did this remind anyone else of the loss to stanford?? only opposite side of the hoop
yep thats what I was thinkin, throw in a bounce on alabi last shot then it would've been exactly like it.
In terms of the time of the season and effect (not the game at all) this reminds me of the Dayton loss last year. We confidently won our previous games, yet lost the final one and really brought us down and shocked us all. That game may have helped last year, and I hope this one will do the same this year. But, I'd rather have won.
Just once I would like to see us win a game like this. It seems we've lost the same way eight times in the past two-plus seasons.
The shot reminded me of Stanford as well.
We have won our share of games like this as well Its just when we lose like this its generally a bigger game.
Wins:
Jerel over USF
Dom over Valpo
Dom over NC State
Novak over ND
Diener over East Carolina
Mason over Louisville
Losses:
Villanova in BET last year
Stanford
Florida State
Louisville several times
Quote from: Dienerfor3 on November 29, 2009, 09:08:20 PM
In terms of the time of the season and effect (not the game at all) this reminds me of the Dayton loss last year. We confidently won our previous games, yet lost the final one and really brought us down and shocked us all. That game may have helped last year, and I hope this one will do the same this year. But, I'd rather have won.
Except we got our fannies kicked by Dayton. We were never in that game, much less leading by 17 points.
We all knew a loss was going to come sooner or later. Our weakness is we are playing only eight guys and fatigue is going to catch up with you. These past two seasons we have been delt a short hand, yet we play above expectations. Let's see how they bounce back. Would hate to see them give up the way Gtown did last year.
There are lots of reasons why we lost this game like we couldn't make free throws, we have a short bench, this was our 4th game in 6 days, etc., but it is painfully obvious that it all comes back to the fact that we have no size. Lots of blocked and altered shots yesterday, hurried shots inside and out. passes that just missed. Oh and by the way, anyone else know that Acker is the shortest player in the Big East? That was pounded in our heads over three days and yet some still forget. Size and skill matter and while we have skill, so does FSU but FSU had a lot of length. In order for this team to win with the obvious size deficiency we have, we must play darn near perfect basketball. Missing the number of free throws we missed is not playing darn near perfect basketball.
The good news is that it looks like we will win more games than most of us thought we would win this year. The bad news is that we still need some more size in the frontcourt. The good news is that replacing the dimunitive Acker, shortest player in the Big East for those that forgot, and Cooby with Vander and Reggie goes a long way next year in making us taller. Can Otule or Yous or a newcomer give us some solid minutes at the 5 next year to make next year's team even bigger? Lets hope.
When I saw the title of the thread I thought it was about the Val Kilmer classic movie Top Secret! I think this one reminded me more of the NIT Championship game loss to VA Tech, when Faisal Abraham didn't foul Ace Custas with 2 ticks left, but Custas went to the line and hit the two shots for the Warrior loss. (And I know it was the first year of the Golden Chicken Hawk logo, but for me it will always be Warriors.) With the lack of heighth, we really need to double down in those situations IMHO. Even a great three point shooter misses 50-60 percent of the time.
Quote from: redbirdwarrior on November 30, 2009, 11:30:22 PM
When I saw the title of the thread I thought it was about the Val Kilmer classic movie Top Secret! I think this one reminded me more of the NIT Championship game loss to VA Tech, when Faisal Abraham didn't foul Ace Custas with 2 ticks left, but Custas went to the line and hit the two shots for the Warrior loss. (And I know it was the first year of the Golden Chicken Hawk logo, but for me it will always be Warriors.) With the lack of heighth, we really need to double down in those situations IMHO. Even a great three point shooter misses 50-60 percent of the time.
tells how young i am... all of that looks like a different language to me...
I think I was a frosh is HS when this all went down (was at MU from 98-02, for all you math majors) and it reminds me of sitting in my folks very 90's kitchen watching the first game that really got me interested in MU.
so to many this is a sad day in MU BB history, but for me it was the beginning of a very beautiful friendship.