2/1 - MBB vs. Louisville

[AUFC]

Gets kind of lost in the grand scheme of the game but I want to give a shoutout to Baye for this play when we were down double digits. We've all been hard on him this season for his play but this high-effort offensive rebound and basket sparked a 10-0 killshot over the following 2 minutes that got us back in the game.

 

[MtnWasp]

Fun game. Pleased to see Louisville cool down from 3 in teh second half. They were unconscious in the first.

Poor McCollum got popped in the pus with the ball twice. Once on a fantastic 30 ft laser beam pass my George finding him cutting open under the basket but McCollum wasn't looking, and the second by the ref popping him in the face with the ball on an inbounds play.

George's pass hitting McCollum reminded me of that story by Dennis Scott that Kenny Anderson hit Scott in the side of the head with a pass when Scott made a cut but didn't bother to look for the ball.

George playing at a high level.

Great to see GT play hard and show moxie. Let's keep it going!

 

[Northeast Stinger]

If I recall correctly, they were 8 for 16 from three-point land at the half...then

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Points in the paint !

 

[forensicbuzz]

Oh. That was Brian Oliver.

No. Brian was the Color Guy. It was the play-by-play guy that kept screwing it up.

 

[forensicbuzz]

Would have cost you $0.00 to not post this dumb nonsense. The players and fans absolutely brought it to a Top 25 opponent and you bring this to the board. I saw a team in the 2nd half today who did not give a **** about the number next to your name because they knew deep down they were not afraid of anybody. And here you are trying to tear down their win today. Absolute bull**** dude.

must be a reason I no longer see this font's posts. There is a solution.

 

[forensicbuzz]

I was assuming it was Thom Brennaman. I went to the game so I didn't see the broadcast.

TB got dumped from Fox NFL games after an unfortunate clip was dropped about his description of Kansas City that resembled one in Blazing Saddles.

It was Brenniman

 

[57jacket]

Georgia Tech stuns No. 21 Louisville

In a matchup few probably expected Georgia Tech to win, especially judging by the majority of red-colored shirts in the McCamish Pavilion crowd Saturday, the Yellow Jackets stunned No. 21 Louisville 77-70.

www.ajc.com

 

[GT33]

@Techwood Relict had a great response for me in chat when I asked "wtf are we doing?"........ He responded "winning".

I went from finally figuring out how to watch the game by casting to my daughter's tv (not easy for an old guy)leaving at/near the end of what seemed like a 10 min scoring drought, to nothing while driving, to being able to listen on the radio for a bit, to dinner where I was folllowing on the gametracker app. We kept fouling with the lead and a minute and a half in the game.

I've seen the hghlights. Great to see high effort all game long, even when we were struggling. Even better we eked out an unexpected win against a red hot opponent. My enthusiasm for Stoudamire continues to rise these couple weeks. He seems to have found the button to push and has not lost the team which would have been easy.

 

[ESPNjacket]

For what it’s worth, any fan of futile no ball movement over dribbling offense should watch Carolina try and run an offense against Duke right now

Brian Gregory loved this post.

 

[Techster]

These are the type of wins that give you hope for our program under Stoudamire. We'll go through a series of losses, have our faith battered, then the team will pull of a great upset. Given our health issues, and VERY short bench, this may go down as one of Stoudamire's better coaching performances at GT.

We played 6 players this game. Five of them scored in double figures. We shot OK overall, but not that well from the 3. I've always believed that if you can consistently get 4-5 players to score in double figures every game, you have a good chance.

Kudos to the players. They must be gassed at this point running with such a short bench every game. They're battling though.

 

[Ramble1885]

The place sounded like a drum at points yesterday. Students + the GT fans like me who did show up did a great job.

 

[Ramble1885]

My favorite pic from yesterday by far

 

[Techwood Relict]

I nominate this post as the best jinx post of the year. Smith went 1-5 from 3.

The announcers were doing their part. "Louisville is one of the best free throw shooting teams in the league"..... Clang...."They are 4 for 10 in the second half" .... Clang.....

 

[Techwood Relict]

George's pass hitting McCollum reminded me of that story by Dennis Scott that Kenny Anderson hit Scott in the side of the head with a pass when Scott made a cut but didn't bother to look for the ball.

The ear-hole pass, the best kind of self correcting behavior for a cutter.....

 

[Jack]

We were down 11 at half. When we came back to game time, it was 38-27. They took a point away from us during halftime. Does anyone know why?

It may have been a three that Perry shot with his foot on the line.

 

[Ramble1885]

I’m also sure this man is happy, yes it’s not Big Blue, but he’s happy above us knowing we still run the bluegrass state.

 

[MWBATL]

Well finally got to watch the replay last night. The intensity and energy from our guys was a joy to watch. Even at halftime, my wife sat there and said “we look GOOD, even though we’re behind!” OK, so neither of us qualifies as basketball experts, but they did look good.

One must admit however that Louisville seemed to be the team that got rattled in the 2nd half. They missed a TON of FTs which might have changed the outcome. Give them 5 more points towards the end of the game and it might have been us who wilted….BUT, it wasn’t! We held on and won.

Glad to see. Hope springs eternal….

 

[57jacket]

I’m also sure this man is happy, yes it’s not Big Blue, but he’s happy above us knowing we still run the bluegrass state.
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Yeah, I was in school when we beat Ky twice in same year (1955?). Met him ~20 years later on Marta. We talked about the games. He said ahter beating Ky at Ky, Rupp was furious, so he brought a camera crew down to GT to record the beat down he would give us, take it back to show Ky fans. After we won, he gave the film to Hyder. He said he still had it.

 

[MtnWasp]

That as the second broadcast in a row that refers to George being 6'5". Has George grown or is it more TV B.S.?

Does A short rotation make it easier for a team to come together?

 

[GT33]

Well finally got to watch the replay last night. The intensity and energy from our guys was a joy to watch. Even at halftime, my wife sat there and said “we look GOOD, even though we’re behind!” OK, so neither of us qualifies as basketball experts, but they did look good.

One must admit however that Louisville seemed to be the team that got rattled in the 2nd half. They missed a TON of FTs which might have changed the outcome. Give them 5 more points towards the end of the game and it might have been us who wilted….BUT, it wasn’t! We held on and won.

Glad to see. Hope springs eternal….

Pressure does interesting things to people. Brings out the best in the best, stuns the mediocre, makes the bad veer into a death spiral. Second guessing, fear, indecision, knee jerk decisions are all good things to get in an enemy and bad in an Institute with its program trying to navigate out of the abyss.

Stay the course Stoudamire. We're starting to taste what it's going to be like.