Game 22: AT Virginia Commonwealth University, Saturday, February 2nd, 6:30 PM, NBCSN

[Patriot Lawdog]

Defensive letdown tonight on top of everything else. We'll need to give them some payback in Fairfax.

If Kier goes to the basket like that in Fairfax, he’ll get 10 times the calls he got to tonight.


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[Patriot8]

Keep bringing up AJ like Reuter, Calixte, and Miller didn’t have really good games.. front court wasn’t the problem

 

[Patriotsince81]

If Kier goes to the basket like that in Fairfax, he’ll get 10 times the calls he got to tonight.


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We can only hope because the broad street bullies have lived off this sh*t for years.

 

[Patriotsince81]

Keep bringing up AJ like Reuter, Calixte, and Miller didn’t have really good games.. front court wasn’t the problem

Otis needs to step up big time. He's had too many games this year where he's tried to do too much and as a result hasn't done anything. Kier had a bad night.

 

[Bricker]

Also of note: vcu is our first conference opponent to score more than 70 points on us.

 

[Patriot Lawdog]

We can only hope because the broad street bullies have lived off this sh*t for years.

It’s predictable. The refs swallow the whistle there. Fortunately, we only play them at their home once per year, at most, nowadays.


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[MudKat]

You got a really good squad. MR did exactly what I thought he would. Shut down Otis and the rest of the tree will fall. I didn't expect Kiir to lay that egg though.

 

[sleeperpick]

Some really bad calls tonight against us but it was hardly the refs that did us in. Horrible closing out on threes as well as the entire first half looking confused on how to break a damn press.

 

[Bricker]

Also kinda fun that we can't shoot free throws now. A new wrinkle to the season...

 

[sleeperpick]

We certainly make a habit of letting a seldom used bench player go off on us scoring wise. That penn game still haunts me

 

[Washingtonian]

Gilmore was averaging 2.5 points a game. Figures he lights it up on us.


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[MasonSAE4]

Played hard not smart. Late on rotations left a lot of open back cuts and too many open 3.s. Then we did nothing but brick on offense. Post play was good, that's just about it.

Yeah a bit disappointed we didn’t just pound it in all game. Whatever. 7-2, on to the next one.

 

[gmujim92]

We certainly make a habit of letting a seldom used bench player go off on us scoring wise. That penn game still haunts me

Worst part is we wanted Gilmore to take those shots. He was 17% on 3s this season. Tip of the cap to him for hitting two huge ones after we tied it.

 

[MudKat]

Gilmore was averaging 2.5 points a game. Figures he lights it up on us.


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Dude has been known to make a three or two on occasion, but I cringed both times he chucked it.

 

[JR Leonard]

Could someone please explain to me why Paulsen allows his guards to make the same mistake over and over and not correct it; and refuse to sit the guards because of the same dumb mistake over and over? And why does Paulsen allow his guards to go up against three players over and over again and not bench them for it. I am so sick of this insanity! They don't throw the ball to the open man, they rather create a turnover. They'll never be winners because all they think about are their own numbers. Sad. I'm done. No longer a fan. He can turn into Coach K and he would never have my respect again.

 

[mkaufman1]

Hate vcu so freaking much. They got away with so much physicality tonight. Next time it’ll be different when they can’t play like that.

Took a long time for Mason to settle into how vcu was going to play, by the time they did, they had no margin for error. Felt like the typical game Mason would lose back in the CAA all the time in Richmond.

Gotta move on and take care of Richmond this week. Can’t let this linger mentally.

 

[mkaufman1]

Could someone please explain to me why Paulsen allows his guards to make the same mistake over and over and not correct it; and refuse to sit the guards because of the same dumb mistake over and over? And why does Paulsen allow his guards to go up against three players over and over again and not bench them for it. I am so sick of this insanity! They don't throw the ball to the open man, they rather create a turnover. They'll never be winners because all they think about are their own numbers. Sad. I'm done. No longer a fan. He can turn into Coach K and he would never have my respect again.

If you’re no longer a fan can we have your mason stuff? Pretty cool you decided to throw the towel on your fanhood based off a loss during a good season.

 

[Copes4Three]

Yeah a bit disappointed we didn’t just pound it in all game. Whatever. 7-2, on to the next one.

Unfortunately they can't do all that game. Granted some of our 3s were contested and vcu got more calls but it was a sloppy game. Otis got trapped too much, kier was forcing, greene.s shot is so inconsistent. JDS played like a freshman and we got a lot of hustle from boyd, miller and the bigs. Problem was the defensive rotations and turnovers.

 

[Copes4Three]

The turning points for me was the two made 3.s by their big man, ian boyd getting an elbow to the face and greene slipping on the 3. I believe they made 4 3.s in a row which put the game out of reach. I would have put AJ on Vann

 

[MasonSAE4]

At the end of the day, you play the percentages, and eventually a bad three point shooting team is going to go off. Shit happens. A bit disappointed with how we handled the press early on but not worried overall.