Fire Dave Paulsen / Hire Tony Skinn

[mkaufman1]

He can do this playing the 4 as well, we almost never look high low from big to big. Watched a compilation video of Obi Toppin making high low one touch passes and I was salivating.

I think Jenkins used to do this with Shevon if I recall correctly. Or maybe Marko to Shevon?

 

[Falco]

Yeah I could get behind this rout of a no-name but hungry assistant. Pay him $200K with a ton of incentives and let him loose.

If Mason could get him for that price than sure! Lol. But he’s probably closer to a million

 

[Falco]

Remember how we went cheap on a good coach? It didn't turn out so well. You can't honestly believe a coach would come here on 250k and have to earn the other 500k in incentives. Good luck cheap asses. No wonder we are shit.

15. Larry D. Harrison: $309,000

• Associate Head Coach, Men’s Basketball

https://www.thedaonline.com/news/to...cle_33aaea9e-229f-11e9-9654-cf53f1a4c1ed.html


And 300k goes a long way in West VA

 

[GMUgemini]

Yeah I could get behind this rout of a no-name but hungry assistant. Pay him $200K with a ton of incentives and let him loose.

Archie Miller is a good in-conference example. Dayton was his first head coaching job. They paid him an incentive-laden contract with an approximately $400k base. Once he succeeded there, they kicked him up to $1 million to keep him around longer.

 

[Walter]

I am a huge fan of Steve Forbes of ETSU. Reportedly Forbes is making over $650k. I am not on the Fire Paulsen bandwagon but it would take at least $1M to get Forbes. Are we willing to go that high?

 

[Bricker]

15. Larry D. Harrison: $309,000

• Associate Head Coach, Men’s Basketball

https://www.thedaonline.com/news/to...cle_33aaea9e-229f-11e9-9654-cf53f1a4c1ed.html


And 300k goes a long way in West VA

wow that's a nice chunk of change.

 

[PoorManProfit]

Given the hatred for vcu around here I am surprised a former vcu coach would be considered.

Jealousy disguised as hatred...

 

[sleeperpick]

When I think of what Oduro can become (with a lot of hard work), I see Grant Golden: not a dynamic athlete, but big and wide with good post moves and solid basketball IQ.

If we could ever put enough 3-point shooting on the floor that teams can’t always go under ball screens against us, I think Oduro could become a great high-post facilitator feeding backdoor cuts like Golden does so well.

But it’s hard to spread the defense and create driving/cutting lanes when they know you can’t consistently hurt them with the 3. Lack of perimeter shooting has been by far our most lingering weakness during Dave’s tenure, and I never would’ve expected that.

I have never seen Grant Golden get blocked by the rim in his career as much as Oduro has this year. I get the comparison. Soft big men with decent hands that hustle. If Oduro turns into half the player Golden is I would be happy but very surprised. Golden is eons better at defense than Oduro is and Golden is horrible at defense.

 

[gmujim92]

I have never seen Grant Golden get blocked by the rim in his career as much as Oduro has this year. I get the comparison. Soft big men with decent hands that hustle. If Oduro turns into half the player Golden is I would be happy but very surprised. Golden is eons better at defense than Oduro is and Golden is horrible at defense.

Golden is a redshirt junior and Oduro is a true freshman, so he’s got time to improve. Just a matter of how hard he’s willing to work.

 

[Mason2005]

Golden is a redshirt junior and Oduro is a true freshman, so he’s got time to improve. Just a matter of how hard he’s willing to work.

DP is a sack of sh*t though asking Oduro to score double digits for us to win. Kid is going to be a head case soon.

 

[tblack33]

DP is a sack of sh*t though asking Oduro to score double digits for us to win. Kid is going to be a head case soon.

Lol that didn't even click for me when he made that statement, he is asking a true freshman big man to average double digits in limited minutes (he's not even the starter anymore)

 

[gmujim92]

DP is a sack of sh*t though asking Oduro to score double digits for us to win. Kid is going to be a head case soon.

You guys take this stuff way too literally. The message is that we need Oduro to be a more consistent scoring threat and he has the ability to do so ... both of which are true.

 

[GMUgemini]

I have never seen Grant Golden get blocked by the rim in his career as much as Oduro has this year. I get the comparison. Soft big men with decent hands that hustle. If Oduro turns into half the player Golden is I would be happy but very surprised. Golden is eons better at defense than Oduro is and Golden is horrible at defense.

Oduro hasn’t quite figured out how to use his frame and the rim to protect himself against shot blockers.

I would also be supremely surprised if he got as good as Golden at scoring and passing to cutters.

 

[gmujim92]

Oduro hasn’t quite figured out how to use his frame and the rim to protect himself against shot blockers.

I would also be supremely surprised if he got as good as Golden at scoring and passing to cutters.

Golden wasn’t very good his first two years, like most bigs at our level. But he took full advantage of his redshirt year to get stronger and better and is now a quality A-10 center. Hopefully Oduro is a hard worker because he has some tools to work with.

 

[CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOLLAY]

When I think of what Oduro can become (with a lot of hard work), I see Grant Golden:

I will bet anyone here 1000 dollars Oduro never averages 17 a game in college any year like Golden did as a sophomore.

I will also bet he never averages 13 a game at Mason for less money. I would be absolutely ecstatic if he becomes a 12/8 guy.

 

[sleeperpick]

Golden wasn’t very good his first two years, like most bigs at our level. But he took full advantage of his redshirt year to get stronger and better and is now a quality A-10 center. Hopefully Oduro is a hard worker because he has some tools to work with.

His second year of playing he was very good. Idc about redshirt talk

 

[CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOLLAY]

And I should add, though, I'm glad Oduro is a Patriot...

 

[patriot2000]

And I should add, though, I'm glad Oduro is a Patriot...

Yep. Maybe it's lowered expectations, mixed with jerks on here almost trashing him before he got here, but I think he is WAY ahead of what I expected. You can't win the A10 with a roster full of Oduro-level players but he's a better role player than I expected.

 

[mkaufman1]

I will bet anyone here 1000 dollars Oduro never averages 17 a game in college any year like Golden did as a sophomore.

I will also bet he never averages 13 a game at Mason for less money. I would be absolutely ecstatic if he becomes a 12/8 guy.

I think that is what Oduro becomes, something like a 12/8 guy, he becomes more consistent on his jump shot and a little bit more thick and pushy around in the post. I'd gladly take that.

Of course, we have no idea what will come over him the next 3 years, if the staff sticks around, if he sticks around, etc.

 

[Masonfan3]

Sorry, but I’m just not buying the Kier injury line anymore. He was out practically all of out of nonconference play and the team went 11-2. No one seemed to say it impacted them then and they should have learned to play without him.

the difference is that now you’re playing better competition and the soft ooc didn’t prepare the team for reality.

I agree with pretty much everything you are saying but I think the Kier injury has played a role in our struggles and the better competition in the A10 has exposed what have been our biggest weaknesses, a weakness that we have had pretty much the entire Paulsen tenure. We have 0 depth on this team, or any team under Paulsen. Yes, we have a lot of guards but don't have any depth in terms of experience. How is it possible to be one of the "youngest" teams in the country every single year. I don't hate the guy but he has done an absolute horrible job of managing his roster. You can't expect to win a lot of games when you have to start (or play major minutes) 3 freshman and sophomores every single year. He always preaches "we had a great week of practice" or "the team practices well" but who they hell are the starters "practicing" against...guys who have never touched a college basketball floor. I had this same conversation with BE two years ago and it was the same thing, "we are young and inexperienced but the guys practice really hard and will get better." Nothing against Chance Konnor but is he really going to push Josh Oduro and get him prepared to play against Silva or French, or any other big in the A10.