Game 19: Fordham University, Saturday, January 19th, 7 PM, ESPN+

[Leesburg Chankenstank III]

I will admit that it seems that almost all of the Ole’ plays against us seem to happen when Reuter is in the game. He sticks to his man as he is probably directed to do. But when an opponent has a clear lane to the basket completely free, sometimes you have to get off of your man at least a little bit to make the shot 1% more difficult.

That’s probably not his fault as someone else probably missed their correct rotation. But it would be nice to have a bit more fault tolerance in that situation. Reuter’s lack of quickness gives us zero fault tolerance.

Calixte does. But wow his FT are a huge liability as already has been pointed out.

However I do have a bias against Reuter and caught myself several times ignoring his baskets and raging against his mistakes. And we are 5-1 so you can’t really argue the results.

 

[masonjoe]

Will never understand the AJ and Calixte love on here, our best players play and it's been working pretty well lately...

 

[Herndon]

I think part of the problem is that people are comparing reuter against what they thought they were getting with him, which was Jai Lewis, instead of just viewing him for what he is.

 

[dr. gunnie]

I’m not a basketball guy. I can watch football and see things pretty easy, but basketball I have to watch a 2nd or 3rd time to catch things. Normally when I watch our games a second time and don’t just follow the ball, Reuter plays better than I initially thought. I thought he played pretty well.

As far as Oduro, he reminds a little of Greg coming out of high school in the fact that neither of them put up gaudy stats - and I’m thinking to myself how can you be that big in high school and not dominate (although PVI does play the highest level high school competition)? I didn’t expect anything from Greg, and he proved me wrong. Because of that, I’m going to let Josh come in and work with our staff before I put any expectations on him.

While I would like to see us start recruiting at a little higher level, our staff has proved they can recognize and develop talent. I remember Coach L used to say they would look for players that could do one thing really well - elite level well, and they would put them in a position to use that skill and develop the rest. I would love to hear what our staff looks for when they are out scouting.

 

[MASONscott]

I’m not a basketball guy. I can watch football and see things pretty easy, but basketball I have to watch a 2nd or 3rd time to catch things. Normally when I watch our games a second time and don’t just follow the ball, Reuter plays better than I initially thought. I thought he played pretty well.

As far as Oduro, he reminds a little of Greg coming out of high school in the fact that neither of them put up gaudy stats - and I’m thinking to myself how can you be that big in high school and not dominate (although PVI does play the highest level high school competition)? I didn’t expect anything from Greg, and he proved me wrong. Because of that, I’m going to let Josh come in and work with our staff before I put any expectations on him.

While I would like to see us start recruiting at a little higher level, our staff has proved they can recognize and develop talent. I remember Coach L used to say they would look for players that could do one thing really well - elite level well, and they would put them in a position to use that skill and develop the rest. I would love to hear what our staff looks for when they are out scouting.

I thought he played well last night as well.

Reuter’s playing time is a good indicator of how the coaches are seeing him in-game. Last night he had 23 minutes. His previous A10 games had been 13, 19, 13, 18, and 16 minutes.


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[Five Two]

Announced crowd of 3892...

I thought there were more. I was guessing it was around 4,800ish

 

[GMUgemini]

Will never understand the AJ and Calixte love on here, our best players play and it's been working pretty well lately...

The way I see it is this:

AJ: is our most athletic forward, best shot blocker (by a mile-and-a-half), and our best offensive rebounder). AJ also is fairly undisciplined, gets caught out of position, and sometimes thinks he's a guard.

Calixte: is our best one-on-one post defender, our strongest forward, and moves off the ball really well and gets himself into good positions to get easy baskets around the rim. He's also a godawful free throw shooter and tends to foul when he's beat on a play (whether it's a player going to the basket or getting beat on a rebound).

Reuter: is our best passer (sees the floor better by far than either Calixte or AJ), our best free throw shooter (although AJ is a pretty good FT shooter himself), and has the best overall offensive game. He's also a bit slow-footed, isn't a reliable help defender, doesn't have much of a vertical, and can put the ball on the floor at some inopportune times.

When one is on the floor, we are missing the skillsets of the other two bigs who are not on the floor. If they can somehow become like Voltron or something and combine all their skillsets into one mega-center, that would be something.

 

[Pikapppatri8]

I re-watched the game and I have to say our post defense was better with Reuter than without --- Their big man Number 21 scored only when Reuter was out. His defense was solid.

 

[Cedric Dempsey]

I’m not a basketball guy. I can watch football and see things pretty easy, but basketball I have to watch a 2nd or 3rd time to catch things. Normally when I watch our games a second time and don’t just follow the ball, Reuter plays better than I initially thought. I thought he played pretty well.

As far as Oduro, he reminds a little of Greg coming out of high school in the fact that neither of them put up gaudy stats - and I’m thinking to myself how can you be that big in high school and not dominate (although PVI does play the highest level high school competition)? I didn’t expect anything from Greg, and he proved me wrong. Because of that, I’m going to let Josh come in and work with our staff before I put any expectations on him.

While I would like to see us start recruiting at a little higher level, our staff has proved they can recognize and develop talent. I remember Coach L used to say they would look for players that could do one thing really well - elite level well, and they would put them in a position to use that skill and develop the rest. I would love to hear what our staff looks for when they are out scouting.

They would look for players that could do one thing really well - elite level well, and they would put them in a position to use that skill and develop the rest.

 

[Wefo27]

I thought there were more. I was guessing it was around 4,800ish

I was surprised it was that low. We had three families cheering for Mason around our season tickets (row EE) that had never been before. The RA group was great - rowdy and standing most of the game - we need them to come back.


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[Patriotsince81]

I've given up hope that we will ever have great crowds. Our best year was an average of 6,800 but those days are long gone. We have reduced a 10,000 seat arena to 7,000 by covering up corner sections and we still can't/won't/don't come close to a full house. Too many other things to do in the area I guess. It's still a mystery me why people pay for season tickets and the Patriot Club donation that goes with it and then don't attend the games. I will no doubt be cringing when vcu comes to town because I know the people around me will sell their tickets and I'll be surrounded by toothless, unwashed McDonald's employees with an art degree.

 

[GSII]

I thought there were more. I was guessing it was around 4,800ish

Prob didnt count the free tix given out govt employees.

 

[PoorManProfit]

I've given up hope that we will ever have great crowds. Our best year was an average of 6,800 but those days are long gone. We have reduced a 10,000 seat arena to 7,000 by covering up corner sections and we still can't/won't/don't come close to a full house. Too many other things to do in the area I guess.

Yep, not to beat a dead horse, but even in the "good" days, attendance was hardly impressive. The arena, for hoops alone, was built a few thousand seats too big to make it appear a fun, and rowdy, destination.

 

[Pikapppatri8]

I've given up hope that we will ever have great crowds. Our best year was an average of 6,800 but those days are long gone. We have reduced a 10,000 seat arena to 7,000 by covering up corner sections and we still can't/won't/don't come close to a full house. Too many other things to do in the area I guess. It's still a mystery me why people pay for season tickets and the Patriot Club donation that goes with it and then don't attend the games. I will no doubt be cringing when vcu comes to town because I know the people around me will sell their tickets and I'll be surrounded by toothless, unwashed McDonald's employees with an art degree.

Actually the corner sections only account for 2000 seats


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[Washingtonian]

I've given up hope that we will ever have great crowds. Our best year was an average of 6,800 but those days are long gone. We have reduced a 10,000 seat arena to 7,000 by covering up corner sections and we still can't/won't/don't come close to a full house. Too many other things to do in the area I guess. It's still a mystery me why people pay for season tickets and the Patriot Club donation that goes with it and then don't attend the games. I will no doubt be cringing when vcu comes to town because I know the people around me will sell their tickets and I'll be surrounded by toothless, unwashed McDonald's employees with an art degree.

Other than the weather sucking, what else was going on last night? Wizards and Caps had the night off, no NFL playoffs, MD had played the night prior, GTown didn't play this weekend, and UVA was at Duke. The ticket prices have gone up significantly though, which may be a turn off.

The season ticket holders I know show up to 95% of the games.

 

[Pikapppatri8]

Other than the weather sucking, what else was going on last night? Wizards and Caps had the night off, no NFL playoffs, MD had played the night prior, GTown didn't play this weekend, and UVA was at Duke. The ticket prices have gone up significantly though, which may be a turn off.

The season ticket holders I know show up to 95% of the games.

I’m at all games save for when I’m on business travel and then my kids or neighbor uses them.

I think the Par Dome is a bit large for a basketball venue. Looking at newer venues being built for college the sweet spot is somewhere between 6500-7500 seats.



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[Washingtonian]

I’m at all games save for when I’m on business travel and then my kids or neighbor uses them.

I think the Par Dome is a bit large for a basketball venue. Looking at newer venues being built for college the sweet spot is somewhere between 6500-7500 seats.



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I suspect when the Patriot Center was designed/approved, part of the logic was during the off season to have concerts there that wouldn't fill up the Capital Centre.

I will say that I see the same people in the same seats game in and game out for most of the season where I sit.

 

[Pikapppatri8]

Agreed - it was in the genre of Cassell at VT large
Portions of the upper deck are empty there during basketball games.


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[MasonSAE4]

I’m at all games save for when I’m on business travel and then my kids or neighbor uses them.

I think the Par Dome is a bit large for a basketball venue. Looking at newer venues being built for college the sweet spot is somewhere between 6500-7500 seats.



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Hard to justify downsizing when the enrollment just keeps going up. I was in there for winter graduation and the place was absolutely packed. I’d way rather have 2000 seats covered up until we can start putting more people in there than have an arena that limits revenue.

I’m more upset by the fact that someone in 115 yelled at me to sit down with under a minute to go last night.

 

[dr. gunnie]

I would like to do something like K-State had - they had lodge seating at the top. It wasn’t like luxury boxes, but it was two rows of almost like bar seating with counter tops and movable chairs where you can have food/drinks. Much easier and cheeper than the enclosed box seating, but still something that would be an attractive option and you would only need to take out the top 4 or 5 rows to do.