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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 2398758, member: 27"] The NA was sung by this dude from Connecticut with a weird, hipster meet soul style that was kind of cheesy but it worked and he got a good ovation. Let's talk fan contests. The guy made his shot from the D&B chair and got a $500 gift certificate. I think it was the first time this happened this year. Another guy did well making his layout, foul shot, shot from the top of the key but missed his half court shot badly (I don't think anyone has reached the rim yet). First, if you get the chance to take the half court shot, be sure you throw it hard because it is a long way. Second, there is a clock used for this contest but Mr Excitement made it clear that you get one shot from half court. Doesn't matter how much time is left on the clock. I call BS. Don't be a sponsor if you are that cheap you can't allow a sharpshooter to take 2 shots from half court. The shots are from half court. Whatever good will and visibility you get for sponsoring a contest is burned when you cheap out like this. Not sure who the cheap sponsor is. Maybe Used-to-be-a-good-company called Time-Warner-now-crappy-Spectrum-Charter? I thought the crowd was smaller than the 20K announced. The students came late but eventually a decent number attended. Whoever came did a good job making noise, especially late in the second half, when it looked like Maryland might sneak out of Syracuse with a win. I thought Ted Valentine was in jail for life for his crimes against humanity with all the bad calls he has made over the years. He was at least banished from the Big East and ACC, languishing in the sweat houses of the Midwest. How did he get out and find his way into the Carrier Dome? Did the FBI drop the ball on this? The grandfather and the other guy were not much better. A push off is a push off on both ends of the court. Just because no one in the Mac/B1G can jump more than 6 inches doesn't mean you can go all Buck Henry on Sidibe when he makes a clean block. Don't call a travel on Marek either when he is pushed 5 feet like a shopping cart. I wish Maryland wasn't such a bankrupt and shameless institution that it had to sell itself to the B1G to avoid getting Georgetowned. It would be fun to play them every year in hoops and football, get some easy wins and have another relatively easy road trip to enjoy. Really happy for Frank Howard, who must have had this game circled from the time it was announced. Bragging rights at home are really important. It is great to see him playing at his full potential. Just an amazing turnaround for him. I wonder how much a role his injury played in his poor play last year, versus a lack of confidence when he lost the starting PG job to little Gillon. Why did Turgeron (he doesn't deserve to have his name spelled right so I hope I misspelled it) keep putting the really fat guy with the bad hair to play defense? They had a couple other bigs that were better. Thought one of the plays of the game was the alley oop Frank threw to Paschal that he converted for a dunk. I think Frank threw it a couple feet higher than he meant to but Paschal went up and got it and almost had no choice but to dunk it home as he was headed directly for the basket as he started his descent. You need two things to be a great player. You have to want the ball in crucial situations and you need to be able to make the play once you have the ball. Tyus has both things. Maryland has some nice pieces and their best players are young. I would think they will finish in the top half of the B1G and make the tournament. On paper, they should have won pretty easily, especially with Tyus playing hurt. Thank God coaching counts for a lot in college basketball. [/QUOTE]

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