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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3293437, member: 289"] - [ATTACH type="full"]176837[/ATTACH] No need to change this from the last game. - So it’s 69-66 with 2:44 left. We’re actually goona do it- we’re going to win this thing on the road against the 8th ranked team in the country with an NCAA bid on the line! M. J. Walker goes up for a three point attempt. Elijah Hughes runs at him and by him to avoid the foul. Joe Girard puts a hand up but makes no contact. The ball goes in as the ref calls a foul on Girard. Walker gets a four point play and the lead for FSU, 69-70. Quincy Guerrier gives us the lead back with two free throws at the other end., 71-70. Trent Forrest made a jumper but Elijah answered with a drive through the defense to a lay-up, 73-72. Patrick Williams makes a lay-up for FSU. Hughes makes the same move to get the same shot and misses it at the other end, 73-74. Guerrier fouls on the rebound and Rayquan Gray make two free throws on the other end, 73-76. Girard has a lay-up blocked. Gray gets a rebound but Buddy Boeheim makes a steal. Hughes drives to another lay-up, 75-76. Williams makes a jumper, 75-78. Hughes makes still another lay-up, 77-78. Girard fouls Forrest, who makes two free throw to make it 77-80 with 8 seconds left. Hughes dribbles down and launches a 30 footer, which was on line all the way but rims out, game over. And how was your afternoon? - I hate it when a loss clearly comes down to a bad game or a bad play by one guy but Buddy Boeheim was 0 for 7, 0 for 5 from three and was shut out. Buddy averages 16 points a game and we lost by 3, so the math is easy. Buddy also had three turnovers. The Boeheim bashers are already suggesting that he played as many minutes, (33), as he did because he’s the son of the coach. JB’s response will be to point out that with Buddy in there, drawing the defensive attention he does, Hughes was able to get 25 points despite his groin pull and Joe was able to score 22 points. We still got 77 points, normally enough to win. But still, just one three from Buddy and we’re still playing. - We lost because we gave up 80 points. In the last 4:16 FSU was 5 for 5 from the field and 7 for 7 from the foul line. We scored 12 points in that span, a rate of 112.5 points over 40 minutes. But the Noles scored 19, a rate of 178. - Neither North Carolina State or Florida is a particularly good three point team but both were 11 for 25 against us. Meanwhile we still can get out perimeter game going. We were 7 for 25, 28%. We are now 50 for 188 in our last eight games, 26.6%. Can we even continue to regard this as a good shooting team in a slump? - The boards at the half were a reasonable 19-24 in favor of State. But in the second half it was 10-23, giving them a +18 edge for the game, which is hard to overcome. - The officiating continues to be bizarre, although both teams suffered from it. The most egregious things I saw were 6-9 210 Bourama Sidibe fending off what amounted to an MMA attack from 7-0 260 Dominik Olejniczak and getting called for a ‘double foul’, meaning that both players were whistled as if they were equally guilty and Marek getting leveled and called for a block, a call that neither the neutral TV announcers, the SU radio announcers or the guys on the SU post game show agreed with at all. - It was a valiant effort. When they do those “blind resumes” on the TV shows a month from now, “valiant efforts” will not be part of the resume. (Also left there from the last game.) [/QUOTE]

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