These refs… why is it that ALL of the mistakes they make are in Furman’s favor?
This f***ing game.
Refs missed Furman’s goaltend. Can’t review and we get screwed.
Refs called Furman for a goaltend. They can review and reverse Lee’s bucket.
Refs called a phantom kickball (led to a Furman layup).
Refs called Davis’ retaliation on Hien but not Hien dragging Davis down the neck.
And down we go. Such a frustrating season. Mental mistakes and lack of toughness.
This team just isn’t very good outside of Lee.
Pierce has been such a letdown this season. His mental mistakes cost us down the stretch.
I don’t see it that way. This is a really tough Furman team and it is really hard to travel to Greenville, SC to play that game. The Tigers started cold and sloppy but really fought back and looked great doing it. They missed the front of two one and ones and the refs had some woeful calls at the end or they win that game against an 8-1 team.
When you get destroyed by Wright State and outhustled by Texas State, you have to win some of these tougher games to show progress.
Instead, our guys made the same dumb mistakes and showed the same lack of toughness as always.
The BS “kicked ball” on Cade when he stole the ball cleanly, the foul called on DD when it looked like he stepped in front of his guy to steal the ball cleanly, and overturning the goaltending call on Xaivian’s layup were all total homer moves.
I can’t even call them “homer” calls. We’re not getting those at home - look at Loyola-Chicago game.
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Pierce shows strong leadership and is a solid, outstanding, positive player. He’s a good friend to Lee and vice-versa. However, Caden has been the rock and Lee is too much hero ball and needs to get over his infatuation with the NBA. Let’s play ball!
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End these inexcusable mental mistakes, just too many right now at this point in the season. Toughen up get in their faces, play all 40 minutes.
The team’s coming along, we might even get things together, on time, and beat Rutgers.
Please, remember it’s a 40 minute game - and no excuses.
Not fair - Mitch is a remarkable coach with a wide range of highly developed skills in what he does, plus an empathy and care for each one of the fine young men he coaches. Furman is a big, tough, skilled team. Our guys are not big and traveling is to our disadvantage.
He’s better than Steve Donahue. I’ll give him that. But at some point, a head coach has to be accountable for every single team he has being “soft.”
And this year, he has too much talent to make excuses. Many power conference teams would love to have Lee, Pierce and Davis as starters.
The team’s coming along, we might even get things together, on time, and beat Rutgers.
Even if they beat Rutgers, it won’t mean much. They need to develop some consistency to win the Ivy and ILT, not just show up for the “high profile” games. I remember when they beat a ranked FSU team during Ian Hummer’s time. It felt good for a week but they didn’t win the Ivy and missed the NCAAs.
This team is such a bummer right now. If they’re gonna lose anyway, I’d much rather watch Xaivian score 30 in exciting fashion. That way, I could watch him play in the NBA next season instead of letting this team drag his stock down to G-League level.
I had to watch the second half on replay.
There were enough errors to go around in this game:
-Seals behind back pass to nowhere.
-Malik doubled, threw up airball rather than kick out.
-Xavian out of control drives. (He also has weak legs toward end of game.)
-Byriel missed a slipped screen, yielding easy layup.
-Caden mad very bad pass to Xavian on fast break.
-Dalen ill advised foot grab.
-Xavian and Malik missed a switch giving PJay Smith open layup (which he missed).
-Missed front end of 1&1, twice.
This was a good opponent, and a good test. Better big men than most Ivy teams, and well coached. Reminded me of ILT tournament level play. Remember, we are playing teams with grad student transfers, as we develop our freshmen.
BTW, Furman coach said Xavian was “minus 13 for 33 minutes”; I can’t find +/- stats anywhere. Any suggestions?
I forgive freshman mistakes - it happens to everyone. And missed FTs stink but I can’t get mad at that either - unless you’re Steve Nash or Steph Curry, it happens.
What concerned me was Caden’s fastbreak TO and Dalen’s flagrant foul. Both are high IQ players and those mental mistakes were extremely out of character. It clear that the team’s struggles are starting to get to them mentally. A bad sign.
I wish they’d have some kind of closed door, players-only, fire-and-brimstone meeting. The talent is there, but the focus and confidence are not. Win or lose, they shouldn’t be playing so tight and sloppy.
BTW, Furman coach said Xavian was “minus 13 for 33 minutes”; I can’t find +/- stats anywhere. Any suggestions?
Maybe the live boxscore on the official website updates +/- during the game? I’m not surprised if that’s true - Xaivian didn’t really “take over” until late in the game.