If you saw that a team shot over 50% and outrebounded their opponent, you'd assume that team won, right? Makes sense. But that wasn't the case Sunday for GW against Auburn. The Colonials shot 50.9% for the game, 45.8% from three, and outrebounded the Tigers 31-26. Auburn, however, shot 54.7% and forced 21 Colonial turnovers resulting in 21 points, and GW only had 11 assists. The Post cited bad defense and poor free throw shooting (5/11). GW is now 2-3 on the year.
Auburn had only 7 scholarship players due to injuries and suspensions, but that was still too much for GW. I couldn't go to the game, but Max said GW had big problems in transition, especially towards the end of the game - three chances to tie it resulting in two turnovers and a foul.
Call it youth or inexperience or whatever, but GW didn't have it. Frank Tolbert scored 24 for AU on 10/16 shooting and big man Korvotney Barber had 21 on 8/9 shooting - that means easy baskets in the paint. For GW, Wynton Witherspoon had 17 and 7 boards and Rob Diggs had 15 and 9 boards. Damian Hollis played better than he had before, scoring 8, and adding 5 boards, and 3 blocks. Mo Rice had 11 on 4/10 shooting, and as John Feinstein noted, made some mistakes because he is basically playing PG for the first time. He had 4 turnovers and 1 assist. Cheyenne Moore seemed to be out of control again, going 2/6 from the floor with 4 fouls and 5 turnovers.
Coach Karl Hobbs attributed the loss to turnovers and praised Miles Beatty, who still only got 14 minutes. Beatty had 7 points on 3/6 shooting and had 3 assists, most on the team. I really don't see why he doesn't play more, or even start at PG so Rice can move over to SG. More on that later.
Articles and etc after the jump.
--Post: "Sloppy Colonials Lose Third Straight"
--AP Article
--Hatchet
--Box Score
Auburn had only 7 scholarship players due to injuries and suspensions, but that was still too much for GW. I couldn't go to the game, but Max said GW had big problems in transition, especially towards the end of the game - three chances to tie it resulting in two turnovers and a foul.
Call it youth or inexperience or whatever, but GW didn't have it. Frank Tolbert scored 24 for AU on 10/16 shooting and big man Korvotney Barber had 21 on 8/9 shooting - that means easy baskets in the paint. For GW, Wynton Witherspoon had 17 and 7 boards and Rob Diggs had 15 and 9 boards. Damian Hollis played better than he had before, scoring 8, and adding 5 boards, and 3 blocks. Mo Rice had 11 on 4/10 shooting, and as John Feinstein noted, made some mistakes because he is basically playing PG for the first time. He had 4 turnovers and 1 assist. Cheyenne Moore seemed to be out of control again, going 2/6 from the floor with 4 fouls and 5 turnovers.
Coach Karl Hobbs attributed the loss to turnovers and praised Miles Beatty, who still only got 14 minutes. Beatty had 7 points on 3/6 shooting and had 3 assists, most on the team. I really don't see why he doesn't play more, or even start at PG so Rice can move over to SG. More on that later.
Articles and etc after the jump.
--Post: "Sloppy Colonials Lose Third Straight"
--AP Article
--Hatchet
--Box Score
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