I blame my wife for losses if she comes into the room and we start losing. She pretty much stays away now. It’s not a good relationship considering the last 25 years of no post season.
Is it just me with hoops
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I hear ya, Zap. I joined the RU faculty in '76 and left in '05. We were undefeated when I got there, then went into a 29 year funk, and then came back strong the year I left.
I hear too much about “an ugly win.” I don’t give a flying f how we win. Just like there are no moral victories, there are no bad wins. A win is a win. There are no style points and there is much more to winning a game than pretty shooting. It’s not how, it’s how many. Especially in the B1G, a win is beautiful. Every win is beautiful. Our nasty defense is beautiful. Beating the blue bloods is beautiful. This team is going to start winning against the blue bloods on the regular! Only with winning, will we earn respect and our place in this conference.
And looking a few weeks ahead, and despite what Chris says, let’s beat Indiana for a third time in a row, cause I want us to step on their arrogant blue blood throats.
Now, let’s beat Iowa!
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thank you all...I'm not the only person who's kids and/or significant other thinks they are a nut job watching the games. Watch all games live, I like to torture myself.
my dad however, RC '69, he no longer watches live. Records, checks the score to decide to watch. He can't take the stress at this age anymore.
my dad however, RC '69, he no longer watches live. Records, checks the score to decide to watch. He can't take the stress at this age anymore.
These days I'm mostly watching games on DVR after the kids have gone to bed, so I'm watching on a delay. I avoid this board, social media, and text messages from the time of tip off to the time I've finished watching the game. It also means I'm not in the game thread, or able to look at stats during the game on my phone.
There is a lot of cursing and yelling at the TV - which gets more than a few comments from my wife to keep it down and not wake the kids. Also plenty of "close out!" "you can't leave that guy open!" "you have to go over the screen!" "why can we not hit a layup!?" "what were you thinking!?" "you have to call that!" etc.
My wife played some basketball in high school, and her biggest beef is when we miss free throws. She just doesn't understand how we can miss so many, and how big guys get away with being so bad at the line. There's the occasional "bronx cheer" when we hit both FTs on a trip to the line, and "see? their big guy can hit FTs!" when a guy like Giorgi just smoothly drains them. She usually divides her attention between the game and her phone.
A lot of the close plays are rewatched 2-3 times, often in slo mo. This sometimes calms me down a bit (when the ref made the right call) and sometimes gets me even more riled up (when it was an obvious bad call/play). I also speed through all commercials, time outs and half time, which packs the action of the game closer together without any breaks - which means no down time to cool off, but also less of the dramatic build up that comes with having to wait through commercials.
There is a lot of cursing and yelling at the TV - which gets more than a few comments from my wife to keep it down and not wake the kids. Also plenty of "close out!" "you can't leave that guy open!" "you have to go over the screen!" "why can we not hit a layup!?" "what were you thinking!?" "you have to call that!" etc.
My wife played some basketball in high school, and her biggest beef is when we miss free throws. She just doesn't understand how we can miss so many, and how big guys get away with being so bad at the line. There's the occasional "bronx cheer" when we hit both FTs on a trip to the line, and "see? their big guy can hit FTs!" when a guy like Giorgi just smoothly drains them. She usually divides her attention between the game and her phone.
A lot of the close plays are rewatched 2-3 times, often in slo mo. This sometimes calms me down a bit (when the ref made the right call) and sometimes gets me even more riled up (when it was an obvious bad call/play). I also speed through all commercials, time outs and half time, which packs the action of the game closer together without any breaks - which means no down time to cool off, but also less of the dramatic build up that comes with having to wait through commercials.
I do the exact same thing
Love using the replay on questionable referee calls, great plays (the Shaq throw downs!) to see how they developed, bad plays (what could someone have done differently), etc.
I feel like a coach reviewing game film, but in real time (sort of real time since the game is often over by the time I start watching).
I never want to intentionally learn the result of a game, and then watch it.
The whole point of watching is to experience the emotions and drama and see what will happen.
So you think maybe she wasn’t the reason? Besides you can’t jinx without physical presence. That’s a known fact.
I thought I was a jinx. I turned on a game one day and they were winning but eventually lost. Decided not to watch next game which they lost. Figured I wasn't the jinx so I watch entire games now.
I am the same for both Football and Basketball. It’s the being “trapped” feeling in the Stadium or the RAC that makes it a little easier to deal with.
I don’t even watch away games (or games I’m not at) in any sport now and just occasionally take a peek at the Yahoo Sports site, the game thread (but only in Basketball, NEVER in Football) or maybe the radio.
I was there too. At that point in my life the Iowa team was the biggest group of white guys I had ever seen up close. I know they weren’t but they all seemed blonde.
Also threw up in the steet celebrating a little too hard for St. Patrick’s Day.
100% in alignment with you guys. Except my wife and kids don’t watch. So I carry on without them but in a dad way (nothing too aggressive) but sometimes I get fired up after a good play in rewind the play and draw the families eyeballs in to watch as I rant like a lunatic. Johnson’s late lay up against Northwestern for example.
I'm not one to use foul language much, but during Rutgers games ALL BETS ARE OFF!
I used to listen to the game on radio so the act of “observation” from So.Cal or Oregon doesn’t negatively impact our chances for a positive outcome.
Since the alive / dead cat discussions I’ve gone to plan B: watching on TV -low volume and cursing at the refs or anything that goes wrong...with equal results :e.g. Miami,EMU(lowest points given up in any half), Ped St.,Indy,OSU etc.= W’s!!!
Very superstitious
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There's something I really like about this team, even when they're being ridiculously sloppy and shooting horribly.
They're always either crashing the offensive glass or hauling *** back on defense.
They're pretty active in passing lanes.
Seems like most of their turnovers are born of overambition in moving the ball around rather than overambition in going 1-on-5.
Great watching the freshmen gain confidence, and have to adjust as their improvements get on tape. It has been a joy to watch all four of them find their games and be productive in conference play. Mathis made the leap first and is working through the consequences right now but the others have had some really great games lately. And their decision making on offense has been better than I would expect from freshmen.
I like seeing Baker, too, adjust to being the focal point of teams defending RU. Mixing in drives with the stepback, I can't often tell what he's going to do. He's not producing every game, but he's doing exactly what he needs to do about it.
Love watching Eugene maneuver in the post. Guy has every move in the book and just instinctively goes from one move to another with no thought or hesitation.
Earlier in the season I commented that it seemed like the team would fold whenever a really bad call went against them. I haven't seen that lately. They don't fold when they fall down early either. This is now a mentally tough team.
I loved watching Waters teams at home and Rice teams everywhere, Pikiell has been closer to that than to the alternative, but there have also been games that made me want to stop watching basketball. Not many of those lately. This is one of my 5 favorite RU teams of the past 20 years
They're always either crashing the offensive glass or hauling *** back on defense.
They're pretty active in passing lanes.
Seems like most of their turnovers are born of overambition in moving the ball around rather than overambition in going 1-on-5.
Great watching the freshmen gain confidence, and have to adjust as their improvements get on tape. It has been a joy to watch all four of them find their games and be productive in conference play. Mathis made the leap first and is working through the consequences right now but the others have had some really great games lately. And their decision making on offense has been better than I would expect from freshmen.
I like seeing Baker, too, adjust to being the focal point of teams defending RU. Mixing in drives with the stepback, I can't often tell what he's going to do. He's not producing every game, but he's doing exactly what he needs to do about it.
Love watching Eugene maneuver in the post. Guy has every move in the book and just instinctively goes from one move to another with no thought or hesitation.
Earlier in the season I commented that it seemed like the team would fold whenever a really bad call went against them. I haven't seen that lately. They don't fold when they fall down early either. This is now a mentally tough team.
I loved watching Waters teams at home and Rice teams everywhere, Pikiell has been closer to that than to the alternative, but there have also been games that made me want to stop watching basketball. Not many of those lately. This is one of my 5 favorite RU teams of the past 20 years
Which one of you jinxed fools thought the game was over and turned on the game during the last 3 seconds? Smh. Lol. Stay away.