Post by GUJook97 on Feb 9, 2015 15:45:06 GMT -5
I agree that it's not worth overreacting, but come on, nothing about the box score of that game is going to convince me that we didnt play absolutely atrocious and got our butts kicked. They didnt score a lot of points in the paint because they were too busy raining down wide open 3s and scoring 20+ points off our dumb turnovers.
I think the general overreaction is about, as others said, the fact that we blew a game to Providence, got killed by Nova, and now face a pretty tough road game. I think if we win tomorrow, order will be restored
Appealing to logic might be a lost cause given the above stipulation, but just curious why my point about an abysmal and statistically aberrant shooting percentage from three that appears to explain a great deal of the final margin was interpreted as contradictory to your observation that we "play[ed] absolutely atrocious and got our butts kicked"?
My point is only that the box score doesnt tell very much about a game that was all but over 3-5 minutes into the second half. For example, even the final result (16 points) that you are saying we needed to make up is sort of a fiction because they essentially stop trying to score in the last 2 minutes of the game. It was honestly more like a 20+ point game. Im over it, but I think a lot of that game had to do with how poorly we played. I will give Nova it's due, however.