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[tower912]

Cool.

[bilsu]

What I see as MU's weakness is stopping a strong inside player. UConn, Xavier and Providence will be taking it inside on Marquette.

Soriano dominated MU, but he was not enough, because St. John's is not a good team.

[pbiflyer]

What I see as MU's weakness is stopping a strong inside player. UConn, Xavier and Providence will be taking it inside on Marquette.

Soriano dominated MU, but he was not enough, because St. John's is not a good team.

Because he didn't make the live chicken offerings to Jobu.

[tower912]

Nice

[Scoop Snoop]

Because he didn't make the live chicken offerings to Jobu.

Cue Muggsy.

[Goose]

bilsu

Your points are valid and the upcoming three games are challenges for MU. One question, do these three teams struggle against teams that force a lot of turnovers, score a lot of points and play up tempo style of play? We often look at what other teams have that can issues but I seldom see what MU that does well that can cause issues for the opponent. At some point I am hoping what MU does well is of high concern for the opposing team vs. only our concern about their strengths.

[jfp61]

What I see as MU's weakness is stopping a strong inside player. UConn, Xavier and Providence will be taking it inside on Marquette.

Soriano dominated MU, but he was not enough, because St. John's is not a good team.

Joel did very well against MU, he also shot 4/5 from midrange. That netted him 4 more points than he should have had.
He was terrible in the second half when marquette didn't play zone.

Soriano is probably the most empty calories player in the big east.

[GoldenEagles03]

How do you get to .500 in three games?

You play each team twice so it is actually 6

[MU82]

What I see as MU's weakness is stopping a strong inside player. UConn, Xavier and Providence will be taking it inside on Marquette.

And yet Providence needed a late rally and then 2 OTs to beat us.

Your points are valid and the upcoming three games are challenges for MU. One question, do these three teams struggle against teams that force a lot of turnovers, score a lot of points and play up tempo style of play? We often look at what other teams have that can issues but I seldom see what MU that does well that can cause issues for the opponent. At some point I am hoping what MU does well is of high concern for the opposing team vs. only our concern about their strengths.

Yessir. Our players create numerous matchup problems for opponents.

[bradforster]

What I see as MU's weakness is stopping a strong inside player. UConn, Xavier and Providence will be taking it inside on Marquette.

Soriano dominated MU, but he was not enough, because St. John's is not a good team.

You just summed up the weakness of many teams.  Most college BB squads are not well equipped to stop adept big men.  Dominant bigs don't just produce against Marquette.  They inflict punishment on everyone. 

[lawdog77]

DoctorV‐-----I always enjoy your posts because I think you are a knowledgeable fan and poster. But I am going to respectfully disagree with a couple of points you made regarding "overachieving".

I have always thought that to say someone is "overachieving" is a pejorative and not a compliment. At 17 games into the season (13-=4), I think the sample size is large enough to quote football coach Dennis Green ( I think??) " we are who are record says we are". To say, a really good team.

Just because we're outperforming what guys like Lunardi, DeCourcey, Parrish, Katz and 50 other guys predicted 3 months ago, doesn't mean we're overachieving. It means these so called experts didn't know their asses from a hole in the ground when it came to evaluating   the talents of our roster and our coaching staff.

Bill Parcells quote.

[MUCam]

I was all ready to respond to this, then saw it was Rico and recognized the implied teal.

While I find it at times amusing, I do wonder if Uncle Rico realizes this is likely how 4ever's schtick started once upon a time ago. Repetitive, over played, and getting old.

What am I saying? 4ever's schtick was never amusing. Ignore this take.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

No reasoning behind this besides a gut feeling, but I really do think Marquette goes 2-0 this week.

[Newsdreams]

No reasoning behind this besides a gut feeling, but I really do think Marquette goes 2-0 this week.

No game 3?

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

No game 3?

I never feel good about Providence or DePaul away