Saint John's Post Game Thread

[temery]

Nm

 

[biggieb1950]

give Hurley credit, Castle not ready to play, pull him Diarra plays hard, Clingan not ready for next level yet

 

[Dove]

Kinda speechless. Can't type.

We're good, yo.

 

[phillionaire]

It’s good when we win

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Never a bad thing to win a conference tournament game but have a lot to reflect and learn from that performance.

Regroup, get some rest and let’s win the damn thing tomorrow.

 

[WrenchFan69]

That was disgusting but I'm happy to have won. Beat whoever tomorrow night for a nice trophy we haven't seen in a long time.

 

[NC_Uconn_Fan]

Survive and advance

 

[jibsey]

Score closer than game but we basically did it without Clingan and Karaban with numbers. We can do that.

 

[controlfade]

Tough , grind it out type game the team really needed.

 

[aceboon]

Defense was definitely spotty at times but that was ridiculous shot making by St Johns, college dudes hitting that many pull up jumpers not normal

 

[Deleted at users request]

St John’s played one of their best games this year and we were comfortably ahead most of the game while in foul trouble, still.

 

[superjohn]

18 assists and 1 turnover for our starting backcourt. Those guys are special.

 

[Mister P]

Can someone please find and post the slow motion video with the spit flying out of Spencer’s mouth right at one of the early TV timeouts. That was Cam to a tee.

 

[Mets1432]

Defense was bad, offense was elite. I like the quick hook on Castle for Han, castle was asleep to start.

Johnnie's are a tourney team, hope they make some noise unless we face em again.

 

[aceboon]

18 assists and 1 turnover for our starting backcourt. Those guys are special.

Cam's passing is special, dude puts just enough air on the ball while still delivering pinpoint passes on those lobs to make it easy for the bigs to catch

 

[Huskyforlife]

Only thing better than good defense is better offense. Johnies gave us everything they had, so credit to them. But some of those calls on Clingan were egregious.

 

[Matrim55]

I live in NYC, and I can't explain to you how much buzz this tournament has in the City. Betweenthe defending champs owning the town and Pitino having St. John's on the up for the first time in 25 years, it's absolutely hopping here.

That was a huge, huge win. Better than people think just on the merits, and impossible to quantify based on the vibes. Huge.

EDIT: And we play absolutely gorgeous ball. Best in the country.

 

[Gutter King]

The best back court in America pulled us through tonight. We had a lot of things working against us, particularily some mystifying reffing in the middle third of the 2nd half.

Obviously we had a bad rebounding game and supplemented that with some strange casual turnovers. Not our finest, but not our first rodeo in March...win and move on.

 

[IndyLives]

Newton showed tonight we he deserved BE PoY. He did it all for 40 minutes! High Assist-TO ratio under heavy Pitino pressure.

 

[aceboon]

Hope Newton is ok, he was shaking out that hand again and didn't shoot much after that

 

[Mister P]

Newton was obviously great today.
I was more impressed with his composer and taking quality shots and not forcing any. Did his damage on only 11 FG attempts and committed only 1 TO.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Tough , grind it out type game the team really needed.

The score was 95-89. I wouldn't call it a grind it out type game.

 

[superjohn]

Cam's passing is special, dude puts just enough air on the ball while still delivering pinpoint passes on those lobs to make it easy for the bigs to catch

Yep and he always makes the right read/extra pass. We've really never had an offensive player like him. Tristen is alongside our handful or so very best players ever if they accomplish their two remaining goals.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

That was a weirdly officiated game. They called a number of fouls that weren't there, especially in the first half yet missed a lot. They also blew a number of out of bounds calls.

We got this one out of the way. Maybe we got something out of our system we needed out, hopefully we won't spot the opponent a big lead before the first TV timeout any more.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

A close loss on a neutral court to a top team is not a terrible outcome for a bubble team.

St. Johns played great and UConn played good enough. Survive and advance.

 

[gsmooth]

Defense was definitely spotty at times but that was ridiculous shot making by St Johns, college dudes hitting that many pull up jumpers not normal

Johnnies are very good in mid range
It is why they gave Creighton so much trouble this year.

 

[auror]

We comfortably beat a team that made double digit 3s at 45% clip. Was never in doubt.

63% on 2s ad 50% on 3s for us.

 

[REB1094]

Tristen Newton with a BE POY performance. Cam with an efficient 20 and 9 assists. Karaban with 14 on 50/50/100. Diarra double digits, Clingan 4 blocks, Jaylin Stewart best game of his career. And we only won by 5.

Why? Because Daniss Jenkins went crazy, Dingle got hot, and UConn and St Johns just gave us a HELL of a basketball game. This is going to be the marquee rivalry of the new BE until Pitino or Hurley leaves. Give me this twice a year in the Garden PLEASE

Don’t kill me here, but I actually don’t hate that the refs were way too tight early and then loosened up as the game went on. Normally I have the opposite stance, but that place was a powder keg and they didn’t lose control. It led to some bad calls and some bad missed calls, but it was still a GREAT game

Neither Clingan or Soriano could show their full game, but it’s funny to see how much better Clingan is as a sophomore. Soriano looked really uncomfortable out there

Let’s win this thing tomorrow!

 

[controlfade]

Cam's passing is special, dude puts just enough air on the ball while still delivering pinpoint passes on those lobs to make it easy for the bigs to catch

Sucks that we only get 1 year of him, kid is just been awesome for us!

 

[storrsroars]

That was fun to watch. It's simply impressive how many different ways this team can win.