GW Hoops / Next Up: GW at George Mason

**Posted by GW73** 1/18/2025 2:04 pm

Jacoi is really struggling. Ugh!

**Posted by GW73** 1/18/2025 2:11 pm

Here comes the collapse.

**Posted by Alum1** 1/18/2025 2:14 pm

Autry. WTF

**Posted by Tennessee Colonial** 1/18/2025 2:23 pm

Lot of fouls called on us. Turnovers?!

**Posted by GW73** 1/18/2025 2:27 pm

Drumgoole 0 for 8 from 3. GW 5 for 24 from 3. Our 3 point offense not so good when we can’t make 3s. No surprise

**Posted by DC Native** 1/18/2025 2:29 pm

No matter what happens, I’m proud of how hard the guys have fought. Hard to win shooting 20% from three…

**Posted by MG14** 1/18/2025 2:31 pm

Can someone explain to me how that's not an And-1 with 2 minutes left in the game to tie it up? He gets fouled while going up, regathers and puts it in.

Also, another game where horrible FT shooting could be the major difference in the game.

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**Posted by MG14** 1/18/2025 2:41 pm

Caputo not calling a TO when we have the last shot is baffling. He had two left so might as well.

Castro has been awesome for us all season, but hard to look past those 2 missed FTs to win the game.

**Posted by Long Suffering Fan** 1/18/2025 2:43 pm

All we needed was one flipper gfoul shot. Big time choke.

**Posted by Alum1** 1/18/2025 2:44 pm

DC Native wrote:
No matter what happens, I’m proud of how hard the guys have fought. Hard to win shooting 20% from three…

Yeah. It sure is hard to win shooting 20% from the arc. That’s when a coach is supposed to change the gameplan. But he never does.

**Posted by GW73** 1/18/2025 2:51 pm

Drumgoole 0 for 10. Really?

**Posted by Hugh** 1/18/2025 3:01 pm

Amazing job by Castro not to foul there

**Posted by Alum1** 1/18/2025 3:01 pm

Thank God Castro made those two. Good for him.

**Posted by DC Native** 1/18/2025 3:01 pm

Man, you guys are a tough crowd today. The team has fought its ass off today. And free basketball!

**Posted by MG14** 1/18/2025 3:04 pm

Half of all practices this week should focus solely on FTs (I'm exaggerating obviously but it's a real issue).

**Posted by MG14** 1/18/2025 3:19 pm

MG14 wrote:
Caputo not calling a TO when we have the last shot is baffling.

Again, really glad we didn't use a TO with 11 seconds left in the most important possession of the game.

**Posted by Tennessee Colonial** 1/18/2025 3:27 pm

17-27 FT. Two games in a row. Sick.

**Posted by Sons of Liberty** 1/18/2025 3:28 pm

KIND OF a fun game. --But tuff loss, though.
Let's learn some lessons & move forward.
A lot of season left.

**Posted by Buff&BlueBandit** 1/18/2025 3:42 pm

There are plenty of reasons to be frustrated with this loss, but this game was the first all season I felt we were for real (and I was at the Dayton game).

The team has definitive warts (FT, 3 PT, and TOs to name a few), but this may have been the most complete game I have seen from this team all year (and in all of Caputo’s time at GW). The defense played 50 solid minutes of basketball. The announcers kept wanting to praise Mason’s impeccable D, but had to keep caveating it with how GW’s may have been better today. When they mentioned us as one of the top 3 defenses in the A10 in a league with VCU, I did a double take.

The reality is, that since the start of A10 play, our defense is keeping us in games (URI, Dayton, and today are perfect examples). Do I think we can win the A10 with the way the team is currently constructed? No, but I think we now can play with anyone in the conference and will be a very tough out come tournament time (something I had zero belief in during the early part of OOC play). I hope I am proven right.

**Posted by GW0509** 1/18/2025 3:44 pm

Tough tough loss. Castro missing those FTs felt like when the Commies' kicker missed the extra point against Dallas. The biggest takeaway after 5 games is that there are no teams we should be 9.5 point underdogs to in the league. Fingers crossed Gerald can find his 3 point shot again.