Cal Poly-Official Game Thread

[1stRowFANatic]

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The bigger question to me than losing a tight one at the end is how did we ever come in so flat? Down 21-3 is a tough hole to crawl out of, the fact that they did is great, but darn, that made it tough tonight.

Coach Nagy sounded really down in the post-game. But by the end of the spot he was talking about how things WILL get changed before ORU.

[SF_Rabbit_Fan]

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Wow, this thread went in a bad direction quickly...

I think it's fair to say that no one is more disappointed with tonight's loss than the guys in our locker room out in SLO. Disappointing loss, of course, but we've got a couple more road games (lets get that first road win and then a second) and then the conference tournament, anything can happen. I seem to remember some of the same posters who are the downest now being downers in the preseason thread too, being downers after the SWMSU game, making comments like we wouldn't win 10 games, wouldn't make the tourny, etc. Talk about glass half empty thinking...

Kai has had some great games as a Jackrabbit, and he has had some stinkers too. We are a better team because he is on our roster. You could say the same about every player on our current roster, and I would be willing to bet my house that if you look at the list of the best 25 players in SDSU history you could say the same thing about them, too.

How people post negative comments about a player when he scores 19 is beyond me...

[filbert]

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Filbert, you are a god in my books, but I have to disagree with one point. I just dont think we have the talent in the post to compete. Hopefully that changes.

We'll just agree to disagree then. Most of the Summit League teams don't have players who are the athletic matches of Dale Moss, Kai Williams, and Anthony Cordova. NDSU, Oakland, Oral Roberts have superior athletes. The rest, don't.

I'll stick to my judgment that what we lack isn't athletic ability, it's attitude.

[LakeJack]

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To me it came down to rebounding. When we were doing it well we were closing the gap and taking a lead then we stopped and we lost.

[JacksFroshFan]

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What, because he took the last shot he gets the blame for the loss? How about one of the misses in the middle of the game that should of went in, can we blame that player too. Kai played a good game, the shot went down and back out. How bout we blame the bus driver that drove to the game. If he hadn't done that we wouldn't have lost.

I didn't ever make mention that this loss or any loss for that matter was Kai's fault.

[rabbit_boy]

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Filbert, you are a god in my books, but I have to disagree with one point. I just dont think we have the talent in the post to compete. Hopefully that changes.

[AugieJackFan]

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Go get him Mrs Williams!!

Or just ignore him. It wasn't Kai's fault tonight it was a total team effort just like every other heart-breaking road loss. No defense down the stretch and no one taking a leadership roll wanting the ball in crunch time and making a play.

[SturgisJeff]

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Damn all the bus drivers, every where that drove the Jacks to away games. It's all their faults.

[filbert]

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Teams win, and teams lose.

It sounded to me (listening to the radio call) that Kai and Dale had pretty good games.

But this entire team needs to get tougher--nastier--if they want to win a game on the road.

They have the talent to succeed. What they don't seem to have is enough of the attitude. The Jackrabbits need to somehow find a mean streak, and use it. They're a team of basically nice guys. Good to hang out with. Bad to try to win in Division I with.

They need to make other teams hesitant to play them. They need to play tougher--more physical, whatever. Right now, they let teams do whatever they want to. They play offense hesitantly, and play defense politely. This team doesn't have the right mental attitude to play defense. That attitude is: "that basketball is mine. Give it to me. Now." Right now, they're playing like "oh, please don't score on us, thanks." So, every team we play seems to have a career night against our defense. Because they don't want to do what it takes to play good defense in NCAA Division I.

And if you don't play good defense, you get beat. A lot.

[jack power]

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I'd go so far as to say that SDSU is a better team with Moss on the court than Sargent. Clint, to be polite, hasn't mastered the defensive half of college basketball competition.

There's nobody on this team that's mastered the defensive half, including Dale.

[rabbit_boy]

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Go get him Mrs Williams!!

[bballfan54]

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It's so easy to pick a fight and make nonsense statements behind a computer screen wonder how much any of you would have to say in person....to me...bring it....

[SturgisJeff]

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You're right, it can't be Kai's fault. Maybe Nagy could go out and hold his hand, bring him in the office and stroke his ego. What more can anyone do?

What, because he took the last shot he gets the blame for the loss? How about one of the misses in the middle of the game that should of went in, can we blame that player too. Kai played a good game, the shot went down and back out. How bout we blame the bus driver that drove to the game. If he hadn't done that we wouldn't have lost.

[rabbit_boy]

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You're right, it can't be Kai's fault. Maybe Nagy could go out and hold his hand, bring him in the office and stroke his ego. What more can anyone do?

How about recruit some post players so Kai can play his natural wing spot!!

[LakeJack]

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Well it is kind of silly to make that argument tonight and I think it is uncool to pick a fight with Kai's mom.