To play on this defensive oriented team, you better have quick feet, concentration, instincts & ability to recover quickly. Sadly Vince can’t check any of those boxes. Not ripping a great guy I’m sure, just giving my opinion of his D deficits.
@Butler, Wed., Feb. 26 , 9p, CBSSN
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It’s massive. 4/5 games are toss-ups in the second round. 1/4 in Sweet 16 is brutal — ESPECIALLY if you’re getting Auburn or Duke.
It’s a huge difference
I never complain about officiating because I know there will be plenty of bad calls but though particularly tonight refs let Butler get away with banging our guys around which affected some plays, they weren't of the no harm no foul type calls.
billthetruth
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Think we will blow either out with our defense and them on short turn around at noon.
I remember Mullin’s teams winning 8/9 game against GTown and then getting destroyed by Xavier and Nova the next day
Only way we are not the one seed is if Nova moves ahead of both UConn and Xavier in final standings.
MugCostanza
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They’ll have 6 full days off going into that game and then 4 more days after that
guinness77
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lol you play who you play in the tournament. What does it matter if it’s sweet 16 or elite 8? The rest could be valuable in the long run.
Rocket
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Butler played a good game. We played just well enough to win. Having KR and RJ almost guarantees we will be in it at end of any game. It's been the case all season.
Vince filled in admirably tonight but Sim was off his game.
Kolby King is an example of some of the excellent talent coach Anderson recruited during his tenure. Three schools in three years and wouldn't it be ironic if the fourth school is St. John's again because he would be an excellent backup guard.
On to the championship on Saturday!
Vince filled in admirably tonight but Sim was off his game.
Kolby King is an example of some of the excellent talent coach Anderson recruited during his tenure. Three schools in three years and wouldn't it be ironic if the fourth school is St. John's again because he would be an excellent backup guard.
On to the championship on Saturday!
BIG EAST CHAMPS!!! No sharing, we win out and then win the BE tourney, getting a two seed
Huh?
guinness77
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You guys win. I’m not arguing right now. I’m 48, I’ve been waiting for this a long time.
Vince gave us great minutes tonight
SJUWillRockNYC
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Rick is smooth. See his face when the lead got to within 2pnts, he had that look like don't even sweat it, we got this game on lockdown.
yeah its not fair to Auburn or Duke this year to play us
There's a reason this game went all the way down to -5.5 on the spread.
Butler plays well offensively at home. They actually match up with us decently too because whereas our guards and wings can typically out-physical other guards/wings, Telfort and Brooks are built like brick s$$$-houses and that doesn't bother them as much.
Take the W in a tough place to get Ws and keep rolling baby.
On the refs, the only one that made me go nuts was RJ getting called for a touch foul on Mcafferey's miss in the lane down the stretch, only for RJ to get freaking mugged by Brando's favorite guard going to the basket the following possession.
My definition of stinker is a double digit loss.
So far so good avoiding that feat.
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Definitely calls altered the closeness of this game. They got every call.
Wilcher basically no offense the last four games. But he plays great D and that's enough.