Yeah I’m a troll! See my post about emotions running high after escaping an elimination game. Very predictable that people want to feel good about the team (I do too!) and will lash out at any negativity, but take a deep breath and look at it objectively.
Crazy how we won another game
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No thanks goes to the players. If you are going to lambast them every time we lose thank them for a fantastic defensive effort with their 2 best defenders on the bench, and coming away with a huge win on the road. Edit: And by “you” I don’t mean you personally I mean us.
Your post is a D effort. Pure garbage. Step it up, son.
See the rest of my posts, dad. My view reflects my opinion on the players’ abilities, which it seems is higher than most.
Why would I care about the rest of your posts?
Your posts on this thread are garbage.
You are clueless by your post. I have been on these boards since 2003. Won't say how many years I've been a Rutgers sports fan cause you will figure out how old I am, lol. But, I'm probably older than your mother. Congrats, though you managed to piss me off after OUR great win.
Good players who work hard on the court and have a solid coach. Hopefully the 20% or so have been able to safely back away from the edge of the cliff a little while.
The internet is full of fine candidates for the Darwin awards. This board is no different even if you subscribe.
Simultaneously we have the worst and the best. It’s true. And it’s paradoxical
I’m not depressed over it. People who are so emotional about the narrow win are clearly teetering on that edge though
I once overheard someone on the subway say “Happy Friday!” to another guy. The second guy replied “Just one day closer to Monday.” Your much higher opinion reminds me of the second guy.Fine, if you include physical effort, bump it up.
What’s comical about people hitting me for my perspective is that I clearly have a much higher opinion of the team and their abilities than the rest of you.
Woe is me (poor boy you're being criticized)… by the way IF is a word and it has meaning. In this case it means something that didn’t happen… we didn’t lose. Enjoy that fact.
We also could have lost. Who cares if we won by one? WE WON
Seems like a really poor analogy for the situation actually, haha, since I’m not being pessimistic like at all. Would be more accurate if the train almost crashed on the commute home and they survived, and guy 1 says “Phew, Happy Friday!” and guy 2 says “Yeah…but we should probably regulate the railroads.”
But we didn’t. We won. Games going down to the last second are a big part of sports.
College basketball and message boards just don’t mesh well. The beauty of college bball is the chaos. There are so many variables - parity, age, foul trouble, flu season, travel, etc.. Every game takes a life of its own. Embrace the marathon of it. The season is not saved by this win and it certainly wasn’t lost with Nebraska.
No, we won a game, a road game in the Big Ten. It was a day to be happy. You chose to **** on it instead. You told fans of the team that won they should not be happy (yes you did). No one was throwing a party, just being happy to have won. And you told us we were wrong to be happy, hiding behind your expectations. It was a ****** thing to do.
Feel free to get the last word in if you like. I’m done with you.
I just think they left points on the court, that’s all. Which was frustrating to watch in a game that IF it was lost, would have brought our NCAA hopes down to about 15-20% in my opinion.
I also intensely dislike Wisconsin and their fans and was annoyed it was that close. Ha.
Won on the road down two starters, anyone complaining about how they won needs an enema...lol.
If your point is that we should all be concerned about a scenario which could’ve happened, but in the end didn’t happen, and that we should be more concerned about almost losing then
I’d love to see what accomplishments the naysayers could stack up against winning a road basketball game in Madison, Wisconsin. Some of the tales are just plain weird
I’ll translate my first post in this thread in a more long winded way, if that helps.
“Eh.” - I’m glad they won which will help us make a tournament for a third straight season and continue program momentum. But that was not inspiring.
“It is what it is.” - Games at the end can be close and come down to chance. We darn near lost that one. Which would have all but sunk our postseason chances. We roll with the results as they come.
“C-level effort/showing…” Paul (looked ok coming back from the pain he experienced, kudos to him for his guts this season), Spencer, Cliff, Hyatt, Simpson, Reiber, Oskar, and the rest who played today left a lot on the court in terms of offensive execution and approach. I’m not big on critiquing players who are trying at all, but as a coach there is a time to yell “Somebody make an f’ing basket.” and that was needed for much of the second half. I also blame the coaching staff for the overall approach and player usage.
“Wisconsin is pretty awful.” - Self explanatory opinion. They likely finish 16-15 and miss the NIT by a wide margin. And I think Wisconsin played even below their own standards today, hence my frustration with the near loss.
Nebraska was infinitely more impressive against us than Wisconsin.
If all that didn’t come across, well welcome to the Internet.
First these games are out of your control. So why get upset about the outcome. Especially after a win. Second, these young men, who have more athletic ability than any of us ever, just went on the road undermanned and won a game. Granted, Wisconsin played poorly and the game was ugly. Whatever. They gutted out a win. Just relax. It’s up to them to pull this off. They lost a crucial player in mag and now need dean, Oscar and Simpson to figure out how to help while guys like Paul need to realize it’s their time to take the team over.
Cmon my dude. You have us in at 18 wins in any scenario?
And in terms of my guesstimate of a % chance with a loss today, and looking at the health of the team, you think that’s way off?
Ok. So I’ll assume you in your analyses also don’t think 18 gets it done unless absolutely everything falls our way. So if we lost today and went to 16-11, with Mich, @PSU, Minn (a worth-nothing must-win), and NW, plus an inevitably tough first round conf tourney matchup, I stand by what I said had we lost.
Down two starters. At Wisky. Even in a down year, Wisky is Wisky.
Find a way to win, that’s what matters.
4 more. LFG.
I disagree. I think 99% of our fans are great/tremendous.
Just my opinion