DePaul loses to Lewis in Exhibition match

[NersEllenson]

Really? Not disagreeing but that's a massive statement and even being able to say there IS a best player ever feels like a small dig at our tradition.

Nope..by no means did I mean it as a dig against our tradition...as we have had some greats at MU...but Wade was a once a generation kind of talent at a school like MU.  His results in the NBA illustrate as much..as did the teams performance the next year after he and RJax left...MU returned every player but Wade and Jackson and didn't even make the NCAA, and were bounced in the 2nd round of the NIT in 2004..with Diener, Novak, et al...that is a MAJOR drop off from being a Final Four team..and largely illustrates the Wade effect/greatness.

[GGGG]

Badger Fans
Kansas Fans
UWM Fans

You guys are hanging out with a bunch of odd friends, because everyone I know from all three schools has never mentioned a 35 pt loss to me.

[77ncaachamps]

70-68 loss.

Just exhale and thank the Lord that it's an exhibition game.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Except every single one of my friends, it seems.

Ok, so 2 guys remember the score.


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[ChicosBailBonds]

Nope..by no means did I mean it as a dig against our tradition...as we have had some greats at MU...but Wade was a once a generation kind of talent at a school like MU.  His results in the NBA illustrate as much..as did the teams performance the next year after he and RJax left...MU returned every player but Wade and Jackson and didn't even make the NCAA, and were bounced in the 2nd round of the NIT in 2004..with Diener, Novak, et al...that is a MAJOR drop off from being a Final Four team..and largely illustrates the Wade effect/greatness.

Didn't you receive a severe beat down months ago when you tried this?

RJAX and Wade were very special players, but you are short selling how good Rjax was.  Secondly, the year after the Final Four, CUSA was a monster league sending 6 teams to the Big Dance....the competition was much more difficult than the year we went to the Final Four in the league itself.

We had a target on our back.  Merritt played hurt much of the year and out of position.  Novak was only a sophomore, you make it sound like he was a Senior.

No one is denying Wade's greatness or effect on the team, but every time you go down this path that it was all Wade (and a little Rjax) the Final Four year it exposes your agenda again.  Each team is different each year, considerably.  Merritt no longer a 4 but now a 5...that is a MAJOR change.  With RJax in the lineup, that freed up outside shooting for the guards and let Merritt be a force.  With RJax departure, that changed everything (as did Wade's).

[ChicosBailBonds]

I have to chuckle Lenny....to compare the two is beyond a stretch.

One team has won 1 game in 2 years in the conference.

The other game MU lost to the #2 team in the country.  This idea that people bring up the score from all their friends....I call major Bullshyte.   Either you guys have no friends or are hanging out with complete dorks, or you are making that up just to push your agenda.  There is no way people are sitting around saying "yeah, Marquette made that Final Four but by they lost by 30 points...losers" or whatever nonsense.


We shot terribly, we lost to a great team.  It was worse than it had to be, but it often is in those settings....look at how many Super Bowls end up being blow outs because teams go for broke and can't recover in the moment.

The journey is what people remember....other than a Pakuni's friend(s).

[GGGG]

+1 Chicos.

I don't let my single greatest memory as a college basketball fan get ruined by our performance in the semis.  I wear my final four gear with pride.

[NersEllenson]

Didn't you receive a severe beat down months ago when you tried this?

RJAX and Wade were very special players, but you are short selling how good Rjax was.  Secondly, the year after the Final Four, CUSA was a monster league sending 6 teams to the Big Dance....the competition was much more difficult than the year we went to the Final Four in the league itself.

We had a target on our back.  Merritt played hurt much of the year and out of position.  Novak was only a sophomore, you make it sound like he was a Senior.

No one is denying Wade's greatness or effect on the team, but every time you go down this path that it was all Wade (and a little Rjax) the Final Four year it exposes your agenda again.  Each team is different each year, considerably.  Merritt no longer a 4 but now a 5...that is a MAJOR change.  With RJax in the lineup, that freed up outside shooting for the guards and let Merritt be a force.  With RJax departure, that changed everything (as did Wade's).

Not nearly the beat down you received when you questioned Buzz recruiting JUCO's and implied the charactyer of JUCOS was something less than to be desired.

Yourdefense of the 2004 team really is precious Chicos.  So Conference USA had a good Top 6 teams...doesn't the Big East every year?  Didn't we make the NCAA tourney last year after losing 3 of the Top 10 all time scoreres in MU history??  In that thread you and others wanted to trumpet how good Diener and Novak were, yet you fail to hold either them or Tom Crean accountable for going from a Final Four team to an NIT Loser in Round 2.  Furthermore in that thread like you do many times..you made FASLSE claims to try to support your false argument - do you recall writing that Diener was injred and missed many games that year...as did Merritt??  Go back and look at the data..and you will see they played in 31 games..with Diener averging 34 minutes..

[Pakuni]

Ok, so 2 guys remember the score.


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Actually, four.
If you count imaginary friends.

[Lennys Tap]

+1 Chicos.

I don't let my single greatest memory as a college basketball fan get ruined by our performance in the semis.  I wear my final four gear with pride.

Nor should you. Just as you shouldn't let the memory of last year's team - maybe the biggest overachievers in MU history (remember Chicos saying 9-9 = COY for Buzz before Junior's injury and Maymon's defection) be diminished by constantly harping (not you Sultan, Chicos) on one poor performance.

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

I have several Kansas friends. They, and their fellow alums, remember it all too well. To a man, they're embarrassed to bring it up.

BTW, Indiana looked solid last night.

[SalsaMan]

I am not sure which is the more shameful - being humiliated by KU on the biggest stage in college hoops or the severe drop off to near obscurity once Wade departed. The Western Michigan beat down was beyond hateful. How do you go from the Final Four to sucessive 19-12 non-NCAA Tournament, non-winning seasons in C-USA? Most coaches would have parlayed the Final Four into dynasty building momentum. At once both mystifying and tragic. Good riddance. 

[Lennys Tap]

I have to chuckle Lenny....to compare the two is beyond a stretch.

One team has won 1 game in 2 years in the conference.

The other game MU lost to the #2 team in the country.  This idea that people bring up the score from all their friends....I call major Bullshyte.   Either you guys have no friends or are hanging out with complete dorks, or you are making that up just to push your agenda.  There is no way people are sitting around saying "yeah, Marquette made that Final Four but by they lost by 30 points...losers" or whatever nonsense.


We shot terribly, we lost to a great team.  It was worse than it had to be, but it often is in those settings....look at how many Super Bowls end up being blow outs because teams go for broke and can't recover in the moment.

The journey is what people remember....other than a Pakuni's friend(s).

Chicos "version" of what I said : All my friends bring up the score.

What I really said : Kansas fans and real college basketball fans remember the score.

Do those comments sound even remotely similar?

As to your other assertions, I have many friends and they're not complete dorks. Of course they're not "sitting around saying Marquette made the final four but lost by 30 (actually 33) points. They're not that obtuse. But the basketball fans among them do remember. Am I to understand that none of your friends are capable of recalling the results of major sporting events from 7 years ago? Too bad for them and too bad for you.

[bilsu]

I am not sure which is the more shameful - being humiliated by KU on the biggest stage in college hoops or the severe drop off to near obscurity once Wade departed. The Western Michigan beat down was beyond hateful. How do you go from the Final Four to sucessive 19-12 non-NCAA Tournament, non-winning seasons in C-USA? Most coaches would have parlayed the Final Four into dynasty building momentum. At once both mystifying and tragic. Good riddance. 

First year was Crean's fault. He did not have a plan in place, if Wade left early. He more or less said so and that is what led him to over recruit in subsequent years. The second 19-12 team and Western Michigan beat down was a direct result to Diener being injured. Diener was averaging almost 24 points a game before he injured his foot. Then he broke his hand. Also Grimm was injured at the end. Mason ended up in Crean's doghouse and played very little at the end. At that point the only offensive threat we had left was Novak, who basically was a three point shooter with little ability to get himself open. The lost to Western Michigan would never of happen, if we were not beset by injuries. That team was good enough to be in the NCAA's.

[Lennys Tap]

I have several Kansas friends. They, and their fellow alums, remember it all too well. To a man, they're embarrassed to bring it up.

BTW, Indiana looked solid last night.

Well, IU did make 23-28 free throws. And they didn't quit - trailed by 10 with 3 minutes left. Bad news is they needed 25 turnovers and 18 missed free throws from their opponent and a 4 point play by a freshman with 10 seconds left to get the game into overtime. More bad news news - the opponent was Div II Ferris State.

[Pakuni]

Well, IU did make 23-28 free throws.

Obviously they practice free throws.

[Skatastrophy]

Obviously they practice free throws.

It's one of the prime tenants of Karate. 

[79Warrior]

I have several Kansas friends. They, and their fellow alums, remember it all too well. To a man, they're embarrassed to bring it up.

BTW, Indiana looked solid last night.

Why would they e embarrassed? Because they kicked our ass? If I was a Kansas fan I love that game. I would hardly be embarrassed.