Open Thread: Louisville at South Florida
by Mike Rutherford on Jan 7, 2009 6:43 PM EST
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PrintLouisville Cardinals at South Florida Bulls, Jan 7, 2009 7:00 PM EST
For a team that has struggled mightily away from Freedom Hall and for a program yet to taste victory in a Big East opener, being in Tampa tonight is about all you can ask for.
Go Cards.
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Very much so
I want to see Earl or T-Will do that again… instead of seeing Earl have his shot returned to sender. Ugh.
Lotta blocks...
…with no fouls.
But SS backs someone up and he gets the offensive foul called, DC style.
I'm afraid...
….Clark won’t take another shot inside 5 feet tonight. Seriously USF has like 9 blocks already.
If Earl can't jump higher than guys t USF....
… he’s going to have a hard time getting his shot off in the NBA.
Wow!!!
Terrance Jennings, Earl Clark and Reggie Delk! What a play!!! I love seeing those two guys get some time to get a chance to make a difference.
Also I love that Clark tried to slam it one handed after stealing it. He missed but that was an awesome try and he just needs to keep doing that.
REBOUND
Getting killed on the boards against USF, even if only for a couple of minutes, is not a good sign.
this half
has been uninspired. i don’t know how we haven’t shot a free throw. at least they can’t make theirs. this seems like it’s going to be a blah 15 point win.
FINALLY
One of our guys pulls a Deiner….i.e., shot-fake the 3, get the guy in the air and jump so you draw the contact.
Of course, Delk’s arm gets hacked and the ref doesn’t call it.
For some reason the last 2 minutes of the first half we let teams sneak back in. Not bad for not having T-Will most of the half and Samardo continuing his descent back to earth. I think Cardscott is right….this is going to be an ugly second half but we should pull away.
Damn, I forgot it was an early game. I just tuned in.
Obviously, from the comments, we are not doing too well against an average team…
Meh..
..T-will got two quick fouls and delk played like 16 minutes of the half. The refs are acting bizarre, USF has 13 free throws, we have zero. SS got 2 fouls also. Jennings played well in relief, and Delk has played well too. USF had like 9 blocks in the first five minutes, no fouls called, and we were up 13 with about 4 minutes left in the half, then did our normal end-of-half thing where we let them back in. During that run we took a couple 3’s (although one of those, Delk got HACKED and they didn’t call it) and turned it over.
Sosa has looked good, confident, quick, etc. Took one questionable three but it was late in the shot clock. We also had a possession we got like 5 shots and missed all of them.
Sosa
is looking really good. He seems to have turned the corner.
"You win some, You lose some but you never stop trying to do your best" Denny Crum
Jennings
is very active. We need his shot blocking.
"You win some, You lose some but you never stop trying to do your best" Denny Crum
Smith
with the passes. Nice
"You win some, You lose some but you never stop trying to do your best" Denny Crum
Exhausting...
…what a pace. That was three minute of up, down, back, forth, etc. If Jerry had hit that three on the break when T-will found him in the corner I may have overreacted embarrassingly.
Anyway, during that back and forth Elmore was blathering on about entourages or whatever. Like he wasn’t even watching our game. Can you imagine Gus Johnson during those three minutes?
You can hear Rick yelling...
….I swear he yelled “JERRY” even though jerry’s on the bench.
See, Delk, THAT’S how you draw the foul on the 3. You’ve gotta actually fall down. Just a little pulling down on the forearm is not enough.
Two FT's not Three
His foot is over the line
"You win some, You lose some but you never stop trying to do your best" Denny Crum
man...
that little break had a LOT of t-will potential…
too bad
who was that?!
that is not the edgar sosa I expect to show up!
i know...and no stupid taunting or chest pounding afterwards?
what REALLY would have floored me though is if he dished it off to the trailing Smith…
I could concur...
do you play Settlers of Cataan?
Well...
….nice combination: refs have decided to even up the fouls and USF has decided they are exhausted and aren’t going to run that much on defense anymore.
i guess
that is what happens when one can see the firm possibility of a pink slip
not that
I am aware of.
On a related note… Super Mario Bros. (the original) is no longer the Number one selling game of all time. It has been replaced by Wii sports.
mike...
were you at trinity with Chris Sohl?
'Twas
By all reports, the ’03 AP class was one for the ages.
by Mike Rutherford on Jan 7, 2009 8:47 PM EST up reply actions
he's a good guy
did you know Matt Howard? He was in the ’02 class.
Not ringing a bell
Or anything else that rings.
by Mike Rutherford on Jan 7, 2009 8:50 PM EST up reply actions
As long as he makes his foul shots and we still win by 20
I really don’t care. I just want to see a solid road win in the Big East, and that’s what this is.
samardo
just got blocked by a guy i’ve never heard of. he’s probably gonna want to avoid that move against uconn
Having seen the way he's played and the way Jennings has played
I think Samuels will be seeing a lot less time than most people expected.
Best team in league?
Hmm….is it UConn? Or is it the current #1 team in America who beat the team that beat UConn by 20.
Also Samardo somehow gets the ball stripped from him by USF’s fourth string small guard on a take to the basket.
I heard that too
Who was he talking to? I also picked out the word “attitude”.
"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."
hahahahahha Pitino
“You gotta pick up your attitude, or you’re gonna deal with me in the locker room.”
Swop was obviously pissed
Because he played terribly, but T-Will went over to him and was all clapping and T-Will happy, and when Swop didn’t respond positively, Williams put his arms out and looked at him like he’d just insulted his mom.
by Mike Rutherford on Jan 7, 2009 9:01 PM EST up reply actions
Swop did...
…have a horrible game, and it has to be frustrating since he’s playing behind a guy who plays 36 minutes a game.
I wish I wouldn’t have switched over to Duke game. Maybe JERB can make an animated GIF of the interaction.
Rick
Wasn’t he saying something like " fix your attitude or you’ll have to deal with me in the locker room"? I was wondering who he was talking to. That was funny to see.
"You win some, You lose some but you never stop trying to do your best" Denny Crum
It wasn't 20 points, but I'll take it
Especially after the pretty good play from Sosa and Jennings. Samuel’s time on the court seems to diminish with each game.
I agree solid win, good showings by Sosa particularly again, and Jennings
and Earl—goes from bewildered last game to overpowering this game. Very inconsistent. but he was great tonight against mediocre defense.
The passing looked a lot better—but again the opposing D wasn’t denying much.
At the Game
I was at the game. Earl looked great. Sosa appeared to have a lot of confidence from the shot, but at times appeared to want to shoot too much. There were a few Bad Edgar moments but he is going in the right direction. The T-Will dunk was great, but from my vantage point all I saw was his back. The last few minutes it appeared that Pitino was trying to get Samuels confidence. There were a ton of UofL fans at the game including Denny Crum and Darrell Griffith.
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