Game 22: AT University of Richmond, Wednesday, February 3rd, 7 PM, NO TV

[GMU_DCU]

It is better to teach from a win than a loss... and there were a lot of teaching moments that came out of the last few minutes of last night's game.

It's a process. Changing the culture of any organization takes time. DP has the ship moving in the right direction, although at times, the ship is more like an ocean liner than a speed boat.

I am sure there will be several speed bumps throughout the remainder of the season. That said, I like the progress of the program...

I'm new to Mason basketball so I don't know what things were like during the reign of PH, but this team is fun to watch. The youthful enthusiasm is contagious...

Take the last two minutes of last night's game. Trouble inbounding the ball, missed free throws, turnovers and dumb fouls..now imagine that for the whole game. That would give you an idea of a Paul Hewitt coached team.

 

[GMUSig03]

I don't know what things were like during the reign of PH

More losing, less fun, worse in every way imaginable.

 

[disgruntled]

Not sure it was more losing, but the way we were losing. There was no fight in the team under PH...there was no fight in PH period as he spent most of his time shrugging his shoulders and looking skyward, like somehow the answer was in the rafters of the Patriot Center. SAD

 

[mkaufman1]

It is better to teach from a win than a loss... and there were a lot of teaching moments that came out of the last few minutes of last night's game.

It's a process. Changing the culture of any organization takes time. DP has the ship moving in the right direction, although at times, the ship is more like an ocean liner than a speed boat.

I am sure there will be several speed bumps throughout the remainder of the season. That said, I like the progress of the program...

I'm new to Mason basketball so I don't know what things were like during the reign of PH, but this team is fun to watch. The youthful enthusiasm is contagious...

I mean this was basically our expression watching a team coached by him.

 

[gmutom]

...there was no fight in PH period as he spent most of his time shrugging his shoulders and looking skyward, like somehow the answer was in the rafters of the Patriot Center. SAD

It's quite possible he was looking up for Chik-fil-A cows or University Mall movie tickets.

 

[GMUgemini]

It is better to teach from a win than a loss... and there were a lot of teaching moments that came out of the last few minutes of last night's game.

It's a process. Changing the culture of any organization takes time. DP has the ship moving in the right direction, although at times, the ship is more like an ocean liner than a speed boat.

I am sure there will be several speed bumps throughout the remainder of the season. That said, I like the progress of the program...

I'm new to Mason basketball so I don't know what things were like during the reign of PH, but this team is fun to watch. The youthful enthusiasm is contagious...

The pass to Shevon, the 5 second call (after Paulsen forced the refs to overturn an out out bounds call no less), missing both FTs on a trip to the line (I forget if that was Otis or Grayer), who got called for a foul after the Richmond airball too, was that Grayer's fifth? Those four plays alone elongated this game more than it had to be.

 

[MasonFanatic]

Yes, the 0-2 at the line was Otis... but then he came back and hit the 2 that iced it.

Jenkin's 4th foul and Grayer's 5th foul were bogus... but so were several on the Spiders.

 

[Patriotsince81]

Isn't it nice to have timeouts at the end of the game when you really need them!!!!!!! Also nice to see a logical substitution pattern and a coach looking to create and take advantage of mismatches.

 

[gmujim92]

Jim, how did shevon cover on defense? You mentioned that UR doesn't have a real center.

I think he only played 19 minutes because of foul trouble, so it wasn't much of a factor.

 

[gmujim92]

Isn't it nice to have timeouts at the end of the game when you really need them!!!!!!! Also nice to see a logical substitution pattern and a coach looking to create and take advantage of mismatches.

Whoever did the advance scouting on Richmond had our guys very well prepared defensively.

Jones and Fore are really dangerous driving the ball, but by sagging off Taylor and Davis when they were in the game, we were able to keep the lane clogged and prevent them from getting many easy baskets. As a bonus, Taylor fired up 4 3s and bricked them all.

It was also obvious that our wings had been told repeatedly not to help off Marshall Wood, who is Richmond's best 3-point shooter. Wood mostly stands in a corner and waits for a kickout, but Abram and Grayer did a good job of sticking to him and Wood was a total non-factor.

TJ Cline had a big game, but we don't really have anybody who can guard him. Then again, 6-8, 240-pound guys who can shoot the 3 are a tough matchup for everyone.

 

[GMUgemini]

For those who don't know what it was like to watch a Hewitt team, it's a feeling that you know you are going to lose no matter how big of a lead, no matter how much the team had been dominating the opposition up to that point, no matter how much talent you had on the team. In some ways it was comforting, because you knew never to get overly excited about anything that happened.

I mean, we gave up something like a 7 or 8 point play against South Florida. And up to that point I think we were winning by 25. How is a 7 point play possible? Hewitt.

 

[Harry]

We beat them last year when they had a better team. We can certainly win in the old fart arena down in the dirty dirty. So many old people up in their arena it looks like a bingo convention in Florida.

Shevon will dunk on some poor soul. Grayer will light them up. Murrell needs to stop shooting 3's.

Goodguys 68
Tobey Maguire's 64

Tweeder, you are simply clairvoyant! Shevon had 9 straight points to essentially win the game and Grayer went for 20!

 

[Harry]

The ending of the first half was kind of emblematic of our season. We lead most of the first half, Marko misses a wide open 3 and then they score on a fastbreak at the buzzer and take a 1-point lead into the half.

Kind of like the GW game. We had the last shot of the first half, missed the shot, and fouled Watanabe (I think) with .5 seconds left. Watanabe of course made both shots...

 

[Harry]

We have always matched up well against Richmond. Its good to know no matter how crappy our team is we can always get a W against UofR.

Unlike the bad old days when Dick Tarrant was the coach and they were in the CAA. They would always beat us and their obnoxious fans would chant "Richmond; Spiders" on the way out. Made your blood boil...

 

[liem.le.3388]

For those who don't know what it was like to watch a Hewitt team, it's a feeling that you know you are going to lose no matter how big of a lead, no matter how much the team had been dominating the opposition up to that point, no matter how much talent you had on the team. In some ways it was comforting, because you knew never to get overly excited about anything that happened.

I mean, we gave up something like a 7 or 8 point play against South Florida. And up to that point I think we were winning by 25. How is a 7 point play possible? Hewitt.

Thanks for the reminder, thank goodness those days are behind us!!

 

[Patriotsince81]

Thanks for the reminder, thank goodness those days are behind us!!

You don't miss him calling timeouts 3 seconds before a TV timeout?

 

[Vurbel]

You don't miss him calling timeouts 3 seconds before a TV timeout?

I will never understand that. I've heard it explained. Still makes no sense.

 

[Washingtonian]

I will never understand that. I've heard it explained. Still makes no sense.

There are also new rules with timeouts this season, if one is called within 30 seconds of the media timeout, the timeout becomes a media timeout (except the first timeout of the 2nd half).

 

[Pikapppatri8]

It is better to teach from a win than a loss... and there were a lot of teaching moments that came out of the last few minutes of last night's game.

It's a process. Changing the culture of any organization takes time. DP has the ship moving in the right direction, although at times, the ship is more like an ocean liner than a speed boat.

I am sure there will be several speed bumps throughout the remainder of the season. That said, I like the progress of the program...

I'm new to Mason basketball so I don't know what things were like during the reign of PH, but this team is fun to watch. The youthful enthusiasm is contagious...

The Paul Hewitt Era was like being having an obsessive compulsive disorder that made you slam your dick into a door jam repeatedly until you went numb. That sums it up.