This is not true in last min and a half. He may have been doubled, barely. Found wide open Cooper who bricked it. My point about Cooper is in previous possession he airballled on the set play off the inbounds. Legs are tired from playing mediocre defense. Look for Bailey who is a more elite athlete and in shape.
Bona isn't very good this year (just lost to Rhode Island) and Saint Louis is very good but Chafitz isn't in the top 5 for toughest road games in A10 IMO. game was ripe for the taking and we choked down the stretch, can't blame that on toughest places to play or the refs like our fans seem to be doing. If anything the fans were heavily helpful to us that game
Stat caught by another Mason fan.....
). The reality is we all went into this game sans Bailey thinking a lot had to go right on our end and wrong on their end to steal this one on the road.
That might be why I used the word "historically"
That's gotta be a lack of focus thing...it's hard to comprehend.
historically Saint Louis isn't a toughest three road arena... so historically doesn't matter
We're so mind-numbingly bad at FT's that I almost suspect there's an overemphasis being put on them in practice and the guys are in their own head and nervous during games. There's zero chance KE doesn't have them working on it but at this point a sports psychologist is probably more helpful than anything they do in practice.
I had us losing by like 8 so while pleasantly surprised at the first 38 mins of play all of that washes away for me when watching and then re-watching the last two mins which were an absolute abomination to winning basketball. That too is a part of fandomThe beauty of sports and being a sports fan is how perspective matters. I just went back and looked at the predictions before the game started, and there were nine posters who predicted a loss and only two who said definitively they thought we would win (and one was Brian, so that barely counts
Where the formula changed dramatically is we played well enough and they shit the bed enough for us to actually believe we had a chance to move this would-be loss over to the win column. Had we not watched the game and saw we lost by 1, we all likely would have been ecstatic with the outcome; but, because we lost it in the fashion we lost it — snatching defeat from the jaws of victory — it stings that much more.
And if the last 2 minutes were like the first 38, my reaction would have been "Well, I'll be damned. We have improved and our best player played like an all A-10 guy. 3-1 and let's go!!!"The beauty of sports and being a sports fan is how perspective matters. I just went back and looked at the predictions before the game started, and there were nine posters who predicted a loss and only two who said definitively they thought we would win (and one was Brian, so that barely counts
Where the formula changed dramatically is we played well enough and they shit the bed enough for us to actually believe we had a chance to move this would-be loss over to the win column. Had we not watched the game and saw we lost by 1, we all likely would have been ecstatic with the outcome; but, because we lost it in the fashion we lost it — snatching defeat from the jaws of victory — it stings that much more.
As usual, Tom is making too much sense. However, as much as I was personally pessimistic about the game going in, I thought the way the guys played for most of the second half was enough that we were going to be able to take it. I knew SLU would make some sort of run, but I thought we would have enough to fight them off, and make a key rebound or stop since we've been down this road of "blowing leads on the road".The beauty of sports and being a sports fan is how perspective matters. I just went back and looked at the predictions before the game started, and there were nine posters who predicted a loss and only two who said definitively they thought we would win (and one was Brian, so that barely counts
Where the formula changed dramatically is we played well enough and they shit the bed enough for us to actually believe we had a chance to move this would-be loss over to the win column. Had we not watched the game and saw we lost by 1, we all likely would have been ecstatic with the outcome; but, because we lost it in the fashion we lost it — snatching defeat from the jaws of victory — it stings that much more.
doesn't matter if we were killing it, we were up on a consensus top 2 A10 team away. Polite hit two big threes in a row, Saint Louis had their coach ejected and we were in complete control with 8 mins left. We weren't playing like the Jordan Bulls but we were beating a team much better than us (IMO). you aren't a downer but I can't blame anyone for overhyping any time we are beating a team that should be a lot better than us.
Wasn't what I was thinking. I was thinking "holy crap we have a chance to actually win this and I won't feel like I got punched in the nuts".
Perfectly echoes my thoughts/frustrations.
No of course I don't begrudge anyone at being hyped for the possibility of a win. What I'm saying is it isn't like we were lighting the world on fire and then with two mins decided "we are the worst team to ever play the game." I'm just saying the first 38 didn't make me feel any better going forward in our season than I felt going into the game. I was just pleasantly surprised SLU was also having an off night and we had a chance to win.
I had a lot of the same thoughts, along the lines of thinking that SLU was playing poorly and allowing us to stay in the game - but I was also aware that I have no real expertise to determine whether that was due to our play or theirs. So I just enjoyed the ride until about 1.7 seconds left, bitterly from my couch.
