A Collective Failure

[mug644]

RGV sounds like a respiratory virus.

It certainly does this year. For the last couple of years, it sounded like an effective erectile disfunction medicine.

[Shooter McGavin]

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.

Yep. Open dagger after open dagger missed.  Can't do that as a senior "shooter".  But without him, MU is not even in the game.  His defensive wall ups are great.  He had several tough rebounds and I liked his drives to the basket. He is a good player.  Just have needed more out of him this year. 

[K1 Lover]

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

Hurley isn't like that. He's been very vocal about his respect for Marquette and respects us enough to not hold back.

Case in point, our final home game during the '23-24 season was against UConn. They had already secured the Big East regular season title, and it was our senior night. Hurley saw to it that we lost anyway.

[onepost]

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.

He's looked checked out all season

[Pakuni]

At least we're not talking about tweets.

[CountryRoads]

Shaka totally dejected in the postgame press conference.

[mileskishnish72]

Shaka totally dejected in the postgame press conference.

Over what a poor in-game coach he is?

[onepost]

Shaka totally dejected in the postgame press conference.

Tough to act otherwise when you've had to eat a heaping pile of shhit all season.

[Pakuni]

Shaka totally dejected in the postgame press conference.

Worn out from all the questions about tweets?

[Zog from Margo]

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.

This is the best MU has played this year. Getting Gold in for Hamilton helped. Gold played well. Gold is the only frontline player that MU has who can play position D. He just needs to stop shooting 3s.  James played well. Jones made some critical mistakes at crunch time and shows he's no PG. MU lost due to lack of talent and poor roster construction. MU's bigs get pushed around like rag dolls. MU was killed on the glass. Payne had over 20 rebounds. 

[WellsstreetWanderer]

Yep. Open dagger after open dagger missed.  Can't do that as a senior "shooter".  But without him, MU is not even in the game.  His defensive wall ups are great.  He had several tough rebounds and I liked his drives to the basket. He is a good player.  Just have needed more out of him this year.

This was the best version of Ben that I have seen. He wanted this game.
Different game if we could make bunnies

[Jockey]

Send a donation to MU by midnight tomorrow to keep the Madison team from overthrowing what Marquette is building. They are  scared and will try to stop us. It is our only hope.

[MuggsyB]

Starts around the 7 min mark

He didn't sound happy. 

[GoldenEagles03]

He didn't sound happy. 

He sounded like he wanted to cry. He made this team. No sympathy!

[Pakuni]

This was the best version of Ben that I have seen. He wanted this game.
Different game if we could make bunnies

Almost like 3+ years of trying to make him poor man's Steve Novak has been a bad idea all along.

[Doo]

Tightened up in the last few minutes.
- the game ended on a 13-0 SH run
Gold played good.
- He was 1-7 from 3, got pounded on the boards by Payne & then fouled out
Glad Tre and Caedin didn't play.
- Cardin started.

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[MuggsyB]

He sounded like he wanted to cry. He made this team. No sympathy!

I don't think you need to worry about me being sympathetic in this case. 

[WhiteTrash]

He sounded like he wanted to cry. He made this team. No sympathy!

If Shaka stays, I will be amazed if he can hold on to the best players.

At this point I'm hoping there is some major off the court issue, just to explain this disaster.

[MuggsyB]

If Shaka stays, I will be amazed if he can hold on to the best players.

At this point I'm hoping there is some major off the court issue, just to explain this disaster.

It sounds like you're done WT, and if you had the 🔨  would use it immediately. 

[MarquetteMike1977]

On our Dirty Dozen Marquette Brothers for Life Text Chain. I am always positive throughout the years. But I Finally went Negative today and they were saying someone stole my phone. Ha Ha

[DoctorV]

Stephon Payne of SH had 14pts and 22reb tonight.
Mr. Payne average 8&6 as a junior last year playing for Jacksonville

Marquette, the team, had 29 rebounds tonight
Marquette is littered with top 100 recruits.

[Daniel]

I think Shaka will be able to keep his good young players.  The freshmen are solid or will be more so.  Next year we have some good pieces.    Heck we need shooters and rebounder and a bangeri8n the middle.  So with the freshmen, redshirts and next years class Shaka could have a de ent base.  But he will have to use the portal to get what he feels he needs. 

This year....  I think need to play the important pieces and do our best.    Not going t9 the tourney so let everything else rip

[BM1090]

What was the lineup situation this game? Random and sporadic?

It was actually a ton better, but some questionable decisions down the stretch

[GoldenEagles03]

If Shaka stays, I will be amazed if he can hold on to the best players.

At this point I'm hoping there is some major off the court issue, just to explain this disaster.

I think it is best we go different directions if Shaka can't commit to making this team as good as possible every single season.

[dgies9156]

Would someone please turn off the RGV board on the east side of the north basket! It's embarrassing!