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Post by angryal on Mar 9, 2013 15:30:37 GMT -5
If you don't think us losing by 28 today isn't going to weigh on them more than losing by 11, you're wrong.
By the way, making 40% of your foul shots (with no one defending you) 13% of your threes (with many of those just REALLY, REALLY bad decisions, not ALL St. Louis' defense), when you're on the BIG STAGE is sh*tting the bed. |
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Post by calsufan on Mar 9, 2013 15:31:12 GMT -5
Did we win 21 games? Cant tell by reading these posts. This board is pathetic not our team This board isn't pathetic. Sure we have some over the top posters sometimes, but I think it's more disappointment about how we played today. The point spread of the loss today will give the selection committee another reason to exclude us. A win Friday will help our cause. Let's hope they win at least one in Brooklyn. |
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Post by victoriouslasalle on Mar 9, 2013 15:32:59 GMT -5
0 for 2 in critical games since the NCAA talk and us being in. 2 thorough ass-lickings as well. I am not really sure how good we are. MIK, didn't you predict this one? I guess the size of the spanking was a surprise? Do we have a front court player that can play at this level of competition? Man I do not think so! Losing does suck! |
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Post by lwc4591 on Mar 9, 2013 15:33:19 GMT -5
#1 we are facing a very good team minus our biggest player (2nd leadig rebounder)
#2 did it occur to many of you how exhausted the team is in the second half playing a man down
#3 team has proven all season how good they are but it seems like many look for excuses to why we don't belong and can't wait until they have a break down.
#4 I actuall ywould enjoy this team much more in the NIT because they probably could win two or three games but it would never happen now bwcause of the letdown of not making the NCAA's
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Post by lasalle89 on Mar 9, 2013 15:33:28 GMT -5
WE MUST WIN A GAME IN THE A 10 TOURNAMENT. Plain and simple. Win and your in.
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Post by lasalle89 on Mar 9, 2013 15:36:01 GMT -5
WE MUST WIN A GAME IN THE A 10 TOURNAMENT. Plain and simple. Win and your in.
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Post by explorer88 on Mar 9, 2013 15:38:09 GMT -5
WE MUST WIN A GAME IN THE A 10 TOURNAMENT. Plain and simple. Win and your in. I am not sure we are in with a win. I think we may need two wins and that is going to be very difficult. |
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Post by lwc4591 on Mar 9, 2013 15:38:32 GMT -5
Yes Mik I did watch the game and they played a pretty solid first half but in the second half I believe exhaustion caught up to them against a very good and deep team. They fell apart in the last eight or nine minutes probably totally out of gas.
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Post by ericmurry on Mar 9, 2013 15:40:17 GMT -5
I agreee. Win the A10. I don't trust the committee. I've seen some great Drexel teams get snubbed.
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Post by explorer88 on Mar 9, 2013 15:41:26 GMT -5
0 for 2 in critical games since the NCAA talk and us being in. 2 thorough ass-lickings as well. I am not really sure how good we are. MIK, didn't you predict this one? I guess the size of the spanking was a surprise? Do we have a front court player that can play at this level of competition? Man I do not think so! Losing does suck! My exact words was SLU would maul us and that is exactly what happened. Everyone kept saying our backcourt was better than theirs and I never thought we had the better backcourt and that was proven today. We lost in every aspect of the game. I was however worse than I thought it would be. |
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Post by explorer88 on Mar 9, 2013 15:42:14 GMT -5
I agreee. Win the A10. I don't trust the committee. I've seen some great Drexel teams get snubbed. No shot. 2 wins would get it done however. |
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Post by theneumann64 on Mar 9, 2013 15:42:47 GMT -5
OK, here it is.
This has been a great year. Exciting, fulfilling, etc. But, most realistic projections have us at the very cusp of the bubble right now. If we don't win Friday, we will probably not get in, or at least be a play-in team.
Since the Butler-VCU week, which was incredibly awesome and the best things I've experienced as a fan of this team, the best team we've beaten is a mediocre St. Joe's team. True, we played a much tougher schedule early on and weathered it, but it's not being pessimistic to say we're in danger of missing the tournament.
My thought on today was that we did not want to be in a position where we had to win it. Thanks to winning the games we should have: we weren't. I would have been fine had the 2nd half played out like the 1st. All I'm saying is a 24 point loss 8 days before the Selection Show is going to have a real impact. If we're bounced Friday, by a lower seed, we won't have much justification to say we were "screwed" if we don't get in.
This team isn't a "joke" and today wasn't an embarrassment. This is the best La Salle team we're likely to see for a while. But that itself is not a guarantee we like what we hear next Sunday at 6:00.
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Post by MisterD on Mar 9, 2013 15:43:41 GMT -5
This game really should have been a "can't hurt, can only help" game (given its on the road against a ranked team without our center) but I imagine it wasn't. By the way, did anyone see that pass Garland threw that one time?
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Post by explorer88 on Mar 9, 2013 15:43:50 GMT -5
Yes Mik I did watch the game and they played a pretty solid first half but in the second half I believe exhaustion caught up to them against a very good and deep team. They fell apart in the last eight or nine minutes probably totally out of gas. They got destroyed. The better team won today and that team would beat us 8 out of 10 games. |
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Post by calsufan on Mar 9, 2013 15:44:41 GMT -5
I agreee. Win the A10. I don't trust the committee. I've seen some great Drexel teams get snubbed. Great? With a SOS of 189 that year and an RPI of 66? Not so great. They beat cupcakes. |
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Post by ltrain38 on Mar 9, 2013 15:48:33 GMT -5
Yes, that team would've beaten with Zack, if we shot better, took better shots, and even if they didn't flop. We weren't ever going to beat them out there. But the way that second half went down, I'm really worried about perception. Need at least one in Brooklyn.
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Post by lwc4591 on Mar 9, 2013 15:48:45 GMT -5
I would be surprised if we could be St. L 1 0f 10 without Zack is is more important than people want ot believe. Maybe 2 of 10 on neutral court
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Post by broadstbeat on Mar 9, 2013 15:50:44 GMT -5
I hate to say it but this loss could cost La Salle their chance at the Tournament. The Explorers could not afford a loss today and the fact that Kentucky beat Florida does not help the Explorers cause. I think La Salle belongs in over Kentucky but I think the selection committee will pay more attention to the name on the front of the jersey than the resume. I think La Salle will have a strong A-10 tournament to still get their bid however. Recap of Tough Loss here: broadstbeat.blogspot.com/2013/03/la-salle-loss-could-cost-explorers.html |
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Post by angryal on Mar 9, 2013 15:50:54 GMT -5
I would HOPE that this team can manage more than one win in the Atlantic 10 Tournament. I would've thought they were built to be better than that. I'm not so sure La Salle can attract more talented players than a group like this one. That would mean that the program is doomed to be nothing more than an "also-ran" every season.
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Post by sawdoctors on Mar 9, 2013 15:53:08 GMT -5
Shit the bed today.Galloway played horrible...need to win two in A-10...is what it is
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Post by theneumann64 on Mar 9, 2013 15:54:48 GMT -5
They win 1 in the A-10 and they should be in.
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Post by ericmurry on Mar 9, 2013 16:00:29 GMT -5
I agreee. Win the A10. I don't trust the committee. I've seen some great Drexel teams get snubbed. Great? With a SOS of 189 that year and an RPI of 66? Not so great. They beat cupcakes. They won like 29 games that year. I am not talking about that team though. I'm talking about the team with Frank Elegar. I believe they had an RPI in the 30s and got snubbed. |
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Post by ericmurry on Mar 9, 2013 16:03:05 GMT -5
If they win the first game in the A10, and get their doors blown off in the Semi's, I could see them getting left out.
Let's not leave it in the hands of the committee. They favor BCS programs.
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Post by ericmurry on Mar 9, 2013 16:05:25 GMT -5
Also, I remember Temple ended the regular season ranked in the top 10 one year and they got the 5 seed.
That's what the committee thinks of the A10.
They are super biased towards BCS programs cause they will sell tickets and add "prestige" to the tournament.
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Post by Gnocchi on Mar 9, 2013 16:06:19 GMT -5
Miss Zack, big-time. Not only for rebounding and to plug the horrible interior D -- a 6'6" guy can't replace a 7-footer -- but because on offense he's the only guy with size who can come up high and pass to guards on the wings for 3s. Without Zack, against any decent D our guards have to beat guys off the dribble and SLU proved how that works. Against VCU with Zack, Galloway had some open 3s vs. being smothered for the most part against SLU.
Win 1 in Brooklyn and we're in; lose and looking at an outside shot at a play-in. Root against Boise St.vs. San Diego St. It could come down to whether the Mountain West or the A-10 get 5 bids. Would be a stunner if both got 5, given the unwarranted BCS cachet.
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Post by lasalle89 on Mar 9, 2013 16:10:47 GMT -5
We get blown out the same with Zack. If we don't win an A 10 tourny game then we don't belong in the dance.
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Post by lwc4591 on Mar 9, 2013 16:23:02 GMT -5
Thank goodness we didn't lose to #25 we may be talking CBI. I will be honest I do not support the NCAA or the tournament in any way because I believe they are so blatantly bias that it makes me want to vomit. I will agree this is the out the tourny shi.mittee was looking for. I was watching a little of Providence and Conn. game and was laughing myself silly listening to the talking heads say how if Prov wins this game they are on the bubble. I hear if Seton Hall wins one game in the big least tourny they will be on the bubble and if UCF can pullout two games they are in. Oh they aren't in the tourny but committee says they still have a chance.
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Post by lwc4591 on Mar 9, 2013 16:29:12 GMT -5
89 according to you Zack is meaningless so maybe he should just take off the rest of season which he may have to do anyway because of injury. I could almost agree with most of you regarding winning one game in tourny but the problem is the very high caliber of teams (St Louis and ?)we have to face probably without are center which is to say a near impossible task.If we get kucky we play X or Mass who are both preety good teams without S.Zack.
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Post by coqui900 on Mar 9, 2013 16:35:13 GMT -5
Zack is one of the team's leaders in +/- according to something I read from Dr. G. That really goes a long way. There's a reason why he gets all those minutes and it's exactly what Gnocchi said -- he passes the ball and sets picks well. I still don't think we'd beat St. Louis playing at home after a loss on senior day. I think they'll go on a REALLY deep run in the tournament.
I'll worry about Selection Sunday on Friday. I need to take a break from college basketball this week and not pay attention to any scores or the like.
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Post by lasallescreamer on Mar 9, 2013 16:36:58 GMT -5
If we had lost a close game, I do not think our chances would have been greatly impacted. With Z;hitting FTsand just by generally playing better, this would haved been a competitive game; maybe an 8-9 point loss to a very good team on their homed court where nobody wins. We have great guards and so does St. L. Prdetty even. But they have big men and we just have JW who has to stay out of fouls. End was sad but almost predictable. Food for thought. 1985-Didn't Nova get blown out at Pitt in last game; get into Dance and win it? Hope I am not confusing Nova blowouts.
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