Xavier vs. St. John's Game Thread - Big East Tournament Quarterfinal (March 8, 2018)

Thrilled overall, obviously. But I was a bit disappointed with the lack of scoring on the inside for most of the game (I.e. the infamous 3 headed monster). Mainly because I thought that would be the key to the game. Shows you what I know.

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Originally Posted by xu82

On the bright side, we will soon see teams who don’t have as much experience when we pull our 1-3-1 out of the bag. Every little trick helps.

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Didn't we like rarely use this though? Not sure how effective Scruggs/Naji/Kanter would be in it given we used it a fraction as much as we have the last two seasons.

https://nypost.com/2018/03/08/its-de...e-great-again/

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Originally Posted by markchal

Didn't we like rarely use this though? Not sure how effective Scruggs/Naji/Kanter would be in it given we used it a fraction as much as we have the last two seasons.

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I think part of why we rarely used it is BE teams knew it too well. I bet it comes out a bit in the NCAA Dance where’s it takes an adjustment. Naji is the new long and pesky JP at the top going forward, I’d bet.

J.P. Macura was On Deem all around. Moment - get leveled in paint then casually roll out to arc to drill a 3.

Nice to see March Trevon in the second half.

Hope that was the opening act of March Kai$$$er.

Hope O'Mara got the shanks out of his system.

Chris Paul is jealous of the Shruggs fastbreak pass to Q.

Kanter's bank shot was the best shot ever.

I will take 10 more of those Q jams every game.

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Originally Posted by American X

J.P. Macura was On Deem.

Nice to see March Trevon in the second half.

Hope that was the opening act of March Kai$$$er.

Hope O'Mara got the shanks out of his system.

Chris Paul is jealous of the Shruggs fastbreak pass to Q.

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Now if Naji can channel his inner February, this team is unstoppable.

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Originally Posted by whopper

I was expecting St Johns to have a home court advantage but the cheers and visuals(X Sweatshirts, Jackets, Hats ) were probably 10-1 over St Johns. St Johns is a commuter school but has an NYC pedigree even thought X is 700 miles today hands down was the crowd favorite. It may be different against Providence but I bet we are at least at that level

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The place was full of St. John’s fans for the Georgetown game. My guess is many of them had to work or didn’t love the prospects against the #1 seed.


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they knew an ass whooping was coming...

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Originally Posted by Muskie

The place was full of St. John’s fans for the Georgetown game. My guess is many of them had to work or didn’t love the prospects against the #1 seed.

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That'd be surprising considering how well they played Xavier in the two regular season matchups

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Originally Posted by American X

I will take 10 more of those Q jams every game.

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Man is it ever nice to have big strong guards like that. Running 6'3" and 6'4" guys out there who can dunk on a blow-by and rebound is necessary to play in the Big East.

I for one am looking forward to our Paul Scruggs/Quentin Goodin overlords next year (not that I'm looking ahead)