MU Massively Fails First Test of Year: Dayton Wins 89-75
Written by: hilltopper91@gmail.com (Kevin Buckley (aka Hilltopper))
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After snacking on 5 cupcakes, Marquette faced its first real competition of the year, facing up against the Dayton Flyers. Buzz Williams' Warriors fell behind in the first few minutes and were destroyed by the A10 Dayton Flyers by 14 points.
MU was out-scored, out-rebounded, out-hustled.
Depending on your prescience, the loss either exposes or confirms Marquette's weaknesses. No production from our 5, terrible shooting beyond the 3-point range (4 for 20=20%), poor defense (giving up 89 points -- the most UD has scored this year.)
Oh, and our bench scored 5 points .. to Dayton's 50. That's 5 to 50. Think about that for a minute.
If you take away Matthew's 14/17 at the FT line, the rest of the team shot 47% from the charity stripe. Forty-Seven Percent. That's drunk Pop-a-Shot-in-a-bar like shooting.
Our bench's 5 was matched by Lazar's 5, who grabbed 8 boards, but fouled out after 24 minutes. If our 5 isn't scoring, and our 4/5 isn't either, we're going to lose. That's not to say Burke and Lazar are the reason we lost. Jerel chucking up 8 three-point bombs and missing 7 isn't going to help. And poor defense is a team effort.
Dayton is no slouch team, of course. But the Big East has at least 10 teams that are as good as Dayton, and they just spanked us.
And someone check my math .. but aren't we 1-3 with those Baby Blue uniforms? They might look cool, but they've got mighty bad ju-ju.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em. This could be a long season. Is it too late to amend my 25-6 prediction?
Official Box Score (http://gomarquette.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/stats/2008-2009/mugame06.html)
http://marquettebasketball.blogspot.com/2008/11/mu-massively-fails-first-test-of-year.html
It seems the fast paced offense we have been running admittedly provides more possessions for the opponent too - you score and they get it, you kmiss and lose the rebound which we do often, they get it. When we score, it genreally works. Tonight we didn't score with it - we blew lots of shorts shots, some layups, and plenty of 3s.
I hope we learn something from this - fast - and fix it. We should have better nights
The only thing I can disagree with in Cracked Sidewalks summary of the game is that the baby blue uniforms "might look cool". They are an affront to the senses and are hideous in all regards, not to mention that we suck something awful whenever we wear them. Burn the baby blues!
In the original post "might" is in italics. I didn't know how else to format that word to show my disdain for the baby blues.
I'm right there with you.
Quote from: Daniel on November 29, 2008, 11:37:17 PM
It seems the fast paced offense we have been running admittedly provides more possessions for the opponent too - you score and they get it, you kmiss and lose the rebound which we do often, they get it. When we score, it genreally works. Tonight we didn't score with it - we blew lots of shorts shots, some layups, and plenty of 3s.
I hope we learn something from this - fast - and fix it. We should have better nights
What we are learning is the team cannot win against quality opponents with 4 players.
Quote from: CrackedSidewalksSays on November 29, 2008, 10:30:04 PM
If you take away Matthew's 14/17 at the FT line, the rest of the team shot 47% from the charity stripe. Forty-Seven Percent. That's drunk Pop-a-Shot-in-a-bar like shooting.
Man...the men's league I play in once a week as better FT shooting than that...
Keep the baby blues. They are the only thing that looked good last night.