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"You can't be collectively that bad at one aspect of the game and not blame the coach. "

oh just SHUT THE FUCK UP

3/20/2014 10:16:57 PM

Sad

3/20/2014 10:17:19 PM

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"oh just SHUT THE FUCK UP"

YES LETS BLAME IT ON A CURSE OR POINTS SHAVING INSTEAD THAT MAKES SENSE

3/20/2014 10:18:01 PM

saint louis sucks. we had this shit giftwrapped and invented a new way to lose. unbelievable. sure this isn'st our best team but clemson or florida state would have won this game by double digits.

3/20/2014 10:18:21 PM

Yes because Warren shot 35% from the line all year long


It was a good season, it was a horrible ending, Warren had a pretty bad game and really even then only bad by his standards

Gottfried could have subbed better in OT but if these guys were even close to the season average on FTs tonight we wouldn't have been there anyway

3/20/2014 10:18:36 PM

they obviously lost confidence. Could blame TJ for not stepping up. Can't really blame Gott.

3/20/2014 10:18:37 PM

When you don't have a hardass for a coach it takes a meltdown like that before the players believe it will really happen. Unfortunately, we weren't very good for most of the season and never really had to ice a game before today. I'm guessing Tyler/Cat won't let that happen again, but it's kinda too late now.

3/20/2014 10:18:38 PM

I get that they missed a bunch of free throws. And, if any of you have small children at home, I hope you'll take this opportunity to teach them about the value of making the free ones. You can never learn that lesson too young.

But, for the rest of us, when do we start talking shit about St. Louis? Or did I miss that part already?

3/20/2014 10:19:00 PM

Fuck everyone

Just fuck everyone

3/20/2014 10:19:05 PM

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"YES LETS BLAME IT ON A CURSE OR POINTS SHAVING INSTEAD THAT MAKES SENSE"

or perhaps we forgo assigning blame to a coach and just accept our players choked and thats it

3/20/2014 10:19:18 PM

I think I can speak for a lot of people and say Fuck, I am going to be hungover and miserable tomorrow.

3/20/2014 10:20:06 PM

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"We just got outplayed down the stretch and panicked."

one of our few traditions

3/20/2014 10:20:32 PM

Any team who can make free throws would've won this game by double digits

I took tomorrow off work to go to Wilmington, drink a bunch of beer and watch bball games. But the fact that I'll be with a bunch of Duke fans who will give me a pity party make me just want to stay in bed all day with the blinds closed

3/20/2014 10:20:50 PM

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"But, for the rest of us, when do we start talking shit about St. Louis? Or did I miss that part already?"

They play a horrible brand of basketball. I feel sorry for their fans that have to watch that bullshit night in and night out.

3/20/2014 10:20:57 PM

Hell, if you like that curse theory, today's as good a day as any to believe in it. This looked like 2004 over again.

If you think anyone's saying anything other than "Gott better have them shoot 10000 FTs a day between now and next season," then you must have PTSD from the Herb days. No one is going anywhere and we'll be better next year.

But missing 15 FTs is unfathomable. How does a team collectively do that?

[Edited on March 20, 2014 at 10:22 PM. Reason : .]

3/20/2014 10:21:21 PM

it will all be okay in about sixty minutes or so, because honestly, we've gotten pretty good at dealing with these sorts of scenarios, haven't we?

3/20/2014 10:21:38 PM

Well, one person is going somewhere

3/20/2014 10:21:42 PM

i wonder why washington didn't play. our pick n roll defense went to shit just like in the duke/miami/unc games.

in ot they just walked in for layup after layup. vandy was worthless avoiding a 5th foul and tj couldn't get out of the game soon enough.

3/20/2014 10:22:08 PM

maybe the team will learn to play better defense and make their FTs next season

3/20/2014 10:22:15 PM

yeah tj looked like he couldn't commit that fifth foul fast enough. just decided "fuck all this"

3/20/2014 10:22:44 PM

Collapse of MONUMENTAL proportions

3/20/2014 10:22:52 PM

If anything could inspire TJ to stay, it's going out like that. I hope he thinks he's got something left to prove.

Either that, or he stopped caring during this game, which says something about either him or the people backing him up.

[Edited on March 20, 2014 at 10:24 PM. Reason : x]

3/20/2014 10:23:23 PM

he seems like a nice enough guy, but we should guilt trip the shit out of him and convince him to stay and make it up to us

3/20/2014 10:24:11 PM

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"perhaps we forgo assigning blame to a coach and just accept our players choked and thats it"

3/20/2014 10:24:27 PM

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"he seems like a nice enough guy, but we should guilt trip the shit out of him and convince him to stay and make it up to us"

3/20/2014 10:24:43 PM

i was 100% convinced that TJ was leaving, now I'm wondering if he's second-guessing himself, thinking maybe he doesn't want to leave school like this

3/20/2014 10:25:05 PM

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"I also really hope Warren caught the flu from Cat. Otherwise, that was a really shitty, timid way to go out."

I mean he did have the beast steal and and-1 chance to tie it, just missed the free throw, and every free throw.




I feel like a heartbroken teenager

3/20/2014 10:25:28 PM

He's gone

3/20/2014 10:25:50 PM

Call me crazy, but I find it easier to criticize the guy who's paid millions to win rather than the players who only get the opportunity to earn a degree.

TJ isn't Hodge. He's gone. He can make too much now.

[Edited on March 20, 2014 at 10:26 PM. Reason : x]

3/20/2014 10:25:56 PM

Good point, Jaybee

3/20/2014 10:26:30 PM

This one is on the point guards. How two 5* recruits could be so collectively garbage, I have no idea. May as well go back to the Javi's and Denang's of the world.

3/20/2014 10:26:39 PM

our dudes have been decent enough hitting FTs through the last stretch of the season

not sure how this is on him

3/20/2014 10:26:53 PM

This team is young.

Can't blame a coach for this, dumb to do so. The team played great ball for 35 minutes. So many things went wrong at the end. Missed FTs, turnovers under the other basket, wide open 3s, bad out of bounds call. 1 of those doesn't happen and we win. An assortment of fail cannot be coaching.

Just sucks, would have loved to see this team play Louisville.

3/20/2014 10:30:53 PM

This was painful. Typical end of game choke. We've been doing this since I started watching 12 years ago. Expect it.

3/20/2014 10:31:58 PM

https://vine.co/v/MMWgVqqIpIp

3/20/2014 10:32:37 PM

oh dude someone put TJ on suicide watch

3/20/2014 10:33:16 PM

If by some miracle TJ decided to stay, we'd be pretty well set for a run next year.

Then again, C.J. stayed and we all saw how that worked out.

3/20/2014 10:33:47 PM

they played bad and they should feel bad

3/20/2014 10:33:49 PM

On the bright side, we will never have to see those dumbshit Natty Daddy gifs anymore, right?

3/20/2014 10:33:52 PM

I pray that it is so

3/20/2014 10:34:27 PM

turner and lee played well but the ball was not put into their hands.

vandy and warren get all the rebounds and are the guys who can't shoot.

3/20/2014 10:35:11 PM

warren can't shoot

plz, tell us more

3/20/2014 10:36:18 PM

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"If by some miracle TJ decided to stay, we'd be pretty well set for a run next year. Then again, C.J. stayed and we all saw how that worked out."

Wait till... for ever

3/20/2014 10:36:28 PM

if there was ANY force that get TJ to want to come back and try one more time. it was a loss like this.

likelihood is still slim to none, but I have to start becoming that falsely optimistic wolfpack fan that we all become now.

3/20/2014 10:36:43 PM

that was as crushing of a loss as I can remember, but holy fuck do losses bring out absolute stupidity in people

for now, without enough time to really re-think the game, I'll blame fatigue and mismanagement of a 16 point 2nd half lead

but that was as epic of a shitting the bed as you're ever gonna see

on the bright side, happy that I haven't seen any ref-blaming. at least we have that going for us.

and TJ averaged 38 minutes during his last 5 games after absolutely carrying us during each of those games. he didn't choke, he was absolutely gassed

[Edited on March 20, 2014 at 10:40 PM. Reason : but go ahead and keep calling him a choker ]

3/20/2014 10:37:47 PM

tj will come back next year. then average 14ppg on 40% shooting and 83% ft shooting then go pro and end up in the dleague.

[Edited on March 20, 2014 at 10:38 PM. Reason : ^if the refs fixed the ob call we win the game. ]

3/20/2014 10:38:16 PM

A part of me is kind of impressed by how well that strategy worked for STL. Once the coach went with it he was all in.

3/20/2014 10:39:01 PM

Get fucked^^

[Edited on March 20, 2014 at 10:39 PM. Reason : ]

3/20/2014 10:39:14 PM

ugly, ugly basketball

I hope Louisville ass blasts them back to the stone age

3/20/2014 10:39:57 PM

Has anyone watched any of St. Louis' other games this season? Are all of their games that unbearable to watch? I guess maybe it's fun to watch a team that wins a lot of their games, but holy shit that is just awful basketball.

3/20/2014 10:40:43 PM