Game 22: AT Saint Louis University, Wednesday, February 1st, 7 PM, NO TV

[GMU_DCU]

Please don't let us play Fordham in the Play In Game again.

 

[gmutom]

So f-cking demoralizing. For as absolutely amazing as Otis was on offense, it's really baffling why Paulsen continued to put him on Crawford when it was obvious they were going to him on almost every position. Why not try Grayer, Kier or Boyd?

 

[JimP]

I hate sports. Going to be very difficult to finish in the top-half of the league now. I'd take the 8/9 game, but that is played at 12:30 on a work day for pity's sake.

 

[emjayar08]

Ummm that was a clear travel. Either 3 steps or a up and down.

 

[psyclone]

Frustrating on several levels--The audio got very sporadic right around the time the game was early in the first overtime. Got bad enough that I gave up and went to espn scoreboard and saw the unhappy score.

I guess our only consolation (assuming that Marquiss is ok) is that it's now our turn to win the next game at home.

 

[gmuballer14]

Refs started to get inconsistent at the end. But the game winning play was 3-4 steps. Slowed it down he clearly took 3 jumped came down then put it up. Why was there no review? And how many times does he have to take Livingston to the hole before we switch?

 

[Five Two]

There was a time when I was upset with this program that we would go on the road to play a bad GA State team and struggle for no reason, but win. Now, we go on the road to play a bad SLU team and struggle for no reason, and lose. And I'm still upset.....

 

[gmuballer14]

There was a time when I was upset with this program that we would go on the road to play a bad GA State team and struggle for no reason, but win. Now, we go on the road to play a bad SLU team and struggle for no reason, and lose. And I'm still upset.....

We had chances to win. But either a call or the Crawford kid would take someone to the basket would ruin the moment.

 

[hoops10]

Mason just has to find some JC big men who know how to rebound. They are a gutsy bunch, thanks to Otis, but when are they going to learn how to play defense. Love Jenkins, but he is so afraid of fouling he never even tries to block a shot. Don't get me wrong Jenkins is a warrior, but he has zero help. And then add in Marquis disappearing, and that made it very hard to win this game.

Its a shame, but in the end Mason will probably finish close to five hundred. Great season, but recruiting some horses for next year will be key. Add Marr, Wilson and Green for some depth.

Final thought, that last play required either Grayer of Otis to take the charge. Something I haven't seen all year. That's on DP.

 

[patriotchild]

So f-cking demoralizing. For as absolutely amazing as Otis was on offense, it's really baffling why Paulsen continued to put him on Crawford when it was obvious they were going to him on almost every position. Why not try Grayer, Kier or Boyd?

Kier was a bad matchup too. They went to Crawford or through Crawford every time Kier was on him.

Without marquise we couldn't put Boyd on him because he was used to guard someone else who'd have been a bad or worse matchup for kier or Otis.

Not having Moore hurt us on defense down the stretch more than offense.

 

[Pablo]

The winning shot:

Pinned Tweet
SLU Men's Basketball ‏@SaintLouisMBB 21m21 minutes ago
Sorry for the late tweet. We were busy... #Billikens

https://twitter.com/SaintLouisMBB/status/826983087343071234

 

[gmutom]

Not having Moore hurt us on defense down the stretch more than offense.

Losing Moore definitely killed us on both ends. This game wouldn't have even been close had Otis not had a career offensive night. On the defensive end, it just got to the point where Paulsen had to force someone else other than Crawford to beat us.

Welmer, Johnson, Roby and Hines were a combined 9-34 from the field, and St. Louis only played one sub (Agbeko) the entire game. Yes, you read that correctly: We lost a double-OT game to a team that played six players! It also didn't help that our bench didn't score a single FG the entire night (all 5 of our bench points came from Boyd at the FT line). Ugh!

 

[JimP]

Losing Moore definitely killed us on both ends. This game wouldn't have even been close had Otis not had a career offensive night. On the defensive end, it just got to the point where Paulsen had to force someone else other than Crawford to beat us.

Welmer, Johnson, Roby and Hines were a combined 9-34 from the field, and St. Louis only played one sub (Agbeko) the entire game. Yes, you read that correctly: We lost a double-OT game to a team that played six players! It also didn't help that our bench didn't score a single FG the entire night (all 5 of our bench points came from Boyd at the FT line). Ugh!

Man - we've gotta a long way to go. The boys have still exceeded my expectation so far this year - but what a frustrating loss.

 

[MasonSAE4]

 

[patriotchild]

Losing Moore definitely killed us on both ends. This game wouldn't have even been close had Otis not had a career offensive night. On the defensive end, it just got to the point where Paulsen had to force someone else other than Crawford to beat us.

Welmer, Johnson, Roby and Hines were a combined 9-34 from the field, and St. Louis only played one sub (Agbeko) the entire game. Yes, you read that correctly: We lost a double-OT game to a team that played six players! It also didn't help that our bench didn't score a single FG the entire night (all 5 of our bench points came from Boyd at the FT line). Ugh!

I give a lot of credit to Ford. He just game plans well for us. They couldn't stop Otis but tried to force it out of his hands at the end and threw a zone in that confused us at times. He recognized that Crawford was a bad matchup with our guards and exploited it.

No production from the bench is great point. If anyone steps up and adds a few buckets we walk away with the win. Kamari was probably that guy, but we don't know why he wasn't dressed. We had no bench players to go to other than boyd and he couldn't stay out of foul trouble early. Paulsen hasn't played anyone else all year. Obviously Kam is a practice player and we can't expect it to come from him.

 

[Pablo]

Mason Basketball ‏@MasonMBB 2h2 hours ago
So. Close. Otis just misses and we're going to double OT #GetPatriotic

https://twitter.com/MasonMBB/status/826976375672283140

 

[gmujim92]

Even with our best player limited by illness and Karmari in street clothes, if Otis' shot at the end of the first OT falls instead of rimming out, we win.

Then we lose on a BS prayer after Crawford gets away with traveling his a** off.

Not sure why anyone is second-guessing the coach, other than it seems like the thing to do.

It's a miracle we have 14 wins with this roster. Our guys fight like hell, but we literally have zero margin for error.

 

[GMUgemini]

The winning shot:

Pinned Tweet
SLU Men's Basketball ‏@SaintLouisMBB 21m21 minutes ago
Sorry for the late tweet. We were busy... #Billikens

https://twitter.com/SaintLouisMBB/status/826983087343071234

I'd be embarrassed to show that video online...I mean, I understand swallowing your whistle at the end of the game, but that was a clear travel.

 

[gmutom]

It's a ll good, Jim. Nobody here doesn't appreciate what Dave has done or what he will do in the future. Depleted lineup or not, it's still a punch to the gut to get swept by such a crappy team. You are right that we have zero margin for error, so hopefully we will have everybody healthy Saturday and find a way to bounce back even though we will have home-court disadvantage.

PS: One bright spot: We had two guards out and got not buckets from our bench, yet not one person has asked why Abram didn't play. That's progress.

 

[DAK]

I'd be embarrassed to show that video online...I mean, I understand swallowing your whistle at the end of the game, but that was a clear travel.

Yup. That was 100% a travel. He has two feet on the ground when the ball left his hands after taking two full steps. I was screaming at the TV!


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