Ah, some good and proper hate. I’m assuming that Hoopie fans will be themselves and provide plenty of reason to be condescending and insulting in their general direction.
The game starts at 7pm on ESPN. It’s the good crew of Raftery, Bilas and McDonough.
I was trying to think of some more stuff to write by way of introduction, but really. Why? It’s the Backyard Brawl. We know what it means. I just want to get right into the game.
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but it was a team win … Woodall, Brown, McGhee, Robinson and Taylor all contributed
HAIL TO PITT
Love the effort and contributions from all. We plumb wore them out.
Hail to Pitt!
Maybe someone can answer this question for me. When we are in the closing minutes of the game and shooting two foul shots (other team over the limit or a shooting foul) – why do we have men on the free throw line for the first shot and then take them off for the second one?
Last night was a great win, guards played smart and stayed out of foul trouble. WVU helped by not pressing.
“We’re just outmanned. I can’t trade them, I could waive them I guess, but I couldn’t get anybody for them.”
Absolutely classless guy.
About Huggins, I know he is a good coach and has the record to prove it. However, I detest the way he treats his players. As a retired coach (granted only on the high school level) I would never berate a player in a public venue. Now in my locker-room, that’s a different story. Dixon rarely says a word to a player after a mental error, just takes them out and the player is smart enough to figure out what he did wrong. That system works and there is no need to embarrass a kid the way Huggy does.
See Bobby Knight! You can see by the looks on the Hoopie player’s faces that it has grown old.The absolute worst thing you can do is criticize your players.
WVU and Huggins deserve each other.
They offered such irrelevent perspective they might as well have been big Dickie V.
The only media person I hear who gives Pitt a fair shake is Bobby Knight, go figure. Bobby says what he believes regardless of what company directives are in circulation as to how to shape and mold Pitt’s image during tv broadcasts. Thank God for him, there’s at least one honest person on that sports consortium known as ESPN/ABC. Still can’t believe were ranked BEHIND Texas even though we have a better record, we’re in 1rst place in the toughest conf. in America AND WE’VE BEATEN TEXAS, AS HAS Uconn and yet we’re behind Texas. Makes about as much sense as how the Mexican border is being handled.
Actually maybe it’s better that the sound wasn’t on the bar tv last night, as those clowns usually have nothing good to say about Pitt or it’s some sort of backhanded compliment at the best.
Here’s a great pic of Thuggy Bear, whiskey breath and all, berating one of his unfortunate players.
Enjoy !
The great thing about college basketball is that rank doesn’t matter. So it doesn’t matter that Pitt is “only 4.” NCAA seeding is the only thing that matters. And right now Pitt is in line for a 1 seed. Pitt will get to show how good they are in the NCAA tourney in March.
Big G also had a big 13 points on 5 of 6 shooting and 75% from the line with 5 big offensive rebounds.
And Little T, Travon, played under control as we hoped he would yesterday, with ONLY 1 turnover in 36 minutes and 12 rather large points.
Just a great effort, cudos to them & Coach D, cause they would have had an easy excuse if they lost.
HTP !
Right place/right time and unflappable, Nasir (without the goatee) is the second coming of Jaron Brown.
I don’t believe Bilas is anti-Pitt at all, and think all 3 announcers admire Pitt and J Dixon.
I sure do. Much more attuned to getting it into the paint. Much more likely to push it down court after a rebound. And much more aggressive defensively.
The ND game was a wakeup call for Jamie. This team will not be passive again this season.
And he will get many more than 20 minutes from his bench.
I will complain about one thing, though (wouldn’t be me if I didn’t).
What is up with all the whining and complaining on this squad after being called for a foul? The antics of Taylor and Moore are embarrassing (and it’s not just them) and Dixon needs to shut it down. I don’t know whether Taylor bumped the ref on purpose last night, but even if he didn’t, he came off looking like an idiotic baby.
Wanamaker and McGhee seem to do a nice job of skipping the histrionics on every call against them and it’s time Dixon held them up to their teammates as examples.
I just don’t want to see a technical on a player cost Pitt in a close game late in the season.
They also wouldn’t shut up about how good Pitt’s players are even while demeaning them for lack of pedigree. They’re more impressed with players who impress recruiters as 17 year olds and go viral on YouTube than players who understand the game and play it the right way.
I wouldn’t call it bias as much as lack of respect and some backhanded compliments. Pitt beats teams who then plummet in the rankings, and the two teams that hung losses on us have enjoyed meteoric ascent in rankings.
Even nationally, a lot of the coverage was Pitt “escapes” WVU. WVU was ranked 25 and we’re playing without our top scorer. How about BE team beats heated rival on road?
i agree. taylor needs to calm down and just play out there. every time he dunks he does that stupid salute or a chest bump. at least wait until it is a big shot or an impressive dunk. also, he made a fist like he was going to punch pepper. really dante? get yourself kicked out of the game, maybe kicked off the team, and give the program a black eye. he needs to be reprimanded.
I’ve watch every minute of every Pitt BB game the last 10 years and this years team keeps surprising even me week in and week out on just how good they are.
Overall I think Jay Bilas is as fair covering Pitt as an ACC guy will ever be…..though I too took exception with his comment that Pitt ‘can’t’ recruit big time recruits.
Bobby Knight probably takes these notes handed to him and tosses them into the garbage. He did something on one of the ESPN’s last night highlighting Pitt and how well they execute. Again I was in a bar and the sound wasn’t turned up but it appeared around 9:30 or so and since he was doing the Kansas/Mizzou game live, it mustn’t have been on the main ESPN. Maybe it was. Did anyone see that segment. I know he said earlier this season that Pitt’s 1rst half vs. Georgetown was the best half of basketball he’d seen all season. Something most of the other media stiffs would never in a thousand years credit Pitt for.
Right on General !
This is one great team.
I’m not sure if we’ll win Saturday night w/out Gibbs, but I’m confident that it will be a very good game.
Was in the car briefly earlier and heard a snippet of Dixon talking about Gibbs, something to the effect of: “He was riding the stationary bike yesterday and said his knee didn’t hurt.” He said the training staff is monitoring Gibbs closely and being “very conservative.”
