The Irish apologetics find a new weak loss without inspiration against SMU
This is what the Rock Bottom bottom looks like for the male basketball of Notre-Dame.
Or at least the head coach Micah Shrewsberry Hopefully it is not worse than the home defeat on Wednesday evening to SMU. Three days after Shrewsberry overturned a microphone and out of his post-match press conference, his team showed even less fire than during his frustrated diatibe.
This performance in the Puvilion of Purcell was much worse than the defeat of 75-60 on Sunday against Louisville. The Mustangs (20-6, 11-4 ACC), who played without top scorer Boopie MillerBeaten Notre Dame (11-15, 5-10) from the start.
SMU took an advance of 6-0 in one minute and 42 seconds, which led Shrewsberry at first. Notre Dame rose on the table 13 seconds later with a pointer at 3 Tae DavisBut SMU simply replied with a 9-0 race. The Mustangs led by 20 to only 20 seconds after the half of the first half. Lead has increased 25 times twice in the first half, including half-time after a Buzzer drummer by SMU Chuck Harris.
SMU made 72.4% of its shots on the ground (21 out of 29) in the first half. Meanwhile, the Irish had more turnarounds (eight) than goals on the ground.
“We did not go out ready to leave,” said Notre Dame Guard Braeden Shrewsberry. “I’m just lazy. We were not playing hard, we were not in competition. Everything was not going in the right direction for us. It’s about us.
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In the past two days, according to Micah Shrewsberry, the word “emergency” has been written on the team’s whiteboard. Rarely has a team showed less what was required. Maybe the letters were not large enough.
“We are all in the same genre,” said Micah Shrewsberry. “We win together. We lose together. And it’s a large part of that. They bring me their bearings.
“Maybe I need to change what we do in practice. Maybe I need to change what we do in shotaround or anything. We cannot go out like that. We cannot go out like that. It is a new territory, so I have to understand what it is, why we started in this way, because we did not do that.
“We were in the matches. We played well. We started well. We cannot mark the ball. Maybe we did not succeed, but it’s like 8-6, 6-4. We went there. And from the start, we just didn’t have that look in our eyes. »»
Micah Shrewsberry was so desperate to start the second half that he left Star Guard Markus Burtonwhich was on average 21.3 points per game before Wednesday’s match on the bench. Burton returned to the ground with 14:55 to play in the second half while the Irish still dragged 25 points.
“You arrive at this point right in this game, you just throw things on the wall and see what sticks,” said Shrewsberry. “The five guys we started (in the second half), I thought they had done a very good job in the first half. So now, let’s continue to ride with this group. Maybe they were not together, but at different times, and maybe they can encourage us to do something. We just hoped for a kind of juice and a kind of energy. I thought that maybe these five guys could provide it.
This group also excluded the start of the front A way.which was bench for the second half. He recorded two faults, a turnover and no other statistics in 9:37 on the ground. That Njie was a non-presentation on the glass certainly did not help the Irish, who were finally exceeded 43-20.
Although Burton played almost nine minutes in the second half, he remained very ineffective. He finished the match with four reversals, three assists, two points and a flight.
The only time Burton scored less than 15 points in a match this season is when he scored two points in three minutes against Rutgers before a knee injury hat keeps him away for more of a month to get him out of the match. The previous career of Burton in a match with regular minutes was six points against Miami in December of his first year.
Without the Burton score, Braeden Shrewsberry paved the way with 21 points for the Irish, which was his highest production since he scored 22 against Dartmouth on December 11. Davis added 13, and a first-year avant-garde Garrett disintegrate corresponded to its career summit with 11 points.
But these points totals did not make sense in a game that the Irish dragged 34 points in the second half. The loss of 24 points was the most unbalanced house, the result of the mandate of Our Lady of Micah Shrewsberry and the biggest margin of defeat this season. The Irish lost 21 points in Georgia on December 3 this season.
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Notre Dame lost in the unbalanced manners on several occasions last season, including a 33 -point defeat in North Carolina, a defeat of 24 points against Auburn in Brooklyn, NY, and a loss of 20 points at home against the citadel. But no team has scored 90 points against the Irish last season. Only the Boston College, which scored 94 in a defeat of three points against the Irish in double extension last week, had exceeded 90 points against Notre Dame in the mandate of Shrewsberry before SMU.
“The team of last year, there were perhaps moments like Caroline and a few other places where we have just exploded,” said Micah Shrewsberry. “We were less talented than the others, but we continued to fight. We continued to scratch. We continued to claw. But it was the first time that I have not seen this group to have the same fight at the start. »»
After Shrewsberry expressed his confidence in his coaches’ ability after Sunday’s defeat against Louisville, he wondered Wednesday if the Irish people faced an excessive confidence problem despite the loss of five of their last six games.
“Confidence is a crazy thing,” said Shrewsberry. “Perhaps we believe too much in ourselves, because the team of last year knew that if we did not decorate, if we did not scratch, if we did not keep people at 50 points, So we had no chance. I did a bad work in a defensive way with this group from the start that we do not have the same complaint, the same tenacity and identity. »»
With five games to do in the regular season, the Irish are not yet guaranteed a place in this year’s ACC tournament, which will include the top 15 of the 18 teams of the conference. The Irish people occupy 14th place with two additional victories on the ACC that the Boston College (16th) and NC State (17th).
Shrewsberry will underline the importance of ending the season with a goal, because some of Notre Dame’s players will play their last university basketball games. Like the transfer of Princeton graduate Matt AloccoWho played almost 19 minutes without goal on the bench on Wednesday after an absence of four games with a wrist injury.
“The clock turns. Matt Allocco is emotional in the dead time, because he plays an injury because he wanted to come back and fight for these guys, “said Shrewsberry. “”(Julian) ROPER And JR (necessary) And how they fight. They try. They give everything they have. Even Nikita (Konstantynovskyi) With the mistakes that try to fight and give everything you have.
“”Rick Pitino said it the other day. You return this hourglass and it is almost exhausted. He is almost running on the career of some people. If I am a first -year student, I am a second year student, whatever, I don’t think about the end. I am thinking of this season and I had next year. I had that and that. But these guys may not have another practice. They might not have another game. You have to give everything you have for these guys. You have to think outside of you and think of these guys. Because when their seasons ends, their careers ends, it means that you are one more step in yours by doing the same thing. »»
As the Irish has had trouble this month, Freshman Guard Sir Mohammed Make the first five starts of his career. It shows signs of soft-improvement progress, like no turnover in each of the last three games. Mohammed contributed eight points, two assists and two rebounds on Wednesday.
“It was great to play, but it doesn’t matter if we don’t get the end of the team,” said Mohammed. “So we just have to bring everything together. I hope I can continue to improve and try to help these guys a little more. But I don’t care whether I start or not. We have to get victories. »»
The Irish people were so unhappy with their performance on Wednesday that the two Shrewsberry issued apologies.
“I just want to apologize to all the former players and all the fans who stay with us in our corner,” said Braeden Shrewsberry. “It’s about us. This shit will never happen again, so I’m sorry for that.
Micah Shrewsberry even shared a message similar to the old ND Grand Laphonso Elliswho attended Wednesday’s defeat.
“It’s not Notre-Dame basketball,” said Micah Shrewsberry. “What we are doing now and what we have now, everything comes from what they have done. And for us not to compete is a slap on their face. I apologize to the guys who put blood, perspiration and tears for this program. Fans who are still there are fighting for us, I apologize for them, because that over there, it’s not the basketball of Notre-Dame. That’s what I said.
“It is the bottom of the rocks, because it will no longer be like that. I need five guys and all my dead time. That’s it. “
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