Game 14: AT Saint Joseph's University, Thursday, January 3rd, 7:30 PM, CBSSN

[GMUgemini]

Oh he’ll respond don’t worry. As soon as he gets out of his meeting with Brad Edwards and DP.

I wonder what he'll have to say about a 6'1 player guarding a 6'7 small forward? I mean, I thought guys had to be at least 6'4 to guard small forwards?

 

[GMUgemini]

Calixte led the team at +27 tonight. Reuter was the only scholarship player in the negative at -5. Reuter 4 minutes, AJ 7, Calixte 10 in the second half. Calixte was 5-7 and a much better matchup for SJU's bigs.

Kier with the most absurd statline of his career - 18 points, 14 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal, no turnovers in 35 minutes. 7-12 from the field, 2-2 from 3.

Mar still not all the way there but he's fighting like hell. Hit a turnaround jumper in the first half which is a great sign - hasn't even been taking shots that aren't wide open recently. Need him to look for his shot more.

Joe's 18-52 from the field and 7-30 from 3. Where in the world did this defense come from?

Otis with 7 dimes - his shot still isn't there yet but he's facilitating like a wild man.

Phil Martelli, shooting up in the middle of the night, wide awake, a cold sweat plastering his fivehead, muttering "Ian f*cking Boyd" over and over again.

Yeah, I was going to say, another bearded Patriot has become another conference foe's worst nightmare.

 

[Cedric Dempsey]

Hometown refs tonight

Two top rated NCAA tournament officials in Groover and Sirmons. Sirmons did last years Final Four

 

[tblack33]

I’m swearing off diet dew for New Years too after that performance tonight.

 

[Quentin Daniels]

We were picked one or two in most a10 preseason polls. You don’t get to make up stats or pick and choose mid year projections after our shitty OOC. St joes has always been a team we should beat this year. Just didn’t look like it because of or OOC

Quit lying to try to antagonize people. Really... what do you get out of that? We got 1 first place vote and finished 4th in the A-10 pre-season poll (so, no...we didn't get picked one or two in most A-10 pre-season polls). St Joe's had like 4 first place votes and were 2nd in the A-10 pre-season poll.

Hello police? I’d like to report a murder.

 

[allhailme]

Impossible. He was a 2-star recruit that even JMU didn't want. His points don't count.

Matt Brady is a moron. That is all.

 

[Cedric Dempsey]

He has been on fire this year. Those that complained about him and Javon on the court at the same time please stand up!?!?


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As well as the person who repeatedly said he isn’t A10 caliber. Remember how JMU didn’t even want him?

 

[Mason2005]

The only thing Reuter did for us this game is steal the possibility of scoring triple digits by taking and missing 7 shots!!

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[GreenLantern]

That wing flapping mascot better have gotten its wings clipped after this stomp down. Booya!

 

[Quentin Daniels]

The only thing Reuter did for us this game is steal the possibility of scoring triple digits by taking and missing 7 shots!!

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Way to focus on the negative!

 

[Mason2005]

Way to focus on the negative!

Oh my bad. He gave Calixte the break he needed to come in and destroy the game.

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[MasonSAE4]

Best part of the night was the balance. Five guys went for 18,17,10,15,13 while Javon added 7 and was a beast on defense.

Also Kier is by far my new favorite player. He’s taken immense steps forward.

 

[MasonSAE4]

Two top rated NCAA tournament officials in Grover and Sirmons. Sirmons did last years Final Four

Evened out a lot in the second, no complaints there. First half we had a few guys get hammered under the basket to no call.

 

[sleeperpick]

https://247sports.com/college/saint...Game-13-Thread-George-Mason-127281379/?Page=6. Their board is going up in flames right now.... Calling for Martelli to step down...

 

[GMU_DCU]

So happy to eat crow tonight...has anyone bumped the Extend Paulsen thread yet? Can we get THAT Goanar Mar for the rest of the season? Holy cow he was a beast on defense tonight and managed to hold his own on the offensive end. Time to start Calixte over Reuter. Nice to see the other team go into a long scoring drought instead of us for once. Why not get JDS a little run at the end of the game? Defense was much improved and pretty much shutting down Funk and forcing Brown into bad shots was key. On to the next one...

 

[Haxormax]

Goanar only did well because I was there. I am mostly certain I'm his number one Philly fan.

You're welcome.

 

[patriotchild]

I still don’t think having kier and green on the court at the same time always helps us. I’ve said there’s no point to play them at the same time until one of them starts hitting shots because defenses can just sag on us and double Otis. Kier finding the 3 ball is the big difference at this point and makes the tandem work better. As we saw tonight, even though green didn’t light it up on offense, Kier being an inside and outside threat allows Green to be on the court defensively and contribute where he can on offense and also frees up Otis.

However when the 3s aren’t falling for both of them and because driving is each of their strengths, you’ll notice that the offense can get stagnant and they occasionally run into each other trying to make similar moves. That’s when I’d like to see Boyd or another sub for one of them.

If javon can also find his shot (it looks like he’s not getting enough arc) then I’d have no of problem with it. Javon is a good defender which is why he’s getting playing time and as long as Kier is a threat from 3 there’ll be less issues with them playing at the same time.

Also, I thought that Dave used his subs better in the second half (more what I thought we’d be doing all year once we saw that Reuter is a non factor) and rotated javon and kier on and off at different times.

Probably the most underrated thing from this evening is how they went after rebounds. This also goes for Boyd and Mar. Reminded me of how marquise and grayer started having little rebounding competitions.

If they could play like this regularly Javon and Kier plus our wings Boyd and Mar could be reoccurring figures in other teams nightmares. It’s quite an athletic and high potential quartet. And as someone mentioned we are only losing Otis and that may be a non factor if this core lives up to potential. Oh and dare I say watch out if AJ starts playing under control and in position consistently.

Alas, it’s only one game. They haven’t done it consistently and we’ve all seen the flashes followed by regression. BUT it’s nice to dream about it and these types of wins have been hard to come by the last few years. So I’ll savor it. Jury is still out on the rest, we have to wait and see.

 

[GMU_DCU]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, we are gonna kick even more a** next year with Hartwell as our PG. That kid is gonna be awesome. We only lose Otis, Grayer is pretty much already gone, so we are halfway into seeing next season.

So you’re saying this is the start of a two year season?

 

[smccart5]

My two favorite athletes of the week: Big Dick Nick (Foles) and Bag Balls Boyd

 

[psyclone]

A bylined article on the game from Philly.com!
http://www.philly.com/college-sport...p-score-mens-college-basketball-20190104.html