MBB: NO Way
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:24 PM ^
Yeah, that died when I killed what he was responding to.
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:30 PM ^
They also took advantage of a lack of boxing out (9 offensive rebounds and 8 second-chance points), poor free throw shooting, and scored 18 points off 11 Michigan turnovers. Michigan allowed Wisconsin to even have a chance.
Do your jobs, boys, and there is no chance for Wisconsin. Oh, and a shot clock violation and turnover down the stretch by Michigan also led to the opportunity.
Pointing out the obvious.
By the way, most of you are too young to remember Bo after tough losses, but he would ALWAYS point out what Michigan did wrong to lead to a loss. Here, however, factual criticism is noit allowed.
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:58 PM ^
It's pointless to analyze a game like this. Did you even watch it? It was back and forth the entire game. The rebounding margin was only 5.
If that banked three would not have went in and we are Wisco fans we'd be bitching about how terrible we shot (Wisco shot 36%) and how we were unable to outrebound Michigan by more.
It's pointless to find things to complain about in a game where both teams played their hearts out only for it to end on a fluke.
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:23 PM ^
Argh, are you kidding me? Can't we just as easily say 9 offensive rebounds, 8 second-chance points, 18 points off Michigan turnovers, and an 0-6 run on free throws is the kind of thing a tournament team overcomes?
A last-second 3-pointer goes in off the backboard, otherwise this is a 2-point victory in the house of No. 12. Wisconsin is a "good" team and they needed a miracle 3 to win at home [Ed-Myself: I'm an idiot] against Michigan. And they're one of the best teams in the best conference in the country.
I appreciate that you want to dissect the game, but if the difference between an NIT and a tournament team comes down to a last-second three-pointer, going over every nano-negative for Michigan this year just obfuscates the reality that we were a team "on the bubble" in any sense of the word.
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:29 PM ^
FTR, this was at Chrisler.
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:35 PM ^
Arena was a quarter empty, which shows you how little people within a 100 mile radius of Ann Arbor care about this year's Michigan team. Prior to the game, people were talking about a near sellout. Not close. Disappointing.
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:59 PM ^
Dude, GTFO.
Crisler was not a quarter empty. Just leave.
February 23rd, 2011 at 10:07 PM ^
"His Dudeness" retired from the interwebz today. I don't think there's any way we'd be lucky enough to have this jackwagon retire on the same day.
February 23rd, 2011 at 10:45 PM ^
Okay, well that'll teach me to talk about a game I just saw highlights of.
I submit that anything I have to say is useless on this subject and FML
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:32 PM ^
would WIN one of these games. ONE. This team hasn't done that. A close loss is a loss. And that is all that counts. Losses get you to the NIT.
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:42 PM ^
All those people behind the FUCKING STUPID BACKBOARD GODDAMMIT were wearing maize, and were sad. (The game was at Crisler.)
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:01 PM ^
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU WISCONSIN!!!!!
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:05 PM ^
I'm almost as disappointed now as I was when Jim Joyce blew Galaraga's perfect game.
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:46 PM ^
I couldn't quite place the feeling. You described it perfectly. Just like feeling very bad for someone else because what happened wasn't just.
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:07 PM ^
This game is going to beat us more than once. No doubt about it.
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:26 PM ^
This is the type of thing that can break a teams spirit. I hope it doesn't happen to them.
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:11 PM ^
That hurt to lose like that. Even more, my wife is a badger and simply put her arm up at the buzzer. Meanwhile, my 4 year old was still shouting "go blue!" after the buzzer not understanding what happened.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:20 PM ^
I live here in the middle of Ohio, and have been hearing shit since that lucky shot went it. Kill me now.
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:18 PM ^
My only response to this is....
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February 23rd, 2011 at 9:25 PM ^
The most unbelievably lucky shot ever. How the hell does it bank in like that? I was catatonic for ten minutes. Luckily my three month old daughter started crying to be fed and snapped me out of it.
Bad things happen, but why do they have to happen to these guys so often? Those poor kids have to be absolutely sick knowing the opportunity that they came so close to tonight.
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:36 PM ^
is terrible. Time after time he makes bad plays.
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:43 PM ^
Might want to consider retracting that statement. Douglass can be frustrating some nights with shot selection/execution. He's also lights out sometimes and is generally a useful role player.
Why did my post get deleted/edited?
Getting personal on college athletes usually results in a deletion, and virtually always when it's a Michigan player in question. Threads that invite flaming also get deleted. Threads with misleading titles designed to scare the crap out of readers before they click will either be deleted or edited so that their titles reflect their contents.
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:55 PM ^
Stu made the percentage play - double the superstar and force him to give it to the unproven frosh.
February 23rd, 2011 at 9:54 PM ^
You get to 9-9, 19-12, I'll lay money they are in. Minnesota is very beatable.
February 23rd, 2011 at 10:06 PM ^
Unbelievable. Stunning. A horrific loss. Shot ourselves in the face, survived it, then died in our own feces. Unbelievable.
I just... I don't know. I mean.... we should have won that game. Our team is pretty good but oh my god do we do stupid shit sometimes. Darius at the end of that game... not even the missed FTs, though I question throwing it to him in that situation because he's not a terribly good shooter... but the turnovers... he did have a good bucket, the kid's talented, we'll grow from this but jesus was this the opposite of Morgan in the last game...
I don't know. Unbelievable. Stunned.
February 23rd, 2011 at 10:08 PM ^
Can I at least get some video highlights? BTN sucks. ESPN sucks. Help a brother out.
February 24th, 2011 at 9:44 AM ^
Masochist
February 23rd, 2011 at 10:13 PM ^
I almost punched my tv. Not even because I was going into a rage....but because it was just my reaction that I had no control over. I was quietly sitting there, he shot it, it went in ...and my first reaction was to just hit the tv.
Luckily I didn't, I would have regretted it.
February 23rd, 2011 at 10:21 PM ^
I haven't felt this depressed about an event I didn't witness since Charles Manson's mother conceived.
February 23rd, 2011 at 10:24 PM ^
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February 24th, 2011 at 11:46 AM ^
I've never wanted to set someone on fire more than I do RIGHT now. For them, I hope their bus is back in Madison.
Sonsabitches.