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Today was the largest glaring example of what works in college basketball and what doesn't. You can hang your shingle on defense and rebounding but you'd better have offensive weapons in order to do that. The years we won the conference regular season and advanced in the CIT, we had guys that could score. You have to go out and find more of those scorers and not just a bunch of brutes that look good in a weight room and can play defense and rebound. Kelsey took the job at Charleston and set about finding the type of players that work -- they're big, they share the ball, they hit open shots. Meanwhile, we plod along and run a low-post offense with zero movement and sometimes a wing and a prayer to get a decent look or a look before the shot clock expires. Twice today, the shot clock was running out and who had the ball? Mekhi Lowery. That can't ever happen. We were largely clueless on offense, finding zero ways to get Tejada open (1 shot in the first half) and showing very little interest in running anything that had ball movement to 3 sides of the floor. Meanwhile, Charleston is slinging it all over the floor and playing an orchestra on our defense (especially Thompson and Paar) with the pick-and-roll action. Charleston's the template of what we should aspire to be. They have D2 players just like we do but they found the offense while we went for the bruising fullbacks. With whatever time Pat has left on his contract, he needs to overhaul his philosophy to be more like Charleston. Otherwise, we've already hit our ceiling and it's never gonna get crashed through.

(1) After 13 years, I think it’s highly unlikely Skerry is changing his philosophy anytime soon; (2) I can’t explain how we occasionally pull off a W vs C of C or UNCW, but what I am confident in saying is that our players are far less athletic and skilled than these squads and Hofstra & Delaware, for that matter. An outlier W here and there isn’t going to suffice to get us where we want to be; (3) I don’t know about the players needing a good shrink, but after 13 years of this, I think maybe I do

But aside from this, he’s a standout 😆 You know, I was thinking after todays game how I might have underestimated the loss of Conway, who’s roster spot was basically traded for Tarke. While Conway wasn’t going to carry this team on his back, he almost certainly would have added a much needed offensive spark and might have been the best 3-point shooter

I really hope Tarke doesn't come back next year. As has been noted in other threads, he's slow-footed and seems to get his shot blocked more often than not when going to the basket. As for those long-range bricks he throws up ... he even managed an airball on one attempt today. To my mind, he adds next to nothing to our lineup. At least Williamson has some moves when driving and also mixes in a fairly accurate step-back shot. And, at the risk of sounding too dreary, I have NO HOPE of us reaching the NCAAs this decade. Nothing has changed with this coach, and nothing will. The AD is happy that we got 4,300 people into the arena today -- even if a third of them were kids showing their autism solidarity. I doubt there were 100 students in the "student section." The fact that we'll finish with a (barely) winning record will qualify this year as a success.

I know that Bob Rotella came and met with our baseball team!

https://towsontigers.com/news/2024/2/24/mens-basketball-mens-basketball-falls-72-56-to-charleston-on-saturday.aspx First of all, I'll be the first to congratulate Charleston on the win and expected CAA title. They played the game the way it was meant to be played. Quick passing. The ball never stuck to somebody like glue. Their defense was fantastic in the first half, where we couldn't even get a clean shot off. To an extent, their 15-of-22 three-point shooting is not normally who they are (around 33% on the season), but when you start the game 10-2 and are getting layups, the confidence level goes up. You realize that one team is ready to play and the other one is not. They were focused on revenge and getting first place. Looks like that will be accomplished with ease. *I've been repeating myself over and over about length and athleticism. No offense to CP, but when he's going against James Scott, a 6-11 phenom, he doesn't have the foot quickness to overhelp on D and then get back and find Scott, who is mainly a dunker and shotblocker right now. Scary to see what Scott will be when he adds weight. *Skerry seemed resigned to the fact that we might end up in 5th or 6. Basically, we said we have the depth to overcome that, but our players are so freakin' inconsistent from game-to-game, we don't have the talent to overcome if a May or Tejada have off games and they did today. Tejada got just one shot up in the first half. He's a scorer though they took away all his drives and they are a bit predictable with his right. *Good job by the athletic dept. getting over 4,000 and breaking the record. Not much more to say about it. Seemed like they handled the crowds better but I got their very early. They were wanding people outside so that's a start. *The power forward/4 spot was horrible today. Can't finish in traffic, undersized and not athletic enough. Can't make perimeter shots. It was ugly and we can talk about this experience on another threat, going to those 6-5, 235+ pound old school power forwards, who can't guard the perimeter. I wish we had Frankie Policelli (6-9, 225), but guessing that is an NIL issue. Our post spots are not athletic enough and when we hedge, especially Paar, teams like Charleston that are good passing team, exploit our lack of quickness in the post. That's one of the many things that needs to be rectified next season. *Can we split next week? Sure. Can we win both games? Even if we do, it's hard to imagine that this team is good enough to win 3 or 4 games, if they wind up 5th or 6th. *Pete Shinnick said his team had little margin for error and we know why. Lack of talent esp. at QB position. Towson has little margin for error and you can also say we don't have a QB. We don't have somebody who can run the team although I thought it was a huge mistake to start Tarke and not Williamson in the second half. I know we probably lost by 12 instead of 16, but when it was 20 early on, it was over.

Not only hiddeous; downright PREDICTABLE! As one of the holdouts for PS & staff, I've finally seen the light. As an avid Tiger MBb fan since the '89-'90 season who's waited for decades for a return to the greatness of the "Boyd & Co" years, looks like I'll continue to my grave without seeing Towson realize major success in MBb (or Football* or MLax for that matter). A school w 24K students located in the richest state in USA, reminding one of USSR/Russia: you can be comparatively big, but without competent leadership running the show, you're apt to fail, and to continue to ("wash, rinse, repeat") fail until said leadership is remedied. So, another Spiro and PS post-game windage wrapup forthcoming, folks.. *(exception for football 2014)

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Vegas has CofC -2.5 revenge game for the cougars towson is bad in big moments/on tv/when it counts maybe I’m wrong but history favors the cougars in this one

Five points from Mikey and Webber. Webber is so important as a set up guy. His speed is crucial for that first unit. You see what happens when they got the second unit and they are bigger but more lumbering. Either way, it’s fun watching this team again but huge test on Tuesday against Loyola

Fortunately the beer line PROBABLY won’t be overwhelming at 11:30AM

“Throw the parade…./ give the ext “ …

You can criticize the program all you want. You can critique the coaches, you can disagree with me on my comments after the game, you can love the team or piss on them because that's what some love to do, but no personal attacks on coaches, players, myself, or any other poster on here or people will start getting banned. Just tired of it. We all can disagree without calling people names. If not, it's time to move on.

https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=487965 Towson falls at home in front of a record crowd of 4,322. The Tigers were brutal defensively in the first half and overall, falling down 10-2 and then compounded that by getting down 20 to start the second half. The Cougars shot a remarkable 15 of 22 from three-point range. Charleston improved to 13-3 and 22-7 on the season, while Towson fell to 10-6 in the CAA and 17-12 overall.

Isn’t it sad that most of us, if we’re being honest with ourselves, are already thinking about next season already