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02-18-2020, 05:25 PM #231
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02-18-2020, 05:36 PM #232
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02-18-2020, 07:07 PM #233"I’m willing to sacrifice everything for this team. I’m going to dive for every loose ball, close out harder on every shot, block out for every rebound. I’m going to play harder than I’ve ever played. And I need you all to follow me." -MB '17
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02-18-2020, 08:20 PM #234
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I was also at the game. The guy in the front row behind our basket in second half in St John Student section was a former St John's player. While it did rev Naji up, I thought he was trying to do too much. Every time he touched the ball the crowd was booing loudly. Very much reminiscent of JP at Seton Hall when he drove the Lobsters crazy.
Also I was sitting pretty close when Tyrique jacked up ZFree. What great teammates!
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02-18-2020, 10:24 PM #235
I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure that was Mo Harkless. Noticed him get in Najis face a few times and I know they showed Harkless on the big screen at the game on the court. Couldn't tell where he was sitting though.
Tu Holloway was also at the game as wellLast edited by SemajParlor; 02-18-2020 at 10:29 PM.
Run the table.
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02-18-2020, 10:44 PM #236
Thanks dash.
You nailed my frustration. Yes, SJ plays fast and does a nice job of being disruptive... and I loved how our guys played at the end, but our players just didn’t look like they were taking the game seriously at times. I think we all could live with a few extra TOs but there were simply far too many inexcusable ones.
Really proud of the freshmen, though. Stepping up big time in MSG. Good to see them feeling comfortable in the venue they will be returning again for the BE tournament.Last edited by IM4X; 02-18-2020 at 11:20 PM.
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02-18-2020, 11:17 PM #237
Take away about 5 of the worst TOs out of the 22 they had, and take away a few times where they didn’t hustle back on defense and I probably would have been okay with the other issues. It’s not the team missing a few extra shots or the ball bouncing the wrong way kind of stuff that gets to me. It’s watching X retain X players make more than a handful of really lazy passes that lead to easy TOs and it’s watching easy buckets scored by the opponent simply because an X player was too lazy to hustle back on defense that drives me nuts (as I know it does Steele) because that’s like giving a game away.
I’m in complete agreement with you about Freemantle and Kyky. They played fearlessly and delivered when we needed them. So happy for Zach that he had such a good game just across the river from his hometown -he probably had a big group of family and friends at the game. Zach and Kyky looked like upperclassmen out there last night. A very promising sign for the future, including the upcoming BE tournament back at MSG.
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02-19-2020, 02:19 AM #238
Oh yeah, I definitely agree with that point, we do some mind-numbingly dumb things at very inopportune times as well. We shouldn't have 22 turnovers, that's just sloppy and terrible, and I agree with the points about Naji jawing too much and not getting back. It's frustrating to watch as a fan, and I'm sure Steele hates it as well, I was just simply trying to make sense of the performance. I'm glad we won, it's not a recipe for success, but we won, and right now that's all we gotta continue to do.
Definitely looked like upperclassmen, it's been fun to watch them grow over the course of the season, if our recruiting stays at this type of level and players develop how these two are, we can definitely knock down the door to a Final 4. I'm excited to see them in the Big East Tournament as well, some players shrink under bright lights, and those two did not at all. Hopefully they continue to develop, but it definitely makes me slightly less worried moving forward.
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02-19-2020, 09:29 AM #239"I Got CHAMPIONS in that Lockerroom!" -Stanley Burrell
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02-19-2020, 10:07 AM #240
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