Saint Mary's (11/13/22)

[CMJ]

9 minutes ago, Pavlovs Eagle said:

The commentator on the half time feed on wccsports.com said the WCC is a 2 or 3 bid conference.  Someone with a higher basketball IQ help me understand why the WCC gets 2-3 bids and CUSA gets 1 or maybe 2 with the very occasional at large bid.

They always do much better in the computer rankings, that's why.

[Screaching Eagle]

Long time lurker, first time poster here.. This is the most frustrated I have been with a McCasland team. It will be very interesting to see what sort of impact Rubin and TP have when they rejoin the starting line up. Even with them missing though I'm having a hard time figuring out how none of these guys expect for Kai can create their own shot. There is such a lack of creativity and i'm just waiting for someone to try to put the ball on the floor and attack the basket. It's not like some of these guys weren't contributors at their previous schools

[Pavlovs Eagle]

1 minute ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

Well, they snag an at large here and there, for sure. They have Gonzaga, but they have well branded and competitive basketball programs; Zags, SMC, San Fran, Pepperdine, BYU, USD, etc. Those listed programs could probably come into CUSA and make a lot of noise. 

So they just have better teams to get the additional at large bids.

Got it.

[emmitt01]

15 minutes ago, greenjoe said:

The worst half of North Texas basketball I’ve ever seen.

I didn’t see a single minute of this game…and I’ll still argue that Benford’s first year had multiple worse halves

[Green Lantern]

Just now, emmitt01 said:

I didn’t see a single minute of this game…and I’ll still argue that Benford’s first year had multiple worse halves

I’m telling you this was worse. I hate to say that. Truly.

[Big Z]

Stone needs to be on the bench 

[greenminer]

14 minutes ago, CMJ said:

I'd still say Maryland beating us by 75 is worse than this.

For sure.  I think there is something deceptive about early deficits.  A 20 point deficit seems much worse early on, when you've only scored 10-ish, then a late game 20 point deficit where you are down in a 60-80 score.

[CMJ]

SMC 37 ------- NT 13

 

15:04 to go

 

Not getting any easier to watch.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

5 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:

I didn’t see a single minute of this game…and I’ll still argue that Benford’s first year had multiple worse halves

It wasn't pretty, at all. 

[keith]

19 minutes ago, CMJ said:

I'd still say Maryland beating us by 75 is worse than this.

Good thing we will always that this to fall back on. 

[DeepGreen]

Gosh, this is brutal.  We look like a bad high school team.  Are we playing any starters or just new players?

[greenminer]

6 minutes ago, Green Lantern said:

I’m telling you this was worse. I hate to say that. Truly.

Those early Benford games you could tell that the coaching was "off".

Tonight, I'm reminded of Gillespie's first year in El Paso: that team lost a ton of games (they only won 6!) but you could see a good coach underneath it all.

Just to be clear: I think we will win more than 6 games.

Edited November 14, 2022 by greenminer

[Pavlovs Eagle]

When does Baseball get brought back?

[glick1980]

This team misses Drez.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

Dang we pack the weak side way in and they whip it around so fast and our close out wing is still basically on the block. Their ball movement is impressive. Our D is unimpressive. 

[emmitt01]

1 minute ago, glick1980 said:

This team misses Drez.

I bet they miss Bell more.

[CMJ]

SMC 46 ------- NT 18

 

11:28 to go

 

I may have to check out soon.  Hard to justify ignoring the missus when we're playing this poorly.

[UNTBill]

Why is Stone still playing?

[Andrew]

14 minutes ago, Screaching Eagle said:

Long time lurker, first time poster here.. This is the most frustrated I have been with a McCasland team. It will be very interesting to see what sort of impact Rubin and TP have when they rejoin the starting line up. Even with them missing though I'm having a hard time figuring out how none of these guys expect for Kai can create their own shot. There is such a lack of creativity and i'm just waiting for someone to try to put the ball on the floor and attack the basket. It's not like some of these guys weren't contributors at their previous schools

Feels like watching the mavericks without Brunson now. A bunch of supposedly defensive oriented guys who are struggling to play defense. With the occasional 3 and D guy. I thought Scott would have worked on creating his own shot over the break. He has the ability. Perry and Jones both can. Should be better when they get back. 

[CMJ]

SMC 48 ------- NT 20

 

9:44 to go

 

I swear, if we could just make some shots.  We're not even making somewhat easy ones tonight.

Edited November 14, 2022 by CMJ

[Pavlovs Eagle]

17 minutes ago, Screaching Eagle said:

Long time lurker, first time poster here..

[Censored by Laurie]

20 minutes ago, Andrew said:

Well to anyone who watched the game and knows basketball we lost. I suppose to an average fan blinded by the green googles then we won by 6. I don’t take being handed a game by a D2 team at home by pity pulling their starters a loss. Then again that’s why some people coach and play and others just sit around and watch… 

my brother in christ...which is the more likely scenario:

A. SNU coach, going into a meaningless exhibition game he probably anticipated losing, had a game-plan to play 10-12 players for 10-20 minutes to give everyone some burn, see what all his players could do against D1 competition and despite a second half lead he determined there was more value in sticking to that plan for their season big picture.

B.  Grant slid SNU coach a cool $100 and a Buckee's gift card to throw the game. 

[Censored by Laurie]

10 minutes ago, UNTBill said:

Why is Stone still playing?

ya. we might need to say that was a swing and a miss. 

and a miss. and another miss. and an airball. 

Edited November 14, 2022 by Censored by Laurie

[Green Lantern]

9 of 44 - Oof. Brutal

Edited November 14, 2022 by Green Lantern

[gordo nation]

Well this was really demoralizing. Looks like we've got a 10 win basketball team here. Very sad