Regretting having sacrificed my evening to this.

Benching all the starters seems to have worked, but its too little too late.

Nice little run getting in transition.  Won’t be enough time, though.  Too bad we couldn’t take it to them sometime in the first 33 minutes instead of playing on our heels.

What a tough shot by Anosike to stop the run.  Our defense was excellent on that possession, but he hit a very low % shot.

Brutal game for Bam.  Not a very good one for Adams either.

Seems like we will go as far as those two take us.

JC needs to find a way to design a more efficient offense that generates better shots than we are getting.

I thought MoJo was a poor game time coach.  JC says hold my beer.  The individual players are so much better than the results we are seeing.  

Last edited by porter71 (11/17/2021 12:53 am)

It's obvious JC can't coach. No blocking out, No offensive flow at all, no plays. He just keeps losing games and it's  a fluke when he wins. The facts says he can't win at GW. I have not seen any semblance of a offensive plan in a few years.  No motion offense that wins games. No "in game"  sense. Players just standing around like spectators. Sad.   

Some random thoughts, as Wisconsin Colonial and I just returned from the game.   The rebounding was again atrocious.   Guess I didn't have to tell anybody that.   What is especially frustrating was Fullerton was smaller than we were.    We don't box out and we don't put bodies on the other team.  They just fly around us and rebound, repeatedly beating us to the ball.   Brown had a very nice offensive game, however he was approximately 55 pounds heavier than Fullerton's Center.   How then can he play 32 minutes and finish with zero defensive rebounds.  Our second best rebounder was Freeman with 7. (Lindo had 8).   They just don't know how to rebound.  Or lack the desire to do so.   Speaking of Brown, given his height and weight advantage, he was virtually unstoppable down low, but that play was rarely run for him.  Rather, he is up at the top of the key, receives the pass, maybe dribbles a couple of times and looks to pass to one of the scorers on the team.   Or he is setting an (ineffective) high pick.    If we could have gotten him the ball in the low post more often, he could have been our leading scorer.   Someone tell me what Adams brings to the team?   He did have 4 assists this game, but he is basically a scorer who doesn't score...or do much of anything else.    And what the hell was Lindo still doing in the game with 2 fouls and 35 seconds left in the half, at which time he picked up his third.    I will say it was nice to see Christian show a little emotion on the bench.  He lit into the team during one time out, but during the next few minutes they were just as bad.  It was then that he yanked all starters out of the game, saying words to the effect that this is where you belong the way your playing...on the bench.    He was actually yelling at them.   But please don't get excited that they cut a 22 point lead down to 7 with about 3 or 4 minutes left.   When we started to get close, Fullerton then just stepped it up again, and we were toast.   At least this game I can say I saw a competitive 10-12 minutes, which is far more than I can say to UCSD.     Celebrities in the crowd included Aaron Ware and Mike Brown, who supposedly drove from Vegas to watch the game.   Nice to see Mike.   And Aaron.      And KD San Diego.   And in a blast from the past, one of the alumni hostesses for the event was our old board friend Luna Chick.   At least we should have an easy win on Friday vs. UMass Lowell.   What's that?  Who did you say they beat this season already?    See you Friday at the Smitty.

Big man for St. Francis makes the layup in the final seconds of the game and we're 0-4!

Just watched the game this morning and after three games--the two biggest issues appear to be shooting and coaching.  This team really doesn't have any scorers other than Bishop, who seems to be struggling unless the ball is in his hands 96% of each possession.

That said, they seem to start with a plan on offense with movement and touches, but the shot selection is often poor and any offensive scheme quickly breaks down into one-on-one play.  That there has been seemingly zero improvement in boxing out on the defensive boards drives me nuts. No really point in playing (ahem) good perimeter defense if so many misses are followed with simple put backs.  Again, it's  early, but very disappointed so far.       

Last edited by Merrick (11/17/2021 9:03 am)