1. BEPOY, second team all American. I still don't think he is 100%. The haters will say he didn't score the last 5 minutes.
2. Those of you who say tired legs aren't a thing are wrong. SJU 3 PT shooting % was? Game the day before and a short rotation can bite you in a conference tourney.
3. Got some interior touches. Got some foul trouble.
4. Loved the cuts to the hoop. That whole Duke 4-out thing with the right movement.
5. Just nice to see ball movement and shots go in.
6. Or should we call 5 and 6 'adjustments'?
7. Lots of contributions from lots of guys. Which is the dream.
8. Thrilled to see Wojo rest his starters down the stretch. Absolutely crucial for tomorrow.
9. Everybody exhale. Another game tomorrow.
Game's not over, yo.
OMG don't jinx us!
Next someone will start the SOTG thread!
10. No injuries these last 4 minutes plz.
Quote from: Benny B on March 14, 2019, 08:08:20 PM
Game's not over, yo.
They put in a non-Hauser white guy, it's over.
Quote from: Bocephys on March 14, 2019, 08:10:18 PM
They put in a non-Hauser white guy, it's over.
Chartouny?
Well that exorcises some demons. Let's hope this is a season of 4 acts. Go Marquette!
My god that was satisfying. Good game all around. Felt good to b*tch slap St John's.
The best thing was Markus waiting out the defense and picking his spots.
Other than first 2 minutes of 2nd half, this was best total game in several years.
But, but, but... we didn't mix in a zone. How is this possible?
Hopefully we just booted SJU out of the tourney. Couldn't have happened to a nicer team.
Very happy to be wrong about taking the Johnnie's at either +2.5 or +4.5.
Total ass kicking. Hope SHU/G-Town go to OT (or two, or three).
I've missed that team for a couple weeks. Welcome back and awesome job exorcising the SJU demons boys. Very impressive bounceback game
That was beautiful.
Quote from: MUDish on March 14, 2019, 08:18:33 PM
Very happy to be wrong about taking the Johnnie's at either +2.5 or +4.5.
Total ass kicking. Hope SHU/G-Town go to OT (or two, or three).
I picked MU to win the tournament, so this was fun to watch
Quote from: MUDish on March 14, 2019, 08:18:33 PM
Very happy to be wrong about taking the Johnnie's at either +2.5 or +4.5.
Total ass kicking. Hope SHU/G-Town go to OT (or two, or three).
Dish - I give you the Johnnies +31.5
Nice to see the Warriors we know from January and early February.
Thanks guys, nice game all around.
Biggest thing to me was that everyone got in the act and made a contribution!
hey, this wojo guy looks like he knows what he's doing hey. does MU know about dis guy?
Boys will played very good tonight. Ed will be a big part of future success this season. Looking forward for tomorrow night.
Quote from: MUDish on March 14, 2019, 08:18:33 PM
Very happy to be wrong about taking the Johnnie's at either +2.5 or +4.5.
Total ass kicking. Hope SHU/G-Town go to OT (or two, or three).
if ya need any lunch money err anything this week, we could probably start a gofundme fer ya ;D
TAUGHT A F*KING LESSON
on a mission... as a fan, this felt great! SJ this season has become the team in the BE I hate, and root against.
It's March... Start a tradition and win in March!!!
We are Marquette.. Warriors are ready to come out and play!
Markus started second half very badly, SJU goes on a run and with a Simon slam dunk gets it down to six just prior to 16 minute TV timeout. Wojo calls timeout, says whatever to the team and they go on 23 to 2 run. Markus played great after that.
Morrow with 8 and 8 and was awesome inside.
Believe SJU just got bounced from NCAA. What is that 5 losses in 6 games? Go Georgetown, I want nothing to do with Myles Powell.
Conference tourney's are always kind of a mind eff. If you're on the bubble, you desperately need to probably win to get in. If you're comfortably in, you don't want to see your guys get hurt or have a brutal loss.
MU hasn't played in the semi's in a long time, and even though these tournaments are mostly just money grabs, it was awesome to win tonight to be able to move on to the semi's for the first time in a really long time. Let's win the damn thing!
Great game by the Warriors. How the hell did we lose to these turkeys twice, and then this whuppin? Will take it, though.
Have to admit, I was not prepared r0r how depressed I felt after the Georgetown game. I normally get over a loss within a half hour or so, even after a bad beat, but I wasn't sleeping at night, overcome with disappointment and worry.
What I kept thinking about was if my own funk was this deep, I can't imagine how bad it must be for the players. How the Hell do you come back from the last four games? Even though I am probably more optimistic than 90% of Scoopers, I was convinced we only had two games left in the season. Two horrible games.
Anyhoo, I am over that now. We are back, baby!!!
Quote from: Goose on March 14, 2019, 08:24:39 PM
Boys will played very good tonight. Ed will be a big part of future success this season. Looking forward for tomorrow night.
Personally I prefer Morrow over Theo. Plays smarter. Theo is more spectacular but takes himself out with stupid fouls. One play in particular all he had to do was slide over to stop Ponds drive, instead he laid back for the highlight block and got scored on.
Man we needed that. SJ looked tired and we took full advantage. Tomorrow won't be so easy.
Hairy
Morrow is the guy to get more minutes. He is much more rounded ball player.
This is why you don't make changes just to make changes. They played it the way they usually do, but Markus let it come to him and they defended their asses off.
Quote from: willie warrior on March 14, 2019, 08:30:02 PM
Great game by the Warriors. How the hell did we lose to these turkeys twice, and then this whuppin? Will take it, though.
How do we play like total crap for key stretches of 4 straight, and then put together this wall to wall effort? I'm just going to enjoy it.
Quote from: warriorchick on March 14, 2019, 08:32:36 PM
Have to admit, I was not prepared about how depressed I felt after the Georgetown game. I normally get over a loss within a half hour or so, even after a bad beat, but I wasn't sleeping at night, overcome with disappointment and worry.
What I kept thinking about was if my own funk was this deep, I can't imagine how bad it must be for the players. How the Hell do you come back from the last four games? Even though I am probably more optimistic than 90% of Scoopers, I was convinced we only had two games left in the season. Two horrible games.
Anyhoo, I am over that now. We are back, baby!!!
I hear you. extreme frustration was how I felt. They still need to clean things up, but a win like this goes a long way to rebuild confidence.
Quote from: ChitownSpaceForRent on March 14, 2019, 08:17:42 PM
Hopefully we just booted SJU out of the tourney. Couldn't have happened to a nicer team.
Seriously? Bro, tourney credits.
Quote from: connie on March 14, 2019, 08:35:08 PM
How do we play like total crap for key stretches of 4 straight, and then put together this wall to wall effort? I'm just going to enjoy it.
this wasn't a wall to wall effort, some really bad play in stretches, but hopefully all that is out of their system.
Quote from: connie on March 14, 2019, 08:35:08 PM
How do we play like total crap for key stretches of 4 straight, and then put together this wall to wall effort? I'm just going to enjoy it.
The team was still 23-8. Lots of teams have bad stretches. MU's just came 4 in a row at the end of the regular season. If MU had started the conference 0-4 and bounced back to finish 12-6, Wojo would be hailed as a hero.
Quote from: MUDish on March 14, 2019, 08:27:03 PM
Conference tourney's are always kind of a mind eff. If you're on the bubble, you desperately need to probably win to get in. If you're comfortably in, you don't want to see your guys get hurt or have a brutal loss.
MU hasn't played in the semi's in a long time, and even though these tournaments are mostly just money grabs, it was awesome to win tonight to be able to move on to the semi's for the first time in a really long time. Let's win the damn thing!
Disagree. I love the conference tournaments, especially BET, and I think they're meaningful.
There was about a 9-10 minute stretch (from Anim's three at 4:22 left in the first half) to Wojo's 2nd half TO where we scored 7 points - ton of sloppy TOs, bad shots, not great D - but St John's only made up 8 points if the deficit.
That 23-2 run was insane.
Glad I can visit this board again...
Quote from: drewm88 on March 14, 2019, 08:42:00 PM
Disagree. I love the conference tournaments, especially BET, and I think they're meaningful.
+1
It's the equivalent of the Wild Card in baseball/football.
As a reminder, the year that the BE put in ELEVEN teams, MU was the 11th team, and got in only because of beating WVU in the BE Tourney.
In my best George Costanza voice:
We're back, baby!!!
Go Warriors.
Quote from: nyg on March 14, 2019, 08:26:53 PM
Markus started second half very badly, SJU goes on a run and with a Simon slam dunk gets it down to six just prior to 16 minute TV timeout. Wojo calls timeout, says whatever to the team and they go on 23 to 2 run. Markus played great after that.
Morrow with 8 and 8 and was awesome inside.
Believe SJU just got bounced from NCAA. What is that 5 losses in 6 games? Go Georgetown, I want nothing to do with Myles Powell.
Yep. And if he had called a timeout just 30 secs into the second half I would've understood why. That timeout was crucial to waking the team back up
Quote from: Fluffy Blue Monster on March 14, 2019, 08:35:01 PM
This is why you don't make changes just to make changes. They played it the way they usually do, but Markus let it come to him and they defended their asses off.
This.
I tried to be the voice of reason in another thread earlier today, calmly stating that we had gone 23-4 playing a certain way, how even during the 4-game losing streak we played well enough to have the lead late in each game, how the previous time we played StJ we lost by 1 even though we shot like shyte. And I was shouted down by the Angry Scoopers.
Wojo HAD to make adjustments! He'd be an IDIOT if he didn't. He HAD to play this guy instead of that guy. He HAD to play zone. And so on.
If Wojo made adjustments for this game, they were pretty darn subtle. The main adjustment I noticed was that we shot well and we got after the ball. Which, of course, aren't coaching adjustments at all.
One thing that did stand out is that Markus let the game come to him. In fact, at least 2-3 of his early turnovers came when he passed instead of switching to 1-on-1 mode. He did seem more conscious of trying to get teammates involved, especially early. In the post-game interview on TV, Wojo said he has talked to Markus about giving the ball up and trusting you'll get it back, "but he's such a great scorer, and he's always in attack mode, and you don't want to take away that aggressiveness." After settling down from the early TOs, Markus was sensational. BEPOY.
It was nice seeing Joey make a positive impact -- several very nice passes. Sacar had a great first half offensively and was dialed in on D. As is the case most of the time, Theo and Morrow were a very nice 1-2 punch at the 5.
Very satisfying game. Satisfying to see the team rewarded for hard work, satisfying to see so many guys play so well when the lights shined brightly, satisfying to beat a team that had tormented us, satisfying to start the most important part of March on a great note.
It's sad that some of us more optimistic Scoopers have to get some satisfaction out of shutting up our colleagues here who seem to get some weird joy out of joylessness. I mean, one guy said he knew MU would lose. Why? Because he's been watching the team for 45 years. Ipso fatso, he's a savant, I guess.
Oh, and I'm not exactly sure what Wojo said in that time-out after StJ cut it to 6 and the crowd was going wild ... but whatever it was, it wasn't IDIOTic.
Got the monkey off our back. Now let's do some damage. I look forward to a war tomorrow with the Hall.
0.758 Defensive Efficiency is 2nd best MU effort in BE this season (Xavier). We were really switching on the perimeter and Ed and Theo owned the paint. Some easy run outs for the Johnies at the start of the 2nd but otherwise pretty flawless. Ponds had nowhere to go.
This counts as a Q1 win right?
Did we ever trail in this game?
Quote from: Shooter McGavin on March 14, 2019, 09:44:29 PM
Got the monkey off our back. Now let's do some damage. I look forward to a war tomorrow with the Hall.
Seeing the title of this thread and now your war analogy, I'm kind of freaking out about a discussion I just had with a Naval weapons system engineer from NavalStationGreatLakes tonight at a bar watching the Warriors. He was talking about how he was overseeing some testing of everything from DEW (directed energy weaponry) to cruise missiles far off the coast of San Diego. He was making a point about how sad it is that some of the strongest, most utilitarian ships and planes are deemed obsolete, like frigate class destroyers. He told me how a standard old frigate proved almost unsinkable after taking everything from phalanx to DEW, to multiple Tomahawk cruise missiles. His group had the environmental clearance during testing to sink an old frigate and create a coral reef...and they basically could not get the hull to submerge due to the tensile strength of the steel and overall fortitude of the old ship.
Teams often take opponent runs as a direct hit and absorb some serious damage (we sure did during our 4game hiccup), but when Marquette plays with the kind of resolve we did tonight, we deflect energy and withstand much like these frigate class battleships. Here's to the tensile strength of team and a little belief.
Quote from: Its DJOver on March 14, 2019, 08:17:28 PM
But, but, but... we didn't mix in a zone. How is this possible?
They actually did mix in a zone-man thing for a bit when Chartouney first came in.
Quote from: JakeBarnes on March 14, 2019, 10:17:19 PM
They actually did mix in a zone-man thing for a bit when Chartouney first came in.
Not that I saw. We haven't played zone all year, mixing it in now would be a mistake.
Quote from: warriorchick on March 14, 2019, 08:32:36 PM
Have to admit, I was not prepared r0r how depressed I felt after the Georgetown game. I normally get over a loss within a half hour or so, even after a bad beat, but I wasn't sleeping at night, overcome with disappointment and worry.
What I kept thinking about was if my own funk was this deep, I can't imagine how bad it must be for the players. How the Hell do you come back from the last four games? Even though I am probably more optimistic than 90% of Scoopers, I was convinced we only had two games left in the season. Two horrible games.
Anyhoo, I am over that now. We are back, baby!!!
The only way I got over it was I had to stand in a wedding about 30 minutes after they lost. Luckily open bars and your close friends getting married help you feel the good feelings. But yeah...the Creighton and Hall games were the ones that made me get reallllllllll neurotic.
Quote from: SoCalEagle on March 14, 2019, 08:46:54 PM
In my best George Costanza voice:
We're back, baby!!!
Go Warriors.
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One change I saw from the first two games was having Ed/Theo guard Simon and daring him to shoot. In the previous matchups, it was Howard guarding Simon. Simon would just take him inside, post him up, and score easily. Theo and Ed guarding him allowed them to stay closer to the bucket and help against St. John's cutters. Throw in aggressive perimeter defense and cold shooting from St. John's and you have yourself a blowout.
I can't remember ever seeing a raucous crowd fade away so quickly and so completely like the crowd tonight. A few minutes into the second half, I started getting worried because the stadium got real loud, real fast. Then in a matter of minutes we strung together one of the most dominant stretches we've had all year. The crowd was a non factor by the 10 minute mark in the second half.
This was a really fun win. Much needed and well deserved. Lots of things went right. Keep this up, and we're going to have a hell of a weekend.
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on March 15, 2019, 12:07:51 AM
One change I saw from the first two games was having Ed/Theo guard Simon and daring him to shoot. In the previous matchups, it was Howard guarding Simon. Simon would just take him inside, post him up, and score easily. Theo and Ed guarding him allowed them to stay closer to the bucket and help against St. John's cutters. Throw in aggressive perimeter defense and cold shooting from St. John's and you have yourself a blowout.
A reporter gave kudos to Wojo in the post-game presser. He didn't even ask a question but just gave a synopsis. Basically, he credited Wojo for leaving a center fielder home to protect the paint and cut off Ponds from driving.
Dr. B
It definitely worked. Virtually all of the in the paint shots were wild one handers.
Quote from: Goose on March 15, 2019, 12:48:11 AM
Dr. B
It definitely worked. Virtually all of the in the paint shots were wild one handers.
This has been MU's biggest area of improvement. Last year opponents shot 67% at the rim. This season it is 54%. Tonight it was in the 30s with the adjustments. Hella defensive game plan.
Great win last night but if we want to win the tournament we still gotta cut down the turnovers. 15 is going to be hard to overcome against SSH or Villanoxa/Xavier. Not everyone is going to shoot under 33% from the field and 15% from 3.
Quote from: NorthernDancerColt on March 14, 2019, 10:15:43 PM
Seeing the title of this thread and now your war analogy, I'm kind of freaking out about a discussion I just had with a Naval weapons system engineer from NavalStationGreatLakes tonight at a bar watching the Warriors. He was talking about how he was overseeing some testing of everything from DEW (directed energy weaponry) to cruise missiles far off the coast of San Diego. He was making a point about how sad it is that some of the strongest, most utilitarian ships and planes are deemed obsolete, like frigate class destroyers. He told me how a standard old frigate proved almost unsinkable after taking everything from phalanx to DEW, to multiple Tomahawk cruise missiles. His group had the environmental clearance during testing to sink an old frigate and create a coral reef...and they basically could not get the hull to submerge due to the tensile strength of the steel and overall fortitude of the old ship.
Teams often take opponent runs as a direct hit and absorb some serious damage (we sure did during our 4game hiccup), but when Marquette plays with the kind of resolve we did tonight, we deflect energy and withstand much like these frigate class battleships. Here's to the tensile strength of team and a little belief.
The title is tied in to the title after MU lost their fourth straight. Fore! Sounds like four, negative connotation. If MU had lost last night, the title would have been 'Sink-o', Spanish for '5' and a negative connotation. No sink-o means that we did not lose 5 straight. But if you have to explain the joke, then it probably wasn't a good enough joke. Sigh.
Quote from: tower912 on March 15, 2019, 06:09:32 AM
The title is tied in to the title after MU lost their fourth straight. Fore! Sounds like four, negative connotation. If MU had lost last night, the title would have been 'Sink-o', Spanish for '5' and a negative connotation. No sink-o means that we did not lose 5 straight. But if you have to explain the joke, then it probably wasn't a good enough joke. Sigh.
They're not all winners
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on March 15, 2019, 12:07:51 AM
One change I saw from the first two games was having Ed/Theo guard Simon and daring him to shoot. In the previous matchups, it was Howard guarding Simon. Simon would just take him inside, post him up, and score easily. Theo and Ed guarding him allowed them to stay closer to the bucket and help against St. John's cutters. Throw in aggressive perimeter defense and cold shooting from St. John's and you have yourself a blowout.
Yes when simon hit that 3 pointer during their run i was concerned we may change our defense. As good as Simon is he cant shoot. Thankfully we didnt n he air balled his next 3 and was not much os a factor after that.
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on March 15, 2019, 12:46:08 AM
A reporter gave kudos to Wojo in the post-game presser. He didn't even ask a question but just gave a synopsis. Basically, he credited Wojo for leaving a center fielder home to protect the paint and cut off Ponds from driving.
Supposedly an X beat writer.
Quote from: MUDPT on March 15, 2019, 06:57:37 AM
Supposedly an X beat writer.
I figured it was a Scooper just letting Wojo know how smart we are.
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Quote from: MUMonster03 on March 15, 2019, 02:54:42 AM
Great win last night but if we want to win the tournament we still gotta cut down the turnovers. 15 is going to be hard to overcome against SSH or Villanoxa/Xavier. Not everyone is going to shoot under 33% from the field and 15% from 3.
Ding. Ding. Ding.
Solid solid win. Sat next to the most Obnoxious of SJU fans last night that were not there to watch the game clearly, and were just constantly yelling "MARQUETTE SHOULD BE WINNING BY 22!!!!" When we were up 8-10 in first half.
My gf took a lot of joy yelling back when we were winning by 22+ every time the lead increased!
I also was surprised by the MU crowd size. But a lot of Gtown fans around us also cheered on MU. Which was nice.
Quote from: Bocephys on March 14, 2019, 08:13:55 PM
Isn't he Canadian?
There aren't any white Canadians??
Quote from: tower912 on March 15, 2019, 06:09:32 AM
The title is tied in to the title after MU lost their fourth straight. Fore! Sounds like four, negative connotation. If MU had lost last night, the title would have been 'Sink-o', Spanish for '5' and a negative connotation. No sink-o means that we did not lose 5 straight. But if you have to explain the joke, then it probably wasn't a good enough joke. Sigh.
My bad, Tower. So funny that I got and loved the Fore analogy as a decent golfer with a tendency for my "draw" to become a raging hook about once a round....yet didn't figure out the latest witticism.
We have shown an aptitude for resiliency and withstanding other teams' big run all season...and, apologies to Tower and Florence and her machine, but I know Wojo didn't build this ship to wreck.
Quote from: tower912 on March 15, 2019, 06:09:32 AM
The title is tied in to the title after MU lost their fourth straight. Fore! Sounds like four, negative connotation. If MU had lost last night, the title would have been 'Sink-o', Spanish for '5' and a negative connotation. No sink-o means that we did not lose 5 straight. But if you have to explain the joke, then it probably wasn't a good enough joke. Sigh.
I appreciated the effort ... and the explanation!
First suggestion for after our win tonight:
Semi-sweet.
Quote from: NHMUFAN on March 15, 2019, 08:13:07 AM
There aren't any white Canadians??
The ones with Lebanese heritage...nope.
Quote from: JakeBarnes on March 15, 2019, 04:40:26 PM
The ones with Lebanese heritage...nope.
Pretty sure folks who are of Middle-Eastern Heritage are considered Caucasians.
How white are you talking about? :D
Quote from: warriorchick on March 15, 2019, 04:42:11 PM
Pretty sure folks who are of Middle-Eastern Heritage are considered Caucasians.
How white are you talking about? :D
Yes. Arabs are Caucasian. Furthermore since he is from Lebanon, a pretty diverse place, he likely has other heritages as well.