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Seton Hall Post Game Thread

Scrutineer said:
Please keep any mention of ex-Dukies out of the Boneyard.
We have a national level broadcaster who's an alum and had a great career here. He's well spoken, dresses well, presents well, seems to have lived an exemplary life and represents the university extremely well. That's what people seem to want today..........image is everything you know.
I prefer him to a former coach who spoke about "our great university" and followed statements like that with grammar like "he have" or "they was". And I prefer it to our current coach liberally blurting out "sh_t" and "duckck" during post-game press conferences.
Donnie has lots of stories to relate and the network will decide if the majority of the audience likes his on air performance, so maybe we should treat him on the Boneyard the way we try to treat the players, and not publicly bash him for some quirks posters don't like.
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AAVE is not ungrammatical: it has a grammar just as regular as mainstream American English. Actual linguists have studied this.
 
Seton Hall is good, they're well coached, they're desperate for a big win, and they brought it. They shot lights out, and did so against good defense, especially from three

They would have beaten most teams Saturday, but not us

We're special, coaching, talent and fans. Yes the over the top supportive fans brought it too

If Alex plays like he did vs Hall, we're gonna be tough to beat
 
Calling a foul on Silas when Clark pretended to be shooting, would’ve ruined the spirit of the game. Whatch the play, he made absolutely no attempt to actually try to make that three-pointer. I hate that nonsense. Reminds me of soccer when a striker is in the box and is unable to score and just falls down and whines for a red card.

The refs made the right non call.
 
Deepster said:
I’ve had Gampel tickets for a long time. For every cold Wednesday night game against Quinnipiac that I’m stuck in the North garage for 45 minutes, there’s today.

Beautiful weather outside. Ted’s pregame. The Alex senior day ceremony. The game. The sunny walk back down to Ted’s. My daughter’s last home game as a student. Good vibes all around. I’m lucky and proud to be a UConn fan.
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That’s a great day for you and the banana, great memory for sure!

But you ruin mine by bringing up Taliek Brown and Sports Illustrated?😂
 
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We did benefit from the officials finally calling fouls off the ball. There was a play the Hall defender literally bear hugged our player and then argued the call. May have been worse that trying to draw a foul from three with 15 seconds left, and then arguing the no call.

I'm hoping that's what we're going to see in March. Either fouls called OR we have a lot more motion on offense
 
TheShot1990 said:
Calling a foul on Silas when Clark pretended to be shooting, would’ve ruined the spirit of the game. Whatch the play, he made absolutely no attempt to actually try to make that three-pointer. I hate that nonsense. Reminds me of soccer when a striker is in the box and is unable to score and just falls down and whines for a red card.

The refs made the right non call.
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If they called a non-shooting foul I would have been fine (and they probably should have), I'm guessing the ref didn't at all because of the audacity of it.
 
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Lafayette said:
Great comeback and getting Payne out freed up Reed, Jr., to make shots or pass well. Sorry if I was rude in the chat, but Malachi was making some bad 1:1 defensive plays (2x I saw 3pt shots targeting him on D). Anyway, win is a win. 27!
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OMG, the announcing was God awful. I mean, love Donny and Brando, but I had no idea Payne was in that much foul trouble or that they had two other guys with 4. Crazy.
 
Fishy said:
I don’t think Donny is unfair - he’s just inane.

It’s two hours of incomprehensible babble.
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You can literally hear the gear grinding in his head as he pauses mid point to figure out where he was going with this...
 
I don’t follow the NBA much but didn’t Donny start out as a studio guy for the Celtics years ago? I seem to remember liking his stuff but maybe I was just excited to see him.

Maybe studio analyst fits his strengths better. Good guy, great Husky, but not that great a commentator. I think that’s generally most people’s take.
 
Donny has a good voice for broadcast, but yeah, filling the time with stories vs what is absolutely relevant to on court is more important.
 
Fishy said:
Someone ask the 80 year old coaching the women’s team if we’re allowed to have an opinion on the game.

Alex bailed us out. If he isn’t Superman, we get dumped Creighton-style.

Like 48 hours after getting confirmation that our depth is a huge advantage, Dan Hurley again shortened the bench and we immediately went back to being life and death with a scrub SH team.

Anyway, on to Marquette and rooting against SJU later on.
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Pitch-perfect parody!

Ageism, sexism, hyperbole, male oversensitivity ... and people fell for it from all angles.

Bravo!
 
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Key aspects of the NCAA Flopping rule include:
  • Definition: Examples include "head bobs," dramatic falling on block/charge plays, or exaggerated reactions to no contact.
  • Penalty: After a warning, subsequent infractions result in a Class B technical foul, which does not count toward a player's five personal fouls for disqualification.
Clark is a candidate
 
DRBackup said:
You can literally hear the gear grinding in his head as he pauses mid point to figure out where he was going with this...
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Oh, man….you really can.

He’s a man who jumps out of an airplane and then tries t figure out how to put on his parachute.
 
TheShot1990 said:
Key aspects of the NCAA Flopping rule include:
  • Definition: Examples include "head bobs," dramatic falling on block/charge plays, or exaggerated reactions to no contact.
  • Penalty: After a warning, subsequent infractions result in a Class B technical foul, which does not count toward a player's five personal fouls for disqualification.
Clark is a candidate
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I do this at the office. Combine it with laying on the floor and squeakily repeating ‘HR’.

It’s highly effective when I get asked tough questions in the conference room.
 
Palatine said:
Flinging the ball into the crowd is NOT a shot.
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Clark attempting a three pointer.
 
TheShot1990 said:
Key aspects of the NCAA Flopping rule include:
  • Definition: Examples include "head bobs," dramatic falling on block/charge plays, or exaggerated reactions to no contact.
  • Penalty: After a warning, subsequent infractions result in a Class B technical foul, which does not count toward a player's five personal fouls for disqualification.
Clark is a candidate
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That play has never and will never be called a flop. He didn’t exaggerate anything as much as he just made a very unnatural shot attempt with the sole intention of drawing a foul. Refs should have called a foul before the shot but I have zero problem with refs swallowing the whistle on those type of ridiculous attempts unless it is absolutely egregious.
 
It would have been criminal to call that a shooting foul. There could have been a foul called before that, I thought but yikes, nobody was touching him and he just heaved it into the stands not even in the general direction of the hoop. Iget what he was trying to do, but that was a bad effort!
 
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Chonky said:
I don’t follow the NBA much but didn’t Donny start out as a studio guy for the Celtics years ago? I seem to remember liking his stuff but maybe I was just excited to see him.

Maybe studio analyst fits his strengths better. Good guy, great Husky, but not that great a commentator. I think that’s generally most people’s take.
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Is this a post game thread or a thread to dissect an announcer that played at UConn and is a great representative of our university. SMH
 
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