Game 6: GMU (2-3) vs Coppin State (0-6) on Wednesday, November 20, at 7:00 PM.

[Milt Mudflap]

I was starting to wonder if Coppin had left at halftime. They didn’t appear back on the court until about 40 seconds before the start of the second half. Their warm up consisted of one guy taking about 3 shots.

 

[jessej]

86-43 at the 4 minute TO
Stas and Coakley on the court

 

[jessej]

93-55 final

 

[GMUgemini]

Can I brush my shoulders off calling for Anderson over Billups as an option?

I think O’Connor might be our best bet at PG for now. Quigley and Begg both looked shaky for different reasons. KD looked much more comfortable playing off ball and just making plays. I can live with that for now. I do hope we can develop a natural point guard to take his place though.

I think Emejuru deserves a start too. I think having Anderson, Newton, and Emejuru on the floor together would make a formidable front court actually.

How about:

O’Connor
Maddox
Johnson
Newton
Emejuru

KD is your spark off the bench
Billups is your defensive specialist

Cycle Quigley, Begg, and Haynes as necessary.

You have to leave one of Maddox or Johnson on the floor at all times.

 

[Patriot8]

Can I brush my shoulders off calling for Anderson over Billups as an option?

I think O’Connor might be our best bet at PG for now. Quigley and Begg both looked shaky for different reasons. KD looked much more comfortable playing off ball and just making plays. I can live with that for now. I do hope we can develop a natural point guard to take his place though.

I think Emejuru deserves a start too. I think having Anderson, Newton, and Emejuru on the floor together would make a formidable front court actually.

How about:

O’Connor
Maddox
Johnson
Newton
Emejuru

KD is your spark off the bench
Billups is your defensive specialist

Cycle Quigley, Begg, and Haynes as necessary.

You have to leave one of Maddox or Johnson on the floor at all times.

While the prospect of Anderson and Newton on the floor at the wings intrigues me, I don’t believe anything can really be taken from this game in that regard.

 

[tblack33]

Can I brush my shoulders off calling for Anderson over Billups as an option?

I think O’Connor might be our best bet at PG for now. Quigley and Begg both looked shaky for different reasons. KD looked much more comfortable playing off ball and just making plays. I can live with that for now. I do hope we can develop a natural point guard to take his place though.

I think Emejuru deserves a start too. I think having Anderson, Newton, and Emejuru on the floor together would make a formidable front court actually.

How about:

O’Connor
Maddox
Johnson
Newton
Emejuru

KD is your spark off the bench
Billups is your defensive specialist

Cycle Quigley, Begg, and Haynes as necessary.

You have to leave one of Maddox or Johnson on the floor at all times.

Ready for Anderson and Gio to start immediately. Night and day on the offensive end with them in the floor. Still personally prefer KD at the point, and FWIW he ran 12ish minutes of the first half while we built up the lead outside of Andersons shooting. I can acknowledge his downsides and limitations while also saying i still believe he puts us in the best position to win. You just can’t replace his energy.

I’d love to see Billups come off the bench and just absolutely clamp down whoever the other teams hot hand that night. It’s so much easier to start off with good shooting and offense then try to come back every game at the 12 minute mark.

Gio can dunk the everloving shit out of the ball. Loved watching him play tonight and just own the paint.

 

[jruby]

I think the JMU game will tell us if

Agree with you- but I think we all agree we would just like to see some solid basketball.

Things like

1) Can we cutdown turnovers?
2) Who jumps ahead in minutes in the rotation?
3) What role does KD play? Anderson?
4) Do we look like we know how to play basketball
5) Do we take these games seriously to correct our flaws and have easy wins?

Honestly, these two games couldn't come at a better time for Mason now that I'm thinking about it.

agree and think JMU being next road game also good. Pickup first road win of the year against a team that really isn’t very good. It will tell us if they can win on the road, however fully expect they beat JMU but 10+.

 

[GunstonsGhost]

Only 10 turnovers. Anderson finally gets a start, gets 21 points, and hits his 1,000 point college career milestone. Gio also gets 21 and dominates. Good reset game.

Also, the pink out filled out the student section pretty well. Much better than CMU. Keep givin the students free pizza. Looks like attendance was 2,290. Probably would have been under 2,000 if not for the student turn out.

 

[psyclone]

So what's the story on Billups not playing? He looked healthy and was interacting with the team in a positive manner during warm-ups? Injury? Disciplinary?

Don't see any postgame on the facebook account. Help?!

 

[GMUgemini]

So what's the story on Billups not playing? He looked healthy and was interacting with the team in a positive manner during warm-ups? Injury? Disciplinary?

Don't see any postgame on the facebook account. Help?!

Concussion protocol

 

[psyclone]

Concussion protocol

Thanks! Estimate on how long he'll be out? Ferrum is an easy decision to hold him out. JMU is the next game and isn't until a week from Friday. I know these things are hard to predict, although he appeared to be actively involved tonight on the floor during warm-ups and was on the bench. I remember that some players in concussion protocol avoid the arena altogether to diminish noise exposure.

 

[psyclone]

Mason now 90th on kenpom, 3d best in the A10 behind vcu and dayton and ahead of #92 Loyola.

 

[Patriotsince81]

Nice to get an easy blowout win. Coppin St. is just horrible, I'm happy we didn't play down to the level of the competition. Attendance is discouraging. 3,207 / 2,916 / 2,248 / 2,290. Sad commentary on our "fanbase."

George Mason Races Past Coppin State, 93-55 - George Mason University Athletics

The George Mason University men's basketball team returned home in style Wedneday night en route to a 93-55 victory over Coppin State inside EagleBank Arena.

gomason.com

 

[Sport31]

Not much to add except we need better rebounding (we need someone on this team to be a dog and pride themselves on getting rebounds) and take care of the ball. Only 10 TO , but little to no Pressure from Coppin.

 

[GMUgemini]

Not much to add except we need better rebounding (we need someone on this team to be a dog and pride themselves on getting rebounds) and take care of the ball. Only 10 TO , but little to no Pressure from Coppin.

With 2 of those coming from Cokley in the last minute of the game.

The rebounding issue is a lack of boxing out. They’re letting free runners attack the rim. They all need to find someone and put a body on them the second a shot goes up.

 

[mkaufman1]

Not much to add except we need better rebounding (we need someone on this team to be a dog and pride themselves on getting rebounds) and take care of the ball. Only 10 TO , but little to no Pressure from Coppin.

We outrebounded them 36-33 total. To your point Mason did allow 17 offensive rebounds which is probably going to be one of Tony's points of emphasis watching film. However, when you miss a ton of shots like Coppin, you are bound to get some offensive rebounds. Also, 10 turnovers is a much better step in the right direction. If those are the two things to cleanup from a 40 point win, I'll take it.

Otherwise it was nice to see the guys take the game seriously and pretty much do what many expected them to do. Nice to see Zach Anderson get extra run with Billups out and hit 7/9 3s. Nice to see Emejuru score 21 on 8/9 from the field. I also enjoyed being able to watch KD get more run and he was playing hard especially defensively late in the game getting on the floor to go after a loose ball etc. Nice to see.

Hopefully Saturday is similar to last night in a big blowout loss and seeing guys contribute.

 

[Sport31]

We outrebounded them 36-33 total. To your point Mason did allow 17 offensive rebounds which is probably going to be one of Tony's points of emphasis watching film. However, when you miss a ton of shots like Coppin, you are bound to get some offensive rebounds. Also, 10 turnovers is a much better step in the right direction. If those are the two things to cleanup from a 40 point win, I'll take it.

Otherwise it was nice to see the guys take the game seriously and pretty much do what many expected them to do. Nice to see Zach Anderson get extra run with Billups out and hit 7/9 3s. Nice to see Emejuru score 21 on 8/9 from the field. I also enjoyed being able to watch KD get more run and he was playing hard especially defensively late in the game getting on the floor to go after a loose ball etc. Nice to see.

Hopefully Saturday is similar to last night in a big blowout loss and seeing guys contribute.

Winning the rebound by 3 against 0-7 team is not saying much. Watching the game, the lack of effort is obvious, not boxing out and lack of hustle to the ball are big issues... See CMUand ECU games. hopefully this will be addressed by Tony in film session. I m not down on this team just looking for areas to improve.

 

[Verdad]

I figured out why Anderson isn't playing more - favor from CTS to Dre Smith to protect his 10-10 3pt record.

 

[GMU79]

I figured out why Anderson isn't playing more - favor from CTS to Dre Smith to protect his 10-10 3pt record.

I thought about Dre last night at 5 for 5.

 

[Patriotsince81]

Anderson's defense is also clearly tied to his offense. If he scores he ramps up and plays better D than when he doesn't get to shoot.