MD - BC Notes

This team is a complete disaster. Train wreck.

When BC took the lead at 40 - 39 (after trailing 20 - 5), every MD fan who has watched this team this year knew it was over. No heart. This is a dead horse. This team quit on Gary Williams three weeks ago. They have the fast-forward button down on 3X and are trying to get to the end of the season.

21 Turnovers. This was the story of the season. It is almost as if this team needed a free safety to play in the backcourt to stop the break-aways. There has never been a MD team that was worse at handling the basketball.

Vasquez's Mom saw a version of his game that we didn't see all year. No passion. It is almost as if he heard teammates complaining about his forced offense and he was playing passive to prove a point. He did play solid defense on Rice in the first half. . .not sure why GW decided to use Bowie so much on Rice in the second half. That match-up didn't go well.

Memo to Gary Williams: There is a reason why MD gets dominated on the boards and teams feast on MD inside when Dave Neal is on the court. I have no idea what goes through GW's head when he makes the decision to put in Neal instead of Burney at CRITICAL points in games.

I am not sure Osby could score double-digits right now if he was left alone in an empty gym for forty minutes. The only explanation for his unbelievably inept offensive game has to be lingering effects from the flu. I haven't seen a player's offensive skills erode this fast since Exree Hipp.

Gist was solid for portions of the game. GW did a nice job taking him out of the game when MD went up fifteen to cool him down. . . What exactly was the reason for that substitution? The only explanation is the fear factor with cramps.

MD will get a home game for the NIT next week. GW should do what he should have done three games ago. . . bench Hayes and put in Bowie.

There are 120 minutes to divide up between the 1, 2, and 3 next year:

35 for Vasquez
25 for Milbourne
25 for Bowie
20 for Tucker
15 for Maze

This leaves 80 minutes for the bigs:

25 for Burney
25 for Gilchrist
20 for DuPree
9 for Walker
1 for Neal

I hate to say it. . . but, this looks like another middle of the ACC pack, border-line NCAA tournament caliber team.

Some blogs are calling for Gary Williams to step down. No chance. He is signed through 2011 and there are not better options out there not named Mike Montgomery.

Six years after MD won its first national title, who would have thought that a MD basketball blog would end with these six words. . .

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