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02-14-2007, 10:35 PM
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Guys come on...
Look at this from an 18 yr old perspective...
Playing against a team that was basically handing us the game in the first half, we were hitting all of our shots...The thoughts in the mind is wow this is easy, then complacency sat in, PSU started hitting some tough shots, started getting soem bounces, Oden went out of the game on that technical foul call and bam all of sudden PSU is back in the game...
Shoud it of happened, well hell no, but it did, we still won the game, we showed in the first half that we are the #2 team in the country in the second half we showed that we are a very young team...
Young teams that are very good usually don't have that show up in every game for every minute attitude, especially on the road.
Not trying to make excuses b/c I am just as upset as some of you are at the reason that it was actually close, but what the hell do you do when all of a sudden your same shots that you were making in the first half just arent falling and you feel, not to long ago I was knocking them shots down and then you see that same shot wide open again, you feel hell I made it a while ago and I know I can make it and I am open, and we need a little booster to get our team going, well hell I will just fire it up, and I think it will go.
Also we have had to deal with the fact that we havent been playing real great teams, and thus the reason for all the complacency...I am still waiting for the Wisky game to really judge where we are as a team, when we bring 100% intensity for the whole game...
And for those bashing Matta, well that is just off base IMO...
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02-14-2007, 10:37 PM
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Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye
I just cannot see how this is supposedly the second-best college basketball team in the entire country...
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It isn't. Somehow Wisconsin loses to a pretty damn good Indiana team in Bloomington, UCLA gets snake-bitten in a trap game 3 time zones away, and all of a sudden an Ohio State that hasn't played ANYBODY since early January gets bumped up. It's absurd.
This team would have been better served if it had lost this game. Maybe then the alarm would go off. That, of course, is the beauty of college basketball - you can learn by losing.
I agree with those that think Matta deserves to be criticized. It's a mental problem with team. And that comes from the coach. He treating these guys with kid gloves. Time to bring out some bite.
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God damn... I guess the ire on this thread re: a win, is a sign that Basketball is becoming serious business in C-Bus. Which, of course, is a good thing. Wasn't long ago such a win would have been received with words like, "Way to stick it out, tough win on the road" etc.
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Honestly, I had much more fun watching last year's team. That was a team without much in the way of expectations (and to be fair - talent as well). But they played better than they were, beat teams better than they were. This team is so [censored]ing talented that it is painful to watch them play such lazy basketball.
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02-14-2007, 10:39 PM
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Absolutely agree with the suggestion that youth played the biggest part here (in 2nd half collapse) And even more with the opinion that people bashing Matta is off base. Perhaps the Matta bashers would prefer to have O'Brien back? Randy Ayers? I mean, I suppose I liked 16 - 10 as much as the next guy...
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02-14-2007, 10:41 PM
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When a tennis player wins a match 6-0, 6-0, 0-6, 6-0, we call that third set a "breather".
this second half was a breather. They took a break and went into cruise control.
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02-14-2007, 10:42 PM
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Honestly, I had much more fun watching last year's team. That was a team without much in the way of expectations (and to be fair - talent as well). But they played better than they were, beat teams better than they were. This team is so [censored]ing talented that it is painful to watch them play such lazy basketball.
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Yeah, I can see what you're saying... But, I think it still goes towards my point in that post... last year, we were all thrilled with hard play, etc.. Now, we expect blowouts, etc.
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02-14-2007, 10:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Buckeyeskickbuttocks
Yeah, I can see what you're saying... But, I think it still goes towards my point in that post... last year, we were all thrilled with hard play, etc.. Now, we expect blowouts, etc.
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I think part of it is that I wish the Big Ten were better. Let's be fair. It's an awful conference. There's no competition out there. And the games really shouldn't be close. It's frustrating to know that this team will only play one, maybe two, more tourney teams this season. | |
