Good Effort Rowsey

[wadesworld]

5th year senior puts up a doughnut in the biggest game of the year. Way to step up and lead your team.

Turn this team over to Sam. Run every offensive set through him. At least he'll attempt to make the smart basketball decision. I've seen enough of our 5'9" guards put their head down and hunt their points. The ball needs to move and everyone needs to be involved.

Time to start playing for next season. And make sure we're having a middle man get on some potential grad transfer point guards. Ones who look to get their teammates going and want to compete and at least pretend to want to defend.

[Herman Cain]

5th year senior puts up a doughnut in the biggest game of the year. Way to step up and lead your team.

Turn this team over to Sam. Run every offensive set through him. At least he'll attempt to make the smart basketball decision. I've seen enough of our 5'9" guards put their head down and hunt their points. The ball needs to move and everyone needs to be involved.

Time to start playing for next season. And make sure we're having a middle man get on some potential grad transfer point guards. Ones who look to get their teammates going and want to compete and at least pretend to want to defend.

Don't rip on a kid. He tried his best and it just wasn't good enough tonight. He will be back.

[Warrior1969]

Oh PLEASE ....that was his best effort?  That was him giving 100%?????   Rousey SUCKS!

[Dr. Blackheart]

Our coach gave up with 8 minutes to go!

[Big tuna]

Please stop.  We got smoked!

[MUBBau]

Rousey SUCKS!

Yeah, total sellout going to the WWE

[goldeneagle91114]

Our coach gave up with 8 minutes to go!

because we was out coached by UWM's coach.

[94Warrior]

Yeah, total sellout going to the WWE

Thank you!  I needed a laugh tonight.

[MUEng92]

Our coach gave up with 8 minutes to go!

That's nothing. I gave up with 13:00 minutes to go

[GoldenDieners32]

just an off game watch for a good next game we'll need it

[mug644]

5th year senior puts up a doughnut in the biggest game of the year. Way to step up and lead your team.

Turn this team over to Sam. Run every offensive set through him. At least he'll attempt to make the smart basketball decision. I've seen enough of our 5'9" guards put their head down and hunt their points. The ball needs to move and everyone needs to be involved.

Time to start playing for next season. And make sure we're having a middle man get on some potential grad transfer point guards. Ones who look to get their teammates going and want to compete and at least pretend to want to defend.

I think that that was pretty much the game plan, and was pushed even more when Rowsey was stinking up the joint. How'd that work out? Not so well.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Not excusing a shitass performance from rowsey, but he looked like he was sick.  Flushed checks and neck (not a good neck tonight). 

Sick as in real sick, not Crean excuse sick from yore.

[skianth16]

Rowsey can be a frustrating player at times, but tonight was just an off game. He made a bad pass or two, but he wasn't taking bad shots and playing hero ball like he can do at times. Yeah, you'd like your senior to step up in a game like this, but at least he didn't try to force it when he began to struggle.

[Smokin' Jae]

Don't rip on a kid. He tried his best and it just wasn't good enough tonight. He will be back.

Damn, well done herm

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Real bad night from Rowsey tonight. His turnovers weren't just bad, they were throws to literally nobody. But this is the same kid who dropped 29 on Villanova just three games ago. One of his greatest strengths and greatest weaknesses is his short memory. Would not be surprised to see him have a dominant game against Providence.

I do agree about getting others involved more. I thought our offense looked the best when Sacar and Greg were driving the ball. Work those plays in early and force the defense to adjust to it. That will open up plays for the midgets and Sammy.

Disagree about "playing for next year." 5-3 and we can make the tournament and the back end of our schedule is really friendly. Still plenty of time to win this year.

And as much as we want to complain about the offense....it is still rated in the top 15 by KenPom. We are spoiled with good offense. Defense is the issue.

[tower912]

5th year senior puts up a doughnut in the biggest game of the year. Way to step up and lead your team.

Turn this team over to Sam. Run every offensive set through him. At least he'll attempt to make the smart basketball decision. I've seen enough of our 5'9" guards put their head down and hunt their points. The ball needs to move and everyone needs to be involved.

Time to start playing for next season. And make sure we're having a middle man get on some potential grad transfer point guards. Ones who look to get their teammates going and want to compete and at least pretend to want to defend.

They repeatedly ran isolation for Sam.  Like everyone else, he failed to step up.

[Zephyr820]

Oh PLEASE ....that was his best effort?  That was him giving 100%?????   Rousey SUCKS!

He scored zero against Butler last year.  They just have him.

[leever]

Not excusing a crapass performance from rowsey, but he looked like he was sick.  Flushed checks and neck (not a good neck tonight). 

Sick as in real sick, not Crean excuse sick from yore.

I'm with you.  Rowsey looked physically ill.  They also played great defense on him - he was never open. 

As far as Wojo giving up with 8 minutes to go, looked like several players gave up a lot earlier than that.

[drewm88]

5th year senior puts up a doughnut in the biggest game of the year. Way to step up and lead your team.

Turn this team over to Sam. Run every offensive set through him. At least he'll attempt to make the smart basketball decision. I've seen enough of our 5'9" guards put their head down and hunt their points. The ball needs to move and everyone needs to be involved.

Time to start playing for next season. And make sure we're having a middle man get on some potential grad transfer point guards. Ones who look to get their teammates going and want to compete and at least pretend to want to defend.

[wadesworld]

They repeatedly ran isolation for Sam.  Like everyone else, he failed to step up.

You're making my point.  Isolation basketball works...in the NBA.  Or when you have NBA talent.  MU has a single guy on the active roster that has any shot to make the NBA, and that's 2 years and a lot of development away from happening for him.

Put it this way.  Our "lead guard" and "best ballhandler" had 2 assists and 3 turnovers and shot 0% from the field.  He's a fifth year senior who's supposed to be the best offensive player we have, but in 3 of his last 7 games he's scored 6 or fewer points.  It's 50/50 whether he even shows up since the BE season has started.

Our power forward equaled our "lead guard" in assists and at least hit 4 of his shot attempts.  And he did this while going isolation.  Now imagine how good he would be if we actually ran him off screens for open shots, or ran cuts from the wings off of his catch at the top of the key or elbow.

I love that our guards can score 30 on any given night.  I would love it even more if they showed up with any type of consistency and were able to do that while keeping their head up while dribbling, seeing the court and not having tunnel vision on the rim and only the rim.  I would guarantee you coaches in the Big East would be ecstatic to let one of Rowsey or Howard go for 30 every time they played Marquette, because that would mean many shots and very little ball movement from one of the players, making the rest of the team very easy to defend.  When the ball moves, Marquette is very good.  Unfortunately the ball very rarely moves, and Marquette is very often not very good to flat awful like last night.

[Nukem2]

It happens.  Kyron Cartwright, a solid senior for Providence, missed all 9 of his shots last night and also had zero points in the Friars' loss to Seton Hall last night.

[auburnmarquette]

Rowsey can be a frustrating player at times, but tonight was just an off game. He made a bad pass or two, but he wasn't taking bad shots and playing hero ball like he can do at times. Yeah, you'd like your senior to step up in a game like this, but at least he didn't try to force it when he began to struggle.

Agreed, awful night but he didn't just start heaving deep threes. Passes we're awful, Butler clearly has us scouted and frustrated.

Our fans should remember Butler's Brad Stevens who always reminded players in fans - one in 6 games you play out of your mind and you aren't that good - one in six games you are terrible and you aren't that bad - the other 4 in 6 games are the ones that determine your season.

[wadesworld]

Agreed, awful night but he didn't just start heaving deep threes. Passes we're awful, Butler clearly has us scouted and frustrated.

Our fans should remember Butler's Brad Stevens who always reminded players in fans - one in 6 games you play out of your mind and you aren't that good - one in six games you are terrible and you aren't that bad - the other 4 in 6 games are the ones that determine your season.

What happens when 2/3 you are terrible?

[Its DJOver]

Wouldn't be surprised to see him start on the bench Saturday.  Wojo has sent messages like this to him in the past with one game suspension for missing a meeting or being late for practice and Rowsey usually responds well.   

[skianth16]

Wouldn't be surprised to see him start on the bench Saturday.  Wojo has sent messages like this to him in the past with one game suspension for missing a meeting or being late for practice and Rowsey usually responds well.

A punishment for a lack of discipline is much different than a punishment for an off game. Rowsey's performance last night was not worth a benching. If Wojo starts benching guys for having bad nights, all of our starters would be benched at one point or another.