Call me ungrateful but Bras is becoming painful to watch. The only guarantee each game with him is that heâll spend at least half the game bitching to the refs.Whatever the opposite of senior leadership is,thatâs what heâs showing me.
Great game by JTâŚWe make bad teams(which Fordham isâŚsorry) look pretty good.
What was that excuse for a play?? at the end of the 1st half? We have the ball,30 sec.s left,Major calls a t.o. and we end up passing the ball slowly around the perimeter for 25 secs. and TWILL takes a contested 3âŚI know we are off. challenged but canât the coach come up with something?
We should be punished for keeping this interesting. Fordham is a really bad team and the fact that we couldnât beat them by 20+ at home says a lot to any important college basketball people around the nation.
That being said, we have done a fantastic job of beating teams that we SHOULD beat. Anyone that has followed Niner basketball in the last 15 years knows that we have had trouble at times beating teams that we are know doubt better than. That is a major improvement over the past few seasons.
Regardless of how this thing turns out, we are steadily improving and Coach Major has done an excellent job this season.
Temple should be punished for never having a lead against GW until the closing secondsâŚ
Some of the things we b**** about make me shake my head. A few things: 1) College hoops is about matchups 2) We, of all fanbases, should know that a gunner like Frazier can get hot any night and make a game of it; 3) We still won by 8, the 2nd highest margin of victory in A10 play last night; 4) we just are not the type of team that is going to routinely blow out our competition.
That said, I think we would have blown this game open if Mayfieldâs late steal had turned into pts like it should have (would have put us up 10 late in the game). Instead, we made a bad pass that setup an open 3. Also Pierria had a layup go halfway down and kick out, which turned into a fast break for Fordham. I think the final score was academic and only matters to gambling junkies. The truth is, we shut down their best player and had him mad like I have never seen him before. As a team we are better setup to deal with a guy like Gaston, over a gunner like Frazier. Thatâs our identity this year.
And on offense, Fordham usually plays man to man, and I bet the lines played into that. When they went constant zone on us, it slowed us down til we started finding ways to beat it. Itâs not pretty, but we got it done. JT was big because he was making mid range jumpers against it. TWill and Mayfield too.
This game is about Wâs, not style points. If we our next 13 games by an average of 2 pts, how many people will complain and why?
I like 15-2. Would have signed up for it in a second in October. Like knowing that we can shut down --or in Galloways case, create a need for lots of shots â the best player on the other team. Gaston has crushed us before and we made him into a frustrated shell of a player last night. Liked it.
[quote=âRuckus42, post:43, topic:27375â]We should be punished for keeping this interesting. Fordham is a really bad team and the fact that we couldnât beat them by 20+ at home says a lot to any important college basketball people around the nation.
That being said, we have done a fantastic job of beating teams that we SHOULD beat. Anyone that has followed Niner basketball in the last 15 years knows that we have had trouble at times beating teams that we are know doubt better than. That is a major improvement over the past few seasons.
Regardless of how this thing turns out, we are steadily improving and Coach Major has done an excellent job this season.[/quote]
They really arenât that bad. Chris Gaston missed a big chunk of games earlier in the year, which makes their record look worse than it should. We should of played better and beat them by more, but they arenât horrible
[quote=âRuckus42, post:43, topic:27375â]We should be punished for keeping this interesting. Fordham is a really bad team and the fact that we couldnât beat them by 20+ at home says a lot to any important college basketball people around the nation.
That being said, we have done a fantastic job of beating teams that we SHOULD beat. Anyone that has followed Niner basketball in the last 15 years knows that we have had trouble at times beating teams that we are know doubt better than. That is a major improvement over the past few seasons.
Regardless of how this thing turns out, we are steadily improving and Coach Major has done an excellent job this season.[/quote]The Niners are one of those teams the ratings systems based on point spreads undervalue. The team plays to its competition, gets unfocused when they get a big lead, have funny lineups because Major uses big leads to try things out, and sometimes struggles offensively. Sure, we may lose one we shouldnât because of lack of focus, but for the most part the team steps it up when it needs to and wins. As we start facing more quality teams, weâll need more consistent intensity and focus. But that doesnât mean we should be rated that much worse because of a close game with a poor team. Pomeroy has said he is thinking about incorporating a limit on the effects of point spread on his formula, and I think itâd help for predicting for teams like Charlotte. If you need an example, just look at La Salle at #65, compared to Charlotte at 94 in the latest pomeroy rankings.
That said, I think the Niners are going to start losing some games, because the competition steps up. But I bet theyâll usually be close. VCU and Butler might blow out Charlotte, but who else in the league is clearly better?
Our ability to play and win choppy (lots of fouls, poor offensive flow for both teams, low shooting %s) games will be a real advantage if we can continue to play great interior defense and close out on the 3pt shot. We may be limited offensively, but teams (especially good teams) do not like playing that type of game. Could turn out to be an advantage against the Temples, Butlers, and VCUs of the conference
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