GDT: vs Providence

[Bay Area Billiken]

Refs made Providence win or lose it on the court, no bailout at the end.

[JettFlight5]

14 minutes ago, wgstl said:

We were really lucky the last 10 minutes, for sure. But it was a Make up for the first 20 

I only saw 2nd half so I cannot logically disagree with you.

[Dr. Holly Hills]

Wow.  I’m utterly shocked we pulled that one out.   

[slufanskip]

17 minutes ago, cgeldmacher said:

We are 2-1 in our big four non-con games.  Any of us on this board would have taken that before the season.

And this was really an away game. Problem is it won’t be counted as away for net rankings. 

[RiseOfTheBillikens]

2 hours ago, RiseOfTheBillikens said:

Providence not out in force. We got this.

Called it. Easy dubs. Was never worried. 

[GOSLU68]

19 minutes ago, GOSLU68 said:

Tough to get going when we are down without Fred Thatch Jr enthusiasm- We need to get back to rebounding and improve our steals attempts per game

Spell check victimized

[cgeldmacher]

Was anybody from this board at the game? Wondering how many SLU fans were there.

[laker119]

14 minutes ago, cgeldmacher said:

Was anybody from this board at the game? Wondering how many SLU fans were there.

I was there...my best guess would be about 50 spread out throughout the arena

[HoosierPal]

24 minutes ago, slufanskip said:

And this was really an away game. Problem is it won’t be counted as away for net rankings. 

Rammer and Earl said the Providence crowd was no where as large as yesterday. The Patriots played the Jets. Likely some stayed home to view. 

[SluSignGuy]

12 minutes ago, laker119 said:

I was there...my best guess would be

28 minutes ago, cgeldmacher said:

Was anybody from this board at the game? Wondering how many SLU fans were there.

about 50 spread out throughout the arena

@Taj79

[HoosierPal]

Rammer said Thatch out a week to 10 days. That puts him Iffy for the Auburn game.

[wgstl]

4 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:

Rammer said Thatch out a week to 10 days. That puts him Iffy for the Auburn game.

Didn’t ford just say he has no clue but shouldn’t be a big deal 

[Old guy]

Thatch out will hurt. Auburn is going to be tough.

[slufanskip]

35 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:

Rammer and Earl said the Providence crowd was no where as large as yesterday. The Patriots played the Jets. Likely some stayed home to view. 

Still it’s basically a home game for Providence 

[Bay Area Billiken]

The better team (SLU) won.

[VeniceMenace]

Give time this team can be really dangerous once Perk and Parker find some rhythm in their game….

[CBFan]

I had to drive my grandson home today so i has to listen and get angry yell at the refs and cheer.  This game brought out all of my emotions for our team.

I was very critical of the coach after yesterday’s blowout but today when down 13 the coach kept the team from losing composure and they pulled it out in the end on a poor 3 point shooting game and without Thatch.

Yuri is the best 21 points and 7 assists.  Perkins is getting the drives at the basket to finally fall and Okoro limited with fouls came up with a huge rebound and free throws.

[HoosierPal]

 

[JohnnyJumpUp]

2 hours ago, GOSLU68 said:

Tough to get going when we are down without Fred That Jr enthusiasm- We need to get back to rebounding and improve our steals attempts per game

Surprised we didn't see more of Hargrove for his enthusiasm and energy with Thatch out. It was definitely needed at times throughout the game. 

[JohnnyJumpUp]

2 hours ago, cgeldmacher said:

Was anybody from this board at the game? Wondering how many SLU fans were there.

Very small SLU crowd.  Maryland had a very large showing this weekend.  The Providence crowd was decent as well. Not many Miami or SLU.

[Major Majerus]

Today was who we are - yesterday was a statistical anomaly - Maryland won’t play a better game this year.

[Old guy]

1 hour ago, JohnnyJumpUp said:

Very small SLU crowd.  Maryland had a very large showing this weekend.  The Providence crowd was decent as well. Not many Miami or SLU.

Maryland is not that far from New London and Providence is very close to it. Of course there were more fans from these schools there. Miami and St. Louis are much farther away from New London.

[Old guy]

By the way for those who might be interested, Maryland was on a real romp in this tournament. Not only did they blow us up, but they did the same to Miami by 18 pts (they were expected to win by 1).

[CBFan]

The last 30 seconds of the game in my opinion the announcers of the game were way off base on what a foul is.

When Yuri was fouled he was first fouled by the arm bar by the defender then the body and then a flop.  I thought the continuation of the shot was questionable but not the foul because Yuri was fouled twice.

With a few seconds left the player ran into a wall of Yuri and Okoro.  Yuri had the right to that spot on the floor Yuri was at that spot before the player and the player made contact with our guys.  The announcers said because there was contact that was a foul.

I was troubled by the announcers behavior on Saturday by promoting the obnoxious screamer at the Billikens.  It’s one thing to call him a fan but to get his name and announce his name several times was annoying.

The Billikens earned that win yesterday and I felt those azz clowns tried to make it about the officiating, rant over.

[brianstl]

The same announcers when the Billikens were down by 11 thought the game still felt like it would come down to a last possession game. So I don’t think there was an obvious anti Billiken bias.