Oso planning to go pro
LOL. Before today, you were mildly pleasant with your new name and account....mildly...still waiting to unleash your same crap you always do.
6) Anyone who has ever watched soccer knows that what Jalen Smith did to Jayce was intentional. No question.
A few thoughts...1) I love Markus, but man, those complete egg-layings are tough to watch.2) Howard and McEwen remind me of Howard and Rowsey in 2017-18. Both can get hot, but it doesn't seem to happen at the same time.3) How has Ed been here three years and the travel issue hasn't been fixed? Seriously, him dragging his pivot in the post is so predictable.4) Wojo came in with a rep for developing bigs, but that's been a failing so far. From Fischer to Heldt to John to Morrow, I just haven't seen strides from those players.5) Bailey and Anim were bright spots. If they can replicate that, even to a lesser level, when Howard and McEwen are average, we'll be a good team.6) Anyone who has ever watched soccer knows that what Jalen Smith did to Jayce was intentional. No question.7) The refs let them play today and that hurt us. Maryland didn't have to go into their bench and we didn't get as many chances at the line. As ugly as the reffing was Thursday and Friday, those games are better for the kind of team we have.8) The first half, like the second against Wisconsin, was disastrous, but there were plenty of positives. Jayce looks like the best big. Sacar & Bailey. The team didn't give up and almost made a game of it.9) When you are trying to dig out of a 20+ point hole, even mini-runs are soul-crushing. We would get it to 12 or 13, then Maryland would score, get a stop, and score again and suddenly a 5-0 run turned possible into insurmountable.10) I hoped for 11-1 non-con, but 10-2 isn't terrible. Though anyone hoping to see us ranked will probably have to wait until January 6 at the earliest.
A few thoughts...4) Wojo came in with a rep for developing bigs, but that's been a failing so far. From Fischer to Heldt to John to Morrow, I just haven't seen strides from those players.
The irony meter just broke
As a resident of MD, I needed this one more than the average November game. The no-show from Markus was especially troubling, yet all too predictable. My neighbors/friends don't get what the hype was about. They'd much rather have Cowans than Markus. I think I would, too.
Is he the only player in basketball history who is supposed to be immune to a bad game?
Were the 40 and 51 also "all too predictable"? Last season, were his consecutive games of 45, 21, 27, 26, 45, 26, 8, 26, 53, 26, 24, 23, 31, 36, 17, 38, 36 and 28 "all too predictable"? Do you think fans of USC, Buffalo, Kansas State and the numerous BEast teams he has torched think he's overrated?Is he the only player in basketball history who is supposed to be immune to a bad game?
Well, yes. Like all Marquette players, he is supposed to be immune to ever having a bad game. Just like our bigs are supposed to arrive fully formed and not need to develop. Like our players should never get tired. Our freshmen should be 110% game ready when they arrive on campus and then get better. Just like our coaches are never allowed to miss on a recruit, mis-time a TO, and should arrive with the combined knowledge of Wooden, Knight, K, Izzo. Marquette should never lose, and when they do, it is the apocalypse. Duh.
Still still still waiting on your investing claim....
I think all fans fall into this trap. We typically only see opponents once or twice a year, and that game becomes the only truth we know. So for Maryland fans who heard all the hype about Howard and then have only Sunday's game as their example of how he plays, yeah, he'll seem overrated. They're wrong, and that game is an outlier, but for a lot of them, that's going to be the only game they get to see him play. If (and hopefully when) we shut down Powell against SHU this year, I'm sure we'll have more than just a few comments about how he's overrated and really not all that good. We'll be as wrong as the Maryland fans mentioned above, but it's part of the gloating over a win process.
still waiting to #unleash your same crap you always do.
Porky concurs with everything except Ed. When Ed is on he's solid , and has proven he can score when needed. Yes he had a bad game today but this strikes Porky as unfair. Now that we have Jayce, if his performance today is a harbinger of what's to come, Porky would start him over Theo, but Porky has also long thought Ed should start over Theo, since he's much more of a scoring option and today aside, still very good defensively.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Now even the middle age guys memories are going. No stride from Heldt or John as freshmen as they advanced? Really? Morrow has been wildly inconsistent, but will disagree with the others. Are they elite players...absolutely not....they were never going to be.https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/max-heldt-1.html
1. Markus has had 3 bad games, though the Robert Morris one seemed semi-intentional on Wojo's part. We were blown out in the other 2. Given that we have only played 7 games, that''s disturbing. We can't beat a good team with him getting nowhere near 20 points. It is up to him and Wojo to figure out how to prevent such things. Maybe they can't. We'll see.
Now even the middle age guys memories are going. No stride from Heldt or John as freshmen as they advanced? Really? Morrow has been wildly inconsistent, but will disagree with the others. Are they elite players...absolutely not....they were never going to be.https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/max-heldt-1.htmlJohn more than doubled his assists, rebounds, blocks from freshman to sophomore year...almost points.
You think people's memories are going. Maybe you should read your own links. As pointed out, Matt Heldt arrived on campus as a top 100 recruit (rsci #96)What do you think would be a fair ranking in that same class at the conclusion of his senior year? 400? 600? How's that for strides?
While that's true this year, I'm not really talking about this year. This goes all the way back to Howard fouling out in 7 minutes against #1 Villanova his freshman year. Or the home games against top-10 Xavier and Villanova as a sophomore where we were close and him playing even average would've put us over the top. Or the St. John's games last year.A couple times a season, often in marquee games, Howard completely lays an egg and we end up losing. I get that it's hard for anyone to be on every night, and there's the "3 games in 4 days" argument, but that didn't seem to hurt Cowan yesterday. That hasn't been a problem for guys like Ponds and Powell against us.Maybe I don't scrutinize those guys games against other marquee teams, but I feel like it's a given with Markus that 2-3 times per year, we're going to have a big game and he's going to be absent. I love the kid and when he's on there's no one like him, but when he's off it's painful, and it's not a new thing.