First Half Observations

[willie warrior]

Pretty Pathetic
Guard Play: Abysmal. Acker/Cubillan: Terrible--no clue. James and Mathews both had their heads extremely far up their butts
Mbakwe: 30 seconds--failed to block out his man and let a guy blow right by him
Free Throws: We suck

Better get it together or we wull be blown out big time

[scooter]

But still in the game.
A great spurt by Fitx for 7 points.
I know we're lucky Harangody was out for so long.  Maybe he'll pick up a third quickly and sit some more.
Anybody see him flop on that one play and not get the call.  The announcers called him on it - said a guy that big ought to be able to take a hit.

[Pardner]

JM is relentless.  Lazar looking lost--please finish strong.  Fitz and Ooze on it tonight.  With Shrek out, please play perimeter D.  TC :  bad sub at the 4:00-1:00 minute mark.  Tempo is in our favor.  Let's press these guys for once.  Does TC remember the last four minutes in South Bend?

We can take these guys.  

[CWSKeith]

"Still in the game?"  We should be doing better than "still in the game" -- Harangody was on the bench for better than half of the half.

3-of-13 from beyond the arc.  They haven't gone down all season, fellas, but keep shooting -- maybe today will be different that the 31 prior games.  And Mr. Crean -- don't step in and tell the guys they can get to the hoop just about any time they want.  The pass-around-the-perimeter offense is doing wonders.

So frustrating...

[farmdaddy]

Is anyone else getting sick of the lovefest Harangody is getting from the announcers?  I understand that he is the BE POY and deserves a little cred but to say that his competitive edge was formed by playing with his brother when he was young is taking it a little far.  Plus the announcers are shocked that we have kept him to four points in the little time he as played.  I believe that we defended him well during the two games of the regular season.

[scooter]

I didn't say we should be winning.  I said we're still in the game - that's all.  Would you expect to be in any game at halftime the way we played?  NO, so the fact that we're not getting blown out is in our favor - but we half to play 100 times better becasue SHrek will be back in.

[scooter]

I hear ya farmdaddy.  I used to wrestle with my brother too, but it didn't work out so well for me on the hardwoods

[79Warrior]

Pretty Pathetic
Guard Play: Abysmal. Acker/Cubillan: Terrible--no clue. James and Mathews both had their heads extremely far up their butts
Mbakwe: 30 seconds--failed to block out his man and let a guy blow right by him
Free Throws: We suck

Better get it together or we wull be blown out big time

you forgot Gody was out for almost 10 minutes.

[ecompt]

I think everyone except for Jerel and Fitz was incredibly awful. Shooting is abysmal (as always) and coaching is worse. No press, no plan of attack with Goat Boy out...simply awful.

[77ncaachamps]

Two Observations:

1) The Meter should have been changed to Free Throws.

2) The ESPN commercial with the guy and the girl with the announcers coming out of their arms is T-R-O-U-B-L-I-N-G!

[shaquilvaine]

NT

[CWSKeith]

me = pwned.

//gladly helps self to helping of crow

[Big Papi]

I expect the same posters who blasted the team and the coaching to post some positives from the second half.

[ecompt]

you got it, fanatic...TC was as pissed off as I've ever seen him in the second half and team responded. Very efficient offensively with Acker taking over for Jerel down the stretch. Total team effort and richly-deserved win.