MU/Flyers Game Thread

[GB Warrior]

[Pakuni]

Down 5 to a team that's committed 16 first-half turnovers. That's unpossible.

[PointWarrior]

Two crap teams trying to out crap each other.

[Jay Bee]

ZERO helpside defense ever time Gold hedges a ball screen.

it's effin CRAZY. wtf is this??

[Shooter McGavin]

I'm not one to overreact.
I know it's early
I believe in Shaka.

That said . . .

This might be the worst Marquette team I've seen since I became a diehard in 1989. The team lacks talent, toughness, poise, awareness, and hustle.

How did Shaka let this happen?

Unfortunately a level of incompetence that we have not seen in years. 

[Jay Bee]

We're winning the ft% battle. Should be all good. #pray

[ATL MU Warrior]

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Down 5 to a team that's committed 16 first-half turnovers. That's unpossible.

If Dayton can hang on to the ball they are guaranteed to score, so there's that.

[forgetful]

Down 5 to a team that's committed 16 first-half turnovers. That's unpossible.

And let that team still score 39 points. Unpossible indeed. Borderline unconceivable.

[nyg]

Four points, including two free throws in last six minutes. That's right, one field goal and two free throws in last six minutes.  MU was up four at the time

NBA bound Gold has zero points, two rebounds and three turnovers, all resulting in points. Needs to have better half.

[StillWarriors]

Played solidly for a while. Now back to crappy half court defense. Not going to win many games when the opponent shoots 65%. D is way too spread out.

Extending the D to half court and leaving an offensive guy alone under the basket doesn't seem like a great strategy.

Usually optimistic for the most part, but we are terrible. Steal or give up an easy bucket. Historically bad Fg % D. Ugh.

[ATL MU Warrior]

Gonna be honest.  Not even sure I'm going to watch half #2.

[GoldenEagles03]

There is no reason for optimism at the moment. The defense is so bad. You can't overcome this level of incompetence defensively combined with the turnovers.

We force a turnover and immediately run the other way and give it back. When we went up 5 we should have actually ran an offense.

[K1 Lover]

Can someone please give Joplin a jersey?

[IL Warrior]

This team fucking sucks. A 5-6 non-con and 6-14 Big East season wouldn't surprise me one bit at this point.

[MuggsyB]

There is no reason for optimism at the moment. The defense is so bad. You can't overcome this level of incompetence defensively combined with the turnovers.

We force a turnover and immediately run the other way and give it back. When we went up 5 we should have actually ran an offense.

Dayton has 16 turns and we're down 5.  It's also worth noting we have 13 turns and a grand total of 3 dimes.

Chase is Chase, Norman had a nice little stretch.  The rest of our guys have been frankly, awful.  No words can describe my frustration with our 3 bigs. 

[mileskishnish72]

Have to admit I'm really pissed off that they are playing at this level.

[Daniel]

No confidence, no swagger.  Totally out of sync.  Second half - let's Gooo Marquette!

[DoctorV]

I'd hate to single out one guy but that was the worst half of basketball I've seen from Ben Gold in some time.

Maybe Shaka needs to switch to a zone after 10-15s of man to man pressure that creates some turnovers, because that switch out to oblivion with no help/communication is abysmal.

Also, proud of Chase for getting after his teammates and showing fire.
Shaka should've never taken him out at the 6 min mark, lead was gone in no time.
Not smart, and a mistake he wouldn't make in years past

[MUEng92]

Royce has played 7 MINUTES and hasn't shot a 3.  He rarely play 7 seconds without getting up his first 3 point shot

[Zog from Margo]

If you can't stop transition and you can't play half court D, not much else matters. I expected this team to struggle offensively but to be better defensively. Man, was I off base.

[mileskishnish72]

This team fucking sucks. A 5-6 non-con and 6-14 Big East season wouldn't surprise me one bit at this point.

I hate to say it but you might be right on. So far, a gigantic disappointment.

[GoldenEagles03]

Our front court is embarrassingly bad.

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

I feel bad for Chase.  Dude is absolutely balling this year and has no support.

[GoldenEagles03]

Our front court is embarrassingly bad.

...and our backcourt doesn't even give me a chance to be pissed at them half the time, because they are turning it over to the other team before I can even get the chance lol

[chicagowarrior]

how are we favored?

yikes