Sour grapes on Davidson board

[Avenue Commons]

As long as you are happy (done with making your "point"), I'm happy.

Ring Out Ahoya. On to Butler. Great day for Marquette Basketball in the end. "All is well that ends well."

[tower912]

http://www.davidsoncats.com/viewtopic.php?t=17396&start=0

I get it completely.   Think Stanford.   Think Jean Felix.   Think Poindexter.    Think Lazar stepping over the in-bounds line.    We've all visited the place that guy is in.   He expressed it very eloquently. 

[Chicos' Buzz Scandal Countdown]

Ring Out Ahoya. On to Butler. Great day for Marquette Basketball in the end. "All is well that ends well."

Avenue - it is impossible for me to feel anything less than admiration for you as long as you have that photo as your avatar

[patso]

Isn't that the guy from the Providence game

[Avenue Commons]

I get it completely.   Think Stanford.   Think Jean Felix.   Think Poindexter.    Think Lazar stepping over the in-bounds line.    We've all visited the place that guy is in.   He expressed it very eloquently. 

I thought it was a nice, well written post as well. I understood exactly where he was coming from. Our schools and their teams mean s lot to our communities and our families.

I've really become a fan of Davidson. They have smart fans and players. My kinda place.

[Avenue Commons]

Isn't that the guy from the Providence game

Yes. Ya betta recognize Jonathan Xavier when he's in your face!

I'd love a gif file of him walking onto the court and trying to call time out. It was awesome on so many levels.

http://youtu.be/MqVGMLBOqnY

[RushmoreAcademy]

Their board didn't strike me as particularly sour.  Wow that would be a tough loss.  Stanford felt like getting punched in the gut repeatedly and this has to be even worse for them.   
One interesting fact pulled from a poster on their board that may or may not have already been posted somewhere here:

"Vander Blue's go-ahead layup with one second remaining Thursday against Davidson was the first game-tying or go-ahead shot made in the final 10 seconds of a game in the last two Men's Basketball Championships. Prior to Blue's shot, players were 0 for their last 22 in those situations (including Matthew Dellavedova's missed 3-pt FG Thursday), dating back to the 2011 Men's Basketball Championship."

[muarmy81]

weren't they huddled up as well? haven't watched replay but think I remember them at the bench also

Nm

[mu_hilltopper]

Um, wtf is with all these classless posts? (now deleted.)  Let's win with some grace.  

Davidson was a good team, good fan base.   They got stung.  And oh, yeah, MU has been crushed about a dozen times, just like that.

Give em a break.

[Lennys Tap]

That shouldn't be in teal

How can you say the coach of a team that blew an almost unblowable game out coached anyone? If the reverse had happened you would be all over Buzz. Maybe Marquette's greatest come from behind victory ever and all you can do is bitch. It must really suck to be you.

[Lennys Tap]

Um, wtf is with all these classless posts? (now deleted.)  Let's win with some grace.  

Davidson was a good team, good fan base.   They got stung.  And oh, yeah, MU has been crushed about a dozen times, just like that.

Give em a break.

Well said.

[White Shaq]

Sorry Davidson, ganar es ganar...

http://www.youtube.com//v/MbkrWJsEpSE

(and you're welcome for the subtitles...)

[jsglow]

The Davidson crowd and the Davidson students were absolutely fantastic.  We met many on the street immediately after the game and they couldn't have been more genuine in their 'congratulations' and 'great game' comments to the Marquette faithful.  I bet I shook the hand of 10 nice students wishing them safe travel back to NC.  Character revealed.

[buckchuckler]

Good team, seems like a very good and knowledgeable fanbase.  They certainly made a fan out of me.  Wish them nothing but success in future tournaments (unless they draw MU again), and a team that I will enjoy rooting for and watching in the future. 

Bring on Butler. 

[mu72warrior]

I think Mc Guire had a list of things you needed to happen to win the NCAA. Can't remember them all but I think one was win a game you should have lost. In his case UNCC.

[4everwarriors]

Last shot has gotta go in.

[ChicosBailBonds]

MU made its own luck.    It made the big shots down the stretch.   Buzz made the coaching decision to not foul in the last two minutes.   They executed a really good trap on the passer and he made a bad pass due to the defensive pressure.    Davidson missed some shots, but MU capitalized.     MU won it more than Davidson lost it.  

That's not accurate.  

Watch the last minute again, Buzz was screaming for a foul at the 26 second mark (after Vander 3), but our guys didn't listen and we got the foul about 7 seconds later...unfortunately fouled their best shooter.

When Jamil made the shot with 10 seconds left, you can see Buzz again calling for the foul and then the guy throws it away, but Buzz clearly calling for the foul.

Watch Buzz, pretty clear.

We got lucky there....glad the guys didn't foul the kid when Buzz was asking them too.  Worked out for us.

https://www.youtube.com/v/_bczliDvZL4

[Avenue Commons]

The Davidson crowd and the Davidson students were absolutely fantastic.  We met many on the street immediately after the game and they couldn't have been more genuine in their 'congratulations' and 'great game' comments to the Marquette faithful.  I bet I shook the hand of 10 nice students wishing them safe travel back to NC.  Character revealed.

Yes, honestly can't remember being more impressed with a coach and the student-athletes in a program. Smart kids who play tough. Absolutely made a fan out of me.

[Dr. Blackheart]

The Davidson crowd and the Davidson students were absolutely fantastic.  We met many on the street immediately after the game and they couldn't have been more genuine in their 'congratulations' and 'great game' comments to the Marquette faithful.  I bet I shook the hand of 10 nice students wishing them safe travel back to NC.  Character revealed.

Key question is why were you there and your better half was working to pay the mortgage and tuition bills?  Second key question:  What was your cover story so I can use it next weekend in DC during Easter weekend?

[El Duderino]

That's not accurate. 

Watch the last minute again, Buzz was screaming for a foul at the 26 second mark (after Vander 3), but our guys didn't listen and we got the foul about 7 seconds later...unfortunately fouled their best shooter.

When Jamil made the shot with 10 seconds left, you can see Buzz again calling for the foul and then the guy throws it away, but Buzz clearly calling for the foul.

We got lucky there.

That game today epitomized what makes the NCAA Tournament so great each year.

We are dealing with college kids and that makes things so unpredictable. It's high pressure in all of these close games and often some of these 18-21 year old's do things their coaches don't want simply by kids getting caught up in the moment. That doesn't make a coach/coaches smart or a dunce when players at times brainfart under pressure.

We certainly caught a break when that kid on Davidson brainfarted and made that late bad pass, but crazy stuff like that happens all of the time in these tournament games from year to year.

Yet, that often leads to some fans foolishly blaming the coaches when their players make mistakes under pressure or have a bad game. Hell, right now New Mexico is losing to Harvard. I'm sure on the NM forums, some irrational fans are blaming Alford as if he forgot how to coach today.

[muwarrior97]

Davidson "should" have won BUT they didn't, I'm sure there crushed and I completely understand.......I remember driving the 350miles home from the Honda Center after sideshow Bob Lopez and his brother knocked us off in OT, couldn't talk or think about anything else other then "why did I go to this M-F-ing game in the 1st place

[Stretchdeltsig]

Marquette won.  We outscored and out played Davidson in the final minute.  Go Warriors!

[TheDOC816]

I think it's safe to say we'd have a lot of sour grapes if we were on the other end of today's game.  Survive and advance is all I have to say.

[ChicosBailBonds]

How can you say the coach of a team that blew an almost unblowable game out coached anyone? If the reverse had happened you would be all over Buzz. Maybe Marquette's greatest come from behind victory ever and all you can do is bitch. It must really suck to be you.

Take it up with the others that also said it.  We were lucky, as Buzz stated.  Coaches don't miss free throws, miss shots, etc.  Davidson was in that position to win because of the outstanding coaching their coach did and some crazy arse lineups we had that couldn't buy a basket.  Again, there had to be 30 people here saying the same thing today...take it up with them.

I enjoyed the comeback, didn't enjoy the fact we were in the position we were in. 

[Skitch]

Why, especially minutes after the end of the game, does anyone feel the need to go visit the opposition's message board and report back questionable behavior?  Anyone can pretty much guess how they are feeling and reacting which is basically the same way we would have been feeling and reacting had Vander's last shot not gone down. 

I guess this is something I have just never understood.