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Gonzaga vs. BYU Game Thread

Darkwing Duck said:
I really do hope his lack of defensive...enthusiasm is a strategic decision and not a philosophical one. I'd be hard pressed to put him on the floor in the NBA given the effort he puts on that end.
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It's called horse sense.

OK, it's a fair point, and especially relevant in the NBA even more critical in the playoffs.

I'm kinda short at 5'11, the runt of my basketball family. What I learned to do was shoot, and do a high enough percentage beyond the three-point arc when I do one on one with my high school stud nephew, I can win just giving him his layups. One dribble in and shoot. Saves energy.

Well it's been a few years since I did that. But that's the idea.
 
Sloanfeld said:
My Bulldogs went all Sloanfeld on St. Johns tonight. Time to beat another sorry *** team in BYU. I'm not big into college ball, but it's going to be sweet having bragging rights over crapratcho like a Cameron Wake sack on Mark Sanchez.
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As usual Sloanfeld is wrong. BYU just took the Zags to school.

*Gonzaga is going to be scary good next year though. That is a young talented team.
 
Big win for BYU and probably a huge relief for Cougar fans. IMO Jimmer is going to go down as the best basketball player in BYU history. You don't want your all-time best player coming and going without a single Sweet 16 appearance.
 
Jimmer's "defense" is by design of Dave Rose. He knows he needs jimmer on the floor as often as possible so by giving him the smallest defensive assignment he's able to go 40 and look fresh for every single minute. Not to mention at times the zone D that BYU runs is downright stifling! Even with jimmer covering about 9 square feet they can make it tough for their opponents to create something. Clearly this team at this point in the tourney will live or die by the jumper, but if they are hitting a solid percentage of their shots and playing great team D like tonight they could get into the final four with Pitt out now
 
Nice job by the bench bozos coming in after Hartsock and Abouo got in early foul trouble. Not much stats from them, but BYU just needs Anderson especially to put his long *** arms in the air and be tall and he did a solid job of that tonight.

And if the Rogers/Abouo/Emery/Collinsworth clique will continue to attack the rim every once in a while, I like BYU's chances going forward. Those guys don't need to just be three point shooters. Lanes are wide open because of the attention given to Jimmer and they all are capable of taking to the hole as they showed at times tonight. Collinsworth can eat any 4 off the bounce in college; he should just attack that every time. Very very encouraging game.
 
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dipship31 said:
Jimmer's "defense" is by design of Dave Rose. He knows he needs jimmer on the floor as often as possible so by giving him the smallest defensive assignment he's able to go 40 and look fresh for every single minute. Not to mention at times the zone D that BYU runs is downright stifling! Even with jimmer covering about 9 square feet they can make it tough for their opponents to create something. Clearly this team at this point in the tourney will live or die by the jumper, but if they are hitting a solid percentage of their shots and playing great team D like tonight they could get into the final four with Pitt out now
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+1.

Considering BYU's lack of size, and the way in which they utilize Jimmer on the defensive end, it's pretty amazing how well they D up. That's an extremely well coached basketball team.
 
Ben10 said:
As usual Sloanfeld is wrong. BYU just took the Zags to school.

*Gonzaga is going to be scary good next year though. That is a young talented team.
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I know crap about college ball. For once I was wrong, but I could care less.

Now go back to your little fantasy world of the Deron/Jefferson experiment being way more successful than the Deron/Boozer era. Moron.
 
Sloanfeld said:
Get ready for Jimmer's last game with your sorry *** school before he's backing up Devin Harris.
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Add Sloanfeld to the list of those who got Jimmered.
But don't feel bad, I'm a BYU fan but thought the Cougs would lose to Gonzaga. At some point the outside shooting will go South and BYU will lose to a team with better interior play. But they made it to the Sweet Sixteen; that's a great accomplishment!
 
First time watching Jimmer......I was pretty darn impressed - i knew he could shoot, but his court vision + passing skills were more than i expected he had.
 
jazzman12 said:
JazzSpazz wrote:


With posts like these, I seriously hope you're a 12-year old kid and not a grown man. However, I'm guessing you're an adult (physically anyway) and that just strikes me as very sad.
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Oh, did you forget.... I'm a homer, and I seriously hope you are not an adult with that going on on your lip.

Seriously though, toughen up..... you requested Trout to post in your direction and you couldn't even handle that.

Oh... am I still a homer if my "homer" prediction comes true like I thought it would?
Does this mean the opposite is true and you are a hater?

Anyways... no hard feelings, I was just messing with you... sorry you couldn't take it.

You are a pretty reasonable poster when you aren't posting that homer garbage.
 
JazzSpazz Wrote
oh... am I still a homer if my "homer" prediction comes true like I thought it would?
Does this mean the opposite is true and you are a hater?
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Absolutely. You made a homer prediction that just happened to come true. I don't even think 90% of the most optimistic BYU fans out there thought this game would go like it did. I've made homer predictions for my teams before. Sometimes I've been right, sometimes I've been wrong. And as far as being a "hater", I absolutely am one. Not only that, I've admitted as much several times on this board. Try to keep up. BYU fans call people like me a hater like it's a bad thing. I just think loathing BYU is the decent thing to do.

You should be excited though. Like I said last night, BYU getting to the Sweet 16 in the Jimmer era is a really big deal. You don't want a guy like him to come through your program and only have a couple of 2nd round exits to show for it. Plus, you're in the Sweet 16 for the first time in 3 decades which has got to be extremely exciting for you guys.

Enjoy the run. If shots keep falling like they have been BYU may not be done advancing.
 
jazzman12 said:
JazzSpazz Wrote



Absolutely. You made a homer prediction that just happened to come true. I don't even think 90% of the most optimistic BYU fans out there thought this game would go like it did. I've made homer predictions for my teams before. Sometimes I've been right, sometimes I've been wrong. And as far as being a "hater", I absolutely am one. Not only that, I've admitted as much several times on this board. Try to keep up. BYU fans call people like me a hater like it's a bad thing. I just think loathing BYU is the decent thing to do.

You should be excited though. Like I said last night, BYU getting to the Sweet 16 in the Jimmer era is a really big deal. You don't want a guy like him to come through your program and only have a couple of 2nd round exits to show for it. Plus, you're in the Sweet 16 for the first time in 3 decades which has got to be extremely exciting for you guys.

Enjoy the run. If shots keep falling like they have been BYU may not be done advancing.
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