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[The Sports Block]

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- SDSU Collegian USD Postgame

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uGY-vI89wg

[Theee Catrabbit]

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Blah Blah Blah, wax poetically about this and that. We got out coached a little bit in this one. Jeez, if this happened just two year ago, we would still be happy as hell we where we were sitting in the standings. Everybody wanted the rivalry back...so guess what? We got it, and it isn't going to be a win every time in our favor. Throw records out the window is the cliche, and that's what USD did. Good for them, they won their Super Bowl. Move on and let's roll the rest of the season through the tourney! My confidence in this team is only strengthened considering they were able to come back from 20 down and almost take that game back, something they really hadn't been able to do before.

[goon]

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How do you manage to not have a shoot around. Losing to teams in the last 1\4 of rpi teams is not good. To me this and the und lose cheapens the u dub and oru wins. Can we blame it on being a young team still? Nagy is still learning a lot. It almost appears in our losses that motivation is a problem. When you are talented enough like we are. Knowing the dance is possible not sure how we are not motivated for every game.

[joeboo22]

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USD had the right gameplan but how many step back threes and off balance shots fell last night for USD? How many wide open 3's did SDSU miss. It seemed like the shots were similar to Brookings just that USD's went in this time and SDSU's didn't. I do think USD had more energy they were getting more lose balls, but still sometimes you just have those nights. SDSU missed their first 10 3's, I'd say 7 of them wide open, if they make 4 of them its a totally different game.

You will lose bad games on the road, it happens.

[JimmyJack]

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It's tough on the road in front of 8,500 fans... wait... that's 5,800.... no, wait... it was 5,100. We heard a lot of projections from USD "sources" about huge numbers for this game. They only missed it by 3,400. In the end, not so huge. USD had to be a little disappointed.

That said... those fans were into it and definitely made a difference in the game.

It's just a basketball game. On that night USD played better and made a couple more shots. Like joeboo, I'm trying not to think about how the game would have changed had we hit some of those wide open threes.

[BudLight Jackrabbit]

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Hats off to USD for coming out and playing like they did

With that said...We played like doggy poop missed a number of wide open shots and for some reason the defense reminded me of last years defense. Overall not mad about the loss just very disappointed. I hope we bounce back and blow out UMKC.

I would hate to be UMKC

[UWMandSDSU]

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The stat that pops out at me is the 19 offensive rebounds, but only 16 second chance points (compared to USD's 7 offensive rebounds and 12 second chance points).

[YanktonJack7]

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What sticks in my mind is the missed rebound on Tecker's FT miss on the 1&1. If we get that then we have the ball for the last shot down by 2, and who knows, maybe Nate hits it, ala Austin Rivers, and we walk out of there a winner. I slowed down that play on TV and Griff just failed to box out. Andreotti slipped right by him because Griff couldn't box out. Ugh. This is not an excuse for losing but why WOULDN'T you have a shootaround, especially at a place none of them have ever played before. I think at the Dump, opposing teams have to have a shootaround to become familiar with the place.

[discoDancinJackrabbit]

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i think we need to realize that this game was alot more out of our control than we think. you gotta look at our season as a whole and access our full body of work. we're good but we're not the center of the basketball universe and this was a much needed experience for usd. theres a place and time for everything and last night was usd's moment and hopefully our time will be in sioux falls. granted we've constructed a nice little work of art with this season already. crushed washington, great summit league wins, 2nd in conference, sellout at frost, espn game, serious wolters recognition etc.. and on top of all that we have some awesome opportunities left... its all goooood

[KUlawJack]

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I believe that with a 3 game lead on NDSU with 4 to play, we need only win one game since we have the tie breaker over them by beating ORU and NDSU having lost to them twice. This way we would retain the #2 seed.

Granted I'd rather be playing well than losing 3 of the remaining 4 conference games, but getting that #2 seed is important. How important? I guess we'll see.

[TK22867]

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Also, Brayden and Nagy said that in the postgame that they didn't have good practices all week so to me, they were saying essentially that they were expecting this to happen? The context just sounded like that. How do they not get up for the USD game???? Truly baffling.

This really concerns me. I understand that it is just another game, but it's USD! They mentioned that they could tell on Monday that something was not right.......the game was on Thursday. Are you telling me, Scott, that with all your years of experience you weren't able to pull this team out of its "funk" in four days? For Pete sakes, schedule a 2 AM practice, make them run laps around campus, bring in a special guest speaker about the USD rivalry, or something like that. Maybe he tried something, but I guess we'll never know.

Perhaps others on this board with collegitate experience at SDSU can reference some special motivating tactics that they were part of that were needed for a time like this?

If we get dumped early in Sioux Falls, I am pointing directly back to this game.

[jackmd]

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Embarrassing is the best way to describe it. Concerning, perhaps a little. Indicative of something more, I hope not but time will tell. Darn glad the Jacks get to play again tomorrow.

[TK22867]

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Of course as a big Duke fan I've had a pretty good week and can't complain too much, but what they say about Duke can be applied to the Jacks in this situation: "Live by the 3, Die by the 3".

I long for the days of Elton Brand and Carlos Boozer.........and maybe even Brian Zoubek

[goon]

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Of course as a big Duke fan I've had a pretty good week and can't complain too much, but what they say about Duke can be applied to the Jacks in this situation: "Live by the 3, Die by the 3".

I long for the days of Elton Brand and Carlos Boozer.........and maybe even Brian Zoubek

Once zoubek figured out his role and how to play in their system, I really felt he was the key to winning the title. watching him over the years it just really showed his senior year it really fit for him. I love Duke too, I just wish they could get better guard play on defense. They let guys drive past them way to easy. The who game as we were down around 10, I couldnt help but think we could win it like duke did. Dang near did, a rebound and Ft and this game ends differently.

[jack power]

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I've never been one to care if posters hijack a thread,but when you do it to talk about Dook, it should be a bannable offense