You could argue we needed stops more
We needed offense
And if you put Polley in you're taking out Whaley who kept us in the game with his defense. We're now looking for storylines on why Hurley screwed up. His in game coaching and feel for the game is clearly getting much better.
No you couldn’t. When you are behind points, you need need to score points to catch-up.
Polley was too busy missing wide open threes tonight
Bringing Math into this was uncalled for..... if only we still had a proper judge. You'd be in danger of a hangin'
I would’ve preferred he missed a couple more rather than the most inefficient 5 in the country this week.
This was the slowest possession game we played all season (it happens, post season games slow down as teams focus in and get back on D and are more careful with the ball in general).
I’m sure there’s an optimal time to put Polley back in the game down four and needing buckets to win or extend the game. But 15 seconds left ain’t it.
Fair. But we have won one game this season scoring 64 or less, Seton Hall last night. Without Aiken and a damaged Richmond.
No that was Cole!
Lol. 3 of those 7 points were on a terrible AJ brick that the hand of JC guided in. Don’t pretend we were scoring down the stretch. Our starting lineup is very good defensively and very challenged offensively. You’re a numbers guy . Pull up one of those genius sites that has our best offensive lineups. I promise you it is not Whaley, Sanogo, Martin, Cole and AJ. I have a feeling you know this already. When you are down 5 points you need to actually score the ball. Otherwise you just get stops and Lose by the amount you are down by.
Tje flip side of that coin, nova wasn't trying to score. Just killing clock. We needed points.
Hawkins makes this offense much harder to defend. We can’t forget that he’s been out. Add him and we can beat anybody.
Nova didn't score in the final 5:02 until we had to foul with seconds left. The defense gave us our chances to score and Whaley was the biggest part of that with 2 huge blocks. You put Polley in and you're taking Whaley out, Wright was targeting Polley. Sanogo missed another couple layups, Cole shot an airball wide open three, Tyrese missed a wide open 3. Refs missed a foul on Sanogo's rebound which would've put him on the line for 2 ft's. We had plenty of chances because of our defense at the end of the game. It just didn't work out.
We’ve won 3.
No . Sanogo should’ve been out not Whaley.
Yeah no idea why I said 1. I think it’s 3-4, 4-4. The teams were either not at full strength or bottom of the barrel. Scoring 64 points or less isn’t good. To win, you need to score points and be confident you will.
3-6*
Or Pembroke MA?
I think this is easy to say in hindsight, but generally I like when we play our best players. He had been struggling a bit, but he had also gotten a bunch of offensive rebounds and did score a couple easy ones down the stretch off nice entry passes. We're desperate at times for easy buckets in the half court, and he's by far our best option for those. With Whaley in for Sanogo and Cole being blanketed, there's not a ton of a great half court scoring options.
Whaley and Sanogo are really good on defense but our offense suffers with them in together. It also doesn’t help that Jackson isn’t an offensively threat, yet.