"I'm not surprised. We're a good team."

[luhoopsfan]

I posted elsewhere that everyone should watch the final 2:30 of Doc's press conference last night. Absolutely inspiring and amazing to me. The culture at La Salle has now changed and I believe we are back where we belong and where we were before some missteps led us to exile in the midwest that resulted in us being over matched early on in the A10. This is a program that up until 1993 went to a post season tournament on average almost 2 out of every 4 years (23 post season tournaments in 47 seasons between 1947 and 1993) I included the 69 team that undoubtedly was an NCAA team but was ineligible.

I know times have changed, but we had a tremendous program up until 1993 and there was no arguing it - 1 NIT championship, 1 NIT runner-up, 1 NCAA championship and 1 NCAA runner-up.

I believe we are on the verge of getting back to a level of consistent post season play, and by consistent I mean NIT/NCAA 2 out of every 4 or 5 years.

Listen to Doc's commentary, last night wasn't a miracle, it's what they EXPECT to do. They EXPECT to be good, they ARE good. Good teams win those games. It's business the way Temple does business, the way Xavier does business. It's awesome to hear that this is what the program expects and now we as fans need to EXPECT to win. It's time to destroy the "same old La Salle" because the "Same old La Salle" has an entirely new meaning.

The Big 5 and A10 fans are pissed because they don't have La Salle to kick around any more and we make it that much harder for their team to win and be good. Tell them to piss off because we're back and we're going to stay here.

FIGHT ON EXPLORERS!

[theneumann64]

Does anyone have a link to the Pressers?

[stlexplorer]

Courtesy of: www.philahoops.com/la-salle-54-butler-53-galloways-last-second-shot-sends-explorers-to-a-win/

[theneumann64]

I just watched the whole G presser. Towards the end, when he's talking about the program and he says "The 2 years that always bothered me" it's hilarious that he physically has to start counting back to figure out what years they were, because you know what he really means is "The Aaric Murray years"

[luhoopsfan]

I love the fact that the media guys were kind of playing the angle like this was the crowning achievement in the season and G's career and he actually got kind of pissed off and basically told them that if you're a good program this is anything but a crowning achievement, it's what you do and then move on to the next. I love it.

[JoeFedorowicz]

It was hard not to, but he was definitely trying to get away from that.

~Joe Fedorowicz
Philahoops.com