6th Man of St. John's Basketball

St. John's Red Storm => In The Jungle... => Topic started by: friendofjohnnie on January 19, 2023, 11:13:40 AM

Title: Villanova
Post by: friendofjohnnie on January 19, 2023, 11:13:40 AM
What's your predictions? I have to say I am a bit surprised with the string of wins we have just put together, but fortunately we catch a break on a very bad year for Nova to keep the streak alive.

We win, but it will be closer than it should be, Nova historically plays us tough- We eke out the win, 81-77
Title: Re: Villanova
Post by: Celtics11 on January 19, 2023, 01:53:14 PM
Not sure 2 wins qualifies as a "string", but beat nova and we can at least start talking. Team should be sky high for first game at the Garden and to have the season they want to have so they should win if they are any good.
Title: Re: Villanova
Post by: Foad on January 19, 2023, 04:32:06 PM
Not sure 2 wins qualifies as a "string", but beat nova and we can at least start talking. Team should be sky high for first game at the Garden and to have the season they want to have so they should win if they are any good.

Agree. They beat Butler at home and beat lost five out of their last six Uconn. Who cares. Nova is two and six in their last eight, so maybe they beat them. Which, good grief, they have to beat somebody. If they beat Doug McDermott's father in Nebraska, this is a BB team to be reckoned with. Until then, not.
Title: Re: Villanova
Post by: carmineabbatiello on January 20, 2023, 03:58:07 AM
I'm going.
Title: Re: Villanova
Post by: friendofjohnnie on January 20, 2023, 09:54:18 AM
I'm going.

Same, my one game of the year.
Title: Re: Villanova
Post by: Poison on January 20, 2023, 10:54:37 AM
January 20th, and it’s our first Garden game. We need to make a statement with the three games we have. If not, Coach is bye bye.
Title: Re: Villanova
Post by: cjfish on January 20, 2023, 09:21:12 PM
What a disgrace. They play great D but offensively look like a poorly coached CYO team. Out of control, no offensive discipline. Curbelo was awful, Posh should not be permitted to take anything beyond 15. Everyone but Soriano were forcing everything. with the defense they played they should have won by 10+. Wusu started great but in the second half stunk it up. Pathetic
Title: Re: Villanova
Post by: Foad on January 20, 2023, 09:22:09 PM
bye bye

Don't be hasty, there's still time for him to turn it around.
Title: Re: Villanova
Post by: cjfish on January 20, 2023, 09:33:52 PM
Don't be hasty, there's still time for him to turn it around.

 :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: Villanova
Post by: Poison on January 20, 2023, 11:15:08 PM
Hey, Giants tomorrow
Title: Re: Villanova
Post by: friendofjohnnie on January 20, 2023, 11:41:29 PM
Why the heck did they give Stanley less minutes in second half and they gave Posh more minutes? Did anyone notice that once Posh got serious minutes the offense went out of synch in second half?

It’s a shame Soriano was wasted. Only one that came to play.

Anderson needs to be shown his walking papers after this season. It’s embarrassing.
Title: Re: Villanova
Post by: Johnny Rotten on January 21, 2023, 12:06:18 AM
This team is just one big box of chocolates.
Title: Re: Villanova
Post by: Celtics11 on January 21, 2023, 03:05:24 AM
What a disgrace. They play great D but offensively look like a poorly coached CYO team. Out of control, no offensive discipline. Curbelo was awful, Posh should not be permitted to take anything beyond 15. Everyone but Soriano were forcing everything. with the defense they played they should have won by 10+. Wusu started great but in the second half stunk it up. Pathetic
Posh shouldn't be able to take anything beyond 15 feet? You should have stopped at Posh shouldn't be able to take anything. Gave us 2 good years but this year he has been absolutely horrible. I get Curbelo may have thrown off his game to a degree but he looks like a basketball is a foreign object to him.
Title: Re: Villanova
Post by: Poison on January 25, 2023, 04:18:52 PM
Don't be hasty, there's still time for him to turn it around.

Well, there is.
Title: Re: Villanova
Post by: Foad on January 25, 2023, 05:08:27 PM
Well, there is.

When they lose tonight they'll be 2-7 in their last nine and tied with DePaul for almost as bad as Georgetown. Maybe Creighton's looking forward to XU, so there's that.