Game #18- URI @ Fordham

GansettRam74 · Unread post by **GansettRam74** » 11 years ago

Hurley take one for the team and go off in your post game conference about this officiating group! A10's McGlade better take a look at this group. It was beyond home court advantage or Rhody nor get respect. It was just awful officiating!

Optimistic · Unread post by **Optimistic** » 11 years ago

There was bad calls both ways. The phantom offensive goaltending comes to mind.

The Dude · Unread post by **The Dude** » 11 years ago

I really don't know what to say. Losing to Fordham without Gaston and with Thomas fouling out, is an all time low. They just didn't show up in the second half. Plus, is it just me or does it feel like Rhody is getting shafted with blown or bad calls by officials lately?? Don't get me wrong...Fordham deserved to win even though some players were acting like a couple thugs, but the officiating just seems really bad...especially with the game on the line at the end. It's simply an observation, rather than a complaint.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 11 years ago

Undoubtedly THE worst game I've seen all year.
Munford couldn't hit the ocean with a beachball.
and the rest of the team wasn't much better.
Nik is way too out of control.
Powell was sub par.
We couldn't rebound to save ourselves.
Refs were disgusting! Even worse than the GW game.
They just handed this pile of crap game to Fordham.
Bad show for Hurley's first return to the Metro NY area.

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 11 years ago

twisted3829 wrote:we may have played bad but the refs cost us that game, Fordham shot 25 free throws the second half because they called 20 fouls on URI, I have never seen that many calls against one team. Most were not fouls, many fantom calls or call a hand on a guy.

Fordham had JUST three more ft attempts than Rhody. I would take that in every road game. Don't blame the refs. URI lost today because its players put forth a putrid performance. Mumford, Malesevic, and Powell were a combined 8-30 from the field. Their horrible shooting and the poor team rebounding were the reasons that Rhode Island lost.

BH06 · Unread post by **BH06** » 11 years ago

This team has NO talent at all, No depth, and NO size, but they play hard and they play with heart. You can say what you want about complaints about the officiating, but it makes me sick how many games we have lost because of the guys in stripes. Every game we play is going to be ugly, but if we keep on getting games like this taken away from us we are going to lose that spirit and have a very bad rest of the season.

Rammgr · Unread post by **Rammgr** » 11 years ago

Awful game. I never thought the A-10 officials could get any worse but these last 2 game were about as bad as I've ever seen. That being said we still should have won that game. Fordham is absolutely horrible. So what does that make us? Can't rebound at all. Can't win a game when X only scores 10 pts. Anyone that thought we were going to to Brooklyn was dreaming. I like our hustle but just no talent out there. Hopefully next yr will be diffferent.

BH06 · Unread post by **BH06** » 11 years ago

Its not just the calls that were called against us, it was the calls that were not called against them!

RhodeIslandRams · Unread post by **RhodeIslandRams** » 11 years ago

Most painful game of the Hurley era to watch so far. For lots of reasons.

Let's talk tonight at 7pm. The good news is we have highlights of a GREAT win from earlier this week!

OK, I'm too frustrated to even try to put a nice spin on anything. Hope to see you at 7.

Shinze88 · Unread post by **Shinze88** » 11 years ago

twisted3829 wrote:we may have played bad but the refs cost us that game, Fordham shot 25 free throws the second half because they called 20 fouls on URI, I have never seen that many calls against one team. Most were not fouls, many fantom calls or call a hand on a guy.

Couldnt disagree anymore with this.. Did we watch the same game? URI also got a few calls that were head scratchers - the offensive interference call was atrocious, we were also bailed out by some boneheaded Fordham fouls late in the shot clock. This game was lost because we played our worst game of the season (physically and mentally) against a team who had their leading scorer in street clothes. We continue to have unforced turnovers at critical times, and we are way to reliant on making jump shots. URI cant play that aggressive style of defense with such a limited bench, and staying in the man to man defense just compounded the problem. Still cant get over the poor decision by Mike to jack up that 3 up 1 with a minute to play and plenty of time left on the shot clock.

The Dude · Unread post by **The Dude** » 11 years ago

Someone needs to do some smoozing (if that's even how it's spelled) with the zebras. Anyone want to pitch in for gift baskets? We can fill it with fruits, nuts, binoculars, gift certificate to an officiating seminar at URI, and an NCAA rule book.

twisted3829 · Unread post by **twisted3829** » 11 years ago

RF1 wrote:
twisted3829 wrote:we may have played bad but the refs cost us that game, Fordham shot 25 free throws the second half because they called 20 fouls on URI, I have never seen that many calls against one team. Most were not fouls, many fantom calls or call a hand on a guy.

Fordham had JUST three more ft attempts than Rhody. I would take that in every road game. Don't blame the refs. URI lost today because its players put forth a putrid performance. Mumford, Malesevic, and Powell were a combined 8-30 from the field. Their horrible shooting and the poor team rebounding were the reasons that Rhode Island lost.

really because calling 20 fouls and calling a foul every possession doesn't cost a team the game? sending them to the free throw line 26 times in the second half because they were in the bonus with 15:31 left to play doesn't effect the game? It changed the dynamic of the second half and changed how we played defense since no matter what we did was a foul. So yes I think the refs effected the outcome of the game

Iggy1979 · Unread post by **Iggy1979** » 11 years ago

Malone has not missed a shot inside the 3point arc in two games. Would've loved to seen him with the ball under 1 minute.

EasyEdBrown · Unread post by **EasyEdBrown** » 11 years ago

I'd be better served if I pretended this game didn't happen.

Not only was the quality like a 2 hour long ocular rape, but the result was stomach churning.

We did not watch basketball today, friends. We watched two teams and three referees literally take a shit on TV over two halves and it makes me mad, upset, sad, and disgusted to have watched it. I'm going to go hug my daughter and tell her I hope she never experiences anything close to that amount of discomfort (in the "entertainment" realm) in her life.

I can only imagine the only thing worse would have been watching Snooki porn.

The Dude · Unread post by **The Dude** » 11 years ago

The Dude wrote:Someone needs to do some smoozing (if that's even how it's spelled) with the zebras. Anyone want to pitch in for gift baskets? We can fill it with fruits, nuts, binoculars, gift certificate to an officiating seminar at URI, and an NCAA rule book.

OR maybe we just pitch in and unleash a Lion at the next home game and let the chips fall where they may.

EasyEdBrown · Unread post by **EasyEdBrown** » 11 years ago

I'm not taking this loss well.

RF1 · Unread post by **RF1** » 11 years ago

Good thing they got a conference win last weekend in St Louis. There likely will not be many more, if any.

Iggy1979 · Unread post by **Iggy1979** » 11 years ago

Lack of rebounding cost URI the game. URI shot a higher percentage but Fordham had 13 more shots.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 11 years ago

Great. Now we'll get 2,400 for VCU Wednesday night.
Just can't get over what a horrible game this was.
Glad the bus trip got cancelled. Ugh!
As for why Munford got the last three shots, HELLOOOOO!
he's the only player on the team that can get a shot whenver he wants.
Doesn't mean he'll make it, but he'll get his shot.

EasyEdBrown · Unread post by **EasyEdBrown** » 11 years ago

I know his dad is on the forum but....

Mike Powell needs to be slapped upside the head for that quick three he took when URI was up 1 with about a minute left.

Optimistic · Unread post by **Optimistic** » 11 years ago

rodfromcranston wrote:Great. Now we'll get 2,400 for VCU Wednesday night.
Just can't get over what a horrible game this was.
Glad the bus trip got cancelled. Ugh!
As for why Munford got the last three shots, HELLOOOOO!
he's the only player on the team that can get a shot whenver he wants.
Doesn't mean he'll make it, but he'll get his shot.

If Munford is hot, sure give him the ball with the game on the line. I would've gone to Malone on that one, plain and simple. He's strong enough to create space for himself in the lane and is incredibly quick to get in the air and get a shot off. And like Iggy said he's 13 for his last 13 inside the arc. I like Hurley as much as the next guy, but it was a bad decision.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 11 years ago

Shinze88 wrote:
twisted3829 wrote:we may have played bad but the refs cost us that game, Fordham shot 25 free throws the second half because they called 20 fouls on URI, I have never seen that many calls against one team. Most were not fouls, many fantom calls or call a hand on a guy.
Couldnt disagree anymore with this.. Did we watch the same game? URI also got a few calls that were head scratchers - the offensive interference call was atrocious, we were also bailed out by some boneheaded Fordham fouls late in the shot clock. This game was lost because we played our worst game of the season (physically and mentally) against a team who had their leading scorer in street clothes. We continue to have unforced turnovers at critical times, and we are way to reliant on making jump shots. URI cant play that aggressive style of defense with such a limited bench, and staying in the man to man defense just compounded the problem. Still cant get over the poor decision by Mike to jack up that 3 up 1 with a minute to play and plenty of time left on the shot clock.

Fordham's leading scorer is Branden Frazier and he played most of the game and had 20 points, mostly on FT's.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 11 years ago

In the immortal words of Darrell Royal,
"We'll dance with who brung us", meaning
you go to the player who's done it throughout the year.
Munford has been that man.

kal-65 · Unread post by **kal-65** » 11 years ago

TWO COMMENTS WE SHOULD HAVE GONE ZONE IN 2ND HALF AFTER SO MANY TICKY FOULS ,

WITH THE REFS CALLING SO MANY TOUCH FOULS,SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE TAKEN IT TO THE HOOP ON THE LAST POSSESSION

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 11 years ago

And gotten a charging call?

Rambone65 · Unread post by **Rambone65** » 11 years ago

Sorry to sound like a broken record, but blaming the refs (again) is laughable. We got manhandled in the lane agin.....18-6 on the offensive boards. You tend to have a few more fouls called on you when you're getting whipped on the o-boards. Even with that, they only shot thee more from the stripe. We have to figure out a way to block out better, Coach H.

(ps, I hope this post meets the censorship standards.).

section(105) · Unread post by **section(105)** » 11 years ago

even w/o gaston, I had doubts. Fordham is not very good and we just lost to them. We/ve got no answers to the major holes in our game coming this year. the zebras are not the cause of these losses. Teams with more talent overcome that, and find a way to hit a shot, grab a board, make a stop, and enough plays to win. If some said we would in the bottom of the A-10 at this point, I would have disagreed. I/ve turned the corner toward major negatives on this team. Not the program and it/s future, but on this collective group.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 11 years ago

I don't think anyone is really claiming that we are an amazing team that played great and only lost because of the refs. But I don't think that its crazy to say that even with as bad as we played we still had a good chance of winning and the refs did not help the situation.

Yes, if we were a much better team than the refs would not have mattered and we could overcome that. But when you dont have much talent and need everything to go right to win close games, then yeah officiating can have an effect on that.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 11 years ago

If you lose by one, two and three points, and the refs suck, yeah, they cost us the wins.
Obviously, we had chances in the last two games, to take it despite the lousy officiating,
but we didn't.
We just don't have the talent to overcome rebounding and refs, in any game.
How can the refs review the play where Hare elbowed the Fordham player, and not call a double technical?
The punk grabbed Hare's shirt and swore at him. You could read his lips.
Yet, the refs decided to ignore that, and just call it on a RI player.
I'm not sure Hurley is doing himself any favors by constantly screaming on every bad call, either.

adam914 · Unread post by **adam914** » 11 years ago

rodfromcranston wrote: I'm not sure Hurley is doing himself any favors by constantly screaming on every bad call, either.

I mentioned this last game as well. I think its going to take the A10 refs a year to get used to the fact that Hurley is just nuts during the game, and then they won't let that stuff affect them as much anymore.

Rambone65 · Unread post by **Rambone65** » 11 years ago

In the second half we got beat on the offensive glass by 11-1. That's astounding.

ramfan85 · Unread post by **ramfan85** » 11 years ago

Bad teams don't get many calls. We're losing because we are a bad team. We're a JV team playing a varsity schedule.
It's very disappointing that the rebounding hasn't improved at all.
As I've said for several years now, can't wait for this season to end.

Iggy1979 · Unread post by **Iggy1979** » 11 years ago

EasyEdBrown wrote:I know his dad is on the forum but....

Mike Powell needs to be slapped upside the head for that quick three he took when URI was up 1 with about a minute left.

I thought it was an entire game of poor shot selection for URI.

lasumesa · Unread post by **lasumesa** » 11 years ago

Under a minute and down by 1, firing up 3's? And almost the entire game, never did we try to throw it to the middle and go inside out. Makes no sense. It's a zone. Really looks like they went from bad to worse. Very frustrating. Probably for the team too. How long before it tears this team down?

section(105) · Unread post by **section(105)** » 11 years ago

I think a point has been reached, where the Hurley stamp, even with the frustrating losses are at hand, will continue to be made. For me the void of talent(all passes)prevents this group to make any headway in the A-10 stack. The defensive mindset will continue to be branded as URI way we play and these kids will continue to play hard, even with the obvious deficiencies in team talent.

Rhodymob05 · Unread post by **Rhodymob05** » 11 years ago

I hated everything about this game even the commentater who sounded like a 15 year old
HARE-Needs to grow some hair on his balls
POWELL-Needs to grow a brain
BROOKS-Needs to grow a set of hands to catch and dribble the ball
XAVIER-PLayed alright but wasn't as agressive and took awful shots
MALONE-Did ok as well but seemed to dissapear throughout the game
AAMAN-Coming off an injury so can't expect much but was better on the bench for this one
TJ-Did ok we dont expect much but he doesnt hurt us
BIGBY-Did nothing at all
NIK-NEEDS TO CONTROL himself and focus on the game and not the bad ref calls

Ice cold from shooting, out of rythem and had no control. Need to recharge mentally for VCU at home so its not embaressing

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 11 years ago

We're a week from St. Louis. and everyone is thowing in
the towel on this team.
Amazing frontrunners, here.
Oh, and bad teams don't get calls? What's Fordham?
Mob05, I love X, but he played a horrible game on both ends of the court.
Wonder if he had friends and family from NJ at the game, and was trying too hard?
Nik, and TJ to a lesser extent, are products of the Baron era, where every player bitched and moaned on every call.
Notice none of the others on this team make much of a fuss?

Ramblinrose · Unread post by **Ramblinrose** » 11 years ago

Some of these losses have actually been encouraging for the future. This was brutal.

scine20 · Unread post by **scine20** » 11 years ago

At this point it's useless to complain and be upset. The team is not good at all. In fact I'd say it's far worse than last year's team. The fact that URI is in pretty much every game shows how good a coach that Hurley really is.

URI's talent level IMO is on the level of a middle of the pack bottom division 1 team, not a bottom level A-10 team.

Once Hurley gets his guys in here, as soon as next year, URI will have a winning record, be contending for the NCAA tournament on a yearly basis, and what happened this year will be a distant memory and a learning experience.

rodfromcranston · Unread post by **rodfromcranston** » 11 years ago

A Daly Dose Of Hoops‏@DalyDoseOfHoops

Dan Hurley on Xavier Munford: "I'm not sure he was prepared for how desperately this game was going to be played

A Daly Dose Of Hoops‏@DalyDoseOfHoops

Dan Hurley on Nikola Malesevic: "We can't win when he goes 1-for-7."

A Daly Dose Of Hoops‏@DalyDoseOfHoops

Dan Hurley: "The difference in today's game was our inability to rebound and their ability to kick our butts on the offensive glass."

Rambone65 · Unread post by **Rambone65** » 11 years ago

Good to see Coach Hurley saw the same stat sheet I did.

ace · Unread post by **ace** » 11 years ago

Ramblinrose wrote:Some of these losses have actually been encouraging for the future. This was brutal.

Brutal, yes. Overall, I'd be way more concerned if this was the roster they had going forward. Right now, with two spots still open, there are already more new faces on the active roster next year (6) than holdovers (5), with an outside chance that only Munford, with a full D1 season under his belt, is the only returning starter.

For this team to get a win, nearly everything has to be clicking perfectly. That's why, when they win, they look so good; but, they're not talented enough to sustain that game after game. More often than not, though, I still like watching them.

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 11 years ago

Hey, play out the string, give the guys who are coming back next year the PT.

Continue to learn as much as they can. By this time next year, this will be a faded memory.

I'm moving on. I'm not going to go apeshit over all the problems this team has.

Next year's team will not resemble this year's team. For that we can be thankful.

section(105) · Unread post by **section(105)** » 11 years ago

My suggest that the leap you(me too) want to take next year is not the "given" that is often spoken about. We are still learning how to bring in new/unproven/transfers into the mix that does not for me translate into a rise to the upper A-10 tier one year. Patience...

URI96 · Unread post by **URI96** » 11 years ago

EasyEdBrown wrote:I'd be better served if I pretended this game didn't happen.

Not only was the quality like a 2 hour long ocular rape, but the result was stomach churning.

We did not watch basketball today, friends. We watched two teams and three referees literally take a shit on TV over two halves and it makes me mad, upset, sad, and disgusted to have watched it. I'm going to go hug my daughter and tell her I hope she never experiences anything close to that amount of discomfort (in the "entertainment" realm) in her life.

I can only imagine the only thing worse would have been watching Snooki porn.

Could be worse. You could have driven there to watch it.

ace · Unread post by **ace** » 11 years ago

section(105) wrote:My suggest that the leap you(me too) want to take next year is not the "given" that is often spoken about. We are still learning how to bring in new/unproven/transfers into the mix that does not for me translate into a rise to the upper A-10 tier one year. Patience...

I'm not sure anyone thinks anything is a given in this conference, next year or any other. Next season, at the very least, will be more meaningful, especially with only one senior. I don't think anyone will argue with the idea that the talent level will be higher next year. Even with time given to adjust, the potential to see real progress throughout the season is there.

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 11 years ago

I'm not suggesting that we are going to be this huge powerhouse all of a sudden.

But next year's team will not have any of the glaring weaknesses of this year's team. Especially rebounding!

It won't be perfect, it's a learning process. Hurley will not have all the players he wants yet either. Even with that, there's still no guarantee that his recruits will all be as good as we hope/think they will be. Even Hurley would probably admit that.

Some kids will develop faster than others. Some might exceed expectations, others won't reach their expectations. It's all got to gel as a team.

However, at least we won't have too many games like this anymore. That's what I'll be happy about.

ramfan85 · Unread post by **ramfan85** » 11 years ago

Fordham is a bad team, we're worse. I expected them to fouls us at the end.

rambone 78 · Unread post by **rambone 78** » 11 years ago

There are no miracles to be had here. Hurley can only do so much. It must be tough for him watching this, with the talent sitting at the end of the bench unable to play yet.

As bad as it is, just imagine the alternative, without the Hurleys. Yikes.

Obadiah · Unread post by **Obadiah** » 11 years ago

I didn't get to see the game, but Fordham fans are dumping all over Hurley and in the DalyDoseofHoops' review of the game there was a closing statement about Hurley that was rather harsh.

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