Another Second-Half Slowdown Dooms Maryland at Georgia Tech, 63-61

Since Clemson won, we wouldve gone to 6th in the ACC, tied for 5th. Instead were in 8th

to UNC and UVa.

I’m guessing Dodd won’t be playing much or at all next year, but the less Pankey plays, the better.

When is the coaching staff going to step up? Don’t the have something to do with the over all results? Or they young also?
The players miss the shots but coaching comes in somewhere.

Sure he took some bad shots. He does that every game…He’s going to keep doing it…When our offense slows down there is no one else other than him that can consistently score so he HAS to take over (Mosely and Faust obviously weren’t going to in the 2nd half)

He did play defense …but back to the offense 5-17 and 1-6 from the 3 point is WAY below his averages…one more goes in and we win the game….A lot of teams in the ACC would lose with their leading scorer shooting such a low percentage on his shots….

Obviously if we win the tournament will get a bid, but Im just going to be relaxed and patient with this team through the rest of the year.

I watched Faust in high school, and I watched him nail 3 point shots like it was his job. His jumper today, and in the past couple games looks MUCH better.

But the second halves of the past two road games have been mind-boggling bad—5 for 25 FG against UVA, 7-30 today.

Remember how bad our prospects were before the season. Or as we almost lost to radford and MSM…

turning all grey?

It goes beyond the need for a few individuals to step it up. When other teams make runs we have the tendency to go into rope-a-dope instead of slugging our way out of it. Today, in the second half, we looked like we were playing to not lose rather than whip GT. We tried a press for awhile. I don’t know why we stopped.

To me, its the coaches that have to get us to be more aggressive as a team.

Second straight weekend on the road in which we have totally laid an egg in the second half. I don’t get it, especially after coming off solid wins vs BC and Miami. Big guys need to step up and be stronger. I get it that Pankey has not played for 2 years and was a great unknown coming into the year, but damn, at least show some interest when you’re on the floor. We should never lose to that team. I also wonder why we set up a press and then pull drop back out of it after just one pass.

If Mosley wasn’t out his arse in the first half, it would have been really ugly. Do you feel the fact that we get very little out of the high screen (other than getting our guards double teamed 25 feet from the basket) is due to the players execution or the play design by the coaching staff?

reflecting several years of unenergetic (at best) recruiting. Until MT’s guys dominate don’t expect much and you won’t be disappointed.

Agree. Because it has been better than expected, it has us wanting more! We should be rolling pretty good in another 2 years. Hard to be patient.

I wonder if they went to see Mitchell?

He brings no effort or skill.

then trying to feed inept big men. You should never let Berend or Parky shoot, and what is Parker supposed to be doing?

This team just stresses me the fuck out. (excuse the cursing). But seriously, how the hell did we lose this? You could’ve SWORE the Miami game would be such a confidence booster. This game could’ve had us in a 3 way tie smh. I really can’t believe we lost this.

On Pankey, yall need to chill out. Did yall forget that he hasn’t played for 2 years. Just last game against Miami yall were all praising him, now yall are saying he sucks? C’mon now. Yall did the same with Pe’, praise him one game, then say he sucks and is horrible the next. Pankey did do some things a bit bad tonight, but i think it’s real fucked up to say he sucks and needs to transfer and leave, and all the mean things you all are saying about him, when he is just a fucking FRESHMAN. Not everyone is amazing as a freshman, and he has tons of time to improve.

Stoglin’s been off a few games. I don’t know what’s up. His late 3 pointer was a possession too late.
Mosley was HOT in the first half, going off. 2nd half he disappeared. I like the combo of Berend and Alex, but both need work imo.
I wanted Padgett in late in the game. He probably would’ve made some of the MANY msised layups.

You can tell that Faust playing the point is tiring him, just watch him. He’s not used to it.

Overall, i’m very upset we lost this game. Words can’t even express how shocked i am that we seriously lost. As optimistic as i’ve been, it’s time to be real now and say we have NO shot of making the tournament. Even winning against UNC and UVA, won’t do it. I’m ready for next years guys and hopefully EVERYONE improves in the offseason.

but we knew otherwise. then they win some games and have some flashes and all of a sudden every loss is a train wreck? WHOAaaaaa… !!!! once again, simmer down there, Tex. no offense again, TerpsnTex.

how were we expecting them NOT to make it to the tournament…?
answer: by losing some games that we figured they could/would win.
and they still overachieved. it’s hilarious when a guy has a bad game that he suddenly needs to transfer out. players develop. grievis is the best example. remember cheering in the stands before being blindsided by his 6-7 WTH moments every game. right now Turgeon is hamstrung at this point because each player is incomplete. he’s forced to rest every single game on the performance of 3 freshman and a sophmore. no choice there and they each get a minimum of +20 minutes a night. so now its the end of the acc season and stoglin is tired. faust is tired. even Len is tired. by the way, that was an ACC away game.
i know it sucked to lose but cut them some slack.

…deal with it. Until Turgeon gets players more purely his style and not Williams’, this will be frustrating. I’m patient.

Unless this team completely collapses, an NIT bid is likely. Despite recent struggles, Maryland still is a name program from an elite conference.

This just sucks. Dissapointed with the way turg managed the game. Wish we had Sean miller running the show instead

We cannot survive with bigs that cannot handle entry passes and cannot finish, they must be able to finish. That said, I am as glad to see the progress just as I am frustrated at the tail of 2 halves of every game. Right now 4 me it is the bigs. They must produce something for this team to compete. Padgett cannot do it alone. GO TERPS!

Basically MD was picked 10th or worse on all the preseason polls. I have watched every game, save the Virginia game and last Duke game, they were competitive in all other games, something I thought would have been impossible at the beginning of the year. I still feel they have one big upset left in the them. I agree with ingmterpman, we have no bigs rights now, young and raw. They will get better, but they are tough to watch right now especially Pankey. At this point in the season, you should grasp some defense and offense rotations. He is still clueless and killed the team in the 2nd half. Len will be unreal next year and Cleare will be a monster on the boards. Turge will have these guys playing great D, his Tex A&M teams were absolute shut down defenders.

I thought Maryland was frustrating today in the fact that our bigs played poorly in the second half. When you are struggling to score you need to be able to go inside for a bucket.
My bigger question is about the defense played by our bigs. We seem to jump out very high when the opposition moves out past the three point line, and then our rotation back to the inside seems very poor. I think we need to do a better job staying at home. Other than Ryan Kelly few ACC bigs are going to shoot the three.
On the offensive end I think Mark Turgeon should make the Terps watch the Lady Terps vs Duke in the second half. That is the kind of ball movement and effort on the glass that we need to bring every night. Also I think we should run more three men on the baseline two out top offense instead of all high screen roll.

How can someone grow up thinking they want to be a head coach? Both Turg and GT’s coach were having mild heart attacks. Down the stretch when an average effort my MD could have foiled Tech’s come back as they turned the ball over four times their coach looked pale at best. Totally agree with the author’s assessment of the individual players contributions. We all saw the weaknesses especially evident were the poor shooting attempts.I think at times the announcers were being kind to Stog attaching the moniker of highest shooting average in the ACC when Udofi couldn’t get off the schnide. But then Udofo did. He showed us what a slasher can do. I don’t think it’s fair to say Stoglin is limited to players at a lower level but when he has to create something from a static offense he’s much easier to handle. His three’s were not only poor they were gasping for air, literally. Doubtful that Howard would make a difference since he added very little range to anybody’s offense. Mosley does what he has always done and that’s all one can expect from him. Will Faust be a big time threat someday? OK, I’ll compare him to Rivers and say absolutely not Can he be a much improved smarter player, yes. What was most glaring with Len and Branden in there was the total domination by the two GT forwards on defense. No one could handle the guy with the ball in the corner, H something or other. It was embarrassing. Padge I gotta say you need to speed up your isolation play. Against a team like Duke that would double up you’ll be freaking out. Your moves are like a the two step when everyone else is hip hoppin;‘. OK poor analogy but the idea is you’re so slow in developing the shot and Len is likely the worst offensive big with his back to the board ever. he should have one job and one only and that’’s rebounding. The thing is a lot of much better teams than the Terps look the same when they’re down. Discombobulated. No disrespect I don’t want to play Pankey one and one but really what is your role? Why is everyone seemingly either way outside spread or converged in the middle giving Stog no room? Watched K play Mz. While Mz was winning and running circles around Self’s team they had options. They kept the court open. That means they had the d on their heels. Still it’s encouraging to see the coach hang in there and the boys hand in there under difficult circumstances. They are after all just kids in my book. They’re not Alan Iveson and Ray Allen. Faust stood out for biggest balls. I like his toughness. I like his mannerism to keep keeping at it.

I think it is clear that Turge has no heart for this team. They, by and large, are not players he would have recruited, and he does not believe in them. I think he loves Faust, but is frustrated by his shooting woes. He loves Mosley as a person, but can’t stand the way he disappears from games. He appreciates Stog’s scoring ability, but hates everything else about his game. He likes Parker’s athleticism, but there’s nothing else positive about his game. I don’t believe he has any good feelings about any of the bigs, except Len’s potential. I believe we won’t see any great improvement until Turge gets his type of players, players who would refuse to lose to a last place conference team. I think that’s what he sees in guys like Allen and Dodd.

Yesterday proved we have no such players. There was no one who stepped up and refused to lose. Duke recruits those type of players, and Coach K does not tolerate anything less. That’s why they rarely lose games they are not supposed to. I don’t think Turge will tolerate it either.

is that Faust’s 3pt stroke looks SO much better than it did earlier in the year.

they have a big game and then come down to earth with a below-their-standard performance. that’s youth. inconsistent. l