Honestly. I came *this close* to turning it off. Instead poured a nice Stoli's on the rocks. I dig this team.
Phew......breathe......
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What a relief to know your team now makes free throws. Would have lost this in the past. Nice win Panthers.
The way we started I was hoping for a relaxing afternoon....nail biter city instead.
This was a very good win; it seemed like our guys got a little tired at the offensive end, and they don't defend like past teams, but with Jackson pouring it on it would take a special player to defend all his deep shots. ND is always a tough team at home.
I tweeted this, but......Jamie needs to write on the chalkboard 100 times "I WILL NOT OVERCOACH THIS TEAM. I WILL NOT OVERCOACH THIS TEAM."
ND made a few runs at us, but when we didn't have the answers is exactly when we started to try and shorten the game. And yes, hindsight is 20/20, I agreed with Jamie when he obviously told the guys to not take quick shots and extend possessions. But.......that is just not this team's strength. It took us out of our rhythm and comfort zone.
At the risk of some you guys turning into Linda Blair with your heads spinning around, just go. Run. Shoot. Do what you do well. Keep pushing. Like I said, not blaming Jamie because I thought that was the prudent thing to do, but I think it was a good learning experience, just let this team play, if that means winning 100-91, well it is better than holding on.
ND made a few runs at us, but when we didn't have the answers is exactly when we started to try and shorten the game. And yes, hindsight is 20/20, I agreed with Jamie when he obviously told the guys to not take quick shots and extend possessions. But.......that is just not this team's strength. It took us out of our rhythm and comfort zone.
At the risk of some you guys turning into Linda Blair with your heads spinning around, just go. Run. Shoot. Do what you do well. Keep pushing. Like I said, not blaming Jamie because I thought that was the prudent thing to do, but I think it was a good learning experience, just let this team play, if that means winning 100-91, well it is better than holding on.
Unless milking the clock works to perfection the next game. Jamie can't win (in a sense)...
I imagine that Jamie would say that the problem wasn't milking the clock - that was the proper thing to do -- the problem was the execution was tentative/uncertain/hesitant after they got the clock to where they wanted it.
Go Pitt.
Bottom line here: we were essentially a tossup per Sagarin's computer and Vegas had us a 5 point underdog.
But, we won by 4. It's all good except for the need for Xanax and Tums.
But, we won by 4. It's all good except for the need for Xanax and Tums.
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Mrs flair agrees with you. I disagree with her. Sounds like there's trouble in River City.
Why?? Too change their luck is why. When your team is playing badly. You turn off the tv and their luck changes. Turn it back on and they are playing well. You do this throughout the whole game. One other thing. It's important not to have the radio on when the TV's off. That would be cheating. And that will bring bad luck.
I thought everyone knew/did this.
I find the best way to deal with heart attack city is to DVR game and start wacthing 20 minutes after tip-off.
You skip commercials and when you feel your heart beating to fast. It works . Great win today.
Love my Panthers
You skip commercials and when you feel your heart beating to fast. It works . Great win today.
Love my Panthers
How about the time delay on ESPN 3 verses phone app. Helps me anticipate the play.
I've been known to turn off the TV and follow it on Gametracker on my Mac. I'm still following the game, but makes me less anxious. What can I say? I'm a weird chick.
I bitched, but never really got close to turning it off. We were still leading and I know we can score.
Enjoying beers now!
I'm not sure I completely agree with this Owt. It was the Panthers talking quick shots that really led to the Panthers letting the 18 point lead get well under 10. It was after that we started slowing it down, and I think that sort of needed to happen at that point. We needed to regroup.
And this isn't to say that generally speaking, I don't agree with your overall point, especially in reference to this group. Just in this case, they were making bad offensive decisions, and it was hurting them.
Oh I am not trying to be overly critical, because I wanted them to settle down and milk clock also. I thought that was the prudent thing to do. But when we did that in the second half we went back to our past offense where we are too late in the clock to run anything and took some bad desperate shots.
All true, although I don't know if it's accurate to suspect Dixon was over coaching in this particular case.
Holy $&@t. Do you know how profound of a statement that is? We are talking about a Jamie Dixon Pitt team morphing into Loyaola Marymount before our very eyes. Do you know what's next? Recruits, their Dads and their AAU coaches will be flocking to and praising Pitt because they play a fun brand of basketball.
