Give it up.
Keeping Up With Old Friends Thread
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Only thing keeping me from laughing is Wusu’s 22 pts, 16 reb, 7 ast in our two losses against the Hall.
Good for David Jones. Hadn't seen his sister since their Dad passed away in the DR during his year with us. Nice moment for him and he celebrated Senior day with 32 points, 9 rebounds 10-11 from the line and a win. Happy for him.
Trigger alert for team managers!
It was the third game of the season vs
Duke in the NIT semifinal at MSG IIRC. We were down one at the end and Walter had been killing them. We had the ball with seconds left and Walter should have gotten the ball. But instead, Mark brought it up and never gave it up and missed the potential game winning shot. Walter was pissed and the rest of what Mark recanted in the interview is absolutely correct.
Mark was interviewed by the media after the game and kept reiterating that it was a good shot, it felt good and if the same situation arose, he’d take it again which probably didn’t help the situation with Walter.
Some things never change.
Mark explained it as being up one point and just needing to get the ball inbounds in the final seconds and Walter wanting to reach double figures. Doesn’t sound like the Duke game.
Walter had 35 against Duke, not 8.
He also said they didn’t speak from the fifth game on. We didn’t play UConn until our 19th game of that season and this feud practically went throughout the whole season not half of it. The Duke game was the 3rd game of that season and there was an incident. Mark probably mixed up two separate incidents but it was the Duke game that started the silent treatment.
Poetic license
Then there is no doubt Mark mixed up the two incidents. The scenario he portrays in his podcast is a game which we won. Only one game lines up with his detailed description and that’s the UConn game. Unless Mark thinks we beat Duke that year. lol. That’s all I was fact checking.
I have no doubt Walter was pissed at Mark for taking that last shot against Duke. I think every SJU fan was mad at him at that moment. They hid that beef well cause the beat writers for the Daily News, Post and Newsday never mentioned it. Also the games I remember included lots of high fives between the two during the season. Maybe our esteemed poster @Alumni Hall is at liberty to speak on this, but understand if he cannot.
Yeah, we were all pissed as WTF was he thinking? They hadn’t stopped Walter all night and he doesn’t get the ball at the end.
I have seen SJU play live very few times but was at that game spur of the moment. Was in the city with my less than a year wife, doing the Christmas thing, when she asked if I wanted to go by the Garden and see if we could get tickets. She didn’t have to ask twice.
We could, but of course unbeknownst to me, I picked two smack dab in the middle of slew of Duke students. I don’t have a shy bone in my body, and to the mortification of my wife, who is extremely private and even more extremely reserved, proceeded to have an incredibly loud and volatile but also very good natured back and forth with them pretty much the whole game.
Glad we saw a great game, bummed at the final outcome, and oh, these many years later would still disagree with you guys and Berry on the Jackson shot.You are down to the short hairs, you just don’t pass up a great look. And it was a great look, just didn’t go.
MSG IIRC ????
Alumni Hall, please weigh in on this thing about Mark Jackson and Walter Berry not speaking to each other at all from the fifth game of the season on. Sounds to me like it's revising history for a good story.
But Mark sounds so certain in his telling of the story, and our fact checker doesn't find it checks out.
That was my thought as well.