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SU made shots down the stretch and we didn't. It sucks but thats the reality of it. We also were extremely tentative in the last 2 min. Tough game but it is what is it. Honestly it was a lot better than I thought the outcome would be. I don't think Cash should have had the ball coming out of that timeout. Clearly his knee held him from being able to drive successfully and settling for that 3 was not ideal. That carter williams 3 was a ball buster.
 
Bottomline: We just took the #3 team down to the wire in front of 25k orange fans. Tough loss, but the game was absolutely a positive going forward.
 
That banked in three in the first half still chaps my ass. It seems like there is a ridiculous made three against UC in every damn game. Unbelievable.
 
JasonS said:
Really? After this game, you came away with that? JJ was the reason we were winning this game until late. Yes, he made a bad play late, but he was very good in the second half.
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yes, not being negative because im proud they came out better in the 2nd half but it seemed late in the game they panicked and time was on there side. jj in almost every game does something bone headed that over shadows his good
 
I loved the effort out there today. we played as well as we could have in my honest opinion. only 9 turnovers. 2 of them were very costly in the Jackson travel and wright's turnover. outrebounded them by 8, but couldn't grab the most important one in the end. 9 of 10 from the free throw line, but couldn't get the one that would've made it a 4 pt game and next time down, carter Williams hits the tying 3. what killed us was carter Williams and triche making shot after shot in the final 3 mins. we needed one stop and we couldn't get it. Cronin stayed in the zone way too long against Marquette and he should have gotten out of it with about 4 mins to go today. they set a screen for Williams and he shredded us. we were one small free throw, rebound, or one less turnover from winning the game or one less banked in 3 from them from winning this game. very pleased with effort. we should lose two maybe three more games this year and get a top 4 seed in BE tourney and 4 or 5 in ncaa depending on how we do in the BE tourney
 
Tough one there...

Second half looked like a completely different team.

Thoughts:

- I thought Justin Jackson played a great game.. He made some things happen passing. He then followed that up with a really stupid turnover.

- I liked what I saw from G, in his limited time. He made some nice passes. Needs to look to score.

- Cash didnt have it offensively... Tough. Took a really deep three that I thought was bad. Thought his game ending three was in. Good shot selection imo.

Overall I thought UC showed something in the second half and just ran out of gas. Titus continues to get a little better... Man I hope he works on his shot ALOT in the off season.... I think he can be a decent shooter.
 
Gotcha23 said:
Nothing positive about a LOSS period. Raise your expectations.
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Dear Lord. Shut your ass.

"Nothing positive"? Not one thing?
-Not good to see Cash back out there
-Not good to actually have Justin to be an effective part of ouroffense
-Not good we only missed one free throw
-Not good we only turned the ball over 9 times.
-Not good we outrebounded Syracuse by 8 even though their bigs were clearly more talented than ours

Speaking in extremes and blanket statements reveals stupidity.
 
Hicks' Guns said:
Dear Lord. Shut your ass.

"Nothing positive"? Not one thing?
-Not good to see Cash back out there
-Not good to actually have Justin to be an effective part of ouroffense
-Not good we only missed one free throw
-Not good we only turned the ball over 9 times.
-Not good we outrebounded Syracuse by 8 even though their bigs were clearly more talented than ours

Speaking in extremes and blanket statements reveals stupidity.
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Amen.
 
Hicks' Guns said:
Dear Lord. Shut your ass.

"Nothing positive"? Not one thing?
-Not good to see Cash back out there
-Not good to actually have Justin to be an effective part of ouroffense
-Not good we only missed one free throw
-Not good we only turned the ball over 9 times.
-Not good we outrebounded Syracuse by 8 even though their bigs were clearly more talented than ours

Speaking in extremes and blanket statements reveals stupidity.
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Verbal abuse
 
JasonS said:
Glad to see they didn't make any adjustments in attacking the zone. Thanks for your brilliant insight. :rolleyes:
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Put my foot in my mouth there. Mick did a great job of adjusting in the 2nd half. Well coached game by Mick, tough loss. Guys gotta find a way to pull that out at the end. Can't fault Mick for this one.
 
Hicks' Guns said:
Dear Lord. Shut your ass.

"Nothing positive"? Not one thing?
-Not good to see Cash back out there
-Not good to actually have Justin to be an effective part of ouroffense
-Not good we only missed one free throw
-Not good we only turned the ball over 9 times.
-Not good we outrebounded Syracuse by 8 even though their bigs were clearly more talented than ours

Speaking in extremes and blanket statements reveals stupidity.
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Notre dame girls academys bigs are better than ours... But other than that part i hear ya. Tough loss but we just hung with number 3 at their house.
 
Hicks' Guns said:
Dear Lord. Shut your ass.

"Nothing positive"? Not one thing?
-Not good to see Cash back out there
-Not good to actually have Justin to be an effective part of ouroffense
-Not good we only missed one free throw
-Not good we only turned the ball over 9 times.
-Not good we outrebounded Syracuse by 8 even though their bigs were clearly more talented than ours

Speaking in extremes and blanket statements reveals stupidity.
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Are we playing Tee Ball??? Losing is not a positive. Im sure you appreciated the effort though.
 
Yea every loss is disappointing to a certain extent. But I can't stand our fan base. We played damn good basketball today. Syracuse hit clutch shots down the stretch and got a lucky tip-in. That's basketball. I don't think anyone is satisfied but for people to be down on our team after that game is just plain stupid.

It's never good to settle for a jumpshot at the end but honestly that was probably the best shot we would have gotten. It's not like we had a ton of time to work the offense. I'll take that shot any day. It was seriously a centimeter short from going in.

Our zone is nasty. We will be just fine going forward. A lot of teams will have more athletes and better players, but our defense alone will keep us in every game. There won't be many coaches who want to play Cincinnati in March.
 
We deserved to win plain and simple. Uc was the better team today and just couldn't finish Syracuse off.

Refs blew a blocking foul against cash late as well
 

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