Shox vs Panthers Gameday Thread

[wsushox1]

Alrighty, those refs were VERY good. I will say more about my views of the game later. I think I might have hearing loss

[wsushox1]

Kyles gave us a spark....VERY GOOD!!!!

[notquiteBWing]

Kyles gave us a spark....VERY GOOD!!!!

i think it was early in the second, and DK did a great job of running down the floor. running down the floor BUT still made good desicions.
i thought he was key to us getting some more breathing room..... and also Clevin deciding to say 'eff it, we're not gonna lose this game'.

[WuDrWu]

Who was the recruit, Doc?

Hmmm......wouldn't you all like to know. Let me see if Trop has anything on him.

[1972Shocker]

Not particularly a thing of beauty, but very satisfying.

On second thought it was a thing of beauty in its own way.

:good: :goshocks: :clap:

[RussDaBus]

Man o Man. Not sure where to start on this one. Just some of the observation from 6th row of left side student section. Refs really let us and them play with lots of contact in the first half. Second half completely different story. The very vast majority of calls that drew the ire of the student section and for a large part the entire crowd came from one referee only. Curtis Shaw!!! I thought the other two were not too bad. Higgins had one and 1 call I didnt agree with and I didnt really notice Thornley at all.

Ahelegbe and Koch, while both are good players, get away with more offensive fouls than anyone I have seen. They both just put the shoulders down and just bull rush their defenders. Never get called for it, so I dont fault them for continuing to do it.

There were several calls that seemed to go our way too though. Mainly on balls that were tipped out of bounds. Thats the way the game goes though.

I fully expected the shox to come out flat at half. Just our MO. They battled and didnt really get rattled down the stretch.

One of the loudest times of the game, if not this season came on the possesion where we got the to turn the ball over on a shot clock violation!! That really impressed me that the crowd really was digging the defense!!!

Finally, I will leave with this. As a couple of students behind me said it best. "We would win a national title. Yeah, if we had home court advantage through the tournament."

I completely agree wiht this statement. We seem to be able to compete with anyone at home. I am so glad that Koch arena is such a great home court advantage. 21 and 1 since the Creighton game last year at home. 25-3 overall at home since the beginning of last year.

Anyway, great game.!!! Crowd was great. Team was not perfect by any stretch but played good enough to beat the number 20 team in the country. I felt Northern Iowa should have been ranked a week ago. Sucks for them, that they will only have one week to enjoy thier ranking.

[shockar25]

Man o Man. Not sure where to start on this one. Just some of the observation from 6th row of left side student section. Refs really let us and them play with lots of contact in the first half. Second half completely different story. The very vast majority of calls that drew the ire of the student section and for a large part the entire crowd came from one referee only. Curtis Shaw!!! I thought the other two were not too bad. Higgins had one and 1 call I didnt agree with and I didnt really notice Thornley at all.

Ahelegbe and Koch, while both are good players, get away with more offensive fouls than anyone I have seen. They both just put the shoulders down and just bull rush their defenders. Never get called for it, so I dont fault them for continuing to do it.

There were several calls that seemed to go our way too though. Mainly on balls that were tipped out of bounds. Thats the way the game goes though.

I fully expected the shox to come out flat at half. Just our MO. They battled and didnt really get rattled down the stretch.

One of the loudest times of the game, if not this season came on the possesion where we got the to turn the ball over on a shot clock violation!! That really impressed me that the crowd really was digging the defense!!!

Finally, I will leave with this. As a couple of students behind me said it best. "We would win a national title. Yeah, if we had home court advantage through the tournament."

I completely agree wiht this statement. We seem to be able to compete with anyone at home. I am so glad that Koch arena is such a great home court advantage. 21 and 1 since the Creighton game last year at home. 25-3 overall at home since the beginning of last year.

Anyway, great game.!!! Crowd was great. Team was not perfect by any stretch but played good enough to beat the number 20 team in the country. I felt Northern Iowa should have been ranked a week ago. Sucks for them, that they will only have one week to enjoy thier ranking.

I STILL think we will go undefeated at home this season. This was a major hurdle in that journey, but there's still 5 or so more games left...

You just can't beat our home support.

[WuDrWu]

Alrighty, those refs were VERY good. I will say more about my views of the game later. I think I might have hearing loss

Everybody likes to yell "pretty boy" at John and say "it's all about you" but nothing could be further from the truth.

You are going to get a fair shake when he's calling your game and he is THE BEST I've ever seen. I never get mad, even when I think he blows a call, a)because he is a lot better than me and b)if it is a screwup, he'll make it right and it's highly unlikely he'll do it again.

John Higgins is head and shoulders the best official we get.

[WuDrWu]

Both coaches managed a whale of a game tonight. UNI is so tough to scheme because they do so much but you know what? So do we.

A BIG factor in the game was the crowd. It was earsplitting at times. We forced UNI to call 2 or 3 timeouts they didn't want to and what that meant was NO, NONE, NO timeouts in the last 3 minutes of the game. As fans, we get to wear that one.

You'll get tired of me repeating this, but that was a whale of a basketball game.

:wsu_posters: :goshocks: :posterwu: :posterwsu:

[HockeyShock]

I'd expect a pretty good write-up on The Mid-Majority tomorrow. We, the crowd, brought our A-game tonight.

And I finally got to chant someone off the floor this season! (I was on my way back from France during the Tech game) My voice is going to be trash tomorrow.

:clap: :wsu_posters: :yahoo: :clap:

[ShockBand]

When Graham wants the ball, he gets the ball, opponent or teammate.

[WuDrWu]

It is going to be a tough stretch. 4 out of next 6 games are on the road, at UNI, and So. Ill will certainly make or break us in terms of winning the regular season.

You know KC, I do respect your opinion, and I stopped giving you a hard time a long time ago because you do oftentimes make valid points and every fan board needs a contrarion opinion, but you know, would it kill you to say something nice or at least enjoy what was a great win??

I think you have 3 posts, all negative.


Conspicuously absent from any posts this evening.....MTXE......hmmmm. Wonder how many posts if UNI had pulled it out?

[RussDaBus]

When Graham wants the ball, he gets the ball, opponent or teammate.

I just made this my desktop background about 2 mins before you posted this. Great picture!!!!

[Rosewood]

When Graham wants the ball, he gets the ball, opponent or teammate.

Friendly fire!

[WSUShokker]

I agree with everything concerning the comments on the game itself....BUT...what an atmosphere!!!!! Im so very proud of all the tremdenous fans ....who just wouldnt go away. Kudos to all of you who are fortunate enough to go every game you brought it tonight big time!!! I thought it was going to be a good night when I got to town and got a nice suprise of 2 seats to the left of the student section on row 9.

Does anyone know who that kid was that was dancing on the big screen and faux grabing at his crotch....that was just to much and everyone just went bonkers....To much fun!!!! I have few videos I took but missed Rays dunk...damn it. Thanks fellow shocker fans for a great evening.