Loss doesn't hurt us, actually only helps us | Syracusefan.com

Loss doesn't hurt us, actually only helps us

OrlandoCuse

OrlandoCuse

Living Legend
Joined
Aug 17, 2011
Messages
10,754
Like
29,494
SC is a good team. They'll be at least a 5 seed in the Dance. They'll probably knock off UK in the SEC during their matchup. Threat to win the SEC.

We played horribly. Probably the worst that we could possibly play. I'd rather lose this type of game early in the year and learn from it. Many lessons that the team can learn from today.

Our cupcakes were extra fat this year. Didn't do anything to get us ready for a very good team. Hopefully we come out better against Wiscy. However, I wouldn't be shocked if we lay another stinker in that game. Madison is a very tough place to win.
 
OrlandoCuse said:
SC is a good team. They'll be at least a 5 seed in the Dance. They'll probably knock off UK in the SEC during their matchup. Threat to win the SEC.

We played horribly. Probably the worst that we could possibly play. I'd rather lose this type of game early in the year and learn from it. Many lessons that the team can learn from today.

Our cupcakes were extra fat this year. Didn't do anything to get us ready for a very good team. Hopefully we come out better against Wiscy. However, I wouldn't be shocked if we lay another stinker in that game. Madison is a very tough place to win.
Expand...

After a lot of complaining about the RPI earlier, I joked that a loss here might help our RPI more than all the cupcakes we were loading. Im impressed that our schedule maker didnt make it 11 out of 12 cupckaes in non tournament games. Wait though, wasnt this some sort of pseudo-tournament, hence the pseudo-neutral court?
 
orangenirvana said:
Say what you want but Frank Martin can coach his ass off. He's definitely building something there.

Cocks are on the rise.
Expand...

I agree about the Frank Martin part, and I see what you did there. I did mention wanting to make a phone call to purchase a hooker and drugs to get this out of my system earlier, but your last statement is still premature, at least for me.
 
OrlandoCuse said:
SC is a good team. They'll be at least a 5 seed in the Dance. They'll probably knock off UK in the SEC during their matchup. Threat to win the SEC.

We played horribly. Probably the worst that we could possibly play. I'd rather lose this type of game early in the year and learn from it. Many lessons that the team can learn from today.

Our cupcakes were extra fat this year. Didn't do anything to get us ready for a very good team. Hopefully we come out better against Wiscy. However, I wouldn't be shocked if we lay another stinker in that game. Madison is a very tough place to win.
Expand...
We'll probably lose to Wisconsin...and I'll still feel pretty good about betting on this team to win it all.
 
storange said:
Yea right. We sucked
Expand...

Was that one of those "I see what you did there"s that was in reply to why his last statement was correct, or am I seeing things from lack of sleep?
 
Day2 said:
We'll probably lose to Wisconsin...and I'll still feel pretty good about betting on this team to win it all.
Expand...

Ok, I didnt see the perversion in your post, you're going to have to help me out here. :(
 
We better fix some things in a hurry, Tuesday is not going to be easy, I am just alarmed at how bad offensively we were.
 
orangenirvana said:
Say what you want but Frank Martin can coach his ass off. He's definitely building something there.

Cocks are on the rise.
Expand...
Eh let's wait and see. Martin's strength is he gets kids to play hard all night, every night. That pays off during the regular season but usually balances out come tournament time. I thought his game plan against the zone helped us, especially when he subbed Dozier. They basically did what we did all day. Stood around and dribbled and waited for one player to create something.
 
OrlandoCuse said:
SC is a good team. They'll be at least a 5 seed in the Dance. They'll probably knock off UK in the SEC during their matchup. Threat to win the SEC.

We played horribly. Probably the worst that we could possibly play. I'd rather lose this type of game early in the year and learn from it. Many lessons that the team can learn from today.

Our cupcakes were extra fat this year. Didn't do anything to get us ready for a very good team. Hopefully we come out better against Wiscy. However, I wouldn't be shocked if we lay another stinker in that game. Madison is a very tough place to win.
Expand...

If it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger.
 
Lot of good comments above. I agree the Wisconsin game will tell us a lot about where this year's team maturity and leadership level is at. If Syracuse comes out with more of the same turnovers, standing around looking for someone else to create, then it will mean we did not learn from Saturday. If one or more leaders step forward and walks the talk - then this team will start to build a foundation of confidence for this season. Even a loss with just some of the offensive and defensive deficiencies fixed or improved on versus a quality team will be a step in the right direction. Lets see if this was a "good wake up call" or an early sign of a frustrating year.
 
Sorry, losses don't ever help. Ever. You can learn from the way you played in a loss, sure, I'll buy that. Hopefully, you can learn from the way you play in a win too. I actually thought we played poorly in the first half of our prior game.

The loss against South Carolina was very bad for us and coupled with a loss Tuesday, would put us in a very bad position for this season. Gotta build a resume in the non-conference and we don't have a lot of chances this year.
 
OrlandoCuse said:
SC is a good team. They'll be at least a 5 seed in the Dance. They'll probably knock off UK in the SEC during their matchup. Threat to win the SEC.

We played horribly. Probably the worst that we could possibly play. I'd rather lose this type of game early in the year and learn from it. Many lessons that the team can learn from today.

Our cupcakes were extra fat this year. Didn't do anything to get us ready for a very good team. Hopefully we come out better against Wiscy. However, I wouldn't be shocked if we lay another stinker in that game. Madison is a very tough place to win.
Expand...
I agree with boeheim when he says that losing never "helps". but I don't watch as much college as I used too, and once I got a chance to see the beginning of the game and I realized that frank martin was at SC, I was like "great we are playing Pitt in November". style, they fouled like crazy any time we got in the open court. but they won so there isn't a lot we can say about it.
 
OrlandoCuse said:
SC is a good team. They'll be at least a 5 seed in the Dance. They'll probably knock off UK in the SEC during their matchup. Threat to win the SEC.

We played horribly. Probably the worst that we could possibly play. I'd rather lose this type of game early in the year and learn from it. Many lessons that the team can learn from today.

Our cupcakes were extra fat this year. Didn't do anything to get us ready for a very good team. Hopefully we come out better against Wiscy. However, I wouldn't be shocked if we lay another stinker in that game. Madison is a very tough place to win.
Expand...

So if we won would that have helped us as well? So either way we go into Barclays and it would have helped us win or lose. I don't get it.
 
OrlandoCuse said:
I don't get that you don't get it.
Expand...

I get that you're trying to find a positive with the loss but it doesn't make sense to me that the loss helps this teams. Whatever we would have learned during the loss we would have learned from a win or in some game in the future.

I really don't care what anybody thinks, but we're a better team than SC and I'm just sick of hearing about any close game or loss that the team we played is "really good, best in their crappy conference, bad match up". All those things mean are we were piss poor and got lucky to get a win.
 
two3zone said:
I get that you're trying to find a positive with the loss but it doesn't make sense to me that the loss helps this teams. Whatever we would have learned during the loss we would have learned from a win or in some game in the future.

I really don't care what anybody thinks, but we're a better team than SC and I'm just sick of hearing about any close game or loss that the team we played is "really good, best in their crappy conference, bad match up". All those things mean are we were piss poor and got lucky to get a win.
Expand...
Just curious, are you under or over the age of 30?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

SWC75
    • Like
The Downside - Le Moyne
Replies
1
Views
545
richard levy
R
U
Say this was week 1 of the coaches poll
Replies
0
Views
296
upperdeck
U
A
    • Like
I do see positives from the game
Replies
5
Views
673
Offthedome
O
D
    • Like
After two scrimmages, 1 thing we know, 3 TBD
2 3
Replies
64
Views
7K
Niastri
Niastri
IthacaMatt
    • Like
How they look to me so far ...
2
Replies
28
Views
3K
atlanticuse
atlanticuse

Forum statistics

Threads
170,264
Messages
4,881,349
Members
5,990
Latest member
su4life25

Share this page

Online statistics

Members online
171
Guests online
1,098
Total visitors
1,269
Totals may include hidden visitors.


...
Top Bottom