Marquette, Sat. Feb. 10, Noon, YES (FOX SN) / 970AM
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Don't worry I'm ready to get slammed for another unpopular opinion but here we go:
This was our best game of the season!
and here is why:
a) Marq on paper is a tough match up for us. (Lots of tall guys that can stretch the floor)
b) We over came questionable refs (BA got popped in the chops and TO's 3rd and 4th were questionable at best)
c) Our guys had to be dog tired and on emotional overload (I think our it was most evident on our all arm FTs) and did
d) We were coached to attack mismatches (Simon, BA, and Clark exploiting people off the dribble)
e) I don't what the stats say, we defended the 3pt line better than we did all season.
f) Justin Simon picked up the slack when Ponds banged his hip.
g) We pulled away late.
h) Ponds is the greatest player to touch a basketball
3 in a row!
Some good points but I might agree with you short of the turnovers and missed free throws. Duke way tougher matchup. Their size I thought was insurmountable but Ponds LOVING every opportunity to go at Bagley was one of the best things I've ever seen.
prjohnnies
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He's been awesome but I don't get the "first round 2018" or "leaving early" talk. I know we are conditioned to believe that our guys will leave early when they shouldn't, whereas that won't happen for other teams, but what Ponds has done the past few games isn't altogether different than what two guys we played today have done at different points during the year (Rowsey and Howard). They've had some huge individual games, including Rowsey today.
Just got home from the game. Even though I haven’t read all the posts, I’m sure everything that needed to be said, was said. But, man, Ponds! ‘Nuff said!
I will say that in my seven years as a season ticket holder, I have never, and I mean NEVER heard CA as loud as it was today. I’m sure a lot of fans were there to see who this team is, that just beat Duke and Nova. But that’s fine with me. Just maybe we picked up a bunch of new fans today.
Way to go guys, and coaches. We are.......
I will say that in my seven years as a season ticket holder, I have never, and I mean NEVER heard CA as loud as it was today. I’m sure a lot of fans were there to see who this team is, that just beat Duke and Nova. But that’s fine with me. Just maybe we picked up a bunch of new fans today.
Way to go guys, and coaches. We are.......
prjohnnies
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I thought we did a good job making Marquette's shooters, especially Hauser, put the ball on the floor where he is clearly not as comfortable. When Owens was out of the game market was able to exploit this more by getting to to the basket without any rim protector, and even though M's shooters still made a bunch of 3's, they weren't as comfortable as they were against the Hall.
Also liked how we took advantage of matchups on the other side - posting Simon against Rousey, etc
Also liked how we took advantage of matchups on the other side - posting Simon against Rousey, etc
montyaloofah
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Shamorie is just playing on another level right now. I like his killer instinct when a taller defender gets switched on him. Our 6 man rotation is working very well. I was almost sure yakwe would get some time when Owens picked his 4th. I was ok with Mullin not bringing him in though. The chemistry with the 6 is too good to mess with. Let’s keep this going!
Agree crowd was electric today. Not bad for what some on here term the worst fans, maybe when they have something to cheer about and get excited about they will respond. Also agree on poor officiating which I almost never comment on but had a great look on a second half drive by Howard where he totally extended his arm and pushed off and we were still called for foul. Yesterday I had a post about loving to watch great players perform on the college level and today we were all treated to a tremendous performance by Shamorie who broke the St. John's scoring record for the venerable old on campus arena in both it's Alumni Hall and Carnesecca Arena incantations. Hopefully there will be some type of post season tournament play for this year's team.
And Howard’s running starts before even putting ball on floor.
sjc88-I would have typed all that but my fingers got tongue-tied.
I can't stop. It was that bad. Marquette player chicken wings Bashir in the chops. Foul on Bashir! Even BA laughed at that call. I get there are missed calls and bad calls in every game but today was comically bad. Both coaches showed tremendous restraint.
How about the push offs by Howard and Rowsey as they drove to the basket.
Simon has an ugly release as does Ahmed. FT's are all about rotation and arch, they both have neither. Nonetheless, loving the way they are getting big W's right now!
One post asked if Yakwe was still injured
fwiw at game today
I spoke with an SJ medic/trainer (not sure of his exact role) who sat near me at the far end of the bench toward - just down from where Louie sits)
I asked about Yakwe
He said
“ Yakwe is not injured”
fwiw at game today
I spoke with an SJ medic/trainer (not sure of his exact role) who sat near me at the far end of the bench toward - just down from where Louie sits)
I asked about Yakwe
He said
“ Yakwe is not injured”
Real good win today and two of the main topics are about a guy who didn’t,0’t play and the refereeing. Sheesh, look at the last play of the Xavier-Creighton game to see bad reffing. Marquette shot 6, count ‘em, 6 foul shots other that Rousey’s 2 fouls on the 3’s. Yeah there were bad calls, there always are, just part of the game.
Saw that end of the X-Creighton game. That was horrible. No team should lose a game like that.
On a different note, Steve Lappas called Ponds the best player in the country right now. I hated Lappas when he was announcing our game against Nova. Now I think he’s brilliant,