I hear you Roamer. However, sometimes you need to show the bully you won't be his patsy. Yes Alibegovic committed an intentional foul. Was it over the top? No way. Four G'town players surrounding and shoving (no T on the shove) was excessive. They were trying to make a statement. Coach CM made his statement. We won't be pushed around. After that both teams knew where they stood. Game on.
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I hear you Roamer. However, sometimes you need to show the bully you won't be his patsy. Yes Alibegovic committed an intentional foul. Was it over the top? No way. Four G'town players surrounding and shoving (no T on the shove) was excessive. They were trying to make a statement. Coach CM made his statement. We won't be pushed around. After that both teams knew where they stood. Game on.
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I was of those guys who said Ellison wasn't a D1 player. This morning I looked at the season stats and was surprised that he has far more assists than Mussini and his stat line was not half bad. Still, he didn't have a great game tonight, but proved he belongs on the court.
For Monte, you could tell that SL was totally happy as hell that the Johnnies won, and its clear to me he still has a very strong emotional tie to this program, even if he may not have worked as hard as people here say.
For Monte, you could tell that SL was totally happy as hell that the Johnnies won, and its clear to me he still has a very strong emotional tie to this program, even if he may not have worked as hard as people here say.
Insult Mussini and praise Lav, and all in one short post. What gives? Must have woke up thinking "I'm gonna stick it to Monte today". With regard to Malik's vs Mussini assist stats, Malik handled the ball and played the point far more than Mussini. That likely has something to do with it. As for Lav's giddiness, you are a far more perceptive and insightful man than me and probably everyone else on this planet if you can tell what Lav is ever truly feeling. And as for his work habits, that has been debated ad nauseam and I don't think that almost 2 years later anything new has to come to light that will change the varying opinions.
Great gut check win. My heart was still pounding from the game on the train home. Great seeing our west coast lefty Austour,OLV72,sjuhoopnut who was sitting in 114,Moose, Kevin Barry and JerseyShoreJohnny - sorry for dropping that beer on your foot ! 
. Damn what a waste of an full beer.
Loved the fight in Mullin. Awesome fan reaction too. The fans were really behind the kids today.
Oh man do I hope DWill comes back next year. Malik as well
Any win against Gtown no matter how good or bad they are is a good win.
I'll be there today. Fully expect a double digit loss and wouldn't be surprised if it was high double digits but hey you never know. If our guys get syracuse like hot then anything can happen. That's why we play the games
LET'S GO JOHNNIES !!!!!
. Damn what a waste of an full beer.Loved the fight in Mullin. Awesome fan reaction too. The fans were really behind the kids today.
Oh man do I hope DWill comes back next year. Malik as well
Any win against Gtown no matter how good or bad they are is a good win.
I'll be there today. Fully expect a double digit loss and wouldn't be surprised if it was high double digits but hey you never know. If our guys get syracuse like hot then anything can happen. That's why we play the games
LET'S GO JOHNNIES !!!!!
mmGreat gut check win. My heart was still pounding from the game on the train home. Great seeing our west coast lefty Austour,OLV72,sjuhoopnut who was sitting in 114,Moose, Kevin Barry and JerseyShoreJohnny - sorry for dropping that beer on your foot !
Loved the fight in Mullin. Awesome fan reaction too. The fans were really behind the kids today.
Oh man do I hope DWill comes back next year. Malik as well
Any win against Gtown no matter how good or bad they are is a good win.
I'll be there today. Fully expect a double digit loss and wouldn't be surprised if it was high double digits but hey you never know. If our guys get syracuse like hot then anything can happen. That's why we play the games
LET'S GO JOHNNIES !!!!!
Such a nice upbeat post MJMAHERJR
Thanks and enjoy today!
It's been a GOOD season
BETTER one to anticipate 2016-18
all the best
The thing that might give me more optimism than anything else about this particular team: they do so many things wrong, but when they decide to play hard like they did last night they win tough games anyway.
If you were to add up the lazy turnovers 30+ feet from basket, the mid-range jumpers from players who shouldn’t be shooting mid-range jumpers, and the 3s from players who shouldn’t be shooting 3s you’d probably get close to 20 possessions last night in a ~60 possession game that were zeros. 1/3 of our total chances effectively turnovers.
But they win the game anyway in large part due to digging in on defensive end and backboards against a much bigger and more physical team that came to play last night. If they can (1) cut those 20 possessions to 10 (not unreasonable), and (2) bring that level of effort every night (even less unreasonable), where are we? Last night is probably a 10 point win, a few losses this season probably turn into wins, and a few destructions especially on the road probably turn into competitive games. All of that probably amounts to a really good basketball team on the border of the NCAA Tournament. Along with added talent, those should be two of main objectives for improvement in offseason IMO as think they’ll have strong correlation with added wins.
That a lot of those ~20 plays were mistakes players have been making since November and in some cases since last year including senseless fouling needs to be addressed but conversation for another day given great result.
A great spin to what was a sputtering end of the year getting such a highly visible March win that is getting so much coverage. That Mullin showing so much passion is one of the bigger storylines in college hoops last night and today should help perception of program direction and doubt it hurts recruiting either.
If you were to add up the lazy turnovers 30+ feet from basket, the mid-range jumpers from players who shouldn’t be shooting mid-range jumpers, and the 3s from players who shouldn’t be shooting 3s you’d probably get close to 20 possessions last night in a ~60 possession game that were zeros. 1/3 of our total chances effectively turnovers.
But they win the game anyway in large part due to digging in on defensive end and backboards against a much bigger and more physical team that came to play last night. If they can (1) cut those 20 possessions to 10 (not unreasonable), and (2) bring that level of effort every night (even less unreasonable), where are we? Last night is probably a 10 point win, a few losses this season probably turn into wins, and a few destructions especially on the road probably turn into competitive games. All of that probably amounts to a really good basketball team on the border of the NCAA Tournament. Along with added talent, those should be two of main objectives for improvement in offseason IMO as think they’ll have strong correlation with added wins.
That a lot of those ~20 plays were mistakes players have been making since November and in some cases since last year including senseless fouling needs to be addressed but conversation for another day given great result.
A great spin to what was a sputtering end of the year getting such a highly visible March win that is getting so much coverage. That Mullin showing so much passion is one of the bigger storylines in college hoops last night and today should help perception of program direction and doubt it hurts recruiting either.