Syracuse Orange (3-0) vs. North Carolina Tar Heels (4-0) GameThread
by Sean Keeley on Nov 20, 2009 7:00 PM EST
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Bobby Knight
Just said, “I would be surprised if Syracuse didn’t win.”
How the hell did Bob Knight
end up being my favorite color commentator?
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For the last 22 years
I think a lot of Cuse fans have hated him. But hearts and minds are a-changin.
He's just himself
he’s not trying to be a character (Vitale, Raftery). Refreshing.
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I know Im the only one
but he blows ass
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At least
The NCAA video game has an option of using a CBS crew. Too bad CBS basically has a west coast bias.
I don't think he blows
But he does have a schtick much like Vitale does. It’s just that Raf’s schtick is nowhere near as annoying as Vitale’s.
You're not alone
See comments below. I loathe him…but not quite as much as Dicky V babyyyyyyyyy!
Honest Question
If Knight wasn’t blowing verbal kisses to SU for the last 24 hours would people think he’s so good? He sucks the life out of a game with a monotone delivery. He’s the anti-gus johnson
tough call
I’ve been a big fan of Bilas since he started doing commentary, but Knight is so refreshing…
chat.... is..... live.
http://roblongunderoos.blogspot.com/2009/11/chattin-time.html
"I Don't Care if your Family Sells Gasoline, Catch the goddamn ball'
I'd like Knight more if
he bothered to learn anyone’s name. It was always “the big guy” “the chinese guy” “the guy in orange/yellow”.
just got home from happy hour
the cal-osu game was on, so i knew when that game ended that it was time to leave & come home to watch the SU game.
I HATE Raftery
I find him almost as annoying as Vitale. “In the man-ta-man” “with the kiss” – his shtick is horrible. I hate listening to his voice. I wish that they would both retire.
This is mean, but remember when Vitale missed some action last year because he had voice box surgery or something? That wasn’t so bad…
I like Raf
but I can understand if someone else thinks he’s a lot like Vitale in that they’re caricatures of themselves in terms of announcing style.
Shut up, Vitale
Your voice makes my brain melt
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they're
totally talking about the 03 title game down there.
"I Don't Care if your Family Sells Gasoline, Catch the goddamn ball'
Doris Burke
is energy personified
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the way they're bouncin around out there....
i’m amazed they don’t have arinze on a chair and hava nagila playing.
"I Don't Care if your Family Sells Gasoline, Catch the goddamn ball'
IMO
Twitter has killed the Online Chat
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For instances like right now
It’s basically a giant chat room
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Wes Johnson is an anagram for NO, JESOS WHO?
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LOVE the Disgruntled Roy Williams Picture In Picture.
I want that for all my TV programs.
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by Sean Keeley on Nov 20, 2009 7:38 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
WOOOOOOOOO
Drinking 750’s of Allagash Confluence Ale, Southern Tier Mokah, and Great Divide Fresh Hop tonight for the game Let’s GOOO
11-2
by TheRenegadePumpkin on Nov 20, 2009 7:40 PM EST reply actions
I'm just drinking another Sierra Nevada IPA
If we played OSU, i would’ve considered getting a 6 pack of the Great Lakes porter.
I don't know that means but
WOOOOOOOOOO
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Rautins
We get thru this game and I think we need to shut him down for a week or so
Without Gerry McNamara we wouldn't have won 10 f-- games, not 10
Notice how perennial powers
like UNC make a ton of FT’s
by TheRenegadePumpkin on Nov 20, 2009 7:41 PM EST reply actions
Right
We’d theoretically be 1 of 4, which in my book is statistically relevant.
by TheRenegadePumpkin on Nov 20, 2009 7:43 PM EST up reply actions
PS
That -1 was directed at myself
by TheRenegadePumpkin on Nov 20, 2009 7:44 PM EST up reply actions
the lines
are in line, apparently. Okay, I’m too old to be talking this much about lines.
by TheRenegadePumpkin on Nov 20, 2009 7:48 PM EST up reply actions
Is it Scoop Time?
I want to see that dribble-pen-dish-to-post-foul-drawing machine
by TheRenegadePumpkin on Nov 20, 2009 7:42 PM EST reply actions
Rautins
with 2 fouls? Yeah, that should be the case
Without Gerry McNamara we wouldn't have won 10 f-- games, not 10
by PoetryInMoten on Nov 20, 2009 7:43 PM EST up reply actions
damnit, rautins in foul trouble
with his style of play on the defensive end, this may be a common occurence for us
i dont get it….. where is the su home court tonight? i’m hearing more unc fans.
"I Don't Care if your Family Sells Gasoline, Catch the goddamn ball'
Vitale: "You don't see that call too often"
Um, they called it last night too.
by TheRenegadePumpkin on Nov 20, 2009 7:50 PM EST reply actions
Coached
By Jimmy
Without Gerry McNamara we wouldn't have won 10 f-- games, not 10
by PoetryInMoten on Nov 20, 2009 7:57 PM EST up reply actions
it's like the call was so late
that the ref forgot that the defender was in position & called the foul on him
I keep
confusing Ginyard with Marty Gilyard
Without Gerry McNamara we wouldn't have won 10 f-- games, not 10
We need
to stop these pointless fouls. Save our fouls for those situations like Rick Jackson was just in.
our D doesn't have the intesity it did last night
yet we’re still up 5. i think we have a good team this year, folks.
Win or lose
it’s been fun to watch so far. Where does Cuse rank come Monday?
Rank
Win – #12 – #15
Lose – #18 – #22
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I think the Lemoyne thing
will keep us out of the top 10 even with a win tonight. And you know what? I’m okay with that
Personally
I just think it’s too much movement for a team that’s ranked 24th right now. I could see them be 12th or 13th, but not to jump 15 other teams.
Without Gerry McNamara we wouldn't have won 10 f-- games, not 10
by PoetryInMoten on Nov 20, 2009 8:09 PM EST up reply actions
this game speed
is making this beer disappear real quick.
mine is 7.2%
but in my defense, I was at happy hour drinking victory hop devil ales before coming home to watch this
I'm done with
My Allagash Confluence Ale, and my Great Divide Fresh Hop; Only have a very weak Southern Tier Mokah left… should I go with a dozen Coors Lights or the bottle of ’02 Cakebread Cab in my basement?
by TheRenegadePumpkin on Nov 20, 2009 8:24 PM EST up reply actions
oh good god
don’t drink coors light.
then again, i wouldn’t switch to a cab at this point either.
so i’ve never heard of allagash confluence ale or great divide fresh hop. where are they from?
Allagash = Portland, ME
Great Divide = Denver, CO
by TheRenegadePumpkin on Nov 20, 2009 8:29 PM EST up reply actions
interesting
The Wegmans in the Rochester area have all started up “beers of the world” sections, but I don’t recall seeing either of those there. I take it the Fresh Hop is an IPA. What style is the Confluence?
Fresh Hop is actually a regular Pale Ale, whereas similar style “wet hop” ales (Harpoon 100 Barrel Glacier Harvest, Sierra Nevada Harvest Estate) are IPA’s. Confluence is a straight up ALE. Citrusy, light-medium body, thick cream.
Just racked the Southern Tier (Lakewood, NY) Mokah… a chocolately coffee Imperial Stout. Think of a chilled cafe mocha from Starbucks, only with 72x more flavor. Ridic. Bitches cream themselves over it. 11.0 ABV% is not bad for a stout, either.
by TheRenegadePumpkin on Nov 20, 2009 8:48 PM EST up reply actions
I love the Southern Tier IPA
it’s one of my favorite IPAs. I also like their Porter. So I’d think they’d do a good job with their imperial stout, too. But I can’t do coffee stouts (got sick off kahlua & cream too often as a youngster & it’s ruined me for anything coffee+alcohol).
Great points +2
I much prefer their Hoppe and the other one (forget it’s name right now), and the combination of the two that make the Gemini, needed a change of flavor.
by TheRenegadePumpkin on Nov 20, 2009 9:04 PM EST up reply actions
uh oh
are we in the bonus yet? i hope not, othewrwise AO is going to the line for a 1-and-0 after the break
i have a couple Victory Storm King Stouts in the fridge still
that’s a fantastic beer. 9.2%, i think. It’s like $12/ 6 pack at Wegmans
The UNC
lovefest is awful. It’s like we’re Binghamton here.
Without Gerry McNamara we wouldn't have won 10 f-- games, not 10
I knew once UNC started going on a run
Dicky V was not going to shut the fuck up. He’s SUCH an ACC homer…
BRING IN BOB KNIGHT.
110 comments compared to yesterday
where there were 58 at halftime for Cal.
Ummm...
Wes Johnson reminds Dick Vitale of Doris Burke.
Are we talking penis size? Adam’s Apple? Dunking ability?
Really… other than fondness for basketball… can you think of any time you would make that comparison?
Showing
we can hang with good teams right now. The big question is if we can then put them away when we need to
Without Gerry McNamara we wouldn't have won 10 f-- games, not 10
And it just keeps on adding up.
"Did you feel you did well against Lindland?" "
Hell no.. I wanted to break the law"
---Rampage
by TearsofaClown on Nov 20, 2009 8:57 PM EST up reply actions
wow
just. wow.
what i said earlier about not getting into the top 10? well, if we beat UNC by 20, i’d like to retract that statement.
but there’s still a lot of time left. we have to maintain our focus & our energy.
I'm so glad my cable box went out
during that run. Thanks Time Warner.
If it was Duke, he would be crying right now.
"Did you feel you did well against Lindland?" "
Hell no.. I wanted to break the law"
---Rampage
by TearsofaClown on Nov 20, 2009 8:59 PM EST up reply actions
Anyone who was a teenager in the early 90s
Should’ve thought of that.
Did I ever tell the story about when I met Mr. Belding?
Jealous?
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Mr. Belding spoke at Syracuse while I was there
he said he came because he googled himself and saw a DO article about him… he appeared a week before Screech spoke. Weirdest 2 weeks of my life
damnit, i'm drinking faster than the game is going
i’m gonna have to crack open a 3rd beer pretty soon…
AO is giving a few inches and pounds
but damn they have hacking the hell out of him on offense.
Here's a scary fact.
AO is the all-time SU Field Goal Leader with ~65% FG%. Yet, we will all remember him for his woeful, historic FT shooting.
GP2 is the all-time SU completion % leader with ~65% Compl/Att. Yet, we will all remember him for his woeful, historic INT margin.
by TheRenegadePumpkin on Nov 20, 2009 9:12 PM EST reply actions
yeah, i've already resigned myself
to the fact that wes is gone after this year. Like I said, enjoy him while you can this year, the dude’s a stud.
This is just wonderful, my favorite college BB team taking out my least favorite team. Syracuse vs Duke in the Championship game would be heaven for meh.
"Did you feel you did well against Lindland?" "
Hell no.. I wanted to break the law"
---Rampage
Opposite for me
Married to a girl from NC. All of her family’s UNC fans. Don’t root for them, but I’m happy to see them win (so long as it doesn’t hurt Syracuse). Hate Duke. Hate hate hate. I’m not sure that I would’ve been allowed by her parents to marry her if I had been a Duke fan.
Haha
Was born and raised in SU, now living in Raleigh-Durham, Only dark blue and Orange for me. Can’t stand those light blue Tar Heels!
"Did you feel you did well against Lindland?" "
Hell no.. I wanted to break the law"
---Rampage
by TearsofaClown on Nov 20, 2009 9:25 PM EST up reply actions
same
UNC is my least favorite too- but that’s because I like Kansas (that bastard roy williams, who the hell leaves KU?).
Someone who wants championships leaves KU. =0)
"Did you feel you did well against Lindland?" "
Hell no.. I wanted to break the law"
---Rampage
by TearsofaClown on Nov 20, 2009 9:40 PM EST up reply actions
lets start the ranking predictions
I say we’ll be 12 (not what we should be, but what we will be on Monday)
Im still
thinking 12th. I just can’t see them jumping a ton
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by PoetryInMoten on Nov 20, 2009 9:23 PM EST up reply actions
It's sad
But I was wishing Andy would’ve thrown a couple eh’s and a few poser comments in the interview
Without Gerry McNamara we wouldn't have won 10 f-- games, not 10
i was about to post the same thing
it’s cool that they gave him the player of the game over johnson.
7 assists and 7 steals (and 7 rebounds, for a guard). how awesome is that?
EAT THAT GOTTLIEB!!!!
We just beat #4 UNC and #12 Cal!!!!!
by upstateNYYFan1984 on Nov 20, 2009 9:26 PM EST reply actions
"Rautins is stroking it right now"
Great quote. What a game… almost a quadruple double.
This even feels better
Than Kansas last year. We squeaked by them. We just dominated. DOMINATED. UNC. And Cal. And we probably would’ve dominated Ohio State if we’d played them.
wow that reception was crappy
for an NBA locker room.
This is a good time to mention
That i’m like 75% sure I sat next to Kris Joseph at the movies last friday. I willingly gave up my right arm rest to make him more comfortable. In some small way I contributed to this victory. You’re welcome everyone.
you guys
we just pummeled UNC. UNC!
soak it all in, everyone. this is damn impressive. are we going to be good this year? yes, yes we are.
and I must say
that I got the poll question right, the one that asked if we’d win both games of this tourney, or just 1, or none.
now i can only hope that i didn’t get the football poll question right (i said we’d lose by more than 20)
You know what's interesting?
Even though the Big East is undefeated so far, the other Big East teams (Nova, Gtown, UConn in particular) are struggling to beat second tier mid-majors. We’re walking all over the big shots.
You can give me credit for this win, btw
When UNC went on the late 1st half run to go up 37-35, I decided to change things up by watching something else on the TV and watching the game on ESPN360. Then the huge run started.
You’re welcome everyone!
How good
would Iowa State have been this year with Brackens and Johnson down low?
Without Gerry McNamara we wouldn't have won 10 f-- games, not 10
Only 4 comments
on the UNC game thread? I was gonna talk some trash but now I just feel bad for them.
Is UNC a football school now?
Because usually if only four people care about basketball at Carolina that’s what it would look like……
YES
Beautiful game. I love this team. Let’s enjoy it. It will keep us warm through the Rutgers game tomorrow.
The game was in the State of New York
ergo, it’s typical Syracuse scheduling and this game means nothing!
Big question:
Better team, this year with Flynn, or last year with Wes?
My vote, last year with Wes, better backcourt is usually the better tourney team.
Go Orange(men)!
I would go this year with Flynn.
The reason? Defense. All these long arms and big bodies are making this zone work. Add a player like Flynn to that and damn. I’ll take the combo of Triche and Jardine to replace Devo and it’s pretty clear Wes is replacing Harris just fine.
Wes = Warrick
Harris couldn’t shine Wes’ shoes.
Yeah, the D is really improved, but I will argue that with Wes, last year’s team would of had a much better D than they did.
Go Orange(men)!
i'm not interested in comparisons really
i’m just interested in enjoying this team. because damn, they are good, and they are exciting. now i wish i was going to more than 4 of their games this year.
What good is a fan blog...
if not for the completely meaningless fanboy matchups? What I tell ya?
Go Orange(men)!
I’m too poor of a man to afford “premium” BE tickets at $34
by AlvinTostig on Nov 20, 2009 10:07 PM EST up reply actions
it's good to know people
someone i work with has really good season tickets, so i’m getting his seats for those games. $27 for non-conf tickets, and $49 for big east games.
BTW
I have seen AO smile more in November 2009 than he has in all prior seasons put together.
by ezcuse on Nov 20, 2009 10:11 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Happy birthday to me
What a great ending to my birthday… Top 10 team right now but we’ll have to see how they do in late jan when they usually struggle and lose 3 out of 5… But I’m proud of my orange… GO SU!!!!
by SUBB8 on Nov 20, 2009 11:06 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Also
Anyone one else see boeheim pump his fist after shaking hands with Williams? Haven’t seen that since 2003 after national championship… Must be really happy with his team
by SUBB8 on Nov 20, 2009 11:09 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Rautins MVP Trophy
The tourney went all out. Nothing like an award you can fit in your wallet….
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