Game 4: GMU (3-0) vs New Hampshire (2-2) on Saturday, November 15, at 2:00 PM.

[tblack33]

I think there’s a decent chance we just aren’t going to be very good this year.

 

[GMUYoda]

Atrocious offense the 1st half. 1-13 from 3, 7-25 FGs.

Half of our points came at the line (14-18)

 

[DRK331]

Mason up 35-29 for the 2nd half so far.

 

[GMUgemini]

This is one of the most painful games to watch in awhile. Feels like when we play Fordham.

 

[tblack33]

We’re just not that talented, coupled with a couple guys who are clearly not bought into our system, bad recipe. I think we might have downgraded at every position.

 

[DRK331]

Mason up 40-36 to a team currently ranked 359 out of 365 on KenPom.

 

[GMUgemini]

Finally putting some pressure on the ball and getting out in transition. Should have been doing this all game.

 

[Leesburg Chankenstank III]

Team coming alive now. Up 14 50-36

 

[tblack33]

Frustrating that we play 3 minutes of defense and things look exactly like they should. We can’t go 25+ minutes a game playing like this, teams around our same level will absolutely bury us.

 

[DRK331]

Mason up 53-38, under 8 mins left in the game.

 

[GMUgemini]

Frustrating that we play 3 minutes of defense and things look exactly like they should. We can’t go 25+ minutes a game playing like this, teams around our same level will absolutely bury us.

Team seems to have taken New Hampshire lightly. Cant do that with any team.

 

[DRK331]

Mason up 59-41 with 4 mins left in the 2nd half.

 

[DRK331]

Mason wins 61-44 and is now 4-0 on the season.

 

[GMUYoda]

Ugly. Ugly. Ugly. A win, but did I say an ugly win?

 

[DRK331]

Post game presser with Tony Skinn and Riley Allenspach

 

[GMUgemini]

17 point win that feels like a loss because it should have been closer to 30.

Can’t have the entire guard unit play this badly at the same time. Troutman gets a little pass because he was just coming back from injury (and we all know first games back are usually crappy). Booker is a freshman and so I get it (although wish he hit at least one of the wide open shots they let him have). Long and Mincy as the tip of the spear can’t both stink it up together. Long especially with the pointless push off fouls he got today.

 

[Sport31]

Everyone needs to RELAX. Yes the offense wasn't very good, but all teams have an off night. Defense was much better tonite, Mincy, Troutman, pressley, Dola and Kanga turned D into O during a 5-7 minute stretch where we out scored them 16- to 4. You can tell Tony concentrated on defense this week. I'm not discounting some of the comments above, stagnate offense for 20+ minutes, 12 turnovers, six by our point guard(Long), and overall crappy effort for long periods of time. But we are 4-0, For someone to say we downgraded at each position you need to remember we lost 2 OCC games last year at home to teams that were 250+ kenpom. So everyone relax, and believe that our coach will get this right.

 

[Leesburg Chankenstank III]

On a positive note, this game was the best defensive performance so far this season

 

[Patriotsince81]

Just got back from the game. We're lucky we've played such a soft schedule so far. New Hampshire is/was horrible, we're lucky to walk away with this win. Any top 150 team walks away with the win tonight. We're going to need to get A LOT better if we're going to be relevant in A10 play.

 

[NewPatriot]

17 point win that feels like a loss because it should have been closer to 30.

Can’t have the entire guard unit play this badly at the same time. Troutman gets a little pass because he was just coming back from injury (and we all know first games back are usually crappy). Booker is a freshman and so I get it (although wish he hit at least one of the wide open shots they let him have). Long and Mincy as the tip of the spear can’t both stink it up together. Long especially with the pointless push off fouls he got today.

Mincy and Long were bound to have a bad shooting game. No one should expect Mincy to have an 83.3 percent True shooting percentage all year. The good thing is that Dola Abebayo stepped up, took over inside with a double-Double to bounce back from a scoreless game.

Props to Allensbach as well.