More open 3 point shooting from Army. Up 2 now. Hey C, cover these guys. Duh?

45-42 ? Something IS wrong with this team.

Is it coaching or did CC spend the millions we are paying  players on the wrong players?

At some point, presumably we will put it away.
But once again, a scrappy less talented team seems to want it more, despite our ratings.

GW73 wrote:

Let's be serious. We are overrated. For example, Incarnate Word beat McNeese last night

 
Beginning to think you might be right. But this is truly on Caputo. The guy just can’t ever change course in the face of failure. Team hitting 20% of threes?  No worries….damn the torpedoes….just stick with the plain. Fire away!  Seen this from him way too many times.

27-4 FT advantage bailed us out 

Hard to say a team sleepwalked through a double digit road win, but I think they did today.  I'm going to be optimistic and blame the start time.

Low energy early morning road game with no fans because of snow produces this kind of game.

Army was a 29% three point shooting team coming into this game, so I guess I understand why the game plans was to collapse on all penetration, but we did a really poor job of recovering to contest threes most of the game (really clamped down the last 4 minutes or so, though). 

And we shot below average at 9-31, but made up for it by getting to the line (maybe our biggest strength, so not surprising) and going 27-32. Most recent GW teams would lose a road game when we have an off shooting day and the opponent is red hot, but this team remained calm and kept them at arm’s length the whole time before clamping down late to make the final score a respectable +14.

Was surprised Autry was so invisible.  Bevins got 17 minutes, and really struggled though maybe finally hitting a 3 late will get him going.  Thought Jones was very good and Dinkins super solid on offense (4 assists, 0 turnovers).  Garrett was excellent, too, except for his shooting (1-7 from three) - saw him contest threes well a few times. Castro had a quiet 16 and 7. Hunger decent on offense, but didn’t get out on shooters once or twice. Bubu had a couple nice blocks and steals, but what’s with missing all his contested layups? 

At any rate, I’m sure they’ll be happy to be home Saturday for William & Mary, a top 100 net team (136 Ken Pom) that likes to run and gun. Should be a fun one.

We seem to have to have this discussion after most every loss or non-convincing win so here it goes...

On offense, this team is playing exactly the way CC wants them to play.  Could GW have scored 60 points in the paint today and won by say 25-30?  Probably.  The problem though is that GW can't do this against A10 competition.  So he's trying to get the team comfortable with playing a style of offense that they can compete with against anyone.  This is right out of the NBA...lots of 3's and points at the rim.  I can understand the frustration but are you seriously going to feel frustration each and every game?  Because this will not be changing.  CC is convinced that unlike past seasons, he now has the three-point shooters to win consistently playing this style.

On defense, it was baffling to watch Army take so many great looks from 3.  Credit to the Cadets for making GW pay from 3.  And there were a few contested ones and a couple of very deep "Dinkins-like" 3's.  I will disagree with FQ's assertion that we clamped down over the final 4 minutes.  What I saw was Army still getting similar open looks only fatigue was setting in and unlike most of the game, the open looks were not falling down the stretch.  I do believe that part of CC's defensive gameplan is to get teams to take many 3's during the second halves of games when legs will be more tired and it's harder to make long shots.  The South Florida win was a great example of this.
 

Not the 40 point type win we saw earlier in the season but still a road win of 14 points.

Now 7-2 with a 47 NET, big game coming up #65 NET William and Mary next