I went to the game today so I have a lot of thoughts obviously.
-it was great to meet up with mason folks as always. Nice little crowd we had. That said Tom Gola Arena is awful. We can complain about our experience but it truly feels like a high school gym. The food is cheap and they have beer but the popcorn I got was drenched in 5 pounds of butter that I couldn’t eat it. A plus was that the mens room was near the stands but it was small and cramped. The video production is high school quality and the announcer really made insensitive comments about English which is really unacceptable. Their band was about 5 members and we made jokes that we were going to ask them if they played a song yet because we didn’t hear them.
- there was about 10 minutes in the first half where Lasalle couldn’t miss and we couldn’t keep up with their scoring. We were a step slow on defense (sometimes more). If our main guys aren’t rolling it’s very tough. We missed some bunnies with a bad roll but also got blocked by their big man near the rim a bunch as well.
-ticket looked gassed during the game. He also seemed like he may have been hobbling.
- Blake buchanon chipped in with some good minutes today, but it says a lot about the bench guys if he’s playing. Rome wasn’t built in a day but I assure you the depth issue is going to be fixed by this staff over the coming months. I expect another 2-3 transfers to come in with guys moving on. There’s still a lot of work that needs to be done before this team can truly compete.
-Henry got mauled in the early part of half 2 but got called for a foul. I’m rewatching and realizing I can’t even tell what he did wrong as it looks like they got tangled up before Henry got leveled. He then picked up a quick second and we went small
-Brantley for them chopped blocked XJ on the brickus three late in the game and didn’t get called for it. Ridiculous.
-English had every right to be pissed when Frazier and Cooper got hammered with no call. Very happy he let the refs hear it.
-it was great to meet up with mason folks as always. Nice little crowd we had. That said Tom Gola Arena is awful. We can complain about our experience but it truly feels like a high school gym. The food is cheap and they have beer but the popcorn I got was drenched in 5 pounds of butter that I couldn’t eat it. A plus was that the mens room was near the stands but it was small and cramped. The video production is high school quality and the announcer really made insensitive comments about English which is really unacceptable. Their band was about 5 members and we made jokes that we were going to ask them if they played a song yet because we didn’t hear them.
- there was about 10 minutes in the first half where Lasalle couldn’t miss and we couldn’t keep up with their scoring. We were a step slow on defense (sometimes more). If our main guys aren’t rolling it’s very tough. We missed some bunnies with a bad roll but also got blocked by their big man near the rim a bunch as well.
-ticket looked gassed during the game. He also seemed like he may have been hobbling.
- Blake buchanon chipped in with some good minutes today, but it says a lot about the bench guys if he’s playing. Rome wasn’t built in a day but I assure you the depth issue is going to be fixed by this staff over the coming months. I expect another 2-3 transfers to come in with guys moving on. There’s still a lot of work that needs to be done before this team can truly compete.
-Henry got mauled in the early part of half 2 but got called for a foul. I’m rewatching and realizing I can’t even tell what he did wrong as it looks like they got tangled up before Henry got leveled. He then picked up a quick second and we went small
-Brantley for them chopped blocked XJ on the brickus three late in the game and didn’t get called for it. Ridiculous.
-English had every right to be pissed when Frazier and Cooper got hammered with no call. Very happy he let the refs hear it.
