Game 15: GMU (10-4 / 1-0) at Rhode Island (11-2 / 0-1) on Saturday, January 4, at 2:00 PM.

[Junkees9]

SOS

 

[jruby]

8-9 seed and first round exit. Turnovers and the insanely god awful foul shooting. Won’t win more than 2/3 games on road. Offense just isn’t good enough.

 

[hoops10]

Mason is woefully short of good players. Can't win with lousy shooting, missed free throws. We'll be seeing the same bs all season. Lack of offense is a real issue. Blowing a 9 pt half time lead is unacceptable. We have seen this act for too many years.

 

[Patriotsince81]

Golden opportunity wasted by shitty free throw shooting, just to name one.

 

[JimP]

Solid D. Atrocious 2nd half offense all around = Road L. Was so winnable...

 

[Patriotsince81]

We remain the NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME PLAYERS. So tired of this shit.

 

[TweederGMU]

Just dumb shit each game that's just fundamentals of the game. Can the coaches pull these guys together and do fundamantal coaching each practice!?

How to pass, how to catch a ball, how to dribble and protect the ball, what's a travel and how not to travel, how to shoot a free throw, how to set your feet and do a proper screen, how to box out, etc.

This is a Veteran team that does extremely dumb shit each game that's just mind boggling. Our teams are notorious for this that is just getting old. How do we recruit players that keep doing these things each season is just baffling.

Magic number is 10 for turnovers.... if we go above 10 in a game it's a 95% chance we will lose, we just don't have the offense to stay consistent each game.

 

[EXpatriot13]

Ah, this looks awfully familiar. This season will not end up where we want it to unless there’s legitimate improvement offensively.

So disappointing.

 

[GMU79]

Mason is woefully short of good players. Can't win with lousy shooting, missed free throws. We'll be seeing the same bs all season. Lack of offense is a real issue. Blowing a 9 pt half time lead is unacceptable. We have seen this act for too many years.

We have?

 

[Verdad]

We just lost a game where we had more rb’s, assists, and held them to 33% shooting. Need a statistician to find out if that has ever happened before in history of college basketball.

 

[jruby]

We just lost a game where we had more rb’s, assists, and held them to 33% shooting. Need a statistician to find out if that has ever happened before in history of college basketball.

likely first time ever. Hard to be that awful at foul shooting, Mason choked away game. Can’t win on road been this way for last 3 years now.

vcu, St. Louis, Bonnie’s and Dayton all guaranteed loses. Going to have to go perfect in rest.

 

[JimP]

Why the f-ck was Billups not guarding Thomas on the last possession?! So damn demoralizing to give up a shot with a second left with one of the best defensive players in the league playing off the ball.

Though simply play decently on offense in the 2nd half and no need to worry about last second heroics.

 

[TweederGMU]

Refs helped get URI back in the game with some awful tick tack/make up calls in the 2nd half. 7 more foul calls called on us than URI (19-12).

 

[TweederGMU]

We just lost a game where we had more rb’s, assists, and held them to 33% shooting. Need a statistician to find out if that has ever happened before in history of college basketball.

URI Didn't score a single point for 10 minutes!!!!

How in the F did we blow this game.

 

[GMUgemini]

likely first time ever. Hard to be that awful at foul shooting, Mason choked away game. Can’t win on road been this way for last 3 years now.

It’s one player who is wildly inconsistent from the line (4-5 against Davidson, 2-7 against Rhody). No one else gets to the line enough (which is an indictment against our guards).

We desperately needed Okojie not to have transferred. We are a different team if he’s starting at the 1.

Anyone who thinks we are going to get better at offense this season is deluding themselves. We are halfway through the season. This is who we are.

 

[JimP]

Refs helped get URI back in the game with some awful tick tack/make up calls in the 2nd half. 7 more foul calls called on us than URI (19-12).

I do think Archie's persistent complaining worked in RI's favor down the stretch.

 

[GMUgemini]

vcu, St. Louis, Bonnie’s and Dayton all guaranteed loses. Going to have to go perfect in rest.

Dayton lost by 20 to GW today. St. Louis has no defense.

I’ll give you the Bonnie’s on the road. That is going to be a tough matchup.

Look, this game was a nice to have, not a must win. URI is going to be a top half team probably. Sucks only because of the way we lost it (even just not giving up a stupid 3 to end the first half and we probably pull this one out).

 

[tblack33]

It’s one player who is wildly inconsistent from the line (4-5 against Davidson, 2-7 against Rhody). No one else gets to the line enough (which is an indictment against our guards).

We desperately needed Okojie not to have transferred. We are a different team if he’s starting at the 1.

Anyone who thinks we are going to get better at offense this season is deluding themselves. We are halfway through the season. This is who we are.

Agreed, offense is what it is at this point. Rare to see a massive turnaround offensively at this point in the season (we’re about halfway done now) without a change in personnel or rotations. We’ll win and lose off defense and our bigs. Still think this team is capable of ripping off a few wins in a row in a neutral court in March though so seeding matters. 4 spot remains wide open and could be huge for us at this point.

 

[JimP]

Dayton lost by 20 to GW today. St. Louis has no defense.

I’ll give you the Bonnie’s on the road. That is going to be a tough matchup.

Look, this game was a nice to have, not a must win. URI is going to be a top half team probably. Sucks only because of the way we lost it (even just not giving up a stupid 3 to end the first half and we probably pull this one out).

That was a stupid lucky 3...

 

[NewPatriot]

I think Skinn made miscalculated by slowing the tempo down and putting this team in a "playing not to lose" mindset.

If Mason keeps attacking the basket and drawing fouls.. it wins the game..even only making 50% of the foul shots.