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Did we simply lack intensity today?

OR...

Have fundamental weaknesses been exposed?

The answer will come in the next three games.
 
Overall, we are an average team that plays in a below average conference. We are better than the bottom feeders of the CAA and are not good enough to play consistently with the better teams in and out of the conference. Our style is based on the success of our outside game. If it is off then we will get beat by most teams as we have no inside game at all.

In regards to today's game, they were more focused and played with a much higher level of intensity and deserved to win. It is a shame because the fans and students did their part, but the team didn't reciprocate and that is troubling to say the least.

To have any shot at all against GMU, the intensity level has to be jacked several decibels and I am not sure that will be good enough.
 
stevesvcu90 said:
To have any shot at all against GMU, the intensity level has to be jacked several decibels and I am not sure that will be good enough.
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Well when I was a student at VCU, we never lost a home game.
 
ODU, with GMU, are the top two teams in this league, no question IMO. ODU came in to the SC today and shoved it down our throats both halves.
 
rammed said:
ODU, with GMU, are the top two teams in this league, no question IMO. ODU came in to the SC today and shoved it down our throats both halves.
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Not buying.
 
They played as bad as they did as they did at Richmond, and it just shows how bad they can play. They can play great at times too. I'm going to catch a lot of flak for it but Joey plays awful when it counts. It's not just today, he played for the most part an awful game at JMU and got away with it. In fairness it wasn't all his fault, we didn't rebound or get the stops defensively. ODU made Skeen a non factor but it goes to show that our interior game has to play that much better when our "star" PG has as bad of a game as he did (Jamie's 32 @JMU). Hopefully this is just the butt whipping we need to get us ready for GMU, WSU, JMU, and the tournament.
 
bad game today. I would not start with that "average" discussion.

ODU and GMU are very good. They beat us BAD on the Boards and in the Paint and Well...everywhere. BUT ODU has 4 losses in the conference so they have had their bad games as well.

GMU game is not a final. Let's see our team gather, recover and win on tuesday.

We win Tuesday we are in FIrst place with tiebreaker.

How often have we seen ODU shoot close to 50% and thats with all the offensive rebounds! They played beyond their level today and we played below ours.

Good win ODU
Tough loss VCU
 
I understand we didn't rebound well, we never really have so that does not surprise me. We shot 38%, that's fine it happens to the best of teams

But one thing that I don't understand is why we are still running this useless pressure defense, we got like one turnover out of it and in return let them score about 6-7 times, most of them being flashy dunks that shut our fans up. Not just today, almost every game this pressure D does not work, we gave them over 10 wide open plays because they cracked our press.

I know we will bounce back strong against Mason because I don't think we've ever played 2 bad games in a row.
 
The was the opposite of Norfolk. All the balls were bouncing ODU's way. Seemed like every ODU missed shot was an easy put back. ODU was able to play their game today, we weren't. I had a feeling we were going to lose this, but is still sucks. At Norfolk, I remember all the guards crashing the glass and grabbing rebounds, just didn't happen today.
 
Frustrating game today from the very beginning -- missing our first 7 or so shots and falling behind 8-0. Seemed we couldn't buy a bucket. I think we twice cut the lead to 2 in the first half but we couldn't string together any consistency on offense. Just a bad shooting day, coupled with an inability to get the ball down low.

The most glaring issues as others have mentioned: (1) rebounding margin, and (2) allowing too many easy points in the paint. I can't recall a game where we have been outrebounded so badly (by +25), and we allowed way too many easy points. I lost count after ODU had already scored 38 or 40 in the paint. Northeastern exposed us and ODU followed suit. The coaching staff has to clean this up, although the last couple of games we seem slow in transition on D. Is the answer to press less? In any case the next 4 games are not easy...
 
This was the Richmond game all over again.

At this point I realize what our team is. We're just not that great. Yea we can get hot at any given moment, but good teams play consistently and we don't.
 
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