Re: (3) Saturday Big East Games 1/13/18
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 1:28 pm
NJRedman wrote:GumbyDamnit! wrote:SJUBBALL wrote:That was a poor performance from nova tonight. And we still couldn’t win. Nova beat us and they didn’t bring their A game, they brought their D- game tonight. Their leprechaun looking dude is the only one who really showed up tonight.
It’s sad they can play that bad and still win, St. John’s is not in a good place right now
I don’t think you are giving your team the credit they deserve. SJU competed really hard on both ends of the floor, and made Nova play uncharateristically sloppy. Give SJU D a lot of credit. They were intense and caused a lot of the turnovers. Ponds was unstoppable, and the game was within reach. I think the difference was that for some reason DiVincenzo just goes off on SJU, and Nova’s veterans have learned how to close out tight games.
We have a whiney fan base. Ponds goes off for 37 and they still complain.
I would dispute that since Bridges made a boneheaded foul that the refs bailed him out on in what was clearly an over the back against Ponds with a minute left SJU rallying and Nova missing it's last 7 shots. But Nova can drill the FT's and that was that.
I agree that St. John’s did compete hard and I was proud of them last night. But the idea that fans shouldn’t complain just because Ponds scored 37 doesn’t make sense. We lost.
And honestly, a tough loss to #1 team, we competed hard, it’s not that big of a loss. I think my attitude towards it stems from the fact that the loss pushed us to 0-6 in conference, and it’s quite possible 0-7 is on the way. Really tough pill to swallow because we looked like a tournament team in non conference in my opinion.