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We will never get this back: A Tale Of Irony

SmokeyRone

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****. We should be in the Final Four, with a real chance for the trophy.

Losing to that Marquette team with a wide open path to the Championship will be an albatross around our necks. Oh yes, an albatross.

The depth of our deprevity in no showing for that game!

SUCKS!
 
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You have to be very lucky in many ways to win the dance. With Reggie out and Larkin sick, not to mention MARQ's one night of miraculous shooting, the odds were against us this time. It sucks because we really had a chance to win it all this year, but this team started something. When we do when the tournament, not if but when, we will have to look back at this year's team as where it all started.
 
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Marquette did shoot lights out and we couldn't hit the **** backboard, which was unexpected, and resulted in the blowout. But those two issues masked the other clear problem: the Illini idenitified the gameplan for how to beat us. Larkin was the catalyst; preventing the high picks that gave him open looks spelled doom for our offense.
 
drifters1234 said:
Marquette did shoot lights out and we couldn't hit the **** backboard, which was unexpected, and resulted in the blowout. But those two issues masked the other clear problem: the Illini idenitified the gameplan for how to beat us. Larkin was the catalyst; preventing the high picks that gave him open looks spelled doom for our offense.
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we still had a lot of open looks with TMJ and Brown. Not to mention I think Scott played a very bad game. dude is the only guy who can mess up a 3 on 1 for us. dude had been doing it year trying to drive up outta control and throw up trash. we also missed a lot of layups. it also looked like we decide to come up with zero game plan about how to work the boards with reggie gone.
 
drifters1234 said:
Marquette did shoot lights out and we couldn't hit the **** backboard, which was unexpected, and resulted in the blowout. But those two issues masked the other clear problem: the Illini idenitified the gameplan for how to beat us. Larkin was the catalyst; preventing the high picks that gave him open looks spelled doom for our offense.
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That gameplan was identified before the ACC season ended. We were able to hit enough shots to win against those teams.

None of them had the athletes that Marquette had, and none of them played as physical against us. In the MARQ pregame they showed the guy guarding Larkin putting on a flak jacket because of the contact he was anticipating.
 
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Shouldn't the additions of LVille, Cuse, Pitt, and the *** school from Indiana boost recruiting for a lot of ACC schools too?

Same as the SEC football recruiting spiel goes . . . . "Come play for an ACC school against the best teams in the country"
 
K2Cane said:
drifters1234 said:
Marquette did shoot lights out and we couldn't hit the **** backboard, which was unexpected, and resulted in the blowout. But those two issues masked the other clear problem: the Illini idenitified the gameplan for how to beat us. Larkin was the catalyst; preventing the high picks that gave him open looks spelled doom for our offense.
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we still had a lot of open looks with TMJ and Brown. Not to mention I think Scott played a very bad game. dude is the only guy who can mess up a 3 on 1 for us. dude had been doing it year trying to drive up outta control and throw up trash. we also missed a lot of layups. it also looked like we decide to come up with zero game plan about how to work the boards with reggie gone.
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I have heard it all. We we're out coached, out manned, out schemed. It is all BS. We didn't hit shots. We didn't hit shots. We didn't hit shots.

Cut all the BS about the game plan to beat us being identified and greatly executed by Illinois and then Marquette.

We couldn't shoot the ball PERIOD. We shot 40% against Illinois which was our worst performance since the loss against WF. Then we followed it up shooting 35% against Marquief. We had open shots and layups in both games, which we could not sink.

Cut the BS.
 
I fail to see the irony?

Anyways, everyone is right. We shot 34%, they shot 54%. No numbers for it, but everyone knows our percentage got a big garbage time boost in the last 2 minutes or so. I don't feel as though the reason we shot so crappily was a poor gameplan on our side or a great gameplan by Marquette, there were alot of open looks for TMJ and Rion Brown all through that game, they just didn't knock them down. That combined with Durand Scott trying to be Superman was enough to sink us.

Overall, it was a game where our wing players had to win it for us and they couldn't make shots. It happens and it sucks, but to act like it's going to destroy to program is a ridiculous overreaction.
 
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There is no irony, just stupidity.
We got out played. We showed that we probably weren't deserving of a No. 2 seed. Will we be ranked in the top five next year? No. Will we be in the running for a top four NCAA seed? Probably not. But if Larkin returns and makes an improvement in the neighborhood of the one he made last off season, then we have an all-american guard on our hands and a chance to continue to make noise as a program in March.
Step back from the ledge, homie. I know this whole basketball thing is new for you, but really, get ahold of yourself.
 
CTCANE said:
Another bad post by Smokey
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This is all that fat-chick loving inbred is good for. Terrible porster.


We shot like garbage. Had a ton of open wing 3 looks. If TMJ and Brown aren't hitting shots, we can't win. Story of the season, really.
 
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Miami wasn't ready for that stage. And that's ok...if you're real with it, you'd know that was going to happen in your heart.

Marquette was the better team than Miami. If you are a gambling man, you know that unranked teams in the pre-season that push for a high seed rarely make good on that high seed. IIRC, the average wins in the tournament for a team like Miami is 2. It was going to happen.
 
Not only were we not hitting shots the Marquette and Indiana defenses kept us bottled up outside the arc, killing us, plus our picks were weak all of a sudden it seemed.

Groundwork has been laid for the future, the young uns got some meaningful PT and experience. Now sign some recruits coach L
 
Reminder: the 99 team was a top 10 team and a 2 seed that didnt even make the sweet 16, year later in 00 when we supposedly not as deep we made the sweet 16
 
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