The Dude wrote:

Joel Joseph wrote:

Rising, what the dude imposter forgets to tell everyone is that there are only about 4 operational newspapers left in the country that haven't folded for lack of circulation. If the GW Hatchet sticks around for a few more years they can "bag" a few Pulitzers.
Merry Christmas alum abroad!

8 years out of the sport, you can hide behind fake "names" but Mike Lonergan will never work in the industry again even though you claimed he would be instantly hired ....its been almost a decade bub, when you abuse your players which he was, that's the consequence...that and his racist tirades make him totally toxic in the industry

Facts are Facts

 

 
And you’re still at Smith Center largely doing the same thing all these years later. Going nowhere fast.

Long Suffering Fan wrote:

Alum1 wrote:

Decent night for the A10 - Dayton tanks #6 Marquette and The Bonnie’s dump the way overrated Friars. Only unexpected blight was the Spiders losing at home to Belmont. Ouch.

In other news, looks like the Max Edwards express is completely off the rails. Played only 10 minutes with zero points in win over Towson. Maybe he's hurt?

Talk about a player whose game declined each year.    Strongly suspect he will not be at Duquesne next season.
 

 
Yes, agree completely. Another sad story of someone with a huge gulf between his own view of himself and the reality of his talent and capabilities.

GW0509 wrote:

Alum1 wrote:

Can’t wait to hear the analysis from the glass-half-full crowd tonight Should be interesting.

We shot almost 40% from 3, covered the spread, and most importantly defended our 3rd Amendment Rights

 
Keep on believing. I’m seeing 4-5 conference wins based on our performance against these horrible opponents. Getting hammered on the boards. Having to go lights out from 3-point line to cover the spread against the likes of Army.  This won’t stand against the level of competition in A-10 play. Just me, I guess.

Very sad. May she rest in peace.

GWRising wrote:

I have a ton of thoughts about last night's game ...

1. Let's take the obvious. We shot ourselves in the foot on numerous occasions whether it was missed bunnies, turnovers or bad defensive rebounding. It was not so much what American did to us as it was what we did to ourselves. The fact that we did not hit a three until OT is mind boggling. The fact that we couldn't hit FT's was all us not them. 52 points in the paint seems really good until you realize at a minimum we should have had 60-70. Not to be ridiculous, but for some of those who were arguing "nerves" against Kansas State was this also "nerves" or now are we seeing some of the deficits that we have to improve?

2. We can argue the decision not to foul with 14.5 seconds and while I would have instructed to foul once under 10 seconds (3-4 dribbles) that is often difficult to execute even when you draw it up and practice it. 14.5 was too soon to foul especially in light of the way we had been shooting free throws all night. You don't want a quick foul and 2 FTs leading to another quick foul and potentially 2 FTs for us which if one or more is missed now AU has north of 10 seconds to tie or win the game. Anything between the entire shot clock and 10 seconds is no-man's land for coaches in this situation - potentially damned if you do and damned if you don't.. It didn't work out but that probably had more to do with defensive positioning and a great shot by Smalls than it did with the decision not to foul. Hindsight is 20/20 and again I would have done something different but I understand the decision even if it didn't work out in light of our poor FT shooting all night. You can only coach to the strengths of your team. End of game situations have not been our strength so far and we need to fix that.

3. A word about the OOC. Last night again shows us why the OOC schedule is not as bad for us as we want to believe in terms of what we are ready for. We still have deficits which would be readily

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