TheOpenThread: Cincinnati Bearcats at UConn Huskies
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 5:30 PM EST
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Hello there Gampel Pavilion, my old friend, I can't tell you how delighted I am to see you again. Today is January 18, and for the first time since December 9 (!) the Huskies will be playing a basketball game in Storrs, CT. I'm overjoyed, especially because UConn is hosting a dangerous Cincinnati team that seems built to exploit the suddenly shorthanded Huskies.
The Bearcats use a small lineup and aggressive style to force lots of turnovers (they lead the Big East), and as losses to Rutgers and Seton Hall proved, the Huskies can get in a lot of trouble when they don't protect the ball. And those losses came when the Huskies had backup in the backcourt. Ryan Boatright will be out again tonight (thanks NCAA!) which means both Shabazz Napier and Jeremy Lamb will play for the vast majority, if not all of the game tonight against a high pressure attack.
The flip side of that is that UConn should have a real advantage in the front court, especially if Alex Oriakhi is able to play at the level he did against West Virginia and Notre Dame. Bearcat senior forward Yancy Gates might be able to limit one of Oriakhi or Andre Drummond, but not both.
The game tips at 7 on ESPN2 and ESPN3. Make sure to check out our Q&A with Bearcats Blog to find out more about Cincinnati. Please join us in the comments to share your thoughts. Go Huskies.
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I really need to see that above video in GIF form
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Pre-Game
Wasn’t it cute how Cincy thought that if they beat UConn in the NCAA’s that they’d go to the final four? And I thought I was delusional.
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I think Arizona probably wins the title if we didn't beat them
They were scary. Much scarier than Fake Cal and his band of merry cantmakeafreethrowers.
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 6:01 PM EST up reply actions
Kemba Walker's mom
Is at Gampel tonight. She was in South Bend too. That’s a fan. Kemba will reportedly be in the house as well.
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 6:07 PM EST via Android app reply actions
I saw that!!!
Is she a mega fan now? I mean, Kemba had a game the night before he ND matchup in Charlotte. I think it’s awesome though. She’s my favorite fan now!
Hope Calhoun gives her season tix – I like her better than Red! (blasphemy?)
Marching to the beat of a different Drummond
Who Doesn't Like Icecreamcake?
by 1c3creamcake on Jan 18, 2012 6:13 PM EST up reply actions
I thought I saw her behind the bench in South Bend
True Story. I got a picture with her at the hotel after the Title game.
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Enosch Wolf in street clothes
No one on twitter knows why, but this is first game of spring semester so grades wouldn’t shock me.
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 6:31 PM EST via Android app reply actions
It was grades
Kind of. According to Borges he still has two finals to take. He’ll be good to go for Saturday.
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 6:41 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
I really hope those were winter session finals
And not, like, “Oh Enosch decided not to show up to his PHIL 202 final because fuck it.”
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 6:44 PM EST up reply actions
He apparently
Got a concussion right before the tests
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 6:45 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Starters
Napier, Lamb, Oriakhi, Drummond, Daniels
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 6:45 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
34 Years ago
The XL Center collapsed. I think it was a sign.
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 6:38 PM EST via Android app reply actions
True story
The last event there was a UConn basketball game.
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Did they really fill the HCC for UConn before the Big East?
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 7:03 PM EST up reply actions
No
they didn’t even fill it for the first 10 years of the Big East
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 7:05 PM EST up reply actions
True dat
Of course, the team sucked every year, and half the people didn’t want us to go into the Big East to begin with. Shortsightedness in the athletic department isn’t just a recent development.
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The Land of Steady Habits!
Which is a term I only learned when I purchased the official history of the university during spring of my senior year.
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 7:06 PM EST up reply actions
By the laws of Big East gravity
We are totally winning this game. No one (except Syracuse, who will be losing in the Sweet 16 anyhow) can get too far from the middle of the pack.
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Hey Doug Gottlieb!
Can’t wait to be talked down to for two hours.
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Not a great start
I liked the Drummond/Oriakhi high-low they started with (hated AO’s shot though). But the ball movement is bad and we need to get scoring.
Defensive rotation nice early on so far, though
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 7:08 PM EST up reply actions
Shabazz and the pick and roll
Is he incapable of running it correctly or does he simply ignore it?
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I know I’ve seen him do it…just not very often. The confidence in the PnR isn’t there.
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 7:09 PM EST up reply actions
Sloppy-ass shit
BIG EAST BASKETBALL BABY
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After that defense
I think Scoe is coming out.
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Sorry Daniels
I’m watching the game from another room.
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AO
I like that. Do that more.
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WARRIAKHI
Drummond, by the way, just did the MJ push-off-for-a-jumper move, which is just all kinds of awesome for a 7-footer.
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Wasn't that a goaltend?
If so, why was the score still 5-4 Cincy? Did I just have another fugue?
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There we go
Always on the ball
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Roscoe...Deandre...
same guy according to Gottlieb
by CJ17098 on Jan 18, 2012 7:13 PM EST via Android app reply actions
To be fair
It’s tough to tell invisible men apart
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 7:17 PM EST up reply actions
Go Huskies!
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Not much to cheer about yet
Pretty straightforward couple of minutes so far.
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 7:15 PM EST up reply actions
AND ONE
Stupidest of stupid fouls there.
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Thank you, Cashmere
for the stupid foul when Napier was already in the air and ready for the layup.
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?
Show me the NBA scout that says Napier is the best available point guard and I’ll show you a cretin without a job in the NBA.
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 7:17 PM EST up reply actions
Cincy isn't really going four guard are they?
Fearful of our bigs.
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grr three pt line
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no idea where this comment will end up
BRENDAN ALLEN!!
by CJ17098 on Jan 18, 2012 7:19 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
fantastic!
by CJ17098 on Jan 18, 2012 7:22 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
BRENDAN ALLEN?
HUH?
Also, weakest first-half U-C-O-N-N chant ever.
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Brendan Allen?
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I can't wait until the move the 3-point line back to NBA distance
And build a 10 foot high wall around it.
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So, no surprise at all
But we’re doing that thing where other teams hit a bunch of 3s again.
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That'll happen
when Roscoe Smith, who plays best as a 4, has to guard a 2
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 7:22 PM EST up reply actions
Sweet
Video reminder of the NCAA wheel of justice where a plane flight=on court violence
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This this this
Unless your mom’s ex-boyfriend started the fight.
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Is Colin Campbell the disciplinarian for the NCAA now?
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Friggin brawls
More proof that basketball players are terrible fighters. If it weren’t for sucker-punches and yelling “what’s up”, they’d get their ass kicked by any hockey player in the universe.
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Tired legs
It’s that time of year, just before the second wind.
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Kemba Walker nods
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 7:24 PM EST up reply actions
Awesome timing
This post came p as they showed Walker at the game
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Thats what I was thinking
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Giffey is 3 pt gun shy
Not much use if thats the case
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You forgot games like tonight
when he is a POST WARRIOR
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 7:26 PM EST up reply actions
Holy shit Scoe
All that and they didn’t T him up for hanging on the rim. Maybe he apologies like Drummond does.
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hmmm
I hate and love this new stuff we’re seeing.
by defaultroute on Jan 18, 2012 7:27 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
Calhoun
Still getting used to the not taking tons of timeouts after any little thing.
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peach pit
I guess it closed.
by defaultroute on Jan 18, 2012 7:30 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
Murray State: #10 in the country
OK, I get the respect for being undefeated. That’s fine. Do we really think they’re one of the 10 best teams in the country? Are they just gonna keep moving up, into the top five if they keep rolling through their crummy conference?
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Yep
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But does it matter?
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Unlike football
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No
But it bothers me a little because we would smoke them, and it is important to my personal self-esteem that we be ranked higher.
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 7:34 PM EST up reply actions
Haha
Good point
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They'll stall at some point
get an 4 seed, and lose in the opening weekend
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 7:32 PM EST up reply actions
For fucks sake
Our penchant for giving up 1000 threes a game is back in force.
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Cincinnati:
6-for-10 from 3
5-for-9 from 2
Same shit, every game. We’ll be fine (unless Cincy stays this hot for 25 more minutes).
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This happens to us
Wrong guys shooting from the wrong places.
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We gotta hit some shots though
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Yeah
I retract my statement if Oriakhi’s just gonna shoot from the elbow all night.
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 7:34 PM EST up reply actions
his plan allmalong
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We're just out of sorts
And this crowd is positively XL Center-rific.
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I think it's just a UConn crowd thing at this point
It just takes slightly less to get us going at Gampel, because it’s cozier.
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 7:37 PM EST up reply actions
The fans are out of practice
we just need a little run. Get the lil’ German one more basket and we’re off
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 7:37 PM EST up reply actions
this
"...Don't talk black to me. How do you even talk black? End words with izzle..." Modern Family
by kemba walker is my hero... on Jan 18, 2012 7:38 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Still better than Purcell
And yea no students yadda yadda
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this
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by kemba walker is my hero... on Jan 18, 2012 7:38 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
this?
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ooo
Shabazz trying to “lead” and take the game over?
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If Giffey ever scores 20
I’ll never sing “ten German bombers” during German soccer games again. And I LOVE singing it.
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He posted someone up earlier
and took it hard to the hole. Don’t speak too soon.
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 7:40 PM EST up reply actions
TWSS
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 7:41 PM EST up reply actions
Especially since we now
suck at it again
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 7:41 PM EST up reply actions
That was a dumbass foul
probably shouldn’t have been called, but he definitely should not have been in that position
Drummond gets one of those little 30-feet-away reach-in fouls every game it seems like
If he weren’t so awesome at not fouling lately, I’d be frustrated.
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And then next time down the court...
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 7:43 PM EST up reply actions
couldn't possibly
have looked more like a girl doing so either
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Trying to guess where Carl's comments
were supposed to end up is going to be my new favorite live thread game.
I’m assuming this was for the banked 3
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 7:46 PM EST up reply actions
winner winner
chicken dinner
by CJ17098 on Jan 18, 2012 7:50 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Awesome Napier pass
and almost-awesome Drummond pass that went to a turnover…
and now Drummond has 2 fouls.
Duffy on Twitter brings up a good point
Way way way too much finesse from a guy who should just be destroying fools.
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 7:44 PM EST up reply actions
Fucking ridiculous
Not taking care of the ball. At all.
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Certainly is a blueprint to beating us
Let us throw the ball away, hit 3s.
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 7:44 PM EST up reply actions
We were really starting to turn a corner
before those two dumb fouls. Now we’re back to being in a world of suck
The way this half is going...
Be down inside of 10 points is workable.
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Lamb's shot
Does it look funny to anyone else? It’s like he’s falling away on everything and getting off-balance. This, of course, coming from a 5’10" fat guy with a 2" vertical leap.
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Terrible, terrible, terrible shot from Lamb
Maybe he was trying a 2-for-1 deal and just wasn’t aware of exactly how much time was left, but man. That’s a goddamn four-point swing.
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Dear Gif-Eye
Instead of slapping the ball away, try REBOUNDING IT!! It’s not a Hail Mary pass for fucks sake.
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Pittsburgh, of course, still believes that the sun revolves around the earth.
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 7:51 PM EST up reply actions
OK, so here's where I do the optimism thing
We’re going to be fine. Cincinnati isn’t going to make 50% of their 3s in the second half. They won’t outwork a team with Jim Calhoun’s shoe up its ass. And Andre Drummond will do beastly things in the second half, and we will win this game in front of the screaming, adoring crowds of New England’s #1 Public University.
/probably
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Cincinnati will not start 5-1 in the Big East
I think it’s in the bylaws
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 7:57 PM EST up reply actions
Someone alert me to the beginning of the second half
I’m off to watch hockey.
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It makes me puke
For some reason, every cold and/or flu medicine makes me puke. Don’t understand why. So I pretty much have to vitamin C the fuck out of it and hold on.
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Oh man im so sorry to hear that.
Found out today that dairy promotes congestion when you have a cold. Had ice cream last night. Such a long day.
Interesting
And good to know, because I have this terrible flu now.
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 8:05 PM EST up reply actions
I'm incredibly frustrated by that two foul Drummond sequence
if we could erase that I bet UConn’s up at the half.
And Monk, we’re back in about one minute.
FCMONK!!! START OF THE SECOND!!!
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by derbyguy on Jan 18, 2012 8:05 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Second half underway
Cincinnati already making wacky-ass shots. Stupid game.
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I wonder if Shabazz ever had one of those
“take care of an egg like it’s a baby” homework assignments when he was in middle school. I’d be shocked if he made it out of the classroom egg intact.
Though to be fair he probably put on an awesome juggling show
before shattering it
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 8:07 PM EST up reply actions
Ugh, Lamb
Gotta stop rushing those fast-break 3s.
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I noticed too
It’s like he’s falling away on everything.
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Of course the foul downlow
would cancel out Olander’s shot.
On the plus side, Cincy isn’t going to have players soon
I would really like it if we just started rolling them underneath
Don’t know if we’re consistent enough to dhat, though.
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On the list of things
I didnt think I’d hear Doug Gottlieb say tonight, “Giffey makes them pay”, was right up there with “here let me break this down in an uncondescending fashion”
by CJ17098 on Jan 18, 2012 8:15 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
NIELS GIFFEY
DOES NOT LIKE FCMONK’S SINGING VOICE
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 8:11 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Not to mention
You have to be shirtless when you sing it. And preferably fair skinned.
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O?
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 8:13 PM EST up reply actions
We're the XL Center of Internet cheers
we’d never make it at The Boneyard
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 8:14 PM EST up reply actions
I take that as a compliment
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Because...
I frequent a lot of message boards, some of them pretty unbearable at times (read a poker forum sometime.) but the Boneyard just kills me.
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Do they do open threads?
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They do have game threads, yes
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 8:16 PM EST up reply actions
How do I get the ability to post there?
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Nvm
I can now. I guess there is a waiting period thats why I couldnt before
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CROWD'S INTO IT NOW
OH I JUST TURNED MY VOLUME UP TO 40 IN THIS BEYOTCH SORRY MOM AND DAD
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Just like that.
The good thing about us is that we can score a lot of points in a short amount of time.
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My halftime project: UConn and the three pointer this year
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Someone who took STAT 101 will have to tell me if that is significant
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 8:18 PM EST up reply actions
Season average is the opponents
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And now we're getting ticky-tack fouls called our way, too
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 8:19 PM EST up reply actions
WOOOOO
STAND UP KITCHEN!!
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by derbyguy on Jan 18, 2012 8:19 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Fans finally woke up
The walk from Ted’s can take a lot out of you, I know.
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Ahh Gottlieb
Remind us how much more he knows than you.
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That play
Would have been unreal if he finished that.
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That is two quick whistles
that have cost us buckets.
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He could have dunked that
on a 12-foot hoop
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 8:23 PM EST up reply actions
Oh. My. GAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!
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DRUMMOND IS BIGGER THAN YOU ALL
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Can I get the Gummond GIF?
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 8:24 PM EST up reply actions
Just cause I like ya so much
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Never fails to make me LOL
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 8:28 PM EST up reply actions
I love it
Also, Protip for lurkers and our new commenters. Click on the title to minimize pics and gifs
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Good thing they called the held ball.
I swear he let go of the ball and sat up to call timeout.
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Did anyone else catch
Wichussen (or whoever’s doing PBP): “Cincinnati’s been punched, let’s see if they can counterpunch”
…seriously?
I did catch that
but I didn’t ‘catch’ that. Hilarious.
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 8:27 PM EST up reply actions
Moorhead highlights
What are those shot with, a bank security camera?
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They clearly don't have standard definition capability in the state of Morehead
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 8:28 PM EST up reply actions
These refs are REALLY quick on these reach fouls by post players
Both sides.
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30 seconds of great D
Five of Shabazz D
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Tip drill!
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That was an incredible sequence of pinballery right there
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Nein?
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 8:32 PM EST up reply actions
But seriously
I think he had 14 against UK in Maui.
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 8:32 PM EST up reply actions
Jaysus
Lotsa lotsa cheapo fouls getting called.
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AO's night
He really has had good looks for the most part, just not hitting them.
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Anyone have the big red pic?
I’ve some how not saved it. You around llimllib?
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Not looking for a chant, just wanted it for my files...
I guess I could go to a previous thread. I’ll do that
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Thanks
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Alright, now I'm worried
The pendulum has swung too far in the other direction: Gates 4-for-10, Kilpatrick 3-for-12, Dixon 3-for-13.
Although I guess Drummiakhi shooting a combined 3-for-14 is equivalent.
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Lamb shoots another terrible fastbreak 3
But this time, because Cincinnati is so accustomed to seeing Lamb shoot terrible fastbreak 3s, they foul him.
You win again, Jeremy Lamb.
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Fuck the three
Thank you Cashmere
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C'Mon
I love how Shabazz gives a 10 foot cushion to his man to pull up for three.
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To be fair
we know he can be a lockdown defender, but when he has to play 40 minutes he needs to scale it back
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 8:40 PM EST up reply actions
The Lamb-Drummond connection is not quite there, I gather
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"Look at Andre Drummond, he's not boxing anyone out"
/Gates pushes Drummond in the back to get rebound.
Suck it, Gottlieb.
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Even better
he shoved Roscoe Smith in the back. Gates wasn’t on him. Gottlieb tries to cover by saying “oh, well Drummond should’ve been guarding him”.
Fuck you Doug.
Wait
UNC gets obliterated by FSU and they only drop 5 spots?
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Because they're North Carolina
And c’mon, UNC can’t ever drop out of the top 10. Just like Duke.
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 8:42 PM EST up reply actions
Forgot that part
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Ahh Shabazz
Showing that leadership.
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blarghggrh
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I don't wanna be this guy...
but…is there any doubt that Boatright makes a HUGE difference against this billion guard lineup?
Cronin should make sure Mark Emmert gets a piece of the Winshare…
This
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 8:45 PM EST up reply actions
Against any lineup
Shabazz needs rest. He doesnt have the stamina of Walker.
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Phew
I was super worried about Murray. No need to panic.
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And there he goes with the punching again
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Loogit! LOOK AT ME!
IT’S A WORDPLAY!
I think you may be giving to much credit?
I didnt hear the originL, but I just think he doesnt realize what he is saying.
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Maybe...
I haven’t listened to him very much, so maybe he says it all the time. But I have to think that after prepping for this game and all the time he spent talking about how the fight was the turning point of the season for Cinci, that it was planned. Particularly since he went to the well twice. I bet someone owes him a beer.
Well...
Winning this one is going to take some doing…
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Why no more allen?
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Wait, Boat is out?
When did this happen?
/rolleyes
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sigh
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Well this sure sucks a dick
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more sigh
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Yeah foul
Hell, why don’t you wait 30 seconds to foul.
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So I guess the lessons to be learned from tonight's game:
—Let’s not have Oriakhi and Drummond shoot 3-for-15
—Let’s not have the NCAA be a bunch of dicks.
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Goddamn it Shabazz
You have some time. No need to rush a 3, especially like that.
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What is the upside down heart?
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Hmmmm
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Gravity has left the Nova game
returned to Storrs
by Andrew Porter on Jan 18, 2012 8:54 PM EST up reply actions
Huh
Well ain’t this an interesting development
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Hey, we can actually play defense on this possession
Just in time for Cincy to hit a backbreaking 3.
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STAND…UP…BLAH-OG
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I'm almost pissed that they're doing this now
Although I guess it is just Shabazz shooting 25-footers.
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I love that Kemba is there tonight..
…but shouldn’t he be practicing with his team or something?
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Eh, they're 3-10, fuck it
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 8:57 PM EST up reply actions
And...........Shabazz gonna Shabazz
You friggin tease.
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Of course
all of that happened
Grumble
This
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Well
Can’t say Kilpatrick wasn’t covered. Hit it with two guys on him.
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Story of the night
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by Kevin Meacham on Jan 18, 2012 9:01 PM EST up reply actions
Damn
That would have been something.
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Not sure how you're not getting it to Lamb
But whatever, you’re not doing much in 2.5 seconds without Tate George.
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Wichussen
Again with the punching
I has a sad
but that’s a true WTF game. We just sucked against Seton Hall and Rutgers, this one was just crazy
I'm off to go take my frustration out on the med school
in some intramural basketball. C’ya all later
The good news is
I’m not that mad, and I remain perfectly confident with the rest of the season, you know, when the NCAA isn’t violating us with a plunger.
Shabazz hit big clutch shots, we played good defense (mostly) in the second half, and we lost a game where the other team shot 10000% on contested shots. It happens.
Once Boat gets back, we’ll be fine.
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I'm behind this sentiment
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