All good things must end

[NolongerWarriors]

Cringe

I still love it.

[Mr. Nielsen]

The three main reasons we lost this one are rebounding, rebounding, and rebounding.

Fairly pathetic last possession out of a TO, Shak.

It has nothing to do with poor shooting from three? Missing couple of bunnies might have helped.

[5DollarPitcher]

I still love it.

Just so cringe....

[NolongerWarriors]

Just so cringe....

I love every minute of this...

[5DollarPitcher]

I love every minute of this...

Yikes

[CountryRoads]

Respectable loss to a good team. Played good but not great. I'm fine with a loss here to learn from moving forward. Don't want to fall into the peak in January trap.

Oh and NLW - Buzz isn't gonna f**k you bro. Quit trying - it's cringe.

Yeah, I've already moved on to looking towards the next game. On Scoop, we have focused a lot on this "gauntlet" of 6 or 7 games during conference, but the reality is that there is a ton of basketball to be played even after the gauntlet is over. Still a lot of growing to be done.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Honestly mods, at a certain point you have to ban the troll even if they're just going to make a new account.

There's legitimate criticism and then there's just being a dickhead for the sake of it.

[NolongerWarriors]

Yikes

Keep going...

[CountryRoads]

Honestly mods, at a certain point you have to ban the troll even if they're just going to make a new account.

There's legitimate criticism and then there's just being a dickhead for the sake of it.

What's funny is that this poster's first post was telling Rocky to go F himself.

[panda]

Imagine what kind of absolute loser human being comes to a message board after a team loses its first game in 8 contests and thinks he's the smart guy.

What an absolute embarrassment. Clown clown clown.

[The Sultan]

What's funny is that this poster's first post was telling Rocky to go F himself.

Actually that was that account's first post.

He's been here before.

[Jockey]

Honestly mods, at a certain point you have to ban the troll even if they're just going to make a new account.

There's legitimate criticism and then there's just being a dickhead for the sake of it.

If EVERYONE ignored him, he would go away. There are still too many who want to engage with him - they are just as big of a problem.

[Lennys Tap]

Kolek and Morsell prayed very well. Lewis and the rest, not so much. So many chances to get a big rebound that we missed. Some dumb plays - like Kur giving them 2 points when he stepped into the lane early on a missed one and one. In the end, it was "Elementary, my dear Watson".

[Dr. Blackheart]

Kolek and Morsell prayed very well.

MU needed a novena, though.

#prayersmatta

[Mr. Nielsen]

Providence scoring 22-1 on second chance points.

[nyg]

Half this thread goes to comments on a poster.

Half the Game Thread goes to comments on the refs. 

Here's a b-ball post:

Kur and Oso played 40 minutes total.  Kur with one rebound, Oso with one rebound. 

[The Sultan]

Half this thread goes to comments on a poster.

Half the Game Thread goes to comments on the refs. 

Here's a b-ball post:

Kur and Oso played 40 minutes total.  Kur with one rebound, Oso with one rebound. 

Yes. Our post players are good at guarding the rim. Poor rebounders though.

[tower912]

You are correct.    A few things.   
1.    They are both skinny.   There is little to be done when a Big East widebody decides to use their experience and years in the weight room to impose their will down low.   
2.    A couple of times today, both went for blocks, a la Theo, leaving themselves out of position to rebound.   
3.  MU plays so aggressively on the perimeter that recovering to the paint when the ball goes up has turned into an issue.   

4.  In the first half, MU neutralized the problem by generating a ton of turnovers. 
5.    Providence took care of the ball, attacked the rack with impunity, and crashed the boards.    MU has done a great job all year of doing just enough to hold on.    Today, Providence did just a little more and scraped out a two point win at home.     

The issue is chronic.    Sometimes it can be overcome.   Today, not quite.     

[mugrad_89]

MU lost because of their inability to protect the defensive glass.  But the fact that Watson was allowed to throw Kur to the ground on his and-one with 44 seconds left was ridiculous.

[Goose]

Disappointing loss because they were in position to win it. Other than that, time to learn from the loss and get ready for Wednesday. I placed my wagers on MU today completely based on being a homer for the Warriors. Deep down I thought this was an extremely out for MU and they still had a chance to win the game. Cannot wait until Wednesday night and welcome the fella's back home.

[NCMUFan]

No one got hurt in what I would have to say was the most physical game Marquette has played this year.
So that is a positive.
Regroup and beat Villanova on Wednesday!

[CTWarrior]

Tough loss that was there for the taking.  Not much more to add than defensive rebounding needs to get better.

Oso is not bringing anything to the table the past few games.  No matter when Kuath is playing, he is always at a minimum a big deterrent near the basket.
We take more bad shots when Kolek is not on the floor.  Too many 3s early in the clock where the shooter is not stepping into it.

Finally when we dribble drive or back the defense down, I'd like to see us run a shooter ball side for the kick out.  We get guys stuck under the basket with no easy outlet, like Kolek on the last possession.

But, in the end, we missed more than our fair share of bunnies and open threes, did not rebound well (though we really never rebound well), had our best player have an off night, and still were right there with a golden chance to win at the end.

[The Sultan]

MU lost because of their inability to protect the defensive glass.  But the fact that Watson was allowed to throw Kur to the ground on his and-one with 44 seconds left was ridiculous.

He didn't throw him to the ground.

[OffTheGlass]

Half this thread goes to comments on a poster.

Half the Game Thread goes to comments on the refs. 

Here's a b-ball post:

Kur and Oso played 40 minutes total.  Kur with one rebound, Oso with one rebound.

Agreed on Kur and Oso...I wanted to type something up after the game related to your post, but just thought I'd chill. I only expect so much from Kur, but Oso seems so hesitant on both ends. He went through a very nice stetch where I thought he might be a spark down low but he's disappeared. BTW, we need to stop giving the ball to Kur anywhere that is not 2" from the basket!

[MU82]

++ Looking at the box score, second chance points actually were even worse than I thought: Providence 22, Marquette 1. It's miraculous that we came as close to winning as we did.

++ PC came into this game as the 126th rated team in offensive rebounding percentage, so it's not as if we were going up against a rebounding juggernaut. Of course, we're 275th in defensive rebounding.

++ Meanwhile, we don't make opponents work too hard on the defensive boards, as we're 334th of 358 D1 teams in O Reb Pct.

++ Ironically (or maybe coincidentally?), on the very last play of the game we DID get an offensive board. Unfortunately, Lewis' shot rolled off the rim. I wonder if Justin thought he had less time than he did, because if he took his time and gathered, he had a dunk there. But it's hard to blame him for thinking the buzzer was about to sound. Not one of his better games, but he competed.

++ Nice bounce-back game for Morsell -- 14 points, 6 steals, 5 assists. I was calling for him to have the ball on the last possession. He was getting into the lane all game, and he either got a high-percentage shot or made a great pass almost every time.

++ Kuath, Oso and O-Max combined for 4 rebounds in 59:30 - ugh. Kur has brought a lot to the team more times than not, but he's a surprisingly poor rebounder for such an active, long 5. Not one of his better games today. Thrown around like a rag doll all day by Watson and Croswell, missed a dunk, gift-wrapped 2 points on the lane violation.

++ Weird stat: Kolek 0 assists. I guess it must have been the combination of him looking for his own shot more and of us playing too much 1-on-1. Not sure where Tyler was going on that last play; put himself in jail.

++ Shaka gets a lot of credit for this season, and deservedly so, but he was outcoached by Cooley on both our last possession of the first half and our last possession of the game.

++ Our bench players have been quite productive this season and have been difference-makers in several games, but we got very little out of them today. Would have liked Shaka to have found a few more minutes for Stevie to pester Durham, but otherwise no complaints with how minutes were apportioned.

++ Shot poorly ... rebounded abysmally ... gave up 42 second-half points. And yet still only lost by 2 on the road to the first-place team. I mean, Baylor just lost to an unranked team, Kansas just got killed at home. It happens.

++ I'm still very high on what this team can accomplish this season. As others have said, I'd love to play PC in the BET.

We Are Marquette!