MBB: NO Way

Calm down bud. Wasn't at all trying to criticize this team. Was making an off-hand comment about the team's seeming propensity to fall short in big close games.

Given the youth, inexperience and height disadvantage they face game in, game out, they are damn good. They haven't been an easy out for anyone this year save for Purdue and early January road games. They nearly gave Kansas their first loss of the year and were fractions of a few bounces away from being off the bubble and a tournament team.

It's just tough to see them come out on the wrong side of so many games, especially in this one when they really had it. Am I upset? Yeah, sure I am. Because it's hard to see a team play so far beyond what everyone's preseason expectations were and still come up so short. So if biting someone's head off on a message board makes you feel better then fine. But I'm not trying to blame anyone on this team and in no way am I saying that I could possibly do what they do. 

Just relax. We're on the same side here.

Novak's actually the best FT shooter on the team.

The ball went to Morris because there were 35 seconds left and we needed a ballhandler to receive the inbounds in case Wisconsin decided to trap before fouling.

I think that's a little overblown.  Not to mention I was talking about FT's.  I'm not talking about regular offense, I'm talking about you know the other team is fouling the first guy to touch it, I want Stu, Novak, or Vogrich to have it. 

RR fought a 3-year, uphill battle and when he got somewhere close to the top, he finally got tripped and fell down to his death.

Tommy Amaker got us to the top of the hill, and then proceeding to go sledding down the other side because there happened to be snow on the ground. Unfortunately, this occured before the end of the season every year with players far more experienced than we have now.

We are going to be good next year. We have every reason to expect it and believe it. That just doesn't make beating expectations only just short of actually winning less frustrating. It only makes it less frustrating than being more than good enough and playing down just enough to screw it up (I'll never forget some of Amaker's faces when he realized it had just slipped away again).

You claim you aren't a troll, yet you dive RIGHT INTO the #1 no-no for this board, as stated on this site under the links at the top by showing that you're not only dense when it comes to analyzing basketball, but enjoy making irrelevant, random political comments in direct contradiction of the standards set for an online community which you clearly have no respect for. I don't know what you do respect, but intelligent thought and societal norms are probably not on your list. Your shit is getting fucking old, and I really REALLY can't wait to get negs back. Child.