Game 5: GMU (2-2) at East Carolina (3-0) on Saturday, November 16, at 4:00 PM.

[jruby]

How long before KD is gone? Over/under jan 1?

 

[JimP]

Dear God - GMU allowed 24 offensive rebounds?

 

[gmujim92]

How long before KD is gone? Over/under jan 1?

Under

 

[tblack33]

Talented schmalented. He’s a head case, always has been.

Despite his issues I still think he’s the best PG(ish) player on this roster today. I wouldn’t count him out yet. Obviously seems like there’s some other stuff going on here but I’m not going to go out in the guy 5 games into the season, especially after Tony has seemingly refused to play him for the most part.

 

[Patriot8]

How long before KD is gone? Over/under jan 1?

Would be the 2nd straight season a player left the team early.

 

[gmujim92]

Despite his issues I still think he’s the best PG(ish) player on this roster today. I wouldn’t count him out yet. Obviously seems like there’s some other stuff going on here but I’m not going to go out in the guy 5 games into the season, especially after Tony has seemingly refused to play him for the most part.

If he’s not playing, there’s a reason and it’s not because Tony is trying to lose games.

 

[GMU79]

Would be the 2nd straight season a player left the team early.

To paraphrase Ivan Drago, "If he leaves, he leaves."

 

[Aldousflux]

How long before KD is gone? Over/under jan 1?

Over. He ain’t leaving.

 

[psyclone]

Before ECU game:
Kenpom stats has us 4th in the A10 (97th in D-1), behind vcu, Dayton, and Loyola.
37th in defensive effectve fg% and 38th in offensive rebounding %.

After ECU game:
Kenpom still has us 4th in the A10 (95th in D-1) behind vcu, Dayton and Loyola.
22nd in defensive effective fg%, but now 47th in offensive rebounding %

 

[gmutom]

I don’t get caught up in the antics, as frustrating as they can be.

I say play KD 25 minutes a game for the rest of the OOC schedule and see how things go. If he sh-ts the bed and gets benched or leaves, we’re the mediocre team we saw today; if he emerges as the star he has the potential to be, we’re a much different team that has a chance to get incrementally better every game with a real chance to make a run in the A10 tournament.

 

[jruby]

I don’t get caught up in the antics, as frustrating as they can be.

I say play KD 25 minutes a game for the rest of the OOC schedule and see how things go. If he sh-ts the bed and gets benched or leaves, we’re the mediocre team we saw today; if he emerges as the star he has the potential to be, we’re a much different team that has a chance to get incrementally better every game with a real chance to make a run in the A10 tournament.

Today was not mediocre. Today was beyond bad, I think KD has more upside than any other pg however clearly he’s pissing off the coaching staff. Not sure whether he shakes it off or what? Either way priority #1 is pay an actual pg in off season.

 

[tblack33]

Also KD didn’t just become the player he is when he got here — this is who he’s always been. If his antics bother the staff so much they won’t play him then I question their decision making because this is exactly who he was at Auburn.

 

[JimP]

This team is absolutely confounding. I find myself liking posts that have opposite arguments.

KD is hurting the team. Hear hear!

KD should play a ton more... Sounds great!

 

[jruby]

Over. He ain’t leaving.

Also KD didn’t just become the player he is when he got here — this is who he’s always been. If his antics bother the staff so much they won’t play him then I question their decision making because this is exactly who he was at Auburn.

it’s becoming weird. I don’t think he’ll quit. I think coaching staff may boot him is issue. There’s clearly major issues with this team. Maybe Tony is trying to motivate him? It’s just not working yet…..

 

[Earl the Squirrel]

I will say judging from the minutes today the rotation definitely shortened as the game went on. You can see that it was a 7 man rotation for the most part. That’s good but I still have questions. Also liked we went to Jq at point for longer stretches. At this point he might even get above KD on the depth chart. Is what it is.

What I don’t understand is how Newton gets 38 mins and Anderson gets 11. And even when we needed to get Newton out, we went two bigs instead. Emejuru had a solid game whereas Haynes did not.

It’s not like a guy like Anderson didn’t play well in his previous program. Kid didn’t come to mason for his 5th year to play 10 mins a game.

Anderson is a curious case. Visually, he's a guy who clearly lacks lateral quickness. Hell, he saunters up the court like he's got heel spurs and maybe a bad hip. But...he can f*cking shoot the basketball so find a way to get him shots.

Screens...double screens...triple screens...chair throwing, whatever it takes, taser his defender, etc. We desperately need an outside threat other than Maddox (and currently don't have one).

I want to give a shout out to Braeden O' Conner. You've got a FU in KD, and two kids who are trying hard ...Begg and Quigley...but need more time, but Braeden brings a diverse skill set. He can handle the ball (reasonably well), shoot, and attack the basket. Who else has this skill set? Only Maddox.

Last point: play Gio 35 minutes per night.

 

[Patriotsince81]

Interesting that there were no post game comments from Skinn in the article.

Patriots Drop Double Overtime Heartbreaker at East Carolina - George Mason University Athletics

The George Mason University men's basketball team put forth a tremendous effort for 50 minutes of play but came just short in double overtime, falling to East Carolina

gomason.com

 

[Falco]

Respectfully disagree. Brayden had about as good a look as you can get 3 feet from the bucket at the end of the second overtime. Not sure why he didn’t either shoot or throw a pump fake and see if he could draw a foul, but it was a monumental brain fart to basically toss Woody a live grenade at the FT line and expect him to do something with it.

I can chalk up one missed game-winning play to execution, but not four plays.

 

[gmujim92]

Also KD didn’t just become the player he is when he got here — this is who he’s always been. If his antics bother the staff so much they won’t play him then I question their decision making because this is exactly who he was at Auburn.

There are many examples in sports where coaches think they can “fix” a player who has consistently behaved like a knucklehead (or worse) for previous coaches.

In most cases, once they get to be with the player up close and personal for an extended period of time they come to realize there is no fixing the issues.

I don’t blame Tony for taking a chance on KD, we have a veteran team and it was worth the swing for the fences, but we’ve played five games and the guy already has two technical fouls, a one-game suspension (for the exhibition) and a benching.

Can’t for the life of me imagine how some of you think the way to go is to reward this behavior by starting him and giving him more playing time. Any parents in our crew know all that would do is validate him acting like an asshole and you’d just get more of it.

Regardless, it’s terrible for team cohesiveness and morale when you have every other player busting his balls trying to win and one sitting there sulking like a little baby.

 

[Falco]

I love Maddox, but he’s more of a shooter than a playmaker. He would be so much better with a true point guard.

I wonder if Okojie is second-guessing his decision to go to Memphis. He had the keys to run the show, but now he’s coming off the bench, averaging 2 points per game.

 

[gmujim92]

I can chalk up one missed game-winning play to execution, but not four plays.

We’ve never been effective at burning the clock on purpose and then getting a good last shot.

But Tony’s stuff is sound. If anything he should probably be calling more sets because when we run them correctly we usually score.