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WOW. What a game...a heavyweight fight...and what an effort by ND...

thebadby2

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tremendous game by ND, what a bunch of warriors. They played well enough to beat the best team In the tournament.

Great job by Brey. He game planned that as well as he possibly could have and his players executed. Very impressive.

might end up being the best game of the tourney this year.
 
Great game. The Domers were done in by that one poor possession with a half minute to go. Tie game and they absolutely had to score there.I predicted when the brackets came out that the Domers had the best shot of keeping UK out of the final four and they darn near did it,

Tough loss for them.
 
You called it earlier man. I really didn't see it. Masterful job of pulling the UK bigs away from the rim and clearing out the paint. I thought Cal would adjust to that but he really never did. I was waiting for UK to put 3 of those redwood trees in there at the same time to just block out the sun.

Just a great effort by ND and a great job by Brey. Remarkably, there are still Lair posters tonight blaming this loss on his coaching.
 
Originally posted by thebadby2:
You called it earlier man. I really didn't see it. Masterful job of pulling the UK bigs away from the rim and clearing out the paint. I thought Cal would adjust to that but he really never did. I was waiting for UK to put 3 of those redwood trees in there at the same time to just block out the sun.

Just a great effort by ND and a great job by Brey. Remarkably, there are still Lair posters tonight blaming this loss on his coaching.
Look, I'm on record that second-guessing coaches is counter-productive and futile, but...thought Brey coached a tremendous game.

For 38 1/2 minutes.

I thought he lost the game by having Grant go 1 on 5 the last several possessions. Grant was physically spent from playing the entire game. Brey had him dribble the shot clock down and end up forcing a bad shot. Brey had other weapons who had been effective all night. He ignored them and put the game in Grant's hands.

Unfortunately, his best player couldn't single-handedly defeat possibly the best team ever assembled. Or at least the best roster ever assembled.
 
Brey did a great job and I truly don't think he wanted Grant to go it alone at the end. I think Grant got "Jerry McCollough disease" at the end. Once he got the ball he wanted to be the hero. Getting forced into trying that 3 over a 7 footer was the result of pure selfishness. Same thing with his mad dash at the end of the game.
 
Not convinced it was Brey's idea to have Grant be the only offensive option in that last 60 seconds.
 
Uh-oh....the Ice fans will not like that ACCURATE portrayal

He always got the shot off, after a triple-axle from the pike position dash into the lane......and NEVER came close to sinking the shot. You'd know it was coming, and know what the result would be.
To Jerry's credit, the only defender to give him fits was AI. Dean Smith called off his press against us because it never slowed him down. Gotta admit, the kid wasn't afraid.
 
Originally posted by thebadby2:
Not convinced it was Brey's idea to have Grant be the only offensive option in that last 60 seconds.
You could be right, but that is pretty much what he did against us down the stretch and what he has done other times in his career. He often puts the ball in the hands of his PG and everyone gets out of the way.

It certainly LOOKED like ND intentionally ran the clock down to 10 seconds on their last few possessions before Grant went one on 5. National articles blamed Brey for going away from the offense that got him the lead during the last few minutes.

Players don't always run what the coaches call. I didn't record the game so I can't replay those last few minutes but the movement ND showed earlier wasn't apparent watching it live. It just looked like ND was trying to shorten the game.
 
Re: Uh-oh....the Ice fans will not like that ACCURATE portrayal

I liked McCullough. He tried to do it all because he was the best option by a mile on those teams.

We could sure use a guard like that now, playing within the framework of JD's system. A scoring, penetrating PG would add a lot to this team. Someone might actually have to defend the ball against us.
 
And you might be on the money as well. If not for speculation the Lair would be out of business.

I like Brey, so I'd like to think the plan was for Grant to take the shot unless it wasn't there. It's that "unless" that leaves too much to the interpretation of the player. Grant had the look of a guy who was going to take that shot no matter what the plan was. Then again, my memory is everyone else wasnjust standing around, so....

What do I know.
 
He wasn't much of a scorer, was he?? And he had no jumper.

Others were better options....Mobley, e.g. He would be good for us now, if he looked for others, like Artis & Young. And he was "tough" before it was a big part of Pitt hoops.
 
Grant's a terrific player, but the UK big kept up with him on that

mad dash, and there were 3 'Cats around him at the end. Can't blame the kid for trying so hard, ND played their butts off last night.
This game proved that all coaches screw up.
 
Re: He wasn't much of a scorer, was he?? And he had no jumper.

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but I remember him as a very capable shooter and scorer off the bounce. He's also one of the top assist and steals men in Pitt history.

His only problem was the coach he played for.
 
He wasn't really....

a very capable shooter. Of all of Pitt's 1000 point scorers, he has the lowest shooting percentage of them all. He was the definition of a guy who was a scorer but not a shooter.
 
Amazingly Aaron Harrison's missed jumper at the 12:16 mark of the 2nd half was the last FG Kentucky would miss for the remainder of the game. That's 1985 Villanova-esque stuff right there. Some very high level basketball played in both games yesterday.
 
Thought ND got a little tight near the end (understable) they missed 3 or 4 free throws, and then under 3 minutes couple of mistakes

- Not going offence for defence with Augustine

- Not trying to double Towns to throw rythm off

- and most importantly, not running offense and Grant going into hero mode after he made the one long three.

Shri
 
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