NIT

If they couldn't get up for Xavier or Providence...the two most important games of the season...then what makes anyone think they'll be more than one and done in the NIT?

I'd rather be spared the embarassment.
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I would tend to agree.
We will win a game. Someone will hit a big shot like last year and everyone will scream improvement.
Player will then come back this year and be arguably worse than ever before
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If I was Dom I wouldn't read these boards of the next couple months. Someone has fallen from grace really quickly, and deservedly so. What a brutal season for him.
I root hard for the guy, but man it's hard to think he hasn't regressed.
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Is there any remedy for Dom? Is he not given the coaching he needs or is the coaching he gets not connecting ? I am a Celtics fan since 1957 and when I see a player like Dom stuck, My memories of Sam Jones raise the question of could this player do better as a bank shooter?
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He is perplexing...obviously has tools but just hasn't improved in areas that needed development (shooting) and isn't really at excelling in areas that would seem such a natural fit for him (driving, on ball defense)...I've said this before...I believe he sees his role as the guy who has to make something happen on defense (rather than stopping something from happening) and as a result looks for nothing but steals and blocks...there was a play during the Providence game when we needed a stop when it almost looked like he invited the offensive player to drive past him so he could go for the block...may be my imagination but seemed like he stepped to the side and created an open lane...I think he may have gotten the block but still...very puzzling...as I said, he has tools but needs to make some changes
 
If they couldn't get up for Xavier or Providence...the two most important games of the season...then what makes anyone think they'll be more than one and done in the NIT?

I'd rather be spared the embarassment.
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I would tend to agree.
We will win a game. Someone will hit a big shot like last year and everyone will scream improvement.
Player will then come back this year and be arguably worse than ever before
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If I was Dom I wouldn't read these boards of the next couple months. Someone has fallen from grace really quickly, and deservedly so. What a brutal season for him.
I root hard for the guy, but man it's hard to think he hasn't regressed.
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Is there any remedy for Dom? Is he not given the coaching he needs or is the coaching he gets not connecting ? I am a Celtics fan since 1957 and when I see a player like Dom stuck, My memories of Sam Jones raise the question of could this player do better as a bank shooter?
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Maybe he can do better as a bank robber! :) Just kidding, let's not have anyone get their panties in a bunch!
 
If I am in town, I will be at every NIT home game and rooting hard for our guys.

I guess I'm just a delusional, looking at the world through "rose colored" glasses, homer. Yep, that's me! ;)
 
I can't get excited about the NIT's. I will watch the games on TV but won't invest any more dollars into this team. I spent enough already.
 
I can't get excited about the NIT's. I will watch the games on TV but won't invest any more dollars into this team. I spent enough already.
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Andrew, I can respect your feelings about the NIT. It is a disappointment, definitely, but I just cant stop rooting for my school.
 
I can't get excited about the NIT's. I will watch the games on TV but won't invest any more dollars into this team. I spent enough already.
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Andrew, I can respect your feelings about the NIT. It is a disappointment, definitely, but I just cant stop rooting for my school.
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I am still rooting for them, I just don't want to spend any more money on tickets. I sat in almost empty Barclays Center to see them play Georgia Tech and paid for five overpriced tickets. Then four games at the Garden, which they lost three of. That was enough for me. I would gladly have invested more if they were playing Creighton in the finals tonight.
 
I can't get excited about the NIT's. I will watch the games on TV but won't invest any more dollars into this team. I spent enough already.
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Andrew, I can respect your feelings about the NIT. It is a disappointment, definitely, but I just cant stop rooting for my school.
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I am still rooting for them, I just don't want to spend any more money on tickets. I sat in almost empty Barclays Center to see them play Georgia Tech and paid for five overpriced tickets. Then four games at the Garden, which they lost three of. That was enough for me. I would gladly have invested more if they were playing Creighton in the finals tonight.
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I dont think anyone needs to worry about spending money to see st johns at the Garden, they will probably lose before qualifying to get to the Garden. That is, unless MSG tells the refs to go soft on us in hopes of getting a bigger crowd for the NIT games. btw- I mentioned on this board how Cuse and the other northern teams would never really be allowed to dominate or appear as the flagship for the ACC over the likes of Duke and UNC or even UVA. Need I say more than direct your attention to todays NY Times article on Boeheim and how he was jeered when his name was announced at the tournament down south. Or how Cuse was eliminated from the tournament or how calls just started to go against Cuse in the last 6 games. Just enough to make sure UVA and not Cuse was the number one seed. Some of you must be very naive to not see this. They dont cotton to those northern boys
 
Have fun with the NIT everyone, I got better things to do.
See ya after the nit is over.

Then a few days after it`s over we should know about Obekpa.

I been in a disgusting mood since Thursday.
 
Have fun with the NIT everyone, I got better things to do.
See ya after the nit is over.

Then a few days after it`s over we should know about Obekpa.

I been in a disgusting mood since Thursday.
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Really?
 
No one that scares me in the NIT but nobody that I couldn't see losing to either,
 
No one that scares me in the NIT but nobody that I couldn't see losing to either.
 
The below link is to a site which projects StJohns to be a #1 seed in the National Invitation Tournament.

http://www.bracketmatrix.com/nit.html
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Sunday night on pins and needles redmen fans gather around their tv's eating dessert as we we await our fate (scraps) otherwise known as an NIT birth in our quest to claim the title of maybe best in nyc in a potential battle against Iona
 
Posters who skip the NIT out of disgust will probably miss some good basketball. Not sure if it will be one of our games, of course, but there will be some good teams/players there.

I would also be in favor of Lavin booting off anyone on the team who plays like they don't want to be there.
 
Posters who skip the NIT out of disgust will probably miss some good basketball. Not sure if it will be one of our games, of course, but there will be some good teams/players there.
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Concur.
 
NIT = failure

I vote to delete this thread.
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There are around 32 conferences that will send their champs to the NCAA. Of that number, around 20 schools that are low level basketball schools would not even make the NIT had they not had an automatic bid to the NCAA. There are schools with SOS and RPI's that are in the hundreds that are going to the NCAA while we go to the NIT with a lot of school's that would have been in the NCAA had those twenty weak conferences not had automatic bids. It is what it is but a failure it is not given the above.
 
NIT = failure

I vote to delete this thread.
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There are around 32 conferences that will send their champs to the NCAA. Of that number, around 20 schools that are low level basketball schools would not even make the NIT had they not had an automatic bid to the NCAA. There are schools with SOS and RPI's that are in the hundreds that are going to the NCAA while we go to the NIT with a lot of school's that would have been in the NCAA had those twenty weak conferences not had automatic bids. It is what it is but a failure it is not given the above.
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Its not a failure. Its what makes college basketball fun and increases interest around the country. It sounds like you support the football schools.
 
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