Open Thread: Louisville at Villanova

Monkeys typing in…..26 minutes.

Let’s Get This One!!

Roz

Let’s do this.

Got to play with the intensity of the UK game!

…good luck everybody…I’m heading down to my clubhouse to watch the game.

Go Louisville.

….as long as we play the best we can, I think this is a no-lose. If we get blown out by 20, obviously that would suck. But Nova plays us tough (denies the post) and we’ve probably never won in Philly?

Either way, should be a great game.

Black unis. No way we win now.

Even if the layup was sloppy. Go Cards!

There’s Samardo’s first dunk in like 3 weeks! Woot.

Hell of a start.

but….. More evidence that Sosa should only shoot from the key. and twice I’ve seen Earl pull up outside instead of going to the hole where he could have gotten a great ally-oop

Nice throwdown, Samardo!

is that no one honors his outside shot so it’s an automatic double team.

….Nova seems to have no idea how to deal with the zone. Which is weird for a team with 4 guards?

Hey good sosa, maybe take off your jacket, sit down, get comfy, stay awhile? We’ve got HD.

We have Ali.

We win.

That’s not we do.

I like it lol

…frustrating he got stripped.

I’m ok with Delk taking that shot.

Let’s see a replay.

nothing wrong with that foul

Delk not being shy.

But whatever, he would have had an easy two if they didn’t call it.

It helps us alot and it makes my prediction of him being the next Amare Staudemire a little more realistic

is a beast!

….not as good as the first line.

Gonna call that on earl?

drain the 3 right in his face

Mike was talking about

Respek

Losing our lead with theirs in and ours out

Love that they are in the bonus already.

Come on fellas.

Comfy with the big lead… Big lead not comfy with us

Why so weak now? The start was so good. We need another run.

7 turnovers… not good.

Not looking too sharp even with the starters back in

quick time out

I was wondering when it was coming.

Somebody else has to rebound.

and a ton of turnovers and Nova just used an 11-0 run to tie it.

So all things considered, not horrible.

Nova playing good defense.

is a beast

…and passing to Sosa for 3 in the corner = worst situation for our offense?

To see if George Goode can play the four.

I mean, the trigger finger is better than it used to be, but don’t overdo it.

…since you wrote that about someone else rebounding with T-will out he has like 9 rebounds.

he needs to make passes like that more often

while people are posting about two plays ago

susan first came

i am

pulls every shot

t will swished 4 FT’s in a row? i like it

..TJ with the nice block, missed 3 and then Nova dunks…..wish TJ could catch passes on the break, Jerry would have passed it to him.

TJ to the line

had a good 1st half

NO WAY

Swings both ways… we couldn’t have played worse for about 6 or 8 minutes there, but once T-Will came back in and shored up our rebounding, we steadied a little bit and starting making better decisions with the ball. We also got to the line and actually made some free throws. A good half.

if we can get good passes to him deep, one one one, the guy can do it

is absolutely ridiculous.

and digger phelps is most definitely a tool

…earl wasn’t expecting it maybe. Was a dunk.

how they messed up on the stats of samardo like 3 times at halftime?

…and are up 8?

is going to hit one of those threes. they better stop leaving him open

Guess that goes both ways. I’m glad to see Samuels playing strong.

Second half has started. React accordingly.

That was very good to make that shot as it was highly contested.

I need this win.

Nice flush

Not even sure I saw a foul, though…

i hadn’t seen him dunk in about 2 weeks before today

nice theme going

How many times do we see him make that! Nice!

But I’m so glad they haven’t. This isn’t the easily discouraged team that played the first 5 games of the season, and I’m happy.

interesting

Faster

…Clark has missed by not handling SS’s passes.

2nd opportunity we’ve missed bc we cant catch

BS shot by E5

That was wicked!

Just because he made it doesn’t mean I liked it.

And I’m happy about it.

One of those calls made by a ref out of reflex…. guy reached in other guy lost the ball, must have been a foul.

since the alien at the end of Close Encounters.

Dunk it in traffic next time big man!

don’t dribble, just dunk it!!

have a rebound besides T-Will?

….taking over the game.

Nova is getting inside pretty easy on us. They are missing lots of shots but they shouldn’t be able to get the ball inside so easily.

Sloppy couple of minutes.

doesn’t need to get any more fouls today. if he comes out we might not get a rebound for the rest of the game

tight rims

You can’t lower that shoulder

That was a good pass and a good setup, but no 3 point opp.

can’t make free throws

…I was looking forward to Earl’s angry-mean face if he made that shot.

No Card touched that ball.

Getting elbowed in the face is a foul?

either the missed lay-up or the foul.

making me think someone has fouled out every time he gets to do his job?

her’s gotten 1 foul ourt of it

no good

make sure he cant shoot the ball when you foul him

Not good

this is not good.\

….our big men are in it, our guards are not. I thought Big East was other way around?

Two of the calls on T-will were crap.

something with his new sneaker.

we’ve had 3 or 4 good passes like that today

Catch and dunk fast

….fouling the 80% free throw shooter 90 feet from the basket.

Nice creation of offense by McGee.

UK flashback.

Sosa give that ball up to Earl. He’s the point guard.

I forgive him

I normally don’t like Earl taking a 3, but he made it, so I’ll live.

shit

…ouch.

Jerry is certainly off.

Don’t like how this one feels right now.

ever get new music to play during the timeouts?

the downward spiral

And no foul called.

but I’d rather have Sosa in there than McGee

feels the need to run an alert because Georgetown is down by 3 at half.

is gonna have to put the team on his back today

that was a foul on Samardo.

Rewatched it twice on Tivo. Not a chance.

On both ends unfortunately.

Earl was being mugged on that whole possession, both times.

is blowing through timeouts

very weird

Worst possession ending with a made bucket ever?

…..and lots of those have been good, open shots with extra passes, etc.

2 minutes for glory. Need to pull out a win.

Jenning is playing hard on the glass though, thank God.

Like that block.

I might be okay with Will Scott in the game

love it

Looked like one of our inbounds passes.

No thanks T-Will

Sweet gentle Jesus

….no way we score. Need him to miss this first one.

only makes 3’s when were up 20.

that was miserable…fuck

lol

I can’t believe they shot so quickly.

Need a stop.

Here comes a drained 3 at the buzzer or a horrible foul.

I’m nervous

Don’t foul.

Take away the two and give 1 at max

just iced his own shooter. WTF?

I think the announcer said timeout by Villanova. I should know better than to listen to the announcers.

Over the back of Earl is no big deal.

qniqe

thank you Jesus

mr. announcer

Holy shit

did we just win that game?