The Official Punch Them In The Toof Thread

[buddy]

WV is a quality tournament team so how we play in the second half is still valuable to us vs cupcakes. Everything went in for them and we gave them plenty. They have depth but a lot of fouls.

They were stronger physically and out hustled UConn. Lazy passes, lackadaisical play and poor shooting overall doomed UConn tonight.

 

[boog204]

Not to mention, we can understand some excitement on closing out a game to get to the Final Four over a team who was universally favored.

Maybe a bad example... But had he missed that dunk (which was possible since he didn't give the ball up), every single one of us would have had a fit about how it wasn't needed with 20 seconds left. But as much as I didn't like WVUs dunk, I certainly would not have had any issue if the situation was reversed. I guess the answer is don't put yourself in the position to get embarrassed at the end. Tom Moore admitted that JC used to leave players in late to pad their stats, too. We never had an issue with that.

 

[Gurleyman]

Maybe a bad example... But had he missed that dunk (which was possible since he didn't give the ball up), every single one of us would have had a fit about how it wasn't needed with 20 seconds left. But as much as I didn't like WVUs dunk, I certainly would not have had any issue if the situation was reversed. I guess the answer is don't put yourself in the position to get embarrassed at the end. Tom Moore admitted that JC used to leave players in late to pad their stats, too. We never had an issue with that.

He should have hit the ball ahead to Giffey and gotten the gimme two that way, but I'd rather go get the bucket there than dribble back out and have to make foul shots, when going 1-2 still leaves the door open a crack. The two points made it three possessions. If he blew a dunk, I'd have had a fit about blowing the dunk, but not the decision to try to score.

If you're ever in that situation up one with less than three seconds left and nobody near you, you shouldn't score because it stops the clock and gives the other team a chance at a tying three, but that takes a really heady player (sort of like the football player who didn't score a TD up one and kneeled down on the one, allowing his team to run out the clock - which drove Vegas and fantasy football people nuts). Forget who that was.

 

[boog204]

He should have hit the ball ahead to Giffey and gotten the gimme two that way, but I'd rather go get the bucket there than dribble back out and have to make foul shots, when going 1-2 still leaves the door open a crack. The two points made it three possessions. If he blew a dunk, I'd have had a fit about blowing the dunk, but not the decision to try to score.

If you're ever in that situation up one with less than three seconds left and nobody near you, you shouldn't score because it stops the clock and gives the other team a chance at a tying three, but that takes a really heady player (sort of like the football player who didn't score a TD up one and kneeled down on the one, allowing his team to run out the clock - which drove Vegas and fantasy football people nuts). Forget who that was.

You're not wrong on any account. Just don't think it's right to say WVU was classless when we've done it before and it was lauded. It happens. I would have loved to have seen Amida put him on his , too. That could have been construed as classless too.

 

[Gurleyman]

You're not wrong on any account. Just don't think it's right to say WVU was classless when we've done it before and it was lauded. It happens. I would have loved to have seen Amida put him on his a , too. That could have been construed as classless too.

Yeah - and as I said it was a few seconds after an offensive rebound and the guy might not have even known the shot clock was off. Or at least he could have plausible deniability. It was early enough and the possession was unsettled enough that it's really not a huge deal. There are various degrees of etiquette violations, and that one was pretty low on the scale.