Games 28 & 29, 2021-22: Fordham (away 2/28, home 3/2)
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Fordham scored 72 against Duq. on 1/12 and they haven't been over 70 since (hit 70 once on 1/18). That's all there is to say. If giving up 85 hastens the departure I guess I'm OK with it. The sooner the better. The team looked totally disorganized.
Re: Games 28 & 29, 2021-22: Fordham (away 2/28, home 3/2)
Neptune is the kind of diamond in the rough we need. His best player Antonio Daye quit over a month ago and he still trounced us.
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Re: Games 28 & 29, 2021-22: Fordham (away 2/28, home 3/2)
Why did their best player quit?
Hire Matt McCall!
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I'm trying not to post about this game but I can't help myself. Let's talk about practice, yes practice. It's not conceivable that there hasn't been an emphasis on defense in practice so what the hell is going on? Maybe we should stop practicing and just go play. Or maybe we will get version 2 of
"These guys don't deserve to practice in the Champion's Center so I'm moving practice to The Cage".
Wednesday should be interesting.
"These guys don't deserve to practice in the Champion's Center so I'm moving practice to The Cage".
Wednesday should be interesting.
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Re: Games 28 & 29, 2021-22: Fordham (away 2/28, home 3/2)
So Preston Santos still got no PT after his strong finish in the VCU game?
McCall is a bonafide clown.
McCall is a bonafide clown.
Re: Games 28 & 29, 2021-22: Fordham (away 2/28, home 3/2)
^ he did play in the first half. Had a few threes he missed on, but he was in the game for a bit.
We did not shoot the ball well last night. And they did. Basically that was the game
We did not shoot the ball well last night. And they did. Basically that was the game
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Re: Games 28 & 29, 2021-22: Fordham (away 2/28, home 3/2)
box score is interesting 6 of 29 from 3 . However our normal shooters both Kellys, Weeks etc were 2 for 10. Rich Kelly shot one three and weeks 2. Dominquez and Santos go 2 for 11. No adjustments to free our shooters. maybe thats not even in the offense. NO adjustments to double team the big guy who torched us down low. Saw zone briefly but again we suck at it. The energy i saw for this team was running after the Fordham guys. We had no answer and their coach drew a plan to take us away from our strength. What did McCall do.................. Double digit loss ......again!!!
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I will reiterate, this UMass team is not a good shooting team. I've shown the numbers in other threads, and they've had bad shooting for well over a month, almost all of conference play. 6 of 29 from three last night, good for 20.7%, and when you look at their last two games, a combined 9 of 49 from three, 18.8%. This team does not shoot well, it does not attack the rim and finish well, it does not defend. Is there one thing that this team does well?
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Re: Games 28 & 29, 2021-22: Fordham (away 2/28, home 3/2)
The offense assumes all can shoot the three and it seems McCall encourages it. The players shared the ball and got it to open players to shoot. Those players were open because Fordham left them open. Even at the end of the game when Steadman was shooting mid range jumpers, he was doing so because that was what Fordham allowed. In conference, the coaches have figured out how to limit shots from Weeks, Kelly and Kelley and even Buttrick to some degree. The players have very little fundamentals when going to the basket and get shots blocked more than any team I can remember. Or, they have to shoot a high degree of difficulty circus shot to get around a defender. No foot work. No head or ball fakes. All of that is on coaching.Juice Stand wrote: ↑Tue Mar 01, 2022 6:40 am I will reiterate, this UMass team is not a good shooting team. I've shown the numbers in other threads, and they've had bad shooting for well over a month, almost all of conference play. 6 of 29 from three last night, good for 20.7%, and when you look at their last two games, a combined 9 of 49 from three, 18.8%. This team does not shoot well, it does not attack the rim and finish well, it does not defend. Is there one thing that this team does well?
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Re: Games 28 & 29, 2021-22: Fordham (away 2/28, home 3/2)
He transferred to Coastal Carolina which is near his home
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Actually, he played in the first half and was part of the brick fest. Like most everyone, he looked bad.inthescoop wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:59 pm So Preston Santos still got no PT after his strong finish in the VCU game?
McCall is a bonafide clown.
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Re: Games 28 & 29, 2021-22: Fordham (away 2/28, home 3/2)
Rock. Bottom.
Stop waiting for UMass to do something big and help UMass do something big. - Shades
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Re: Games 28 & 29, 2021-22: Fordham (away 2/28, home 3/2)
https://www.gazettenet.com/UMass-minute ... l-45308087
I still believe in these players, but clearly they're not getting the in-game coaching, adjustments, direction that they need.
"I don't how great our ball movement was" ... come on man, really? Were you even at the game? You can't identify that in real time and communicate it to your players? That quote from McCall sounds so defeated, to not even have a sense of what ball movement was like. Give me a break.We turned the ball over too much, we had 14 turnovers in the game. I have to watch the tape, but I don't know how great our ball movement was.
I still believe in these players, but clearly they're not getting the in-game coaching, adjustments, direction that they need.
Re: Games 28 & 29, 2021-22: Fordham (away 2/28, home 3/2)
This reminds me of my freshman and sophomore years 2-24 and 3-24 respectively............just saying
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I take back every bad thing I said about MM, he's a freakin' genius.
“You can’t give up 85 points to a team that you know offensively hasn’t put up those types of numbers this year and expect to win,” Minutemen coach Matt McCall said.