1/14 | UMass | 4:30PM (NESN+/ESPN+)

[PeterRamTime]

Stop fouling 30 feet from the basket damn!!!

[PeteRI]

Archie rightfully pissed at Freeman's dumb foul.

[rhodyrudder]

They used to have media all up the opposite sideline.
Now they’re behind the basket in the end zone opposite where the band is usually.
They sell way more courtside seats than the RC.

…but none on the baseline

[PeteRI]

We stink.

[PeterRamTime]

Game over

Mother fuck UMass

[steveystuds06]

Tchikou has played good D today. Definitely his best game

[Jdrums#3]

Close to giving up a 50 spot to UMess this half. Bad D. Brutal.

[PeteRI]

Oh well at least I get to watch a real basketball team tomorrow. Go Lady Rams!

[PeterRamTime]

We stink.

We are bile.

[RI_Bred]

Tough pill to swallow against UAss. Marathon to March.

[section(105)]

Weston has been invisible.

Yep, was wondering if he missed the bus.

[KevanBoyles]

Not a game we deserved to win.

[PeteRI]

We're best in the country at missed dunks.

[PeteRI]

Another stellar 3-point performance: 4 for 19.

[adam914]

Another team with a new coach and lots of turnover and missing arguably their two best players and we lose easily. No sugarcoating this one.

[Blue Man]

Good enough to get a lead, not good enough to hold it.

Martin I love, but we’re 4 on 5 offensively with him on the floor. Bassy isn’t an A-10 level player, we turn it over too damn much.

[bigappleram]

Not going to win many games when our 2 leading scorers go 10-30 and Bray have 7 TOs. Carey was our best player.
Tchikou > Samb all day. Athleticism exposes Samb he needs to add a whole lot more muscle and ball skills if he is going to play below the rim. Umass overplayed our guards and forced them into the trees. They didn’t make good decisions and that’s the game.

[McRam]

Samb must have COVID!

[Rhody22]

This team is horrendous! I never expected Archie to put together such an abysmal roster. Boneheaded plays. Putrid shooting. Not sure how to describe the non-existent defense. How many times did we get beat down the court defensively? We need about 7 new players next year and at least 3 of them have to be starter quality. If not, it’s not gonna be much better than this year.

[McRam]

Did anyone else notice Bray joking or laughing in the last minute with a dead ball?

[Jdrums#3]

Bad game. I don’t know if there is enough untapped potential on this current team for the staff to improve enough to win a game in the A10 Tourney. Maybe we win one just because the conf is weak this year and we catch a break on the match up.

Just too many holes on this team to plug and too short handed in the front court.

[ramster]

Samb had zero rebounds - our starting center
All of our players had rebounds today except Samb
He plays very soft for a big man.

[ramster]

Did anyone else notice Bray joking or laughing in the last minute with a dead ball?

Yes. Not surprised either.

[Donrxer79]

Did anyone else notice Bray joking or laughing in the last minute with a dead ball?

Yes. Not surprised either.

Oh yeah, saw that. Attitude is everything.

[Rhody72]

Are all A10 teams as bad as those we've played so far?
Road wins are going to be hard to get.
Do we have a shutdown defender?
The effort is there but the talent is missing.

It is easy to be critical of many players, but there are no better options.

[section(105)]

Did I recall a Archie saying, early radio show something like, ‘this is the fastest team he has had……’ if not, pass the Jameson Reserve…

[PeterRamTime]

Are all A10 teams as bad as those we've played so far?
Road wins are going to be hard to get.
Do we have a shutdown defender?
The effort is there but the talent is missing.

It is easy to be critical of many players, but there are no better options.

They pretty much are

Just about every team is a dumpster fire

[RI_Bred]

A10 is a very poor league this year.

[TrevlontRook3]

“Sorry we’re not sorry”

from the locally living, husband and wife 2013 alumni who brought two kids under 3 (+ grandparents) sitting in section S tonight. Glad we could physically attend our first Rhody game in 3 years.


We’ll gettem next time
Go Rams

F**** Umass

[section(105)]

“Sorry we’re not sorry”

from the locally living, husband and wife 2013 alumni who brought two kids under 3 (+ grandparents) sitting in section S tonight. Glad we could physically attend our first Rhody game in 3 years.


We’ll gettem next time
Go Rams

F**** Umass

Hang in there, better days are ahead.

[rambone 78]

Hey everyone! Cheer up! It will get better! Because it can't get any worse! Going to be a LOT of turnover for next season.

[RI_Bred]

Hey everyone! Cheer up! It will get better! Because it can't get any worse! Going to be a LOT of turnover for next season.

Let's all take a breath and give it a few years. Our conference sucks, our team sucks. Our coach is a proven winner, better times ahead! Patience is a virtue!

[section(105)]

Hey everyone! Cheer up! It will get better! Because it can't get any worse! Going to be a LOT of turnover for next season.

Let's all take a breath and give it a few years. Our conference sucks, our team sucks. Our coach is a proven winner, better times ahead! Patience is a virtue!

Yes, yes it is. This current situation is going to challenge every fiber of the “proven winner” coach to build this back better. He may have to adapt and adjust his methodology to get this program back on track. I have the patience, not sure I have the years.

[Jersey77]

Today would have been one of our best opportunities to grab a road victory.
UMass without Fernandes their best player and leading scorer and also no Luis their 3rd leading scorer.

We shot 37% FG and 21% 3pt, plus got outrebounded 48-36, and 16 turnovers.
Not going to win many games with those stats.

Looking ahead, I don't see many victories in the horizon this season.

This will be a very interesting off-season.

[RhodyRams916]

I don’t understand how this team looks the same after timeouts. Are the players not listening to the coaches?

[RIFan]

It’s way worse sucking in the A10 now than it was Dan’s first few years. The A10 was legit back then, so this is real suck.

[rambone 78]

105 nailed it. This will be a major challenge for Archie in a much different environment than his Dayton years. Talent evaluation will be absolutely critical going forward. Can't afford too many more whiffs in his recruiting the next couple of years. Yes patience is needed, but like 105 I dont have forever to see this program become relevant again. By year 3 we need to be competing at the top of the league. No excuses.

[steveystuds06]

I thought Alex played his best game of the year. Very active on the boards. Some great defensive possession. A big block. Ended up with 8 and 6.

When Bray is really bad, we are really bad.

Ish is a stud, but we need someone else to show up.

It seemed like Weston had zero energy. Very odd. I wish we had more designed plays for him. He seems to do a good job of drawing fouls and taking his man 1 on 1.

Malik needs to be better as a 5th year senior.

Carey was awesome in the second half.

Is Lou that bad that he's not getting any minutes on this team? He had some nice moments earlier in the season.

Bassy is a perfect option for a low major. Cam Esteves already has a better offensive game, and I expect him to take most of Bassy's minutes next season if he's still here.

I thought Frank out-coached Archie. His defensive adjustments hurt our team in the second half. It looked like Baron ball to me today. A bunch of guards dribbling and dribbling, going 1 on 1 while other guys stood around. Our plays out of timeouts were brutal.. Why did we stick to aggressive man-to-man when we were literally fouling OVER and OVER? I get being aggressive late, but it wasn't working the entire second half, and we did nothing different.

I'm frustrated. I didn't think we would be this bad. I didn't think our best player would be a Cox player. I expected more, and maybe I'm just pissed after a bad loss, but you lose by 10 to an average team missing its two best players? Bad loss and, in my opinion, another weak coaching job by Archie.

[RhodyRams916]

I thought Alex played his best game of the year. Very active on the boards. Some great defensive possession. A big block. Ended up with 8 and 6.

When Bray is really bad, we are really bad.

Ish is a stud, but we need someone else to show up.

It seemed like Weston had zero energy. Very odd. I wish we had more designed plays for him. He seems to do a good job of drawing fouls and taking his man 1 on 1.

Malik needs to be better as a 5th year senior.

Carey was awesome in the second half.

Is Lou that bad that he's not getting any minutes on this team? He had some nice moments earlier in the season.

Bassy is a perfect option for a low major. Cam Esteves already has a better offensive game, and I expect him to take most of Bassy's minutes next season if he's still here.

I thought Frank out-coached Archie. His defensive adjustments hurt our team in the second half. It looked like Baron ball to me today. A bunch of guards dribbling and dribbling, going 1 on 1 while other guys stood around. Our plays out of timeouts were brutal.. Why did we stick to aggressive man-to-man when we were literally fouling OVER and OVER? I get being aggressive late, but it wasn't working the entire second half, and we did nothing different.

I'm frustrated. I didn't think we would be this bad. I didn't think our best player would be a Cox player. I expected more, and maybe I'm just pissed after a bad loss, but you lose by 10 to an average team missing its two best players? Bad loss and, in my opinion, another weak coaching job by Archie.

Malik shouldn’t be getting this much time on the court. He isn’t consistent enough on offense. I also don’t get why Hutchinson suddenly stopped playing.

[rhodyrudder]

Bad game. I don’t know if there is enough untapped potential on this current team for the staff to improve enough to win a game in the A10 Tourney. Maybe we win one just because the conf is weak this year and we catch a break on the match up.

Just too many holes on this team to plug and too short handed in the front court.

We’re certainly gonna be in the bottom six, so piggy piggy…
Playing on the first day. I bet we win it.
Second day, how bout that race to 10 parlay for each half?

[NYGFan_Section208]

Bad game. I don’t know if there is enough untapped potential on this current team for the staff to improve enough to win a game in the A10 Tourney. Maybe we win one just because the conf is weak this year and we catch a break on the match up.

Just too many holes on this team to plug and too short handed in the front court.

We’re certainly gonna be in the bottom six, so piggy piggy…
Playing on the first day. I bet we win it.
Second day, how bout that race to 10 parlay for each half?

"Us" first half, "them" second?

[eli#10]

We don't have any offense down low so it is more difficult to get open outside shots. Samb way too soft and has no presence at all on offense and defense. Gotta try playing Alex a lot more.

[UCH21377]

105 nailed it. This will be a major challenge for Archie in a much different environment than his Dayton years. Talent evaluation will be absolutely critical going forward. Can't afford too many more whiffs in his recruiting the next couple of years. Yes patience is needed, but like 105 I dont have forever to see this program become relevant again. By year 3 we need to be competing at the top of the league. No excuses.

Think it’s going to take longer than that.

[bigappleram]

We don't have any offense down low so it is more difficult to get open outside shots. Samb way too soft and has no presence at all on offense and defense. Gotta try playing Alex a lot more.

I don’t think we threw the ball into the post once all game. It’s tough to run offense when your 5 man is a complete non factor. And sometimes you don’t have to pay much attention to our 4 man either. That’s 3 vs 5 on offense and there isn’t a scheme out there that can overcome that.

Not sure if either Alex or Abdou have a role next year but Alex is way more active and athletic and has a much higher ceiling it’s not even close. He’s still raw as hell and may never find it but if I’m being patient with 1 of them it’s him. He needs to get stronger.

[bigappleram]

Also fwiw it’s criminal that David Cox didn’t recruit Dominguez or Kolek.

[PeteRI]

105 nailed it. This will be a major challenge for Archie in a much different environment than his Dayton years. Talent evaluation will be absolutely critical going forward. Can't afford too many more whiffs in his recruiting the next couple of years. Yes patience is needed, but like 105 I dont have forever to see this program become relevant again. By year 3 we need to be competing at the top of the league. No excuses.

Couldn't have said it any better. Archie isn't getting $8.5 million over 5 years to maybe make the NCAA tournament in Year 4 or beat UMass Lowell in overtime. The Lady Rams will draw bigger crowds if that happens.

[McRam]

I thought Alex played his best game of the year. Very active on the boards. Some great defensive possession. A big block. Ended up with 8 and 6.

When Bray is really bad, we are really bad.

Ish is a stud, but we need someone else to show up.

It seemed like Weston had zero energy. Very odd. I wish we had more designed plays for him. He seems to do a good job of drawing fouls and taking his man 1 on 1.

Malik needs to be better as a 5th year senior.

Carey was awesome in the second half.

Is Lou that bad that he's not getting any minutes on this team? He had some nice moments earlier in the season.

Bassy is a perfect option for a low major. Cam Esteves already has a better offensive game, and I expect him to take most of Bassy's minutes next season if he's still here.

I thought Frank out-coached Archie. His defensive adjustments hurt our team in the second half. It looked like Baron ball to me today. A bunch of guards dribbling and dribbling, going 1 on 1 while other guys stood around. Our plays out of timeouts were brutal.. Why did we stick to aggressive man-to-man when we were literally fouling OVER and OVER? I get being aggressive late, but it wasn't working the entire second half, and we did nothing different.

I'm frustrated. I didn't think we would be this bad. I didn't think our best player would be a Cox player. I expected more, and maybe I'm just pissed after a bad loss, but you lose by 10 to an average team missing its two best players? Bad loss and, in my opinion, another weak coaching job by Archie.

Malik shouldn’t be getting this much time on the court. He isn’t consistent enough on offense. I also don’t get why Hutchinson suddenly stopped playing.

. Malik only got 18 minutes today and regarding Hutchinson; he has proven that his defense is just plain awful. Hard to win when you have 6’2 Ish guarding 6’7 Cross an entire game. Kinda of agree with you on Martin and Archie, Martin always seemed to be adjusting, changing and throwing surprises which we obviously did not handle well. Eg a little bit of zone

Of course, Archie does not have as many options on his bench but didn’t Archie still have us only down by about 5:with less than 5 min to go ?

[RhodyRams916]

I thought Alex played his best game of the year. Very active on the boards. Some great defensive possession. A big block. Ended up with 8 and 6.

When Bray is really bad, we are really bad.

Ish is a stud, but we need someone else to show up.

It seemed like Weston had zero energy. Very odd. I wish we had more designed plays for him. He seems to do a good job of drawing fouls and taking his man 1 on 1.

Malik needs to be better as a 5th year senior.

Carey was awesome in the second half.

Is Lou that bad that he's not getting any minutes on this team? He had some nice moments earlier in the season.

Bassy is a perfect option for a low major. Cam Esteves already has a better offensive game, and I expect him to take most of Bassy's minutes next season if he's still here.

I thought Frank out-coached Archie. His defensive adjustments hurt our team in the second half. It looked like Baron ball to me today. A bunch of guards dribbling and dribbling, going 1 on 1 while other guys stood around. Our plays out of timeouts were brutal.. Why did we stick to aggressive man-to-man when we were literally fouling OVER and OVER? I get being aggressive late, but it wasn't working the entire second half, and we did nothing different.

I'm frustrated. I didn't think we would be this bad. I didn't think our best player would be a Cox player. I expected more, and maybe I'm just pissed after a bad loss, but you lose by 10 to an average team missing its two best players? Bad loss and, in my opinion, another weak coaching job by Archie.

Malik shouldn’t be getting this much time on the court. He isn’t consistent enough on offense. I also don’t get why Hutchinson suddenly stopped playing.

. Malik only got 18 minutes today and regarding Hutchinson; he has proven that his defense is just plain awful. Hard to win when you have 6’2 Ish guarding 6’7 Cross an entire game. Kinda of agree with you on Martin and Archie, Martin always seemed to be adjusting, changing and throwing surprises which we obviously did not handle well. Eg a little bit of zone

Of course, Archie does not have as many options on his bench but didn’t Archie still have us only down by about 5:with less than 5 min to go ?

Yeah sorry, I just mean in general, his offense isn't good. 4 pts today for the most experienced guy on the team is pretty bad. Archie needs to figure this rotation out. It's still unclear who the starters are. I think Tchikou > Samb

[DevRam]

The Bassy slander on here is just crazy to me. Remember, he was supposed to redshirt last year but was able to find a role on a team with some solid experienced guards. I think he can be a great energy guy off the bench in the A10 by his senior year.

[reef]

Are all A10 teams as bad as those we've played so far?
Road wins are going to be hard to get.
Do we have a shutdown defender?
The effort is there but the talent is missing.

It is easy to be critical of many players, but there are no better options.

Kind of how I feel about this team . We try hard but are just lacking in talent

I still love Arch but I’m hoping he can get the right talent in here to get us towards the top of the league