
And also getting out of possessions. If you look at Wight's
career stats, he's been a really good offensive rebounder (about
2/game), but poor on the defensive side (2.3/game). Typically
for a big, it's two defensive rebounds for every one on the
offensive boards. Not dumping on him; you are who you are. And
we're not tall anywhere else in our lineups. I just think we
clearly are gonna have problems on this end.
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Re: Game 3: at George Mason, 11/11 7pm
By: OldSeawolf Date: November 11, 2024, 7:29 pm
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I thought Octave would be the heir apparent to Clarke (AC).
Aside from those quick early 3’s vs Marquette, he’s been a total
no show since.
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Re: Game 3: at George Mason, 11/11 7pm
By: Checkmate Date: November 11, 2024, 7:32 pm
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Don't you get so jealous when you see a team swing the ball all
the way around on the perimeter?
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Re: Game 3: at George Mason, 11/11 7pm
By: Chairman of the Board Date: November 12, 2024, 8:32 am
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yes- that's what's separates us (mid major) from the next level.
discipline.
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Re: Game 3: at George Mason, 11/11 7pm
By: Checkmate Date: November 12, 2024, 9:13 am
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Bit of a vent.
I was thinking about how past rosters always had some kind of
outlet, somebody who could go get a bucket. In the Geno era, if
the ball ended up with TSM, Clarke, Jenkins, Roberts, Policelli,
even JRod, you thought they could create something in a pinch.
And that might have masked the laborious, disjointed nature that
are unmistakable trademarks of a Geno offense. I really need to
know if that guy is going to be Octave this year, or if a team
of veterans looks at a freshman point guard in those spots. That
seems to be the case right now. Who can go get a bucket? Or,
even better, will we ever see the ball move like it should?
Basketball's supposed to be beautiful with screens and cuts and
crisp passing, moving the defense, and even in our run to the
CAA title game last year, it, without question, was not. Ever.
And it doesn't seem like we have the personnel this year to make
up for the sloppy nature of our offense.
Assists per FGM nationally under Geno: 284, 220, 340, 134 (in
the COVID year!), 284 and 268 (this year)
Same time period at Hofstra: 300, 236, 139 (Speedy's first
year), 210, 66, 24
We won a game! On the road against a maybe decent team! So maybe
I shouldn't be complaining. But I've always felt this way. If
you hit on 18 and make 21, that doesn't mean it's good
blackjack. You watch other teams and say "why can't we be like
that?" What we're doing is just so hard to watch. The amount of
times the GMU announcer (who I thought was great and fair and
kind to us) said "forces up a shot" or something in that vein
was truly staggering. Everything was forced, contested and
completely out of rhythm.
To make matters worse, we don't have the rim protection that we
did with Fitz and Maidoh, or guys before that. In fact, we have
very little. The worst in a long time that I can think of. We
have just three blocks in three games (I know; the opponents
have been huge) but is it really going to change? As many have
pointed out, we are beyond thin underneath without Wight, and
while we may have been able to get away with it in the AE, I
don't think that's the case in the Coastal.
I'm holding out hope and believe that Octave has more to give as
the competition is more on our level. And I do feel that we have
a special shooter with Luster and only need to get him the ball
with some room to shoot. I just wish that, systematically, it
looked better than it has.
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Re: Game 3: at George Mason, 11/11 7pm
By: Moveitfred Date: November 12, 2024, 11:10 am
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Excellent points, Checkmate.
That entire game felt like it was 6 vs 5, or even 6 vs 4. GM
always had guys open, always seemed like they could jump/double
SBU players while inexplicably covering everyone else.
Quickness/discipline/size/movement was just overwhelming.
Such an odd pair of games and results to start the season (just
ignoring Marquette). Seems Geno kept it simple with the fatigue
explanation. Okay, I guess, maybe. But I agree...lots of things
looked VERY bad last night.
PS, was glad to see a little more of Nyarko, but boy he played
rough around the edges. Potential there? Maybe? Also, why does
he constantly direct traffic, waving his arms, etc? Is he
nervous? Looked like he spent half his time trying to
single-handedly move chess pieces around the board instead of
just playing. I don't get it.
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Re: Game 3: at George Mason, 11/11 7pm
By: steveoh Date: November 12, 2024, 3:40 pm
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Year after year, I'm just not sure what we're trying to
accomplish on offense.
I coach high school basketball. Last year, we had two terrific
guards who could get their own shots, two bigs who couldn't do
much away from the rim, and other players who couldn't process
plays quick enough. So we abandoned any ideas of playing a
beautiful, motion-filled offense, kept our bigs down low (or one
up for a high screen), ran fake motions to get our role players
out of the way, and gave space on the wings and the top of the
key for our two players to make plays. We asked them where they
liked to operate, they showed us, and we designed around that.
It wasn't beautiful. We had limitations within our roster. And
we had two strengths. So we had a clear plan to minimize the
weaknesses and accentuate the strengths. And it was obvious to
everyone watching us.
I never really know what our offenses, year after year, are
trying to do. It all just seems random.
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