richfame
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Post by richfame on Mar 13, 2010 23:28:31 GMT -5
Hoops- this title was ours bro. After all we did to get here, this is devestating, coupled with we plyed like crap for many minutes of this game... hard pill to swallow tonight
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sleepy
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Post by sleepy on Mar 13, 2010 23:28:50 GMT -5
that foul by chris... that's a killer. have no idea what happened on that one. great effort by the guys, but some poor execution. im proud to be a hoya tonight, but this one gonna hurt for awhile. The missing of the rebound and the "foul" by Vaughn were much more damaging imo. As well as Monroes lack of boxing out on a few possessions.
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Post by hoyaheaven on Mar 13, 2010 23:29:10 GMT -5
Great Hoya run...great team!!!
And thanx to III...He surely made his bones once and for all.
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OldHoyafan
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Post by OldHoyafan on Mar 13, 2010 23:29:36 GMT -5
Look that was a great game! These Hoyas showed a lot of heart coming back from 9 down after playing 3 games to their 2. WV just plays great defense. They wont face another team with that type of defense in the NCAA.
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dreamhoya
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Post by dreamhoya on Mar 13, 2010 23:29:42 GMT -5
HoyaFanNY: the were tougher tonight. like i said, they had 1 game up on us. think about this...how many times do you see monroe and vaughn try to rebound flatfooted? i'd like to think if this game were yesterday or the day before, we'd be champs. but hindsight is...
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jagtrader
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Post by jagtrader on Mar 13, 2010 23:30:01 GMT -5
I feel bad for Vaughn, who was fouled out on a charge, two off-the-ball plays and a bogus block -- all in about 30 seconds of court time. It just sucks for him.
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Post by Big O on Mar 13, 2010 23:30:29 GMT -5
Guard the guy inbounding the ball.
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richfame
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Post by richfame on Mar 13, 2010 23:30:30 GMT -5
maybe not jobbed but inconsistent. I just didnt want that butler taking the last shot, I told me fiance that he makes lucky shots and there ya go...
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hoyarad
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Post by hoyarad on Mar 13, 2010 23:30:59 GMT -5
After all the crap on the board the last few weeks, can we all just relax and admit this is a good team who had a great season? I'm excited to see what we can do next week.
WVU is good, and we played a bit tired.
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dreamhoya
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Post by dreamhoya on Mar 13, 2010 23:31:05 GMT -5
really? devestating? ....really?
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hoopsmccan
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Post by hoopsmccan on Mar 13, 2010 23:31:36 GMT -5
I hear you, Rich.
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tashoya
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Post by tashoya on Mar 13, 2010 23:32:14 GMT -5
We didn't shoot well. Period. We weren't focusing on offensive rebounding at all in the 1st. Nor do we ever really as a result of looking for the best shot and, typically, shooting really well.
Organic arts... in fact, it WAS a travel. Of course it could have just as easily been a blocking foul on Austin. But if you have one of those new-fangled tivo's or at least marginally decent vision, it was a travel. I don't think it should have been called. I was simply pointing it out.
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prhoya
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Post by prhoya on Mar 13, 2010 23:32:47 GMT -5
IMO the four games caught up to us. WVU looked fresher.
Great run for the Hoyas!
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hoyainspirit
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Post by hoyainspirit on Mar 13, 2010 23:32:54 GMT -5
In the NCAA's we won't have to play four games in four nights.
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TC
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Post by TC on Mar 13, 2010 23:33:20 GMT -5
I don't know how you guys complain so much. This was a fantastic run, hurts having to go up against the best defensive team in the nation in the fourth game in four days.
Freeman and Wright showed so much heart. Rest up and get ready for the tourney.
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Post by arsenalhoya on Mar 13, 2010 23:33:31 GMT -5
Take off your one-sided glasses and you'll see the refs were simply incompetent tonight. Just about every somewhat close call was wrong, for both teams. We could point to a lot of calls that went their way, but there were a few stretches where they can do the exact same thing. I guess if you want to complain about the general quality of the refs that is very warranted, but it didn't cost the game.
We lost because of rebounding. This team didn't box out, and in the lucky event we did get our hands on the ball we took it down weakly, allowed it to be batted around, or just dropped it. That's where the game was lost.
We kept the ball well, we could have made more shots but whatever, had a stretch in the first half with atrocious defense, all that leads to the 2 point loss.
The people trashing WVU are crybabies. They won.
On to the much more important big tournament.
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Post by happyhoya1979 on Mar 13, 2010 23:33:41 GMT -5
I agree with the posts on the officiating. Clearly the Big East wanted to protect the seeding (revenue for the conference) of West Virginia and were going to give them everything they needed on the margins to win. This game was won the first half when Monroe was mugged on every play and we weren't able to get a lead. West Virginia was able to control the rhythm of the game and at the crucial moment-the kick out to Jason for the side open three and the lead-the refs quickly came to WVU's rescue.
I knew that Austin had to hoist a three for us to have any chance on that one posession andhe made it a game.
Within the parameters of how this world runs, we just weren't good enough.
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Post by Frank Black on Mar 13, 2010 23:33:51 GMT -5
really? devestating? ....really? Uh, yeah. Losing the Big East final by two points is bound to be devastating.
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tashoya
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Post by tashoya on Mar 13, 2010 23:33:51 GMT -5
And, not for nothing, Wellington Smith had a phenomenal game. Tonight we needed to shoot well as Smith was all over Greg and we just didn't.
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HoyaFanNY
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Post by HoyaFanNY on Mar 13, 2010 23:34:08 GMT -5
In the NCAA's we won't have to play four games in four nights. and we're not going to run into many teams that are able to take us out of our offens elike wvu did.
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