on so many levels. pack it in. if bowie, a guard, doesn’t know that he should try a 3pointer when down by 5 with less than a minute, this team has no chance. Pack it in rather than getting your hopes high. you call yourself a basketball team? terps have the worst basketball iq i’ve ever seen.

Clearly mkjo is not a Maryland fan. We played awful on the road tonight against a top 40 team and still almost won. We were beaten in every aspect of the game but the killer was defensive rebounding. They would have had 20 fewer points if we had given a better effort. This game was an aberration and will not happen again. That being said, obviously we’re not going to win a national championship but the ACC is still up for grabs.

JWill was the only Terp to show up. The Only one

alot of the calls didnt go our way. one or two more possessions of not turning it over or making layups and we would have won. williams played amazing and hes only going to get better. i say give padgett a chance. i know dino plays good D but he seems so shaky with the ball in his hands and tonight was the first time ive seen him make one of those mid range jump shots. they got almost every lose ball

give some credit to clemson..they played good defense. maryland played a lousy, sloppy game. a step and sometimes 2 steps slow all night. the terps needed to split the 2 road games and now they really need a good win on the road at fl. st. they are not going to win every game and they’re not going to play great every game. other than jordan williams you could be critical of every guy who played and be critical of the coaching staff too…but just forget it. game over we lost. on to the next game. end of story.

We tied the game and were running our flex. I thought we had Clemson on their heels at that point, but we couldn’t work the ball inside. One reason is that Landon had trouble going up against Grant and Booker. The other is that we don’t seem to be looking for Jordan. The long term answer may be that we have to develop and use James more on the frontline to beat teams like Clemson. In the meantime though, we need to work to get Jordan open in the flex and look for him in the offense.

Never ever talk trash about a player or team you’re about to play.
Hes done it against Duke, Memphis, and now Clemson. All of them have resulted in an ass whoopin’ by them. He just needs to be a leader and keep his mouth shut.

What kind of leader takes out his anger on the towel boy for giving him gatorade instead of a towel. Did anyone see that part? Unacceptable.

Even without Stitt, that combination of pressure, their athleticism and relentlessness, and a rabid crowd are very tough to overcome. People are shocked by how bad we played, but the game isn’t played in a vacuum. We won’t play another game this year in that kind of environment, except at Duke and maybe at UVa. Certainly not in the postseason.

And hey, let’s give some credit where it’s due. We held them to under 32% shooting in their house. Our D was outstanding after about the first five minutes of the game.

Caveats aside, the ballhandling was what got me. Greivis was absolutely horrible with the ball and actually never seemed to find a good rhythm, he was always moving too fast or too slow. Hayes made a few bad passes, which is extremely rare for him. Mosley flat out dropped an easy pass from Vas for a wide open layup. Even JWill’s normally glue-like hands coughed it up 4 times.

You know you’ll have games where your shots don’t fall, especially on the road, but when you combine that with excessive turnovers, inability to come up with loose balls, and a few questionable calls from the refs, you have no chance.

We have started a brutal stretch…a nice bounceback W at FSU would go a long way to making up for this one.

I made the trip up from ATL to see the game. I didn’t feel the crowd was as wild as they’re hyped up to be. I know the turnovers hurt but the biggest issue I saw was Jaria(sp) Grant. J-Will did an awsome job on Booker but with Landon covering Grant, it was embarrasing. It was like last year when he would dissappear playing out of position. Grant took him completely out of the game, and Landon couldn’t keep him off the glass. It seemed like every offensive board was his. I think Dino or Padgett needed to be in there matched up on him. We would have lost some scoring with 2 bigs out there but Landon was nonexistant anyhow. All in all probably the worst I’ve seen them play this year, but Gary will light the fire and get them ready for FSU.

We got back into this game by getting to the free throw line and knocking down shots. We shot 89% to their 59% at the line and if we continued to draw fouls at the end, we may have won. We take far too many shots backing away from contact instead of going up strong and drawing the foul. On the Vazquez discussion, he isn’t totally at fault since almost everyone struggled on offense outside of Jordan Williams but Vaz did miss two running bank shots down the stretch when the game was tied. Still not too disappointed considering the poor shooting, rebounding, and ball handling and barely losing. Gotta turn it up against FSU on the road.