A Collective Failure

[jesmu84]

Excuse me Scoopers but it seems to me we have ZERO idea what we are trying to do down the stretch.  Yes, Sean began that disaster, but the question is why on God Green earth is he handling the ball for 25 secs two straight possessions?  What the H happened to moving the basketball and moving and screening off the ball?  Obviously the foul on the 3 was catastrophically ridiculous but he should have pulled or our offensive sets should have been different.  That's 100% on Shaka imo.  I saw 0.0 direction as to what we wanted to do, vs their set defense, with the game on the line.  Was their gagging?  Yes.  But it's much easier to piss a over the place when you're nervous and clueless. 

Muggs. You gotta chill. This season is over. There's nothing to figure out or fix

[MuggsyB]

We all knew we'd lose, it's why I hammered Seton Hall -1. But proud of how they fought for 35 minutes. Great showings from Nigel, Royce, even Josh and Damarius showed flashes. And Shaka sat our worst players like he should have done a month ago, but nice to see a change.

The kind of loss I'm ok with. Back and forth against a decent team with things to build on.

I respectfully disagree. 

[MuggsyB]

Muggs. You gotta chill. This season is over. There's nothing to figure out or fix

Well, I'll be in Hawaii tomorrow.  Maybe I'll calm down a click or two. 

[Viper]

nuke the roster. and some of the staff.

after the BET, all of the staff, starting with the HC.

[Billy Hoyle]

Our offense was truly offensive. Coming out of the timeout down one, we set up a kick-out for a three. Really? James had a lane to the bucket too.

At UConn on Saturday. How bad could that be?

[MuggsyB]

Our offense was truly offensive. Coming out of the timeout down one, we set up a kick-out for a three. Really? James had a lane to the bucket too.

At UConn on Saturday. How bad could that be?

Ouch. 

[onepost]

I respectfully disagree.

Did you actually think we'd win?
Our season has been pretty clearly over since Maryland, there's no need to dwell on individual losses.

Hang your hat on the play of underclassmen if Shaka ends up staying and make some money while Vegas continues to give us too much respect.

[MuggsyB]

Once SHU showed a zone the entire team's mentality collapsed.

Which is totally and inexplicably inexcusable. 

[MUeng]

Our offense was truly offensive. Coming out of the timeout down one, we set up a kick-out for a three. Really? James had a lane to the bucket too.

At UConn on Saturday. How bad could that be?

i doubt it will be that bad as I can see Hurley experimenting with lineups and resting some players. MU still loses by 20+ though

[MuggsyB]

Did you actually think we'd win?
Our season has been pretty clearly over since Maryland, there's no need to dwell on individual losses.

Hang your hat on the play of underclassmen if Shaka ends up staying and make some money while Vegas continues to give us too much respect.

I thought we absolutely should have won. 

[MuggsyB]

Did you actually think we'd win?
Our season has been pretty clearly over since Maryland, there's no need to dwell on individual losses.

Hang your hat on the play of underclassmen if Shaka ends up staying and make some money while Vegas continues to give us too much respect.

I don't gamble and would never bet against my team. 

[TreeGhost]

Hold your head high, MU players and coaches ... good days will come as long as good habits endure!   

[mileskishnish72]

What an absolute disaster.  It's easy to blame Sean and Chase , but I have no fking idea what we were doing the final 5 mins. 

Don't feel bad, Muggs, neither did Notso.

[SonOfWarrior]

I don't gamble and would never bet against my team. 

You don't gamble and you never slice do you Judge?

[DoctorV]

That team is in such a funk that Ben Gold seemed otherworldly good out there at times today.

Then you look at the box score and he was 1-7 from 3. I get he did a lot of other good things, but that's pretty telling.

Muggsy is right that Marquette should have won that game.
Shaka had no business playing Sean in that critical portion of the game with that lineup of Nigel, Adrien, Chase, Royce, Ben playing so good for long stretches in the 2Hz
Literally 0 reason to do that. You needed a win very very badly and that's not the way to let one slip away.

I still felt bad for Coach though, the look of pain on his face at the end of the game said it all

[Silkk the Shaka]

legit LOL

[Billy Hoyle]

i doubt it will be that bad as I can see Hurley experimenting with lineups and resting some players. MU still loses by 20+ though

I remember a coach in the WCC telling me that during the 2020-21 season, Gonzaga knew it was so much better than every other team in the conference. Few would experiment and play lineups or styles they usually wouldn't play during the first halves of games. I could see Hurley do that against us.

[MarquetteMike1977]

Sister's of the Poor have awesome "habits" and habits as in religious attire but they stink at basketball lol no pun intended

[MarquetteMike1977]

Hold your head high, MU players and coaches ... good days will come as long as good habits endure!   

Sister's of the Poor have awesome "habits" and "habits" as in religious attire but they stink at basketball lol no pun intended Haha

[onepost]

I don't gamble and would never bet against my team. 

Was a first for me too this season

[Silkk the Shaka]

I don't gamble and would never bet against my team. 

too bad, it's been easy $$ with the insider info (watching games)

[nyg]

I thought we absolutely should have won.

Well was it coaching or players to blame?

In last six minutes:

No field goals made. It wasn't as if they were playing an NBA team
Ben Gold missed four wide open threes
Ross missed a break away layup, wide open three and wild layups
Sean Jones missed 2 wide open three, fouled on 3 point shot and turnover
Shaka subbed out James for Jones and bad, bad two minutes
Adrian Stevens jumped up in air with ball in hands
Gold had ball stolen on inbound play
Portal guy from Jacksonville St destroyed them on boards and defense

And that's all top of my head.

[WhiteTrash]

Is Shaka mailing it in now?

Maybe it's just the effect of losing, but he didn't seem interested in coaching them to attack.

[rocky_warrior]

Starts around the 7 min mark

[Viper]

Is Shaka mailing it in now?

Maybe it's just the effect of losing, but he didn't seem interested in coaching them to attack.

to have Jones in there, I'd say yeah, Shaka has sent the mail