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Ohio State 81, St. Joe's 74 (Final)

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My question to other Buckeye fans if going into the game you knew that...

We were playing them away (we were 2-8 on the road last year and even worse on away openers... and this time it's vs. a tough opponent),
Dials would be held to under 6 points, (He was the player who allowed us to win this game last year)
M.Sly would play a horribly final five minutes of the game (It's true VRBryant),
It would be a foul-fest vs. one of the highest Free Throw shooting percentage teams in the NCAA.

Who would you expect to win that game? We should be happier right now, we'll have games with plenty to bicker about later on i'm sure so lets just enjoy this.
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Overall I thought this was a good performance. Sullinger had a great game, and one bonehead technical called on him. Sylvester's defense was key today. The bonehead pass didn't bother me as much as his leisurely jog down the floor afterwards. I would like to see him make better decisions on the offensive end, but with the way he played 'D' (with the one exception) I think that he is a very valuable part of this team. Dials did a nice job eating up space, but in the three games that I've seen. The offense doesn't take much of a step back when he's out.

Good victory. Nice job for the first road test. ESPN's "bracketologist" can lick my, well, you know, if he thinks the Buckeyes wouldn't have gotten into the NCAA tournament last year, based on their 2-8 road record. Also, as much as I like Jay Bilas, he totally screwed up when he said that tOSU's 2-8 road record AND that they didn't beat any big teams are the reasons they wouldn't have made the NCAA's. Our win over Illinois along with a 20 win season says that we would have.
 
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jwinslow said:
we need to stop letting teams back into these games, but these close wins will indeed be huge in march, bb73.
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jwins, You responded to a fairly new poster called 45Forever. He's got the same avatar as I do. :wink2:

Lewis was amazing offensively after they cut it to 5.

And this team does a very good job of helping each other out defensively.
 
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BuckFanAtAkron said:
Why do you keep crying. Everybody is ripping on you just let it go and stop crying. We all know you love sylvester. We get it he did awesome today:wink2: .
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I don't 'love' Sylvester any more than you and others 'love' to disparage him. It's funny to me that the slightest hint of deprecation of a football recruit provokes immediate rebuke, while people feel more than free to shit on a fifth-year senior captain because he makes a bad pass or three - regardless of his ability to redeem himself immediately afterward. IronBuckI and I are on the same page here - like I said, I view Sylvester's contributions as being far more beneficial than his sporadic mistakes are harmful. Do I disregard his fuck-ups? Of course not. But why - after a win - do people feel the need to find fault?

Eh. I'm gonna knock off and get drunk (read: more drunk).
 
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vrbryant said:
But why - after a win - do people feel the need to find fault?
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your quote of his was during the win (most of our comments were more emotional in game than afterwards). As for the overall question, the osu team threads would be a little sickening if all we did was talk about how everything was peachy on our basketball teams.

I saw sylvester redeem some boneheaded plays with great ones... and I also saw him follow up a mistake with another mistake at the other end.
 
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plent of other players had less than stellar games. james sullinger comes to mind, lewis had a bad first 35 minutes, dials wasnt even looked at by his teammates on and on. every kid out their today made a mistake. some bigger than others, some at more important times. but it cannot be stated enough that it happens and you have to play through it and play hard. i dont see how you can harp on a kid cuz he made a stupid pass, effort is one thing but in basketball bad passes happen especially in gaurd orientated systems.
 
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jimotis4heisman said:
lewis had a bad first 35 minutes, dials wasnt even looked at by his teammates on and on. i dont see how you can harp on a kid cuz he made a stupid pass, effort is one thing but in basketball bad passes happen especially in gaurd orientated systems.
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Not trying to keep an arguement going. I don't see any truely negative harping going on about Sly. I don't see any comments that have been said that are really any worse then the comments I bolded above. The comments were just refering to the TEAM how they were able to overcome a bad performance by a player in ONE game.

What is happening to Sly is nothing similiar to what was happening to Zwick, the comments made about Zwick troubled me, but i'm not seeing anything out of line here.
 
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