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    Xavier v. Villanova (January 10, 2017) Big East Game #4

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    "He's a little bit ball-dominant, he needs to have the ball in his hands, and he's not a good shooter." Ball-dominant … isn't that a nice way of calling someone a ball hog? Where is my Jay Bilas Thesaurus?

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    Johnson and Raftery on the call.
    ...he went up late, and I was already up there.

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    Been looking forward to this game for a while now. Regardless of rankings and how the season has gone so far, I still think X and Nova are the 2 best teams in this conference when at their best. I think there's a mutual level of respect among the players from both these teams that maybe you don't see in the rest of the conference. Ed/Tre and Hart/Brunson,etc were all at the same camps all summer long and know each other pretty well. Just purely from a college basketball fan, this is when the big boys come to play and I can't wait to see it

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    Big East title on the line. Win this one and we've got a real shot.

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    We are playing pretty well right now......

    I think if we can contain Brunson and limit him to a marginal game we have a chance.

    I think Hart is going to do what he does.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bleedXblue View Post
    We are playing pretty well right now......

    I think if we can contain Brunson and limit him to a marginal game we have a chance.

    I think Hart is going to do what he does.
    Not to mention mention Jenkins too. Hopefully Ed's length can cause some problems on Brunson. Malcolm and Tre are going to be the 2 guarding Hart and Jenkins. Question becomes, if you were Mack, which one specifically would you put on who

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    Obviously I have no idea how this turns out, but I feel much, much better about this game than I would have just a few weeks ago. This team seems to be making very real progress.

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    Xavier v. Villanova (January 10, 2017) Big East Game #4

    Quote Originally Posted by xufan2434 View Post
    Not to mention mention Jenkins too. Hopefully Ed's length can cause some problems on Brunson. Malcolm and Tre are going to be the 2 guarding Hart and Jenkins. Question becomes, if you were Mack, which one specifically would you put on who
    Malcolm on Hart, Trevon on Jenkins, no question. Jenkins is having a great year but Hart is on a whole different level. You want the guy who is probably our best defender on Hart. Also, in terms of play style, they just match up better that way. Trevon might guard Hart sometimes, but I doubt it is when Malcolm or Kaiser are on the court outside of a switch off a screen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xu82 View Post
    Obviously I have no idea how this turns out, but I feel much, much better about this game than I would have just a few weeks ago. This team seems to be making very real progress.
    To your point, it's really impossible to tell. We've looked really good at home against some relatively shitty teams. That's certainly a good thing. But our last outing on the road, while a win, was still nothing to write home about. We really have not played what I would consider a high quality game on the road yet (though hanging with #1 Baylor for 25-30 minutes was pretty impressive in retrospect....let's just not talk about the last 10-15 minutes!).

    It's definitely going to take a much, much better effort than we've seen out of this group on the road so far to have a shot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GoMuskies View Post
    To your point, it's really impossible to tell. We've looked really good at home against some relatively shitty teams. That's certainly a good thing. But our last outing on the road, while a win, was still nothing to write home about. We really have not played what I would consider a high quality game on the road yet (though hanging with #1 Baylor for 25-30 minutes was pretty impressive in retrospect....let's just not talk about the last 10-15 minutes!).

    It's definitely going to take a much, much better effort than we've seen out of this group on the road so far to have a shot.
    Agreed.......Villanova is one tough team and even when they are down, you have to remain 100% focused at the task at hand and not get rattled. It will be interesting to see if we can stick with our game plan, take care of the ball and knock down some clutch shots.

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