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Post by thesuperweasel on Jan 14, 2009 23:56:24 GMT -5
yes! nikita was featured in espn2's college basketball final. theyt opened our coverage with him: they showed both his threes, and his dive for the ball where he collided with rautins.
jason gettin some love from commentators, and omar's highlight too!
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njhoya06
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Post by njhoya06 on Jan 14, 2009 23:59:16 GMT -5
No one's going to mention Jason's onions three to open our scoring in the second half and push the lead from 10 to 13? I honestly thought it was Sapp at first. I tried to start a Jessie Sapp chant after Clark managed a great rebound/basket in the second half. The people around me forgave me due to my drunkenness and my enthusiasm. Clark really was fantastic tonight.
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Post by thesuperweasel on Jan 15, 2009 0:07:05 GMT -5
I tried to start a Jessie Sapp chant after Clark managed a great rebound/basket in the second half. The people around me forgave me due to my drunkenness and my enthusiasm. I know, similar size and the 20/21 numbers. gotta look at the arm length, clark's like stretch freakin armstrong out there
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Hank Scorpio
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Post by Hank Scorpio on Jan 15, 2009 0:12:34 GMT -5
ESPNU is reairing tomorrow at midnight If you get it, the replay is on ESPN360. Is there a back-door/proxy for ESPN360?
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Post by hoyainindia on Jan 15, 2009 0:14:25 GMT -5
I love the tag line on the ESPN highlight video "Georgetown THROWS DOWN Syracuse, 88-74" (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=290140046)
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Post by HfieldHoya08 on Jan 15, 2009 0:20:23 GMT -5
downside of tonight's game: having our "hoyas against domestic violence" sign taken away from me and my friends...
the upside: EVERYTHING ELSE.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Jan 15, 2009 0:23:11 GMT -5
Quick thoughts:
I am beginning to love this team. Like '05-'06 style love.
Andy Rautins, I am very sorry about your knee, but this is God's way of telling you to get a proper haircut.
The O'Brien-Burke team called another good game tonight. Raftery will always be my preferred color guy, but Ms. Burke is pretty good.
I am having visions of Monroe and Sims both starting by March. Speaking of March, it appears to me we'll be a very good basketball team at that point. There will likely be other bumps along the road to the postseason, but I'm very impressed by the young athletes on our team (not to mention the upperclassmen) and am LOVING the way this team is improving and progressing.
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Post by professorhoya on Jan 15, 2009 0:31:41 GMT -5
This team only gets better with each game.
The multi dimensional skilled ballers on this team are too much for anyone to handle. This team has that street cred and swagger that Memphis and KU had last year and the Fab 5, UNLV and Flying Illini had in years past. Greg Monroe is the Ultimate Zone Destroyer.
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lichoya68
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Post by lichoya68 on Jan 15, 2009 0:31:56 GMT -5
AGREE TOLD YOU ABOUT THE YOUNINS IN THE KENNER TOLD YA PRETTY GOOD AND GREAT BY MARCH YUP
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RusskyHoya
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Post by RusskyHoya on Jan 15, 2009 0:41:07 GMT -5
Well, uh, we sure did pick a good game to play COMPLETELY OUT OF OUR MINDS.
57% from three?!!! 59% overall? Most points against a Big East team in JTIII's tenure?! Chris has 0 turnovers? Julian Vaughn with 4 assists?! NIKITA?!?! Seriously???
If you had told me ahead of time that this is how this game would've turned out, I would have thought you crazy. What an amazingly fun game. Can't wait to watch the replay on 360.
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Post by vcjack on Jan 15, 2009 0:41:25 GMT -5
Probably the greatest full half of basketball I've ever seen the Hoyas play, makes up for the hideous first half we had last season in Syracuse. However, I still felt nervous. Hell I'm still not sure that actually happened.
Great job by basically everyone today, Henry showed that Providence was not a fluke and Julian looked very comfortable busting that zone apart. big big win
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Post by professorhoya on Jan 15, 2009 0:45:37 GMT -5
If you had told me ahead of time that this is how this game would've turned out, I would have thought you crazy. What an amazingly fun game. Can't wait to watch the replay on 360. I predicted a 30 point blow out in the Prediction thread. I knew that that Syracuse's Zone would fall apart with the Ultimate Zone Destroyer Greg Monroe playing against them.
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hoyaalf
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Post by hoyaalf on Jan 15, 2009 1:10:42 GMT -5
The Coach made a most elegant observation with all the emotion and flights of rhetoric for which he is so well known.
"Everyone played well and made a contribution."
The man MUST chill out.
Imagine getting 't'-ed up like that. I had just swallowed my olive and missed the foul. Two questions: 1.What happened?; 2. Is it bad to have a toothpick in your throat with an olive on it?
Thanks for any help given.
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Post by Coast2CoastHoya on Jan 15, 2009 1:11:31 GMT -5
Catharsis.
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Post by professorhoya on Jan 15, 2009 1:47:29 GMT -5
The Coach made a most elegant observation with all the emotion and flights of rhetoric for which he is so well known. "Everyone played well and made a contribution." The man MUST chill out. Imagine getting 't'-ed up like that. I had just swallowed my olive and missed the foul. Two questions: 1.What happened?; 2. Is it bad to have a toothpick in your throat with an olive on it? Thanks for any help given. 1. He was upset on the non call when Monroe drove to the basket and blew by two defenders but got hacked in the face on the prior offensive play. 2. No.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 15, 2009 1:54:20 GMT -5
I found this post on one of the Syracuse boards tonight and thought some of the oldtimers might appreciate it (I have no idea if the '79 reference is accurate):
"Nikita Mescheriakov, who hadn’t played a minute in three weeks, (he’s only played against Jacksonville, Drexel, Maryland, American U., Savannah State, Mount St. Mary’s and Florida International), and was 2 for 9 shooting on the season, came in, hit two three in two minutes and triggered a 14 point Hoya run that won the game. I couldn’t help but think of Jeff Bullis, the little used reserve from the 1979 Hoya team who was put into the Syracuse game late due to foul trouble. Jeff was hitting 29% form the line. We were behind so we kept fouling him. He made 13 for 15 and the Hoyas won that night, too. "
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Post by DanMcQ on Jan 15, 2009 2:38:29 GMT -5
the Hoyas won that night, too. Get used to it baby. www.hoyabasketball.com/rosters/alltime-b.htm#jeffbullisCan't remember if that game happened (HoyaChris will know), but I do remember Jeff telling me how much fun it was leaning out the window of the team bus as it pulled away from Manley Field House and asking the fans who won the game. Great energy by the crowd tonight. Let me confirm that, yet again, Jack's favorite referee Karl Hess remains completely clueless. Hoyas outrebounded SU in the first half when it really counted. SU gains some of its rebounding advantage by parking their frontcourt in the lane - three seconds could have been called on nearly every play. Jonny Flynn is going to get knocked on his keister one of these days since he mugs for the camera and shows up the opponent almost as much as some of the UCon players. Great offensive attacking game by the Hoyas tonight. Very very nice to see Austin's stroke return. Difficult to single out any one player when all contributed a lot to the win. DaJuan's dunk was number 3 of ESPN's top 10 plays tonight (and Hess predictably called the ridiculous T on him).
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Post by chep3 on Jan 15, 2009 2:52:39 GMT -5
I love beating them, let alone crushing them. Forgive me if I say anything stupid because I'm drunk off the win and off of other stuff. But I love love loved the intensity of the team today. I know all of us fans hate Cuse. But today it felt like the guys really felt how awful it would be to lose to them and decided that wasn't an option.
Bench was phenomenal. Jason is a player pure and simple. Henry is developing every minute. And the way that they have been playing, I think, is infecting the rest of the bench. Julian was more aggressive tonight than he has been all year. And I don't know what coach saw in Nikita in practice that told him he was going to contribute tonight, but that was an unbelievable substitution. When those shots dropped, the crowd went nuts and we took over. Those 2 3s and Henry's rejection of Devo were my favorite of the whole host of plays the bench made tonight.
And I am loving Dajuan's game this year. He's so much more comfortable letting the game come to him. I knew he was scoring, but I had no idea he had 21. He scores so effortlessly. His midrange jumper is great and he gets to the line. He is just great this year.
I've never seen us look so good against a zone in quite awhile. Greg is kryptonite to zone. And he and Henry paired together are such a tough matchup for other teams.
This was a great great win. I hope we take down Duke, it would be great. But my week was made tonight.
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Post by seaweed on Jan 15, 2009 2:58:10 GMT -5
How do you spell "MWWHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA"
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Post by AvantGuardHoya on Jan 15, 2009 5:33:30 GMT -5
Great job by basically everyone today, Henry showed that Providence was not a fluke and Julian looked very comfortable busting that zone apart. big big win Are you sure that happened? 'Cause I can't recall a JT III team shredding a 2/3 zone. EVER. In fact I'm certain of it. I remember reading countless times -- on this board -- how we still hadn't learned how to attack that particular zone. 'Cuse musta been in its new fangled man to man!
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