Dezmine

(to the tune of Glycerine by Bush)

We needed that win, it's sinking in
Needed to beat Heels, that I can feel
We don't use our mind
It's not our kind
The moronic plays, sure were a sign

When the Terrapins wear white
My mood's gone gray
It's even worse, when we're away
We've played like piss
Remember Juan
The time that we ranked, number one

Don't Let the days go by

Dezmine
Dezmine

Playing all alone
Playing alone every game
Are you all one or are you a team?
We never get steals
And when we shoot it's worse than Dave Neal

This team played bad
Turge coached you like shit
Couldn't love him less
We're go'n to the "NIT"

Don't Let the days go by

I used to be proud of you
You couldn't change; didn't want to
Hitting some twos but you need threes
Could have made the tournament this year

Dezmine
Dezmine

Don't Let the days go by

Dezmine

Don't Let the days go by

Dezmine
Dezmine

Dezmine
Dezmine

Red unis lost again
Red unis lost again
And we fall to UNC

We've gotta win more
Instead we won less
Couldn't improve; just regress
It might be Coach T
Real simple and plain
Well thats just fun
It's why Turdge is his name

Don't let the days go by
Could have been easier on you, you, you

Dezmine
Dezmine

Dezmine
Dezmine

Our Pets Heads are Falling Off!

At some point you learn from your mistakes.  No, not the Terps, but your humble author.  After years of jumping to call things a low point, you learn to just stop doing that for fear of what will come next.  Yesterday's lost to Boston U wasn't the first time that Maryland has lost to a team from the lowly Patriot League in Comcast Center, just the most recent.  The Terps led for just 4:00 total yesterday.  For those without the benefit of a calculator, that's just 10% of the game.  The Terps basically let a team from a low-major league come into our gym and do whatever they want.

The Terriers aren't awful, of course.  There's probably little different between them and Oregon State, other than name and that no one on BU was likely recruited to play at an ACC level.  Anyone who thought Maryland would win handily yesterday either doesn't pay attention to Maryland or doesn't pay attention to the sport in general.  BU had already given George Washington and Harvard - two teams better than Maryland - trouble and were picked to win their league.  It's a team likely to play in March, whether in the NCAA or the NIT.

In the postgame, the esteemed Coach Turgeon said the following:

We can’t score 77 at home and lose, so maybe it’s on the defensive end

77 points probably ought to be enough to win in most cases, but the game was 76 possessions.  I don't want to make too much about whether Turgeon understands tempo-free statistics, and I'm sure it's not lost on him that 57% FT shooting and a dozen and a half turnovers are bad looks, but make no mistake that the offense's inability to convert were just as damaging as giving up all those open 3s to BU.

The Terps are left with the very real possibility that they won't finish above .500 overall for the first time in over 20 years.  Even if they win their next two games (no guarantee), they'll need to get to 8-10 in the conference just to get to 16-15 for the season.  While the Seth Allen injury has hurt, that's a very bleak outlook for a program in Year 3 of a rebuild.

Suck It Lunardi

Here's the bracket.  It's happening.  Terps in.  Let's goooooooooooo.

I'll bet I do better than Lunardi.


SOUTH
--
Louisville vs Western Kentucky/NC A&T
Oklahoma vs Cal
Florida vs Akron
Saint Louis vs Bucknell
Michigan State vs Florida-Gulf Coast
Oregon vs Wichita State
Pitt vs Maryland/Middle Tennessee
Kansas vs Harvard

WEST
--
Gonzaga vs Long Island/Liberty
Cincinnati vs Illinois
North Carolina vs Boise State
Kansas State vs New Mexico State
Michigan vs Northwestern State
UNLV vs Iowa State
Memphis vs Colorado
Georgetown vs Pacific

EAST
--
Miami vs James Madison
Creighton vs Missouri
Arizona vs Villanova/Saint Mary's
Wisconsin vs Valparaiso
New Mexico vs Montana
Notre Dame vs Belmont
Butler vs Ole Miss
Ohio State vs Iona

MIDWEST
--
Indiana vs Southern
North Carolina State vs Colorado State
Oklahoma State vs Temple
Marquette vs Davidson
Syracuse vs South Dakota State
VCU vs San Diego State
UCLA vs Minnesota
Duke vs Albany

And then this happened...

Click pic for full image.

So this happened...

My art direction is slacking, so I'll repost instead. New art forthcoming, now that I remembered my password.

#BEATDUKE

Oh yeah, we did that shit.  More to come.

In the meantime, enjoy the shot chart from the Virginia game!

Howard: 2-4 (1-2, 0-1, 0-0, 1-1)
Faust: 4-9 (3-3, 1-1, 0-4, 0-1)
Wells:  5-9 (3-3, 0-1, 0-0, 2-5)
Padgett: 1-2 (1-2, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0)
Len: 3-6 (3-3, 0-2, 0-1, 0-0)
Allen: 4-8 (3-5, 1-1, 0-0, 0-2)
Aronhalt: 3-7 (1-1, 0-0, 0-2, 2-4)
Layman: 1-7 (0-1, 0-0, 1-2, 0-4)
Mitchell: 1-3 (1-3, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0)
Cleare: 3-3 (3-3, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0)

But Then I Saw This

Ed. Note: But Then I Saw This is a recurring series where stats, preferably of the tempo free variety, are used to crush the very fundamentals beliefs of the author.  This is entry the first.

The always great Luke Winn posted this handy chart in his weekly power rankings:

All year, or at least for the past month plus after it became clear that Maryland wasn't All That Good, the talking point around the internet water cooler was about the lack of a point guard and an inability to feed the Big Blue and Gold Alex Len and his counterparts in the post.  And make no mistake, I believed that was absolutely true.  Still do, to an extent, but this chart sort of puts to rest the notion that there's a ton more post feeding to do that's been left on the table.

Now you can make the case that Maryland really should be higher because Alex Len is that much of a specimen, and it doesn't ring completely hollow, but Len is a big guy without a whole mess of post moves so it's tough to swallow.  Bottom line, Maryland does feed the post.

There's also the matter of Maryland being 8th on this list in efficiency behind conference-mate Georgia Tech in both not only efficiency but number.  Now we should remember that this is all post touches, so Slim Charles and Padgett and Shaq all figure prominently as well as the guards, but it's still an ugly number.

So yeah, back to the whole, "We have a team of ten guys who turn the ball over an inordinate amount of times" to explain everything broken about our offense.