BYU vs Zig Zags smoke 'em if you got 'em

[TripletDaddy]

Gonzoga has an 11-year (i think) conference win streak going.

BYU joins the conference.

Gonzoga win streak immediately ends.

Sorry, just being honest!

[Jeff Lebowski]

The most unreasonable posters post immediately following the game until 5am...off the cuff, emotional, irrational.

Given what happened here on CUF during the St. Mary's game (and several other times), we have ZERO room to mock other boards for in-game/post-game meltdowns.

[Donuthole]

Gonzoga has an 11-year (i think) conference win streak going.

BYU joins the conference.

Gonzoga win streak immediately ends.

Sorry, just being honest!

Hack.

[higherroad]

Just read that Gonzaga coughed up 15, yes 15 1st-half TO's, which resulted in 22 pts for BYU!

To put that in perspective, Zags average 14 TO's per game & Pangos only 1.6.

GU with only 4 TO's resulting in only 4 pts for BYU in the 2nd half. Improved somewhat.

Your guys manned up on defense & hounded our perimeter play! No breathing room. No open 3pt shots or swing passes all night long. Killed our guards confidence. It was nice to see little-used Marquise Carter play well and Stockton OK for a walk-on.

Still can't figure out how our bigs missed so many one-on-one, easy bunnies underneath the hoop(couldn't buy a bucket), but realize why our guards stunk up the joint...BYU's D.

[TripletDaddy]

Hack.

You can't "hack" honesty

[TripletDaddy]

Sacre shared this post-game insight:

''They just out-toughed us. They played harder than us,'' Sacre said. ''That's usually the case for us. If we get outplayed, then we're not going to get a win.''

[cougjunkie]

Sacre shared this post-game insight:

I like Mark Few I am paraphrasing here but he said that pangos played like a scared little bitch.

[higherroad]

I like Mark Few I am paraphrasing here but he said that pangos played like a scared little bitch.

I haven't heard him be so blunt in yrs, especially in post-game. I think losing the WCC for the first time since he took over in '99 has something to do with the frustration.

Here's some snippets(from Spokesman-Review):

We were rattled, frazzled, played with no poise, no composure,” Few said. “Timeouts couldn’t stop it, substituting couldn’t stop it. BYU did a great job of coming out and playing with great energy and passion. We haven’t been like that this year. That’s always the worry when you have two freshmen guards, but they were only part of the problem. It was everybody: seniors, juniors, all of them.”

“Kevin [Pangos] just made a horrendous decision that kind of capped off the whole half. That’s something I’ve never seen him do in practice or a game all year. We probably had six or seven of those plays I haven’t seen in practice or games all year.”

[Blueintheface]

I like Bell's game. BYU is really stymying Pangos (sp??)

A few thoughts:

1. Pangos shit the bed on the biggest stage of his career. Of course Santos and BITF probably thought he killed Abouo.

Petty much?

[TripletDaddy]

In the post game, Coach Rose also gave a huge shoutout to the Big Mac. He said the players really fed off the energy. He thanked everyone for coming and for being loud.

You could tell that the GU players were rattled by the crowd noise and the sheer spectacle of the Big Mac.

[higherroad]

no excuses, as you can tell, yet in Pangos defense(doesn't really deserve it), he was really sick since Tuesday, even missing practice just 2 days ago due to illness, which I mentioned pre-game.

He still played like a scared little rabbit touching a basketball for the 1st time, being out-played by his own back-ups, esp a 5'8" 150lb walk-on and Marquise Carter, who plays like 2 mpg.

Having said that, I think you have to give Round 1 of the 'All-Freshman Point Guard' match-up to Matt Carlino.

[Indy Coug]

5. WCC refs still [stink]. They kept Gonzaga within striking distance. Second half foul count was 7-1 and then 12-4 at one point.

BYU was giving up ridiculous inside position in the 2nd half, which was a big part of the foul discrepancy.

[creekster]

The SLtrib on-line sports page article for the game currently shows Winder shooting but identifies him as BYU payer Elias Harris. They need better editors.

[myboynoah]

I like winning, but my feeling is that the GU and VT wins were more a product of the opponent losing than BYU winning. I guess we can argue that BYU played a part in GU's and VT's poor play, but I question how much.

Our outside shooting is horrid. Is this because teams are focusing better on perimeter defense?

As it appears Zylstra is so spotty shooting the three, Winder needs to see more action. I get nervous everytime Zylstra touches the ball.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I like winning, but my feeling is that the GU and VT wins were more a product of the opponent losing than BYU winning.

:livecoug: