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

Bricker

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psyclone said:
On a minor note, unless memory fails me, this is the first game article with a byline in the Washington Post for an out-of-town Mason game (regular season) in a very l---o----n----g time. Certainly a sign of progress in the program!
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Being relevant once again in a relevant, competitive league is certainly a good feeling.
 
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psyclone

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Petey Buckets said:
Talked about this game a little on the new Hey10 pod coming out tomorrow. Tried my best to be impartial but it's difficult. Some notes:

- Credit to Rhoades for a very solid game plan. He was pressing and trapping on the perimeter and content to leave our forwards single-covered in the post. Mason isn't gonna beat you if the guards never get going, and they prevented that from happening. The shooting splits between our guards (5-23) and forwards (18-24) were by design on vcu's end.

- Reuter is worlds ahead of where he was at the beginning of the season. He's finally using that husky boy frame to create space and get his shot off. He looked great.

- Jordan Miller's athleticism in the frontcourt is like a portal to another dimension as far as Mason teams under Paulsen go. We don't usually have athletes in the frontcourt, with the obvious exception of AJ, who has never been able to get consistent minutes. That lob to Miller was clean, and the kind of play we haven't made in years. Miller's got a real nose for offensive boards and he's smooth enough to put them back pretty easily.

- I bitched a little bit about the refs. That sequence with Boyd getting hit in the face, his man hitting an open 3, and vcu getting the ball back for an egregious flop away from the ball was a Siegel Center Special. Don't think they benefit from that or those three second half moving screens when they come back to EBA.

- vcu's depth is a problem. That 9-0 run that buried us was with 4 or 5 non-starters on the floor. That's probably what concerns me most about them.

Looking forward to the rematch and seeing how Dave adjusts. I don't think a 17% three point shooter is gonna get hot in Fairfax, and I don't think the guards are going to get locked down either.
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Link to this?
 
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MudKat

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vcu tends to hit wide open 3's every so often. And they were so open that even Mike took a couple. He's been known to shoot well deep from time to time. The ball was hot and almost every shot taken was a decent shot. Only reason that it didn't get out of hand earlier was that we have this irritating tendency to shoot the rock sorta badly for stretches even when open. The D kept it in hand until the open shots started falling. Gotta play better D is all. D is what wins in the NCAA more often than O.
 
masonjoe

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psyclone said:
On a minor note, unless memory fails me, this is the first game article with a byline in the Washington Post for an out-of-town Mason game (regular season) in a very l---o----n----g time. Certainly a sign of progress in the program!
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They report on vcu games, that's it
 
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MudKat

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vcu has rarely ever gotten face time
masonjoe said:
They report on vcu games, that's it
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Laughable. Even during the FF run a vcu mention in the WP was only made because it couldn't be avoided. The "area" games never included vcu. vcu was shown in the South section. If you ever were looking in the WP for a vcu mention it wasn't coming. Heck, both Mason and vcu are lucky to get two lines in this god forsaken newspaper. Trust me, the WP will never write a story on a byline about vcu. And, no WP DC news will ever include Fairfax or Richmond. They're not DC.
 
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psyclone

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MudKat said:
vcu has rarely ever gotten face time


Laughable. Even during the FF run a vcu mention in the WP was only made because it couldn't be avoided. The "area" games never included vcu. vcu was shown in the South section. If you ever were looking in the WP for a vcu mention it wasn't coming. Heck, both Mason and vcu are lucky to get two lines in this god forsaken newspaper. Trust me, the WP will never write a story on a byline about vcu. And, no WP DC news will ever include Fairfax or Richmond. They're not DC.
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I think masonjoe was meaning that the Washington Post only covers Mason out-of-town regular season games when we play at vcu, not that vcu gets regular coverage from them.

As for your last point, their Metro section, in addition to covering DC news (a headline from today's paper "Growing university presence continues to shape DC"), typically covers happenings in Northern Va (Fairfax included) as well. e.g.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...d-delivered-by-robots/?utm_term=.f104fdb4a451
 
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MudKat

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I was talking about the sports section. Not Metro. The only vcu game ever mentioned there beyond the summary of other game scores is when they play in DC or, on occasion, Fairfax.
psyclone said:
I think masonjoe was meaning that the Washington Post only covers Mason out-of-town regular season games when we play at vcu, not that vcu gets regular coverage from them.

As for your last point, their Metro section, in addition to covering DC news (a headline from today's paper "Growing university presence continues to shape DC"), typically covers happenings in Northern Va (Fairfax included) as well. e.g.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...d-delivered-by-robots/?utm_term=.f104fdb4a451
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Herndon

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I mean, lets be honest. Why would the Post cover richmond? I'm not talking trash, but richmond has as much to do with DC as raleigh does.

As far as the game, vcu is a good team and played well, and we played poorly. vcu had a lot to do with us playing poorly, but also, we just played poorly. When good teams play well, and you play poorly, they're going to beat you.

Learn what you can from it and move on.
 
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JR Leonard

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GSII said:
That's a bullshit response on Aj question. Yes Greg and Jared played great at the 5. AJ athletic enough to guard Vann who scored 21pts.
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We should be used to Paulsen f*cking a player over. He has been doing that ever since he joined the team.
 
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Herndon said:
I mean, lets be honest. Why would the Post cover richmond? I'm not talking trash, but richmond has as much to do with DC as raleigh does.

As far as the game, vcu is a good team and played well, and we played poorly. vcu had a lot to do with us playing poorly, but also, we just played poorly. When good teams play well, and you play poorly, they're going to beat you.

Learn what you can from it and move on.
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As paulsen mentioned in his presser,
hartwell's absence made a huge difference.

Otis was gassed midway second.
 
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MudKat

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RVA is as much of an "area" team as fuva or the chokies who regularly get "area" coverage. Heck, the chokies are living in moon-shine country in coal-mining he!! It's a barren waste land where the snow goes so sideways it never hits the ground. Having gone to school there for a year I'm confident in saying I'd rather have been in Fairfax. At least I could get to Dupont Circle to party regularly.
 
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Who's JR Leonard?
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