It'll be playing at the Westhampton Theater all through the NCAA's.Originally posted by Eight Legger:
Typical bullshit road game for us. We F around for 15 minutes and get hopelessly behind, Kendall misses 3 from the line and then our mad dash to the finish comes up just short. How many times have we seen this movie??? God almighty.
+!Originally posted by Eight Legger:
A few key plays, in retrospect, cost us the game. SDJ's mistake at the end of the first half that resulted in a three for Lasalle. ANO's telegraphed pass that resulted in a fast-break layup late in the game when we had cut it to 5 or 6. That bucket extended Lasalle's one second-half run. And I will throw in Kendall missing 3 FTs, just because that doesn't happen often and shouldn't.
If even one of those things doesn't happen -- despite how badly we played for a big chunk of that game -- we probably win. I think that's what makes this team so maddening. All we need to do is limit our terrible mistakes to 12 a game instead of 13, or something like that, and we'd probably have about 5 road wins this year. But we seem hellbent on making ONE too many mistakes every time.
At one point in the first half I hope the foul situation may actually help. Anthony got rest that he normally wouldn't so I thought he might be fresh enough to pull it out at the end.Originally posted by mcspider:
Not that it had an effect on the outcome necessarily, though we were on the edge of foul trouble nearly the whole game, I was really bothered by the phantom foul call when the La Salle player slipped and was shown to not even be touched at all. Yet a foul was called nonetheless. Normally I'm not screaming at my tv that much about that, but in a game where we were walking the tight rope with fouls, to have one that was so undeserved didn't sit well with me in the moment.
Because of the foul issues, that really forced Mooney into subbing more often than he would normally I think. Regardless this game was lost because we never truly found a rhythm. Credit La Salle for making us uncomfortable. And in that way it felt like when we play GW, where if we win we have to win ugly.