VS Dayton March 3
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MrTbone
All A-10 player
While I get the sentiment, the ticket office isn’t real sophisticated. I doubt they’d be able to recognize any kind of churn in seat renewal other than macro-level which I’m certain they expect after a bad season (or two).
MrTbone
All A-10 player
I suspect the call was take a 3 if open, otherwise get the easy 2 and foul. I think we were in single bonus still.
It was a questionable strategy, made more so when you don’t have a straightforward bucket you know you’ll get.
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No chance. I watched the last minute or so. If he scores with 6, we probably foul around 4 after we wait a second too long to foul. If they make both, they can foul if they want so we don't get off a 3. Or, they can let us shoot a wild 3 from midcourt. If they miss at least one, the chances are also very slim we get off a good shot. Probably a half court look even down 1 or 2. We can't ever get a good late game look when we have time....no chance would we get one in less than 5 seconds.
Even when I was pro Mooney, I always felt we were bad at late game situations. That hasn't changed.
This would be so cynical, if it weren't true.
Last 2 seasons:
10-26 A-10
0-4 against VCU, with losses by 41, 18, 11, and 8.
OOC losses to Marist, Charlotte, Bucknell, La Tech, Belmont, W&M, FL Gulf Coast, Furman, Elon, and Ch Southern.
12-10 against D1 non majors when we should be at worst 20-2.
Conference losses by 41, 25, 25, 18, 16, 16, 14, 14, 11, and 11.
This is as low as we have ever been.
What is unfortunate is someone was stupid enough to call that play.
brooklyn brownstone
Starter
My observations:
- We could score a 2 with 7 or 8 seconds left and "play defense" - um, what?
- We have AA, Lopez and Johnston, all great FT shooters and guys who can make plays and shoot 3s, but he drew up a play for Daughtry to be a penetrate and dish playmaker? Daughtry, who is a bucket in iso around the rim, but also a turnover machine and who has very questionable judgment with the ball on a decent amount of his possessions? Again, what?
I'm on board with Spider17's note that losing a ton of close games is not variance, it's coaching.
I'm also on board with GK that the close games narrative is already being spun by Bob Black via his marching orders from the Athletic Dept. - we were a 20 win team if only a couple breaks went our way in those close games! (That we lost 3 of those to atrocious Loyola, Furman and Elon will never be spoken of.)
Losing record vs. D1 at this juncture.
The enthusiasm shown by Roussell and fans when the women’s team was introduced tonite was a total contrast to tonite’s main event. I can’t wait to take a group of Spider fans to their first WBB tourney this weekend. This fan, whose family has maintained continuous men’s basketball season tix for almost 80 years thru seasons at Millhiser,, Benedictine High, Richmond Arena, Richmond Coliseum and Robins Center, am now considering not renewing. If I do that, I will contribute at least the cost of 3 season tickets for men’s games to WBB each year.
I had forgotten the game until the ticket office told me they would have my WBB tourney tix at will call tonite - I used one if my 3 tix and have my weekend tix.
*23*
Assistant coach
17, I know it sounds a bit like a conspiracy theory, but I do think that it is very likely that Hardt just avoids any type or REAL discussion with Mooney due to each's friendship with PQ. It is more like how can they put lipstick on a pig real conversation.
Daughtry slipped on a leaf, now that is pretty good Brooklyn.
Daughtry slipped on a leaf, now that is pretty good Brooklyn.
MrTbone
All A-10 player
I think you were like many other folks. Not being on a normal Wednesday and it being wet out didn’t make for great attendance.
Plus we aren’t a very good team, so there’s that too.
gospidersgo
Bench player
Agree with the sentiments here - after back to back timeouts, the play we drew up with 5 minutes to think about it was an iso for Daughtry for a wild layup attempt?! When we are down 3 with under 10 seconds left?!
It's gross misconduct to not put the ball in AJ or Aiden's hands with 10 seconds left.
And it's laughable how often we either take a crappy shot or can't even get one off at all in end of half situations.
This game followed the pattern of so many this year: dig a huge hole, claw back enough to make it seem like a win could happen, then crumble late.
It's gross misconduct to not put the ball in AJ or Aiden's hands with 10 seconds left.
And it's laughable how often we either take a crappy shot or can't even get one off at all in end of half situations.
This game followed the pattern of so many this year: dig a huge hole, claw back enough to make it seem like a win could happen, then crumble late.
So in a combined 66 mins, 3 starters (Johnston, Tyne, Tanner) combined for 10 points on 4 of 19 shooting. We got down I think 12-2 to start the game, which has been a constant problem all year. Can anyone justify not starting AA? Are we the only team in the country that doesn't start 1 of their top 2 players? Ridiculous.
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Took a friend to the game last night and he asked what the game would be like. This was the exact description I gave him. Everything about the team is so predictable thanks to Mooney-vision.
All that being said, running a play for Daughtry to attempt to tie the game was unexpected and unsurprisingly a major fail. Of course, I am sure they have been running it with great success in practice.
@brooklyn brownstone wins the best use of leaf in a comment. But speaking of slipping, the Spiders can’t even get a second person to work the mop in front of its bench and instead we see the trainer and manager towel relay? I guess that makes up for the lack of a true halftime show.
Thank goodness the home games are over. No Men’s pre purchase tickets for me next season unless a miracle happens and there is a new coach. Look forward to discussing the team, but most game observations will be courtesy of ESPN+. I’m sure there will be a game or two I attend for posterity’s sake.
Spider17
All A-10 player
On top of that we’re graduating most of our top scorers on a team that wasn’t good, there’s no one else returning other than AA (if he returns) who looks like they can step up and lead the team. We haven’t shown that we can consistently identity and recruit transfers to be successful here or develop our high school recruits to produce at an A10 level. We’re going to have an even worse OOC schedule next year. I doubt they make any efforts to reinvigorate the game day experience for fans at the Robins Center.
This is the lowest I’ve ever felt about this program.
Spider17
All A-10 player
If our leadership isn’t going to take accountability then as fans the best we can do is just stop donating and going to the games. If the admin doesn’t care, then why should we? Let PQ be the only one donating to NIL and Hardt the only one showing up to games to support their pal.
SpiderRick
Bench player
Stating the obvious, Mooney has always been particularly bad in the last 5 minutes of the games, even the ones we win.
Richmondgrad2024
Walk-on
Is there a pention we can sign as fans to get attention that we want a coaching change?Just thinking of all the ways we could show support as fans to get Mooney fired. I don't think a billboard is a classy move, but at this point no one should donate a dime to this program.
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