Game 3: GMU (1-1) vs Stony Brook (1-1) on Monday, November 11, at 7:00 PM.

[mkaufman1]

Can we get a Ball update?

He’s out of the rotation, obviously. Don’t really have much insight other than he obviously can’t get off the bench even for garbage time.

 

[mkaufman1]

Always nice to have a buy game and easy win. Nice to see us light up from deep and dominate a team like that as we should on both ends.

Nice to see Anderson have his first good game and everyone else chip in nicely as usual.

 

[FreeGunston12]

I’d love to hear from anyone watching on TV how Will Thomas is doing on color w B Rohland…

In the arena, I have to say it was cool watching him watch the nostalgia-fueled Skinn-narrated hype video.

Not great TBH. Fleming seemed to have a little more practice and preparation. Will’s mic volume was also way too low and contributed to him sounding completely devoid of any energy or enthusiasm. I’ll give him credit though for letting Bill do his thing and not distracting from the play-by-play.

 

[NewPatriot]

2 pages...that's it??? whoever didn't have espn+ or attend the game in person missed a dominating performance!!

 

[Aldousflux]

Not great TBH. Fleming seemed to have a little more practice and preparation. Will’s mic volume was also way too low and contributed to him sounding completely devoid of any energy or enthusiasm. I’ll give him credit though for letting Bill do his thing and not distracting from the play-by-play.

It was nice Bill let him lead the post-game interview with Zach. He seemed more comfortable doing that.

 

[DRK331]

Austin Ball was warming up fine and didn't show any signs of injury.

 

[DRK331]

Youtube video of the game here

Youtube video of the game here

 

[Patriotsince81]

Well, that was a pretty complete 40 minute a** kicking. Nice to be there! Great to see Anderson break out! I know it's early but I can see myself having a love/hate relationship with KD Johnson. He may win us 3 games and may well lose us 3 games at the same time. Attitude is not always the answer. 2 great plays followed by two stupid plays, or vice versa, is a dangerous way to live in a good league. Like many others, I'd like some clarification on Austin Ball. He's the ONLY guy to have no minutes thus far. We have depth! Great win and nice to see a blowout!

 

[Patriotsince81]

The crowd, as usual sucked. Sorry that more people weren't there to enjoy a dominating win. It looks like some things will never change. Sigh. Even the band was limited tonight.

 

[mkaufman1]

The crowd, as usual sucked. Sorry that more people weren't there to enjoy a dominating win. It looks like some things will never change. Sigh. Even the band was limited tonight.

Brillo head attended? Haha.

 

[GunstonsGhost]

I was surprised to see the crowd so much smaller than the home opener. It seems like they're doing their part to get the students out at least with the t-shirt giveaway and free tickets. Maybe the students need NIL money to turn out too.

Also, is starting out off balance part of our game plan at this point? The starting lineup is still a head scratcher based on the bench performance.

 

[jessej]

Spread is Mason giving 14.5

hope the gamblers among us took the over - the way over

 

[gmujim92]

He’s out of the rotation, obviously. Don’t really have much insight other than he obviously can’t get off the bench even for garbage time.

Gotta be more to it than that. No way he is behind all three freshmen — would be nice if somebody who covers the team asked and let the rest of us know what’s going on with AB.

 

[jessej]

The crowd, as usual sucked. Sorry that more people weren't there to enjoy a dominating win. It looks like some things will never change. Sigh. Even the band was limited tonight.

I went to the Howard-Dillard game at noon today and saw something similar
I assume that there were no classes held on Veterans Day
and this was the first regular season home game

Complete band was not there - including musicians and twirlers/dance team
Student attendance was very low at tipoff and by half-time was 1/2 of a regular season normal game
Luckily the cheerleaders and dance team was there in full force

BTW OSE Okojie is still running with the 2nd team

I did not choose this game as part of my 10 pack voucher games
but found a ticket on stub hub for $6.32

 

[jruby]

Ball was sick, still recovering and getting back into game shape. Was Covered in post game by Tony.

 

[GMUgemini]

I was surprised to see the crowd so much smaller than the home opener. It seems like they're doing their part to get the students out at least with the t-shirt giveaway and free tickets. Maybe the students need NIL money to turn out too.

Also, is starting out off balance part of our game plan at this point? The starting lineup is still a head scratcher based on the bench performance.

What I’m going to guess on the current starting lineup.

O’Connor over KD because O’Connor is a more dangerous 3-point shooter and you can’t start KD, Billups, Haynes, and Newton all together.

Newton over Anderson because of his defense and rebounding right now. He’s largely the reason why we came out shooting cold because he missed two wide open 3s he should have buried but he also drew some fouls and kept Stony Brook off balance with his length and quickness

Haynes over Emejuru because Haynes is more solid with the ball in his hands at the top of the key. And has a better one-on-one set of skills when posting up. Emejuru is obviously huge and more athletic and his picks and roll game tonight against a smaller team was chefs kiss.

My hope is KD and Anderson eventually win Skinn’s trust and we get KD, Billups, Maddox, Anderson, Haynes as our starting 5 and biggest minutes getters. I like O’Connor for 6th man of the year award in that scenario. If I can see Emejuru doing more of the dirty work of being a pivot man in the high and low post I’d also like to see him starting eventually.

 

[tblack33]

Classes were in session tonight, walked through campus before the game and there were a lot of folks out. Tough to get people excited to go watch Stony Brook.

 

[Jack Strop]

30 of our 46 points is s from the bench! Mason up 46-32 at the half.

Zach with 15
KD with 7 points and 5 assists

...and Haynes' didn't once fall down and go BOOM.

 

[GunstonsGhost]

O’Connor over KD because O’Connor is a more dangerous 3-point shooter and you can’t start KD, Billups, Haynes, and Newton all totogether.

We need one of our actual point guards starting. If it's not enough offense, have Billups come off the bench and put Brayden in. There's not many points after the starting 4 minutes that we don't have a point guard in the game. Just seems strange.

 

[GMUgemini]

We need one of our actual point guards starting. If it's not enough offense, have Billups come off the bench and put Brayden in. There's not many points after the starting 4 minutes that we don't have a point guard in the game. Just seems strange.

It didn’t seem to be much of an issue at the beginning of the game Stony Brook was letting us walk up and get into our halfcourt, we didn’t really turn the ball over and we got some decent looks.

We all know what O’Connor looks like against a pressure defense though and it’s not good.