Villanova Post Game Thread

[HooperScooper]

He got freaking clocked! You’re 100% wrong here.

You were right. During the game it looked like he got hit by Lewis's arm from a back swing. But he got clocked by a shoulder to the head.

 

[dalydosehoops]

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[Scottobot]

During this stretch of ugly wins against inferior teams, the bench has contributed nothing offensively. Ross and Stewart seem determined to give up the ball as quickly as they get it. They are not even looking while making back cuts even though they are sometimes open.

I don’t see better alternatives on the team. if they can consistently play solid defense, rebound, and not turn the ball over … and every once in a while have a nice scoring game, I will take that. Both look better this year to me.

Maybe if Furphy hadn’t been hurt at the start of the year he could have been an option, but missing that time prevented him from being ready for this level of play. If Smith continues to struggle maybe we see some Millendar minutes

 

[Palatine]

That's what I saw a shoulder to the head.

But there is also an arm across the throat. It doesn't looks like it from this angle. I would like to see a second angle.

 

[twiceahusky]

That's what I saw a shoulder to the head.

But there is also an arm across the throat. It doesn't looks like it from this angle. I would like to see a second angle.

I saw a head to the shoulder. BM reaching in, incidental contact. Going frame-by-frame, Villanova guy tried pretty hard to twist away to avoid contact.

 

[HooperScooper]

Travis? It kills me.

@tennmike, I would like to apologize for this. I hate when people call the players by the wrong name or continually spell their names wrong. But I looked it up and every other time you've posted about Reed you called him Tarris so either it was just a brain fart, which happens to all of us, or it was indeed aa auto spell correct. So I would like to say sorry to you.

 

[DogMania]

By the way, prayers to Mullins for a quick recovery. I will say this: i have no godly idea who we (people 50 and older) ever made it to adulthood. I remember when bike helmets had not been invented. Cars did not have seatbelts. And for those of us who played sports, getting your bell rung was a weekly occurrence. I don’t know what is happening to the human body, but this generation seems different. Like I said, don’t know how we made it to adulthood. But praying for this kid because he is a kid every parent would be proud of. Heal fast bud!

Yeah, all those hits to the head back in the day, and I don't see any...um...now what was I going say? I guess it couldn't have been that important.

 

[SoCalCanine]

Do you exhaust yourself? You exhaust everyone else

It's sad because Ruff is long-time Yarder whose posts I used to enjoy, even if I didn't always agree with him. These days his posts are mostly so unreasonable, long-winded and very repetitive that I lately have just skipped reading them. It's a bit of a shame.

 

[Mr. French]

It's sad because Ruff is long-time Yarder whose posts I used to enjoy, even if I didn't always agree with him. These days his posts are mostly so unreasonable, long-winded and very repetitive that I lately have just skipped reading them. It's a bit of a shame.

I never remember him until this past year.

I wondered why a guy who I never heard of suddenly was posting constantly on every thread last year.

I’ve been here since 2011 I believe and he was never in the regular stable of posters from my recollection. Someone showed the other day he hadn’t posted between ‘14-‘24, so that checks out.

 

[DogMania]

Villa

nova has no top 25 wins. How good are they really? I wasn’t that impressed myself.

FWIW, I reviewed their schedule and they played 3 ranked teams including us. Two of those 3 were close losses and one a beat down by Michigan. Many of their wins over good to not so good teams were by double digit scores.

I find it strange how all these metrics work but somehow they're ranked 28 without a win over a top 25 team. Makes me wonder if points scored, points allowed and score differential works in their favor.

As for the eye test, they look like a good pesty team that lacks important front court depth. I felt the same about the Hall when we played them, that got conveniently ranked in the top 25 the week we played them. Since then, they're in the throws of a 4 game loosing streak. Their schedule looked suspect with just the 1 top 25 win over NC State that was ranked 25 at the time but like SHU, have 6 losses.

Most BE teams are tough outs, but based on how the conference played OOC, sans UConn, the BE seems to be in a down year. SJU is a dangerous team due to their style of play and depth and are on a roll, but they lost all their ranked OOC games.

As much as I wish things were different, the talent level of the BE this year is not close to the B10, SEC and B12, and behind the ACC as well.

Lastly, the way the league is officiated, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, i.e. allowing ridiculous grabbing off the ball, constant bumping the handlers but then calling tricky-tack calls within the same game, allows lessor talented teams play more competitively against more talented BE teams.

Note that I don't put UConn's close wins completely due to this, since they've struggled at times to execute their offense even when not being held. And they've struggled shooting 3s, making layups and defensive rebounding. They have been much better defending without fouling. But I do feel the officiating has had an impact on how most BE games look like cross gang rumbles.

 

[bjc42]

Everything said on a message board about CBB is pointless. Are you under the impression that you are doing something meaningful here? Lmao

No I've just never seen 18 pages in a post-game thread from a game that the team won🤣

 

[HooperScooper]

I never remember him until this past year.

I wondered why a guy who I never heard of suddenly was posting constantly on every thread last year.

I’ve been here since 2011 I believe and he was never in the regular stable of posters from my recollection. Someone showed the other day he hadn’t posted between ‘14-‘24, so that checks out.

He joined in 2011 but up until October 2024 he had 600 posts. Now he has over 7100. I remember because I asked him when he started posting so frequently if he had just retired. He said he stopped posting the last couple Ollie years and finally just came back. Sounds kind of strange but that's what he said.

 

[Mr. French]

He joined in 2011 but up until October 2024 he had 600 posts. Now he has over 7100. I remember because I asked him when he started posting so frequently if he had just retired. He said he stopped posting the last couple Ollie years and finally just came back. Sounds kind of strange but that's what he said.

Yeah I noticed last year or maybe in the offseason that he was all over every thread, and I consciously had the thought "this new poster is all over the board with tons of opinions" and I had never remembered him prior to that. There's posters that have been around the whole time that I obviously remember by name, and he never registered. It seemed strange that he was SO heavily posting and SO opinionated and amped up when he was never here prior, but I guess he just quit for 10 years then came back?

It just felt weird, like he inserted himself into the dialogue like he'd been in the convos all along, haha - I have no issue with him aside from the nonsense that everyone else dislikes, but it doesn't really bother me it's just funny.

 

[KingAG]

He joined in 2011 but up until October 2024 he had 600 posts. Now he has over 7100. I remember because I asked him when he started posting so frequently if he had just retired. He said he stopped posting the last couple Ollie years and finally just came back. Sounds kind of strange but that's what he said.

His last post was April 2014. He came back in 2024. That alone wouldn’t mean much. But combined with his constant anti UConn rhetoric and his love for every new flavor of the week, I’ve drawn the conclusion that he’s just a fan of winning. Not necessarily UConn. Good guy though.

 

[Mr. French]

His last post was April 2014. He came back in 2024. That alone wouldn’t mean much. But combined with his constant anti UConn rhetoric and his love for every new flavor of the week, I’ve drawn the conclusion that he’s just a fan of winning. Not necessarily UConn. Good guy though.

April 2014 is when we won with Shabazz, so why not bask in the glory and talk it up for awhile? He didn't know we'd go downhill over the next 3 years.

None of it really makes sense, I just know he went from "never heard of this poster" to "this guy is in every thread with 50 posts a day" so that alone was interesting. And his opinions are always strong, he doesn't just enjoy the convo he has a super strong take on every single topic. It's odd.

 

[KingAG]

April 2014 is when we won with Shabazz, so why not bask in the glory and talk it up for awhile? He didn't know we'd go downhill over the next 3 years.

None of it really makes sense, I just know he went from "never heard of this poster" to "this guy is in every thread with 50 posts a day" so that alone was interesting. And his opinions are always strong, he doesn't just enjoy the convo he has a super strong take on every single topic. It's odd.

I mean sure he may have intended to take a small break. No way he intended to be gone for a decade. But things went down hill pretty fast. Being gone for the losing and just re appearing on the cusp of back to back national championship is quite the serendipity. I think he thought UConn was done and was probably a poster on the Duke message board or whoever was winning in that decade. Like who just strolls around on a Duke message board? Something’s fishy.