Game 1: University of Pennsylvania, Tuesday, November 6th, 7 PM, ESPN+

[GMUYoda]

Nice steal and basket to end the half... 37-33 Mason leads.

 

[Bricker]

Legit Q: is Grayer our only shooter?

 

[smccart5]

MVP of this game is the feed. Announcer, replays, clear/non lagging image

 

[smccart5]

Legit Q: is Grayer our only shooter?

I hope not, he just air balled a free throw haha

 

[Bricker]

Gonna go ahead and call this one for the refs.

 

[Patriot Lawdog]

Anyone seen Goanar Mar?

 

[Patriot Lawdog]

What an effing goat rodeo.

 

[Patriot8]

Dammit

 

[Patriot Lawdog]

Not a game you can really afford to lose if you want to go to the tourney.

 

[GMUYoda]

Why didn't Otis pass the ball there? He had no chance at the buzzer... I think it was Greene right next to him as he blew by?

 

[Leesburg Chankenstank III]

Gut stabbing loss. Not only locally but nationally when people talk about tourney resumes. We have to win the rest of the OOC games we are supposed to and pull off a P5 win to make up for this.

 

[Herndon]

Legit Q: is Grayer our only shooter?

It's a legit problem.

Greene's shooting has been disastrous since he arrived with a reputation as a big time shooter.

 

[PoorManProfit]

8 assists on 28 made FGs. Still an issue obviously.

 

[smccart5]

Man I thought Kiers shot was going to fall, just missed. Was disappointed we didn't have a TO at the end to set up a play, I hate when we don't even get a decent shot off. Penn seemed to be getting to the basket at will...not good. And to many turnovers, especially the two by otis late hurt, he seemed off tonight.

Haven't had this feeling since last year- it's officially college hoops time again!

 

[MasonSAE4]

Glad we've done nothing about the whole "teams getting layups at will late in the second half" thing

 

[Irish44j]

Just my observations, for what little they're worth:

Seems that our guards, going back to last year, totally forget that there's this thing called a "jump shot" in the second half. Every single play seems to be a slash to the hoop by our short guards into two taller defenders, usually ending up in a missed layup or wild circus shot. For such a fundamentals-oriented coach, I have to wonder why Paulson doesn't call more timeouts down the stretch and try to get the shooters to actually shoot mid-range shots and to stop playing so out-of-control. Seems like Boyd is the only one willing to pull up and take an open jumper.

Early on they were feeding Reuter the ball and letting him back down defenders. Later he seemed to be used mostly as a high-post pick than for offense.

On the upside, Reuter looks like the real deal - finally someone down low who can body up on the low blocks and not get pushed around like our other tall stick-figures down there, and can set a solid pick. Interesting that he was being taken out on defense in the 2nd half. Is he seen as a weak defender?

Lack of rebounding throughout the game wasn't good to see - especially off the free throws at the end. I guess Mason on paper out-rebounded Penn but it sure didn't seem like it in the 2nd half.

Let's put aside the repeated inability to defend Penn's back-cuts with no weak-side help coming. They were making it look way too easy.

Also, 6'10 Chinese guy draining flat-footed threes. How the hell do you even defend that? lol...

 

[JimP]

Bonnies lost their first game last year and made the tourney. They were missing Jaylen Adams though. GMU can't attribute this loss to a missing player. Ugh.

 

[Quentin Daniels]

LET THE OVERREACTIONS.....BEGIN!

 

[gmulion]

Back to back turnovers by Otis with under 4 min left and no defense from Otis. We need our SR PG to play better to win those games.

 

[GMU_DCU]

to be honest I wasn’t encouraged by much to make me think we’ve turned some magical corner and are going to be a tournament team. For a team now stacked with upper class men with tons of minutes there sure were a lot of dumb turnovers and missed defensive assignments. Goanar Mar now in the exhibition and in this game just doesn’t seem to be very motivated or into the game. Glad to see Justin Wilson has calmed down and is letting the game come to him instead of trying to do too much and getting 3 fouls in two minutes. Reuter seems like a decent player and hope he improves as the rust wears off and his fitness level increases.

This season is about being a great team in the second half of the season and winning the A-10 tourney, an at large is a pipe dream especially after this loss at home.