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shizzle787

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This was a disappointing loss but Xavier is a good team and we were on the road. The errors we made tonight are correctable.

We have a stretch coming up that is do or die:

@St. John's
Seton Hall
Xavier
Nova

If we can go 3-1 in that stretch, that would put us at 19-8 going into our final three games:
@Georgetown
@Creighton
DePaul

I think we can realistically finish 21-9 or 22-8. Remember: in March there are no true road games.
 
shizzle787 said:
This was a disappointing loss but Xavier is a good team and we were on the road. The errors we made tonight are correctable.

We have a stretch coming up that is do or die:

@St. John's
Seton Hall
Xavier
Nova

If we can go 3-1 in that stretch, that would put us at 19-8 going into our final three games:
@Georgetown
@Creighton
DePaul

I think we can realistically finish 21-9 or 22-8. Remember: in March there are no true road games.
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The errors we made tonight are the same errors we've made all year...all of a sudden in late February they're now correctable ?
 
KembaSlice said:
The errors we made tonight are the same errors we've made all year...all of a sudden in late February they're now correctable ?
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Technicals?
 
KembaSlice said:
Sloppy play, poor coaching, multiple players taking nights off, getting nothing from: Whaley, Gaffney, Polley, Hawk , lack of shooting.

We didn't lose because of 2 technicals we lost because we're not a smart or particularly talented team. We have tons of heart but that's about it.
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Polley îs a spot shooter. That is it. If you are expecting anything else from him you are going to be disappointed. The reason Gaffney is out there is because Diggins isn't proving it in practice. Whaley's main strength is rebounding-which he is doing. Hawkins is a freshman who has played pretty well this year.

The issue is that we ran into a team that has 4-5 really good players and they are long.
 
KembaSlice said:
Sloppy play, poor coaching, multiple players taking nights off, getting nothing from: Whaley, Gaffney, Polley, Hawk , lack of shooting.

We didn't lose because of 2 technicals we lost because we're not a smart or particularly talented team. We have tons of heart but that's about it.
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Again with nothing from Whaley? What the hell did Sanogo contribute? He is the “star”. Whaley is not out there to be an offensive leader. He does so many other things that most on the team don’t do.
 
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KembaSlice said:
The errors we made tonight are the same errors we've made all year...all of a sudden in late February they're now correctable ?
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Yep. Not all of a sudden. They have been correctable, and still are. Let's see what happens.
 
shizzle787 said:
This was a disappointing loss but Xavier is a good team and we were on the road. The errors we made tonight are correctable.

We have a stretch coming up that is do or die:

@St. John's
Seton Hall
Xavier
Nova

If we can go 3-1 in that stretch, that would put us at 19-8 going into our final three games:
@Georgetown
@Creighton
DePaul

I think we can realistically finish 21-9 or 22-8. Remember: in March there are no true road games.
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They’ll be fine, but I’ve been saying for awhile, they are what they are at this point. I’ll happily eat crow but I don’t see how this team suddenly makes some crazy run in the tourney. Feels more like baby steps for them. Wining a game in the tourney would be a success still imo.
 
navery12 said:
We beat the #18 team in the country on the road this year
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1 ranked road victory. Go back the past 4 years. How many ranked road wins do we have??

Edit :

I’ll save you time. The answer is 1 and Marquette wasn’t even ranked when we played them. Not a single ranked road victory (at the time) in 4 years.
 
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Get to 20 wins in regular season definitely in tourney but that was hardly the goal to just get in. If had to guess would say 20-10 but no real gimmees besides Gtown I guess but on road.

Could get to 21 but I don't see 22. Next four games huge obviously...need 2-2 at minimim and 4 of final 7 overall.
 
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It wasn't our worst loss this season. If the game was called more evenly we would have won. It's a tough loss because this would have been big for the tournament. Need to play better and the coaching needs to be better but I won't lose any sleep over it. Now we really need to win the next three.
 
JMick said:
It wasn't our worst loss this season. If the game was called more evenly we would have won. It's a tough loss because this would have been big for the tournament. Need to play better and the coaching needs to be better but I won't lose any sleep over it. Now we really need to win the next three.
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We need a massive collapse to miss the tourney
 
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navery12 said:
They were not, but I think we can all agree that it was a good road win right? His statement was we never win on the road
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My statement was “good teams win on the road” We have exactly 0 road wins vs ranked teams during Hurley’s tenure. Last year we didn’t beat a single decent team on the road. This year we have 1. If we want to take the next step we need to win road games against good teams.
 
shizzle787 said:
This was a disappointing loss but Xavier is a good team and we were on the road. The errors we made tonight are correctable.

We have a stretch coming up that is do or die:

@St. John's
Seton Hall
Xavier
Nova

If we can go 3-1 in that stretch, that would put us at 19-8 going into our final three games:
@Georgetown
@Creighton
DePaul

I think we can realistically finish 21-9 or 22-8. Remember: in March there are no true road games.
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Can't argue but after seeing this team play today 3-1 doesn't seem that doable against those teams.
 
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UncleSpliff said:
My statement was “good teams win on the road” We have exactly 0 road wins vs ranked teams during Hurley’s tenure. Last year we didn’t beat a single decent team on the road. This year we have 1. If we want to take the next step we need to win road games against good teams.
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We are 9-5 in Big East road games under Dan Hurley. I agree that we need to take the next step and start beating some of the top BE teams on the road, but the idea we're not winning on the road is false
 
navery12 said:
They were not, but I think we can all agree that it was a good road win right? His statement was we never win on the road
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It was a good road win. Sure. We don’t have many to choose from though, do we? And not just this year.
 
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I think Xavier is mediocre. This was their best win. They had 5 wins in their last 11, two against Butler, two against Creighton and one against DePaul. I’m not even sure how they were still ranked.

We should be winning these games if we want to be serious contenders to win the conference
 
shizzle787 said:
This was a disappointing loss but Xavier is a good team and we were on the road. The errors we made tonight are correctable.

We have a stretch coming up that is do or die:

@St. John's
Seton Hall
Xavier
Nova

If we can go 3-1 in that stretch, that would put us at 19-8 going into our final three games:
@Georgetown
@Creighton
DePaul

I think we can realistically finish 21-9 or 22-8. Remember: in March there are no true road games.
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August_West said:
It was a good road win. Sure. We don’t have many to choose from though, do we? And not just this year.
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Not many other good road wins, Xavier and Seton Hall were good ones last year too. That's the next step now, have to start consistently winning against good teams on the road (and at home).
 
navery12 said:
Not many other good road wins, Xavier and Seton Hall were good ones last year too. That's the next step now, have to start consistently winning against good teams on the road (and at home).
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Last year without fans doesn’t really count. And neither of those teams made the tourney.
 
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