Creighton Barreling

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

Any see a link to Wojos presser yet?

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Why doesnt every team play a pressing zone against us? Got to work on that.

Despite that, very solid win. I could finally see what Wojo hopes the man to man will accomplish. Lots of steals and run outs.

[PGsHeroes32]

My recording keeps freezing and skipping parts of them game.


SMFH

[brewcity77]

Well, among other things, I did say this:

<<I'm absolutely not saying Henry was a defensive stud. He wasn't.>>

Fair enough. Here's the thing, I know I'm critical of Henry, often more so than other people are. But that's because for as good as he is, he could be so much better.

Slightly better positioning and timing on defense, better perimeter shot selection and knowing when to make the extra pass, and a little more muscle to rip away the contested rebounds.

BTW, not saying all his rebounds are easy. He positions himself to make them look that way. Just saying that despite being the most prolific rebounder in the league, he could be better.

I'd just like to see Henry maximize his talent. I suspect that won't happen here. He's good, probably first or second team All Big East good, but he's got the ability to be first or second in the National Player of the Year voting good. So I hold him to a higher standard. Because he's the only guy out there who can play at that level for us.

[tower912]

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore?gameId=400840231

Creighton box

[connie]

It sure wasn't pretty. But Marquette toughed out a big win — beating a good, well-coached team in front of a big crowd. Loved every minute of it.

Loved the end.  An 8+ minute stretch in the second half without scoring--that I can do without.  Only had the Homer feed so tough to appreciate the tough defense we played down the stretch.

[ATL MU Warrior]

Pete Gillen is the worst announcer I have ever heard.

[naginiF]

Pete Gillen is the worst announcer I have ever heard.

I tried focusing on the good solid Brooklyn accent and not the content.  Content was horrible, accent was appropriate

[ATL MU Warrior]

I tried focusing on the good solid Brooklyn accent and not the content.  Content was horrible, accent was appropriate

Nothing he did worked for me at all.  There was one point where the game was going to a commercial break where he rattled off 4 or 5 inane cliches one right after the other.  I was relieved when the commercial finally came on.

[tower912]

Doh!     How is it that we haven't discussed how much better the transition defense was last night?  Or how, for the second straight games, MU's bigs did a really nice job of hedging the high ball screens?    And no, that isn't where Luke picked up any of his fouls.   

[jsglow]

One observation.  Fischer simply has to be able to stay on the floor when Matt and Sandy are unavailable.  I'm remembering a game in the last 2 weeks (maybe Creighton at home?) where he got 2-3 REALLY bad calls on fouls.  But last night he pretty much earned every one and I believe they were all on the defensive end.  24 minutes last night really put pressure on his teammates.

[CTWarrior]

Very happy with the win and how the team is coming along.

The only way you're going to get teams to stop pressing you is to make them pay when you break it.  The big problem last night is that when we did break it, we were content to let them set up their zone and we ended up with 18 seconds to try and solve the zone and score every possession.  Need to have a more attacking mind set against the press.

In addition to Henry's usual solid offensive game, I liked how JJJ and Duane played a lot.  I love the aggressive attitude.  I didn't think we missed Sandy all that much, other than for rest for the other guys.

[GooooMarquette]

Pete Gillen is the worst announcer I have ever heard.

Yeah, he actually had me longing for Simpkins and all his "hashtags".

#bringbackdickie

[Dawson Rental]

Expecting to blow out any team on the road is just silly.

Unless you're Iowa...

                          sorry, the first thing that came into my head.

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

Pete Gillen is the worst announcer I have ever heard.

He sure doesn't like MU. He's called a few of our games this year, and he sure sounds like he's routing for the other team.


He also said some just really dumb crap.

[79Warrior]

He sure doesn't like MU. He's called a few of our games this year, and he sure sounds like he's routing for the other team.


He also said some just really dumb crap.

Really? He said some very nice things about MU. Did you hear his comments on Henry and his choices? do not agree with your Gillen anti MU comment.

[We R Final Four]

Pete Gillen is the worst announcer I have ever heard.

Agree--that was brutal. Wrong names--calling freshmen veterans, insinuating HE is dirty.

[GGGG]

Agree--that was brutal. Wrong names--calling freshmen veterans, insinuating HE is dirty.

Henry got away with a couple very questionable non-calls.  He wasn't dirty by any means, but he certainly challenged the refs to be consistently awful.

[JakeBarnes]

He sure doesn't like MU. He's called a few of our games this year, and he sure sounds like he's routing for the other team.


He also said some just really dumb crap.

"He's like a microwave, once he gets one, he gets more"

I hate when I microwave one thing and then become obligated to microwave a ton more things.

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

Henry got away with a couple very questionable non-calls.  He wasn't dirty by any means, but he certainly challenged the refs to be consistently awful.

And he got fouled every time down the court.

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

Really? He said some very nice things about MU. Did you hear his comments on Henry and his choices? do not agree with your Gillen anti MU comment.

Ok.

[frozena pizza]

Loved the end.  An 8+ minute stretch in the second half without scoring--that I can do without.  Only had the Homer feed so tough to appreciate the tough defense we played down the stretch.

We were fortunate that Creighton had an off night shooting and overall our defense was pretty good.  They had a good strategy in that the first half was pretty up tempo and I think wore us out a bit given our short bench with Sandy out and Luke and Traci in foul trouble.  Then late in the game they put on the full court press and went zone to force us to shoot long jumpers when we were dead tired.  Almost worked perfectly for them.

[Henry Sugar]

JJJ had a very good first half

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Is there an announcer scoopers don't hate? Honestly the only one I can think of is Thomas Bilde and I think if we had to listen to him during real games where he has to be objective we'd hate him too.

[MUfan12]

Is there an announcer scoopers don't hate?

Any Raftery hatred deserves a HASHTAG BANHAMMER.