are we even trying to play defense? i mean seriously, how are they shooting almost 80% in the second half? what's that?

[Edited on February 9, 2008 at 9:46 PM. Reason : 9]

2/9/2008 9:43:53 PM

2/9/2008 9:45:51 PM

Fear the Turtle Mustard Yellow Jersey

2/9/2008 9:46:01 PM

wow Maryland just can't miss....

2/9/2008 9:47:16 PM

this is so frustrating.

2/9/2008 9:47:16 PM

This is rediculous

2/9/2008 9:47:29 PM

another quality opponent, another blowout. What's that about improving?

2/9/2008 9:47:37 PM

hm. sounds like we forgot about gist. no hammy pulled

2/9/2008 9:48:02 PM

Defense you useless pieces of shit! P.S. Passing is not optional in basketball.

2/9/2008 9:48:19 PM

just can't play two halves of basketball.

cannot do it.

this is the most frustrating shit i've ever watched.

i'll even say that I highly doubt sid tells these kids ANYTHING during halftime.

2/9/2008 9:48:25 PM

^He tells them just the positives doesn't he?

[Edited on February 9, 2008 at 9:49 PM. Reason : a]

2/9/2008 9:49:09 PM

halftime is our own worst enemy..

2/9/2008 9:49:17 PM

is the band playing the zelda theme?

2/9/2008 9:49:35 PM

why the fuck would maryland call a time out?

2/9/2008 9:49:44 PM

haha, legend of zelda

[Edited on February 9, 2008 at 9:50 PM. Reason : good lookin' out joe]

2/9/2008 9:49:53 PM

well. at least we planned on losing this one. not like we really had a great chance anyway.


lets beat bc/ florida state / wake/ and virginia at least now.


and heck, an upset vs. unc/duke/or clempson could always be in the making

2/9/2008 9:50:28 PM

wow even with State getting break after break my Terps still pulled it out

2/9/2008 9:50:41 PM

i like that sid has them playing to the end now

[Edited on February 9, 2008 at 9:51 PM. Reason : even if they can't win it]

2/9/2008 9:50:44 PM

Fells with the julius-hodge-style meaningless points.

2/9/2008 9:50:47 PM

NCST (15-8)
MARY (16-8)


gg and goodnight gents

2/9/2008 9:51:57 PM

*sigh*

2/9/2008 9:52:06 PM

Quote :

"wow even with State getting break after break my Terps still pulled it out"

why are you here.

2/9/2008 9:52:24 PM

WE SUCK AGAIN!!!

2/9/2008 9:52:24 PM

i rahter have a game like unc or michigan state. at least we only had like 3 minutes of pain. its like dying in a burning world trade center or a nuclear blast.

2/9/2008 9:52:37 PM

Quote :

"[quote]wow even with State getting break after break my Terps still pulled it out"

Go back to the ghetto!

2/9/2008 9:54:10 PM

Quote :

"wow even with State getting break after break Maryland hitting every freakin' shot in the second half"

fixed.

[Edited on February 9, 2008 at 9:55 PM. Reason : ugh. vasquez is a douche.]

2/9/2008 9:54:39 PM

On the bright side, it looked like Costner got some of his offensive confidence back tonight. I especially like that he drove the basket a lot rather than just settle for jump shots.

2/9/2008 9:56:31 PM

Quote :

"just can't play two halves of basketball. cannot do it. "

Does our team understand the concept of 40 minutes. Every fucking game we play one good half and one half where we look like possibly the worst team in the country.

2/9/2008 9:57:40 PM

hahaha

costner gave up like 3 layups totally uncontested.

it's like

2/9/2008 9:59:13 PM

Maybe we're playing half a season so we're twice as rested for the ACC tournament.

Anyone? Anyone?

2/9/2008 9:59:25 PM

we didn't look THAT bad in the second half. The fact that Maryland was sinking every fucking shot just made it seem like we were.

2/9/2008 9:59:47 PM

I still feel like Costner's few layups and one 3 ptr didn't at all make up for his sloppy passing and total apathy on defense

How many plays was costner just standing under the basket getting dunked on/shot over without even putting his hands up

Quote :

"its over. we don't make adjustments at halftime so we will always lose to good coaches that do. they are scoring everytime and we are forcing shots. not a good recipe "

yeah between their ridiculous second half shooting percentage and the fact that they played pretty poorly in the first half, we were gonna get owned. I'm not sure how many halftime adjustments you can make when it's a different team that comes out in the second half, first half was basically just the gist show, everybody else decided to start clicking second half

2/9/2008 10:01:20 PM

apparently some of you didnt watch the same game i did... maryland hit all but 7 shots in the half... we didnt play bad and we didnt give up... we are improving still, just gotta beat bc now.

2/9/2008 10:01:31 PM

you don't know anything about basketball

2/9/2008 10:02:01 PM

Quote :

"The fact that Maryland was sinking every fucking shot"

=

poor defensive effort on our part? at least partly i would have to say.

2/9/2008 10:02:04 PM

Everyone stop making excuses about how Maryland was on fire. They were on fire because we did not play DEFENSE. Stop making excuses for our shitty team. And by shitty I mean underachieving,

2/9/2008 10:02:32 PM

no it's true a lot of their shots were not even contested, but there were also some pretty acrobatic and 1s that maryland got when we were defending

2/9/2008 10:03:15 PM

Quote :

"How many plays was costner everyone just standing under the basket getting dunked on/shot over without even putting his hands up"

Seriously, let's stop blaming Costner when our entire team is guilty of shit defense/rebounding.

2/9/2008 10:03:18 PM

na but it was a good game just talkin about too different classes of team

2/9/2008 10:03:41 PM

on a slightly related note, gtown and louisville are playing. i enjoy watching roy hibbert.

[Edited on February 9, 2008 at 10:05 PM. Reason : related in the sense that it's basketball.]

2/9/2008 10:05:04 PM

wow some of you are complete idiots. winning at maryland is not the easiest thing in the world to do and anyone who thought we would have a better than 50 percent chance of winning there knows little about acc basketball. they did beat carolina and hung in with duke... remember that unc team that beat us by 513531531 pts.

2/9/2008 10:05:07 PM

^ exactly

/thread finished

2/9/2008 10:05:49 PM

didn't the graphic say that maryland had won like 27 of the last 31 against us or something? that's ridiculous.

2/9/2008 10:06:11 PM

No one is pissed cuz we lost to Maryland. We're just frustrated because we keep doing the same things that have been killing us from day one.

2/9/2008 10:06:43 PM

damn right and a lot of those were in a row

2/9/2008 10:07:01 PM

^hahaha, they'd have to be if we only won 4 out of 31

2/9/2008 10:08:08 PM

maryland won a national championship this decade too

they gots quality

Quote :

"wow some of you are complete idiots. winning at maryland is not the easiest thing in the world to do and anyone who thought we would have a better than 50 percent chance of winning there knows little about acc basketball. they did beat carolina and hung in with duke... remember that unc team that beat us by 513531531 pts."

2/9/2008 10:11:11 PM

wow Maryland shot 74% in the second half

we weren't terrible, shooting 44.3% for the whole game but the lax defense that allowed that huge run at the beginning of the second half dug us our grave, even though we came back to within 7-10 for a good while their defense and our lack of it were the death knell

most of us are mad because we've seen glimpses of what we're capable of, they just can't seem to consistently maintain that level of effort for an entire game

2/9/2008 10:22:36 PM

i've seen no improvement on defense whatsoever.

i've seen no improvement on THINGS WE SHOULD KNOW WE ARE LOSING GAMES BECAUSE OF

2/9/2008 10:28:21 PM

they say it in postgame. not only coach lowe, but the players. every postgame they say how they let up and need to play for 40 minutes.

and then they go out the next time and don't do it.

2/9/2008 10:29:24 PM