I think everyone in this thread needs to stfu. Everytime this thread gets bumped I look to see if there is something interested, but like an idiot, I'm always dissapointed. I should learn that this thread is only relevant after or before the season.

12/11/2009 5:01:29 PM

I'm not sure what you're expecting in this thread.

What "relevant"and 'interested" type of info is posted in this thread in the off-season?

[Edited on December 11, 2009 at 5:43 PM. Reason : ]

12/11/2009 5:42:06 PM

^ would you look at that, we actually agree on something. I have no idea what the fuck he's talking about.

12/11/2009 6:14:10 PM

i had to check the profile, i thought he was a she

12/11/2009 8:27:52 PM

start teaching defense

12/17/2009 8:29:01 PM

Well this thread should be hot tonight. WTF Elon???

12/17/2009 8:29:12 PM

Great win tonight. Would have lost this one against a quality OOC opponent five years ago.

12/17/2009 8:39:23 PM

we always had bad losses wtf losses under herb. I'm just glad we survived this major trap game. a win is a win and this did the team much more good than a 30 pt blowout win could have.

12/17/2009 8:40:34 PM

Oh, shut up... Elon is NEVER a trap fucking game. It's fucking Elon.

Embarrassing effort, but as long as we win it won't kill us. Still, this should NOT be happening... period.

12/17/2009 8:42:02 PM

You people.

V I'm criticizing the morons that thought we were somehow magically a good team this year. And lots of teams have a wtf game every now and then against shitty teams.

I'm really not surprised that Elon came out like they did. Our players were most certainly thinking more about Wake Forest coming into this than they were Elon. I'll give Elon a lot of credit, it sounds like they've put together a good game plan (and, from what little of the vid I could get to work, were executing pretty well) and constantine has completely gone off on us.

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 8:55 PM. Reason : .]

12/17/2009 8:48:19 PM

I hope you're not seriously criticizing people who aren't happy with this performance...

12/17/2009 8:50:00 PM

its a win and elon being elon is the point of a trap game. thats what trap means. the team isn't good and you get trapped looking ahead against a team fired up to play an epic rival. if they weren't bad it wouldn't be a trap game it would just be a tough game.

we won. its over and i'm sure the teamed learned a lot more than most of the games this season. go celebrate.

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 8:54 PM. Reason : big]

12/17/2009 8:53:41 PM

Yeah, I'm going crazy here. Just popped open the champagne.

Did Elon break out the 1-3-1? Should we disregard the game?

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 8:54 PM. Reason : x]

12/17/2009 8:54:13 PM

Yeah this was an embarrassing performance. We allowed Elon to score nearly 80 pts. Yeah that is fucking embarrassing.

12/17/2009 8:57:38 PM

One positive note from the game is that even though they torched us on defense we were able to step up the offense and scored more points than we have all season.

Oh yeah, and apparently Javi and Smith both have injuries.

12/17/2009 9:00:19 PM

You guys are kidding about tonight being any positive right?

Elon is 3-7 with a 40 point loss to Wake, and loses to Yale and Samford.

They scored 31 fucking points against Samford.

12/17/2009 9:06:33 PM

Look, man. We would have lost this game five years ago. Elon isn't your father's Elon. I predict them winning the SoCon and being a Sweet 16 team.

12/17/2009 9:07:55 PM

GOOD: We won despite our two best players being slowed/out with injuries.

BAD: Sloppy passing, streaky shooting, soft defense, and the fact that Elon out played us all night.

12/17/2009 9:08:02 PM

tonight was a disgrace

the only possible positive that could come out of it is for every freshman except davis to find some major splinters

12/17/2009 9:10:44 PM

justin gainey knows how our guys play...i say elon had an advantage

12/17/2009 9:10:52 PM

Quote :

"we won. its over and i'm sure the teamed learned a lot more than most of the games this season. go celebrate."

hopefully the chick is right. it was a terrible game. elon shot and played well. our d was soft and the 3s aren't falling. We're probably not going to be competitive in the top half of the ACC, but I'm still confident that we'll exceed expectations*.


*last in the ACC

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 9:21 PM. Reason : ]

12/17/2009 9:18:51 PM

Quote :

"Elon isn't your father's Elon. I predict them winning the SoCon and being a Sweet 16 team."

hey now, come on! haha

12/17/2009 9:19:19 PM

of course the rule here is that elon played the same basketball tonight as they did against samford and we'll play the same basketball we played tonight for the rest of the year.

12/17/2009 9:22:07 PM

why arent these posts in the game thread because they should be

teams have wtf losses. Louisville lost to western carolina. Wake lost to Bill and mary. GT lost to IUPINIDISHDF etc etc etc

its a win, albeit a crappy win, yet people are talking in this thread like we're supposed to be world beaters. Its gonna be long season, simple as that.


^agreed, and I actually do think that the team was looking ahead to wake

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 9:25 PM. Reason : hopefully javi and smiff will be ok]

12/17/2009 9:24:57 PM

none of those teams are anywhere near as bad as elon

only the pac10 has losses of that caliber

12/17/2009 9:27:54 PM

Bill and Mary is pretty good this year... and Louisville is like the Mets of college bball this year. They are missing like 5 of their best 6 players, lol...

^^ no one has called for Sid's head. Just not pleased with the effort tonight. Nothing more...

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 9:29 PM. Reason : x]

12/17/2009 9:29:03 PM

Quote :

"only the pac10 has losses of that caliber"

we didn't lose

12/17/2009 9:29:27 PM

im talking about hypothetical damage control in the game thread while we were losing

12/17/2009 9:30:35 PM

yeah bill and mary is good because they covered the spread against UCONN, best big east team evarrrrr

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 9:34 PM. Reason : have to troll a fellow met fan a little bit]

12/17/2009 9:34:05 PM

oh here's my favorite thread.

All seriousness, we're 8-1. I think the team thought they could just show up tonight and win while Elon came to play and play hard. Hopefully Lowe will use this as a wake up call to the rest of the team.

And I know I'm going to get railed for this, but our best player is the last Herb recruit.

12/17/2009 9:35:20 PM

our best healthy player

12/17/2009 9:36:56 PM

Herb didn't recruit Tracy Smith.

...Horner, love the guy, good shooter, but his defense makes me

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 9:37 PM. Reason : ]

12/17/2009 9:37:14 PM

^^^hell has just frozen over

Horner played well tonight, I'll give him that.

SMiff played well in the second.

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 9:39 PM. Reason : asdf]

12/17/2009 9:39:02 PM

horner's been solid. he's definitely our 2nd or 3rd best player right now.

but smith's play will dictate if we win or lose.

12/17/2009 9:40:10 PM

horners the 2nd best player

but 3rd most important. he can disappear and we can survive. no javi = game over

12/17/2009 9:42:39 PM

shit i'd actually say whether or not williams, wood, mays, javi can hit the 3 is whether or not we will do well.

smiff will get his. we need those bums to make wide the fuck open shots.

12/17/2009 9:43:07 PM

yeah, you right. i'm just hoping that our 3P% will be better throughout the season than it's been our last 2 games...

[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 10:10 PM. Reason : ...and a few of our other games, like NW (2/18!)]

12/17/2009 9:53:05 PM

In the end all that matters is the W

12/17/2009 10:02:40 PM

i think javi is more consistently the 2nd best player, but horner is right up there at number 3. i really like davis' play so far as well.

if it were me, my starting 5 at this point would be:

javi
degand
davis
horner
smith

rotate in mays, cjw, wood, painter, howell off the bench

12/18/2009 9:02:05 AM

is there any reason that vandenburg (the big dandy vandy) doesn't play? i know that Lowe is already rotating about 10 people in the line up. but if he is willing to leave scott wood in when his offense is non-existent simply because of his good defense, why wouldnt he do the same with the big dandy vandy?

side note: scott wood is a ticking time-bomb. he is going to explode in a game (hopefully sooner than later) and finally be the offensive contributor we all expected

[Edited on December 18, 2009 at 4:42 PM. Reason : lion for russell]

12/18/2009 4:42:26 PM

because scott wood would only be taking away minutes from josh davis and CJ Williams whereas Vandenburg would be taking away minutes from our two best players?

12/18/2009 4:43:49 PM

makes sense. and you meant "THE BIG DANDY VANDY"

not vandenburg

[Edited on December 18, 2009 at 4:48 PM. Reason : lion for russell]

[Edited on December 18, 2009 at 4:52 PM. Reason : lion for the big dandy vandy]

12/18/2009 4:47:51 PM

really?

that's what you're going with?

12/18/2009 4:48:36 PM

big dandy vandy is the worst name ever.

12/18/2009 4:51:25 PM

i'm calling him vandenturd until he shows me something.

[Edited on December 18, 2009 at 5:00 PM. Reason : basketball related of course.]

12/18/2009 4:59:34 PM

You guys know why Vandenberg isn't playing at all? He hasn't played at all the last 2 games.

Also I think "The Big Dandy Vandy" is a great nickname. You guys take shit waayyyy too seriously. I'm reppin' hardcore for this nickname, he's gonna be hearing it alot in Winston on Sunday.

12/18/2009 5:12:18 PM

cause he sucks maybe?

12/18/2009 5:15:05 PM

because he can't play 5 minutes without picking up 5 fouls

12/19/2009 2:14:44 AM

id rather have vandenberg stand there and alter shots than have painter and howell lose people on D and take 18 foot jumpers

12/19/2009 2:55:08 AM

really?

12/19/2009 9:20:33 AM