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Getting outplayed by a bad team is bad enough, but getting outhustled?

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Dude's probably just excited his crap team got a decent scalp. Natural reaction to overreact to a big win like that.

Doesn't mean they don't have serious flaws.
 
MCNPA said:
Best all around young player was Jakarr Sampson by a mile. Not even close. Calhoun made a few threes and that's about it. Nice set shooterlike SJU's Bourgault. Can do zero else. SJU won without its entire backcourt, which is the bottom line. The entire SJU team is young including Obekpa, Pointer, Greene, Sampson, Harrison, Garrett and down the line. Not an upperclassman. Harrison had had about 4 bad games his entire career. This was one of them and SJU still won.
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Relax dopie, UConn played as bad as they absolutely could no matter who the duckk was and wasn't playing the game for you. Your guys made everything early and then looked like the team we expected, handed it back to us. Sampson by a mile? Funny , nice player for sure, punk for sure. Fouled out 5X over the last 12 minutes but somehow none were called. Very active and aggressive on offense almost nothing on defense but a good player. Next level? Size could hurt a tweener without a great handle for a 2......but talented.

St Johns is as good as UConn and maybe better overall talent-wise for now. They should be as good and capable of winning......bring your PG in healthy in a different game and maybe UConn beats your ass by 20 because both teams are inconsistent at best..........Harrison has had about 40 bad games in his career so again you're an idiot. You get him making shots you're in trouble, but he shoots them out too and often. Promise you UConn is better yet again next year because we have someone who can actually coach!!
 
zls44 said:
Rothstein is making the classic mistake of confusing recruiting rankings for actual talent.

And if you think there were 100 UConn fans there tonight, MCNPA, you're just being dense. Or can't count. Maybe both.

St Johns playing harder than UConn doesn't make them not awful. . They are not mutually exclusive arguments.

Harrison was terrible. He made three field goals. He shot 3-for-12. Dont make it something it wasn't. The best all-around young player in the game was Omar Calhoun, by quite a bit. It's a shame Chris Obekpa chose to settle for less in his recruitment.
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How about I offer a shred of optimism here. Rather than waste any more of our collective time debating the status of a fly in the ointment program like The Stain, I would say that this game could have been just what the doctor ordered in terms of galvanizing both our coach and his players to FINALLY put a stop to this "going through the motions and then offering mea culpas to the media and fans" cycle that they are entrenched in.

I would like to see them, in anticipation of a very important home stand, go to the Hall and blow their doors off. Not necessarily a big margin of victory, but a solid win where they control the game from start to finish. That would set them up, mentally and emotionally, very nicely to welcome, the Cuse,Nova and Cincinnati. I have no problem visualising four straight wins which would be a huge boost for us and a nice dent in the tournament armor for our opponents.

This team needs to stop telling us 21 games in that "they're working to figure it out(Giffey" or any other variety of "we know what has to be done". It is way old. Put your money where your mouth is guys and keep it there for the rest of the season!!!

GO HUSKIES!!! BEAT THE PIRATES!!!
 
St. Johns is 7-4 in the #3 RPI conference. According to Z, all but about 50 teams in the country must suck.
 
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zls44 said:
You don't matter. You've never mattered outside of six minutes in 1985 and 1999. And you never will again. Losing to you has always, and will always be, a tremendously embarrassing result for this program.
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I was at the game, and by the end the student section was chanting UCONN SUCKS and I was sitting there feeling bad for them....like, beating a depleted UConn team during a throwaway year is a signature win for them this year. It was a source of some pride for them, evidently.

But hey, gotta jump at the one chance you get to beat on UConn while they're down. I hope it made them feel better about themselves that night.
 
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