Recent content by Excalibur

There's no conspiracy. They're just bad at their jobs, and the way they tend to call games is more impactful for us given our style of play.

"He's never been a really good three point shooter" is an all time take. After November of his freshman year, he was around 45%. He was over 40 last year. The random cr@p that people post here is incredible.

23 got blown out at home by a bad St. John’s team. I also remember them allowing a major comeback by the Hall late in the game at Gampel. Maybe don’t make stuff up . . .

I question myself when I join most of the time. I tried the Reddit game thread, but got banned for promoting violence against the officials . . .

The "best on ball defender" on a top 5 team in just about every defensive metric "isn't saying much". This place . . .

But he can't guard the position.

If the head to head were the only data point, sure. You're ignoring the common opponent point to make it easier to dismiss the argument. Amateur stuff . . .

The head to head combined with the fact that we beat every common opponent by more than Duke did makes the argument valid. Metrics are one data point. There are others.

Making teams defend for 25-30 seconds every possession absolutely wears them out, particularly when they’re being run off of as many screens as we run.

I thought he dipped the shoulder a bit but not enough to warrant a call.

I feel like something needs to be said about the AMP as a venue. It’s a decent Home Court environment, but other than that, it’s objectively terrible. Not having been in a while, I forgot how bad it is Picture all of the worst things about whatever we want to call the Hartford Civic Center...

Away in 1995. Randy Smith had a great column in the JI after that game that I cut out and still have -- "Put yourself at Fitzgerald Field House with the scoreboard reading 'Pitt 40, Visitor 15'. At that moment, all hidden doubts concerning your team and yourself have emerged, and are staring...

It was Lamb coming off of a curl. I was reminded of that last night when Malachi missed Mullins coming off of a similar screen. I may have quoted Calhoun . . .

Where there is a miscommunication, both parties are often at fault. I could see how "wasn't ready" could be misinterpreted, so I'll take the hit for that.

Right. And my comment wasn’t meant as an insult to Ross (or even a criticism).