GT / Louisville

[Techster]

Our starting 5 is so talented. It's nice to see our boys pull it together.

Maddening. We can play with any team.

I was looking at the standings in the ACC the other day. We could easily be in 4th place right now.

 

[sidewalkGTfan]

So great to see this team finally close out a game like this. Feels like hardly none of these have gone our way this season.

The good guys also had to deal with some HORRIFIC reffing tonight. Lots of fantom foul calls on both sides it seemed.

 

[Gold1]

What a win!! We don’t make any sense! Also spatola sucks

 

[g0lftime]

Those games without Jose hurt this team. Took him a few games to get his game back but he is rolling now.

 

[dtm1997]

Added bonus to this win is that Louisville fans ABSOLUTELY HATE Pastner.

They've gotta be twisting in **** right now.

 

[Connell62]

Nostradamusconnell62! 18 TOs & a win.

I thought turnover #18 was gonna come back to get us! Mike cannot turn it over right there.

We were terrible from the line the entire game, but knocked down the final 6 to seal the deal!

Those refs were absolutely atrocious! Aside from some of the ticky-tack fouls that cost us James (who had a great game), most went our way, but they were ****tay!!

 

[Ramblingon]

Yaaaaaayyyyyy! Almost had to use the home paddles this time. Hats off to Alvarado...great performance. And to the whole team for holding Nwora to 2 pts. This wasn't Devoe's game, but he came through at the end. The defense worked well.

 

[JacketOff]

Wire to wire win against a top 5 team in the country? Hell yeah. Just makes you wonder how much different this season could’ve played out. Still too many turnovers, but took advantage of UL’s turnovers as well. UL shot miserably all night, and absolutely dominated on the boards. Tech has definitely played better games this year, but this is one that turned into a W.

 

[g0lftime]

Pretty good crowd for a week night game. At least it was loud. Hard to tell upper level on tv.

 

[Gold1]

Devoe with the big FTs after such a bad game was big

 

[Techster]

Usher...man, when that guy's game finally catches up to his energy and athleticism, he's is going to be a great player.

 

[YlJacket]

I'll add to the winning time thread to hopefully make it a bit longer.

We won this on D. giving up 58 to Louisville is a great D performance. I don't think LV played their best game and both teams missed a lot of open shots in the 20-30 min time frame but we played solid D throughout the game. '

Offensively Jose was really good. We started out moving the ball and getting shots but about halfway through the first half it became whether Jose could penetrate and kick to start an offense. Was not a pretty ball game but we were grittier than LV and that is a good thing.

I am one who would fire CJP yesterday but anyone has to admit that these guys play hard for him. Kudos to him and the team

 

[GTbball2016]

Devoe with the big FTs after such a bad game was big

Also did a nice job staying in front of his guy for that late steal

 

[lv20gt]

Really solid game all around. Good defense. Offense had it's issues at times and for a while FTs were killing us, but they sealed the game for us at the end. Jose really set the pace early and various guys stepped up throughout the game to keep UL at arms length. Banks played great early with 3 very nice hook shots. Moses came through in the second half with going to the middle of the zone (along with the big not goaltending block). Devoe struggled for a lot of the game but when the game was on the line he came through with a big 3, then a timely and 1, and then the FTs to seal it.

Also, I thought Usher played great. For the most part was smart on the offensive end and his energy on D was infectious. We won that game in large part because of the numerous hustle plays that we made and it started with him early.

 

[SteamWhistle]

Seems like we do this once a year, Great Defense gets it done sometimes.

 

[orientalnc]

Quote from the UL forum:

"If we had Alvarado we would be the best team in the country. "

 

[Jacketman]

Awesome effort tonight, man I was so wrong about Moses Wright. That dude is a player. Also just goes to show how frustrating this team is. If they got their head out of their behind, we could easily be top 5 in the ACC right now looking at a NCAAT berth. We just make a few mistakes too many to do that.

 

[Techster]

Awesome effort tonight, man I was so wrong about Moses Wright. That dude is a player. Also just goes to show how frustrating this team is. If they got their head out of their behind, we could easily be top 5 in the ACC right now looking at a NCAAT berth. We just make a few mistakes too many to do that.

We literally give games away. Our turnover margin is attrocious.

Luckily in this game, Louisville with 16 TOs was just as bad as we were (18 TOs).

 

[deeznats]

Exciting game. Hard to watch at times but I was happy the guys finally pulled off that big upset we've been close to so many times.

 

[reckrider]

I tuned in late. Who were those tv announcers? They were horrible.