Xavier Post Game Thread

[djct1999]

it’s the middle of February. The time for excuses has expired. Good teams win on the road. Ok teams win at home. There is very little about this team that is inspiring.

 

[uconntoatl]

4-20 combined shooting from Whalley, Jackson, Polley, Hawkins

Regression to the mean

 

[BugsyCT]

I wish we won but we didn't.

 

[Mister P]

Late game 3 on 1 and a 4 on 2 break that we didn’t capitalize on didn’t help.

 

[aburks41]

When are these “winnable” games actually going to become wins instead of aggravating losses?!?! this is getting so damn old already. Year 4 of Hurley. Thought we would have been there already.

 

[djct1999]

A road win against a ranked team doesn't help?

Is St. John’s ranked?

 

[gtcam]

UConn probably wins the same game at home-

Good teams win these games on the road

 

[AntG168]

This was a bad loss. Name a single positive from this game.

Again the boneyard has a very hard time of differentiating between a bad loss and a disappointing loss. This loss hurts our season in no way whatsoever. It would’ve been nice to have. But Xavier doesn’t lose there. Was Marquette’s loss to us a bad loss? Of course not. It’s the Big East. It happens.

 

[MexicoHusky]

What made you optimistic about tonight’s performance???? Cause I didn’t see a single thing. Offense was abysmal. Defense was abysmal. Bonehead IQ plays…. Awdul coaching. Literally nothing I saw made me optimistic to play a team that almost beat us at home last time.

Fight.....Frankly everything

 

[AntG168]

it’s the middle of February. The time for excuses has expired. Good teams win on the road. Ok teams win at home. There is very little about this team that is inspiring.

So no team in the country is good. Gotcha

 

[temery]

 

[MexicoHusky]

Is St. John’s ranked?

Assumed you were referring to the game we lost tonight. Nevermind

 

[UncleSpliff]

Fight.....Frankly everything

I’m glad your optimistic. But most realists would say that was an abysmal performance against a very beatable mediocre team.

 

[superjohn]

This loss hurts our season in no way whatsoever.

What are you talking about?

 

[PAHusky]

Gaffney take a bow. Not perfect but his aggressiveness was much needed in the first half. Miffed that DH pulled him after the bs fall call on the 3 pt play.

Cole was bad for what we need from him. He looks totally lost in the pick and roll. Sanogo went missing, awful game from him.

Martin needs to open his eyes on layups. Just throwing the ball up at this point.

Whaley is an amazing off ball defender but gets consistently brutalized one on one.

Andre Jackson is a busboy right now - he’s bringing nothing to the table, only taking things away.

We have too many guys with undefined roles and it’s February. DH still hasn’t figured his rotations out. That technical was awful - it was the right idea, 15 minutes too late. He needs to rein it in.

Hurley doesn’t know how to coach when his team isn’t clicking. Hopefully he learns. Missed a big chance at a nice road win tonight.

 

[EricCantona]

This was a bad loss. Name a single positive from this game.

Cole hit back to back 3’s as soon as he came back in after foul trouble. Kept us in it after being on the verge of being blown out.

 

[Mooch82]

Saying Xavier is a bad team isn’t true. It was also at Xavier with a good crowd and their backs were a bit up against the wall. That being said, we missed a ton of shots and they won the loose ball/offensive rebound battle big time. Winnable game but not nearly as bad a loss as Creighton was.

 

[AntG168]

Literally 3/4 of you weren’t here after our last win. It’s quite frankly amazing

 

[djct1999]

So no team in the country is good. Gotcha

huh? You sound confused.

 

[AntG168]

Saying Xavier is a bad team isn’t true. It was also at Xavier with a good crowd and their backs were a bit up against the wall. That being said, we missed a ton of shots and they won the loose ball/offensive rebound battle big time. Winnable game but not nearly as bad a loss as Creighton was.

It’s not a bad loss to anyone outside of the boneyard. If we’re going to lose our collective minds after every conference loss we are going to become clinically insane in the BE.

 

[Tenspro2002]

A road win against a ranked team doesn't help?

I think he's talking about St. John's.

 

[MexicoHusky]

I’m glad your optimistic. But most realists would say that was an abysmal performance against a very beatable mediocre team.

They are ranked. Realists understand the state of the program. This is where we are now. Competing against potential tournament teams. Which is a better place than we were just 2 years ago.

 

[Candyman]

The big east is hard

We want to be a beast in this conference we have to win these games. Can’t chalk every lose up to well this is a tough conference. We lost these games in AAC too.

Just think if Jackson’s pass against St. John’s doesn’t go out of bounds with 4 seconds closer to our basket.

 

[Mister P]

The X students sure were pounding the beer though.

 

[superjohn]

Cole hit back to back 3’s as soon as he came back in after foul trouble. Kept us in it after being on the verge of being blown out.

Also missed Jackson on two breaks for dunks and couldn't get it in to Sanogo. He obviously is the least of our problems but his point guard play didn't match his scoring tonight.