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North Dakota-Oral Roberts Brawl

Dove said:
The steal was unnecessary. The dunk was absurd. That kid waving buh-bye was a punk move.
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Neither a defense of what happened or pushback toward you or the others who criticized similarly, but...

If you read the Twitter comments, an NDSU partisan explains that ORU was still working its full-court press, down 16, with under 10 seconds to go, and the guy who stole the ball is someone who rarely plays.

This tweeter claimed that the ORU coach is known & disliked for doing things like putting on the press when the other team's scrubs are in and the outcome is in no doubt.

Yeah, the kid who dunked was pushing it by effectively telling the opposing coach, "In your face, [ ]," but his steal, slam, and spin didn't come completely out of nowhere.

Teachable moments all the way around.
 
If you get dunked on it's your fault. Take your L and hit the locker room. Get over it. ORU must be mad they suck again.
 
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Hans Sprungfeld said:
Neither a defense of what happened or pushback toward you or the others who criticized similarly, but...

If you read the Twitter comments, an NDSU partisan explains that ORU was still working its full-court press, down 16, with under 10 seconds to go, and the guy who stole the ball is someone who rarely plays.

This tweeter claimed that the ORU coach is known & disliked for doing things like putting on the press when the other team's scrubs are in and the outcome is in no doubt.

Yeah, the kid who dunked was pushing it by effectively telling the opposing coach, "In your face, [ ]," but his steal, slam, and spin didn't come completely out of nowhere.

Teachable moments all the way around.
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I too like to gather all the facts. #21 Boden Skunberg and #23 Maleeck Harden-Hayes (Not to be confused with Willie Mays Hayes), the guy who stole the ball, appear to be the first two guys off the bench averaging 22.9 and 17.4 minutes per game respectively. 6th and 7th highest scorers on the team. They play frequently. That said, I guess if the other team is still pressing and pushing the ball up the court, then the defense is free to play aggressively. Youthful exuberance all the way around too.
 
XLCenterFan said:
If you get dunked on it's your fault. Take your L and hit the locker room. Get over it. ORU must be mad they suck again.
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Not much Malice here. Hardly worth calling it the Fracas At The FargoDome. More like the Feinting and Falling At The FargoDome.
 
Oral’s coach started it. One thing I noticed, #1 on Oral had a bloody mouth when he got up. Somebody got a shot in on the big man.
 
Geez That wasn’t that crazy nobody even got hit with any punches really - that was far from a brawl. Weak. I guess I’m old-school
 
Yawn, wake me when a college team fights the Chinese national team again. Now that was a brawl.
 
'buggs would definitely score 20 in an nba game. he got hops.'

see? i ain't lyin. he carries like a mug, but they don't call that anymore so he's good for 20. mebbe 30.
 
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The NDSU coach should have 'escorted' his classless player to a seat and tell him he better not leave it until he can't see a fan left in the arena. I know guys who would haved done exactly that.

I've mentioned it before. I remember watching my cousin's team getting whooped and a kid put up a 3 pointer as time expired. Their coach came out like a bull out of the stall. He screamed at the player to sit down and told him he had no chance at playing in their next game. Later, I found out , the kid sat their until the team bus was ready to roll. Even better, he was the coach's son.
 
Kolumbo said:
I too like to gather all the facts. #21 Boden Skunberg and #23 Maleeck Harden-Hayes (Not to be confused with Willie Mays Hayes), the guy who stole the ball, appear to be the first two guys off the bench averaging 22.9 and 17.4 minutes per game respectively. 6th and 7th highest scorers on the team. They play frequently. That said, I guess if the other team is still pressing and pushing the ball up the court, then the defense is free to play aggressively. Youthful exuberance all the way around too.
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That's great. Thanks for looking into it.

The guy's athleticism in hanging on the rim made the NDSU partisan's claim that the guy hardly ever played seem questionable, so I made certain I put forth the source in case anybody was going to fact-check AND set the record straight. And I'm not fact-checking you, so good bluff if that's the case.

Now, if somebody else weighs in that the ORU coach is beloved by all conference foes, there still remains the, "What's up with the full-court press in that situation?" angle.

As such, I claim, "Not dead yet" on the recitation.

Get a Job said:
You mean ol' Vaginal Roberts?
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Lots of possibilities here, but I think I'll go safe and say, "Nope, the brother is Aural," and completely leave any other sisters' names to somebody else.
 
Spaceman213J said:
The NDSU coach should have 'escorted' his classless player to a seat and tell him he better not leave it until he can't see a fan left in the arena. I know guys who would haved done exactly that.

I've mentioned it before. I remember watching my cousin's team getting whooped and a kid put up a 3 pointer as time expired. Their coach came out like a bull out of the stall. He screamed at the player to sit down and told him he had no chance at playing in their next game. Later, I found out , the kid sat their until the team bus was ready to roll. Even better, he was the coach's son.
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Hardooooo
 
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Hans Sprungfeld said:
No doubt.

I take my pleasures west of Syracuse in the Finger Lakes, and can reliably say so too is NY.
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I too often think about where I'd like to live when I retire. My latest thought is Lake Champlain. Either NY or Vermont. So maybe someday I'll be back on the east coast.
 
I wish I saw the last 2-3 minutes of the game, would really frame how I feel about this.

In a snapshot, the steal & dunk are petty & ridiculous. But I also believe if the losing team is doing things to close the gap up to the whistle (pressing, getting quick shots up, etc) the winning team has the same right to play equally as hard
 
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