Game Thread - GMU @ RC Tuesday 2/10 7pm ESPN+

Hopefully, we play Like last night and at Belmont the rest of the season but…
I predict we are a 10 seed by head to head over Fordham and face 7 seed GW with the return of Castro…
 
*23* said:
This leads me to believe: A) The players on this team do have the physical ability to play good defense B) the point i have been trying to drive home the last 10 years: Mooney does not enforce the defensive attitude, and does not scheme well when he does have weak areas.

That has been the biggest complaint, he really really just ignores major parts of the game (like his idiotic comments about watching Florida offensive rebound and ***light bulb** thinking hmm that is a good idea) , just fluffing them off - and not correcting poor defense.

It's like a football team that is good on offense and special teams but gives up 35 points on defense. Why not try at everything?
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Agree with all of it
 
97spiderfan said:
Agree if this was a close game but it wasn't. Don't know what if anything precipitated him doing that but it was out of character for him, so I assume he was on the receiving end of something.

I personally don't mind, players mixing it up, so long as it doesn't cost us the game. I do wish Mooney wouldn't have benched him the rest of the game for showing some fire out there.
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Was at the game Mason beat on Beagle and Mike most of the night.
 
URFan1 said:
Was at the game Mason beat on Beagle and Mike most of the night.
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I figured as much. Beagle is not a hot headed player. Too often, we accept too much punishment without pushing back, I typically chalk that up to Mooney's influence on the team. Again, no issues with a hard intentional foul, perhaps make it a little less obvious though.
 
brooklyn brownstone said:
AP is a 20% 3 point shooter over 2 years and this is his final season. There is basically no reason to ever put him in ahead of Robinson or even Tanner, basically anyone who will be here next season. Robinson actually makes things happen on offense and is a big body on defense who plays physically.

If we play a meaningful game in the A10 tourney, and need a defensive sub for a possession or an off/def rotation late, sure, why not. But tonight's game where UR won bc all the shooters were on the court and hitting, shows how UR will win - by firing from 3 and playing fast. Glou doesn't fit bc he cannot shoot.

sorry @GlouGuy it didn't pan out. If he shot 33% and not 20% he'd probably still be playing a decent amount.
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Yeah, but why wait until now to bench him, particularly coming off of one of his better games? You'd think it would've happened sooner and after a string of poor games.
 
GlouGuy said:
Yeah, but why wait until now to bench him, particularly coming off of one of his better games? You'd think it would've happened sooner and after a string of poor games.
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I personally thought AP was playing some pretty decent defense. Problem was he was a complete liability on offense. Additionally, he is a senior on a team going no where, so perhaps his time is going to players who will be here next year.
 
97spiderfan said:
I personally thought AP was playing some pretty decent defense. Problem was he was a complete liability on offense. Additionally, he is a senior on a team going no where, so perhaps his time is going to players who will be here next year.
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Makes sense, Mooney's timing is just bizarre. I hope he gets to play on senior night.
 
Kneepad McKinney said:
I get the point of what you are saying, but you can get the point across while also being factual. We were on the bubble Covid year, and we were literally the first team left out TJ's final year.

Again, I understand and agree with your point, but what you are saying is inaccurate.
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Ok, 3 at large possibilities in 21 years. Hell yeah extend him for ten more years LOL
 
*23* said:
Yes, great job. So that leads me to believe A) Our players do have the physical ability to

Thanks for your daily corrections, I will try to be better.
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OK it's pushback time. I was the one who posted the "1 time on the bubble in 15 years" and I stand by it. You'll note that my post said that by Selection Sunday we had not played onto the bubble.

While there may have been years where we had some mention early in March as a team that could be on the bubble if everything went right for us, the years where we actually had to tune in to the Selection Show to see if we were in or out are real bubble years are real bubble years.

There was not a single year in the last 15 outside of 24-7 COVID year where we would have been tuning in to find out in or out of the tournament. Any team could say they would have been a bubble team if they had won this game or that game and things had gone differently, but the fact is UR's pattern under Moon has been to never win those games to give ourselves the hope that our name is called.

I stand by TJ's senior year as a non-bubble year. I was in Pittsburgh, and exactly zero people thought we had any prayer of being in the tournament following 3rd loss to VCU on the season. In fact the #1 seed in the NIT was such a shocker that it led to massive discussion on the old board if my memory serves, and we decided that the NCAA was attempting to cover up their lack of inclusion of non-power conference teams in the tournament by propping up UR as if we were in consideration for a bid. We were not. In fact, I think almost everyone in Pittsburgh thought we had to win the A10 tourney to get in, like URI probably had to as well.

At best it was a reward to the A10 for getting 3 teams into the NCAAs with URI winning the tourney and UD and VCU getting at large bids. Again, no one thought A10 was a 4 bid league and URI had clearly surpassed anything UR had done that season, so even if they had lost the A10 final, they were ahead of UR in pecking order.

The nail in the bubble coffin is simply the season results. OOC that year, UR had lost to ODU, Bucknell, Maryland, Wake, Texas Tech and gotten blown out by Oral Roberts. Typical Moon 6-loss OOC to kill any hope, including losses to 3 lower level teams and failure to beat the big boys. Best win was vs a putrid 9-23 Boston College team, and OOC also included a nailbiter 1 possession win vs UMBC. Is that an at large resume? Zero good OOC wins. Did not win vs top two A10 teams that year (0-3 vs VCU and Dayton in reg. season and 0-4 overall) and got beat twice by a 9-9 GooMoos team (one of those was a blowout loss.) The 13-5 league record was propped up by home wins against Rhode Island and Bonas, and the other 11 were wins vs the dregs of the league which was an empty resume. There were simply almost no good wins on the resume.

I don't equate 1 seed in NIT with bubble team. That was not an NCAA resume, and no one thought we would get in or were within shouting distance of it, and we were not.

Show me a season in the last 15 where we fought our way into contention and had people talking on Sat/Sun if we were in or not and I'll reconsider my 1 in 15 take. But for now I am standing by it.
 
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