Iona Game Thread

[I.I.]

Iona could play with a 10 second shot clock.

 

[TU_BLA]

Ref's are playing with themselves this half. Let's just blow whistles and call fouls. The one in Woodard was bogus. At that, Taplin is going to be a special player. He is so smooth on the dribble and it appears effortless for him...his handle reminds me of Harrington (I'll stop at the handle for now). We are starting to run at them as I think they have ventured further into their bench than they want and we're exploiting it. Iona's transition D is not very good

 

[I.I.]

Brown starts against an undefeated South Carolina team and no time at all tonight.

 

[TUBballJunkie]

What is going on with Brandon at the line??

 

[TUBballJunkie]

That's enough, Carl.

 

[TU 1978]

Let's finish them off.

 

[Tulsa76]

Please coach, get someone to help these guys make FREE throws...

 

[Gold*]

Sucky refs suck.

They had a nice idea with changing the way the game was called, but refs give zero fudges because that's like why you become a basketball ref.

 

[TUBballJunkie]

I like aggressive Dre.

 

[Gold*]

Easy to be aggressive against these guys.

Shaq hit one free throw in a row!

 

[Weatherdemon]

We're shooting better from 3 than we are at the line.

 

[jesterondirt]

When we try to burn the clock on offense, it works about as well as a prevent defense against Tom Brady

 

[Weatherdemon]

Wow

 

[T Up]

We've managed to turn a 20 point sleeper into a 12 point contest by pulling another Woj sorry Haith and trying to run clock. We are so bad at it.

 

[I.I.]

The call against Harrison may have been the NCAA worst call of the year.

 

[Tulsa76]

Where is our killer instinct? We've just squandered a nice big win for just a win! Ugly ending!

 

[TUBballJunkie]

Yeahhhh Shaq was slapped a few times on that trap.

 

[jesterondirt]

Errrrmagherrrrd

 

[URedskin54]

We've managed to turn a 20 point sleeper into a 12 point contest by pulling another Woj sorry Haith and trying to run clock. We are so bad at it.

Not really. We've taken plenty of shots early in the shot clock. Just haven't been hitting them.

 

[Tulsa76]

17-1 run ... Bad coaching

 

[TulsaCane12]

English, 5 points at half. 29 now. Oh I wish we had a guy that could do that! Wr have to stop giving up leads. A senior led team has to know how to finish games. Absolutely no excuse for this being single digits

 

[Weatherdemon]

Will be nice to play a complete game again this year. The last one was what, WSU?

 

[Weatherdemon]

18-34 on free throws.
There is the main story line IMO... Well along with letting English get shots in the 2nd.

 

[bigzit]

REFS SAVED TULSA.
Some no calls on Tulsa in the end.

Tulsa is bad.
Pathetic FT shooting and no interior players. Wright is a poor basketball player in just about every area.

Thank goodness for Woodard. He's special.

 

[TU Sepp]

English pushes off with his off hand more than any player I have ever seen. Refs seem to have a man-crush on him as every time he has the ball we get a foul...

 

[T Up]

English pushes off with his off hand more than any player I have ever seen. Refs seem to have a man-crush on him as every time he has the ball we get a foul...

Watch Harrison. He does the same thing with his off hand on almost every drive. The refs seem to be letting that go but calling most of the hand checking.

 

[Lumpuckeroo]

I'm sorry but this team is painful to watch. It is not exciting basketball. Lots of individual play by players that aren't that good.
Woodard needs to shoot all the time. No one sets a pick for him. Half the time he stands in the corner while Shaquille just prepares for another dribble drive and prayer shot. Date is the biggest waste of 6'9" that I have ever seen.
You would think as seniors these at least a couple of these guys would have improved. But we have to live and die one more year hoping that Shaquille gets hot or James goes off.
Haith's coaching reminds me too much of Woj coaching. If we don't coach, recruit, and play better next year I may sit at home with the other 4,000 fans that no longer attend this mess.
And yes I realize we are up 12.

Phoggy thinks Tulsa sets great picks !

 

[TU_BLA]

The refs changed the way the game was called from the 1st half to the 2nd half. It's unfair to the players. 5 players fouled out, some in some ridiculous tic tac fouls. Dre's 5th gets called a player control foul if it's anyone but English with the ball. There were a lot of good things that happened in this game. Our D for 35 minutes was pretty good. English started forcing things and he hit some ridiculous shots and the refs bailed him out a lot. We had a ton of good looks in that stretch and couldn't hit layups, pull ups and some other shots that were falling earlier. We had some careless TOs late too after yaking pretty good care of it up until that point. Iona is probably one of the favorites to win the MAAC and they will probably get a 14 seed and scare the day lights out of a 3 simply because they can shoot the ball. Last 15 minutes of the 1st half was some of the best basketball we have played this season. Need to keep that up.

 

[AvsRick]

The refs changed the way the game was called from the 1st half to the 2nd half. It's unfair to the players. 5 players fouled out, some in some ridiculous tic tac fouls. .

Happens every single game. Nothing called in first half. Everything in second half.

 

[jesterondirt]

I was behind their coach going through security at the airport this morning. He ended up getting the full search of his bags. I said don't feel bad, it would have been way worse if you pulled out the win last night.

 

[Gold*]

You couldn't have said this but, in a better world, I would tell him they were looking for all those f bombs he dropped last night.