02-06-2014, 09:12 AM
Wow... with friends like the posters on this board (G*d forbid "the other one"), this team sure doesn't need any enemies! How about we actually celebrate a dominant win on the road against our (higher rated) arch rival?!?Â
Kathy: is "Well ... we won, 80-69" (with a link to the box score) really all you have to say?
Burger: "we blew that 18 point lead" is your first comment? I don't think I've ever seen a basketball game in which the score-gap only got larger throughout an entire game (to the contrary, most coaches and analysts would suggest that most games feature multiple "runs" by both teams, during which leads narrow, widen, or leads even change); but your thought process starts with evaluating our performance relative to its absolute apex? An 11 point win wasn't enough? Gotta maintain your widest margin into perpetuity?
Look, I'm not about to suggest that Dawkins = Montgomery, but the inconvenient truth is that our "terrible / must-be-fired-immediately" coach now has a 6-7 career record (with, on average, indisputably inferior talent entering those 13 games) against "the greatest coach ever" [hyperbole is mine, and intentional].
All I'm saying is that rooting against your team, no matter what you think of the coach, really ain't that cool.
Congratulations, team - Go Stanford!!!
Kathy: is "Well ... we won, 80-69" (with a link to the box score) really all you have to say?
Burger: "we blew that 18 point lead" is your first comment? I don't think I've ever seen a basketball game in which the score-gap only got larger throughout an entire game (to the contrary, most coaches and analysts would suggest that most games feature multiple "runs" by both teams, during which leads narrow, widen, or leads even change); but your thought process starts with evaluating our performance relative to its absolute apex? An 11 point win wasn't enough? Gotta maintain your widest margin into perpetuity?
Look, I'm not about to suggest that Dawkins = Montgomery, but the inconvenient truth is that our "terrible / must-be-fired-immediately" coach now has a 6-7 career record (with, on average, indisputably inferior talent entering those 13 games) against "the greatest coach ever" [hyperbole is mine, and intentional].
All I'm saying is that rooting against your team, no matter what you think of the coach, really ain't that cool.
Congratulations, team - Go Stanford!!!
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. - John Stuart Mill