from Pat Forde this morning:

[GonzoCat]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

Alright -- time for a proper thread hijack.

What movie?

First (only) time I've seen curbstomping in a movie was American History X.

That's the one. Based on Frank Meeink, who now lives in Dsm. He was on a radio show for awhile, which is where I heard about him. I have no idea how realistic the movie is, but today he comes across about as opposite of that character as you could be.

[ProwlingPanther]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

We don't claim it, we ARE it.

Wrong.............

[TommyT]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

Utah is an anomaly....they beat LSU and Illinois too. In league play, they held teams to .287 shooting from 3pt range....which is incredible, and the fact that they play a lot of zone with a 7 foot 3 inch center....it was a terrible matchup for us....BUT, we also lost a few starters both times we played them, the 2nd time we played them, one of our players had the best week in practice (Matt Shaw) and worked his way back into the starting role for that game and then hurt himself during warmups....it was unfortunate.

No excuses...they're a tough matchup for our personnel and they beat us. In both games, they tried to slow us down the whole game and did a decent job at it, but we were able to speed them up and comeback both times and they weathered the storm. In the conference tourney, we sped them up from the get go and handled them.

Finally! Intelligent discussion The DePaul game that everyone points to as one of our bad losses was one in which their center - who is supposedly an NBA prospect - was healthy. Also, for 9 minutes in the second half we scored "3" points total. DePaul went on to give Tennessee a pretty good run for their money in the next game. After that, DePaul imploded. We have run into a couple of teams that began to stink out loud after we played them this year (looking at you Iowa St!). I think our worst loss of the season was not Depaul or Evansville - it was at Bradley when we were up by nine at halftime. No reason for us to lose that game. I look forward to the tip off of our game so we can stop all the jawing and finally settle this!