Chad Fleck
- Eureka, IL
Week of 2/19 Games Thread
- Status
OrangeBlue98
- Des Moines, IA
Arrest and book a few of them. College students don't want a criminal record. I know you can't get all of them, but you can get enough of them to make a statement. Tickets should have a written warning and there should be a PA announcement before the game clearly stating that anyone who is not authorized to be on the court is subject to arrest for entering the court.
Duke's Filipowski injured by fan after Wake's win
Upstart Wake Forest knocked off No. 8 Duke 83-79, but the win was marred by an apparent injury to Blue Devils forward Kyle Filipowski after a fan collided with him while storming the court.www.espn.com
Hope the ankle is not bad. Players should be off the court before fans can come on but how can u keep 10000 people off the court.
I understand this is pretty severe, but I think you have to use this deterrent in the name of safety.
Honestly I say assess two technicals to the home team and you at should eliminate the buzzer beater storming. Home courts security has to be ready when the game is in hand and have penalties of revoking tickets. Those are ways if you want to be serious about it
So UK jumps us Bama should drop
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Oh stop it.
Rushing the floor is great and sacred and all parties including losing players and coaches need to take responsibility for maintaining a tradition that makes college sports something that stirs the passions far beyond any other minor league sport on planet earth.
OrangeBlue98
- Des Moines, IA
If you have ways to allow that to occur without the safety of those who should actually be on the court being compromised, I'm all ready to hear them. It's just not the safety of the opposing team. What about the home players/staff, officials, and bench personnel who are sitting ducks for hundreds of out of control people creating a wall of humanity?
Bad things can happen when a mass of humanity is out of control. Just Google "Hillsborough disaster" for the most extreme example of what can happen.
I'm as big of a Duke hater as the next person, but we might have seen a kid suffer a serious injury because of an unsafe action. How do you justify an action that can result in something like this?
Last edited:
UK had 99 points with 9:22 left against Bama - holy cripes.
Now 104 with 8:26 to go. Dam.
Now 104 with 8:26 to go. Dam.
In a game no one on here cares about but me, Beavers up by 6 over Stanford at half with OSU’s Jordan Pope scoring 17. Interestingly, he’s done most of his damage from 2 (6-8) rather than 3 (1-4). Love his game.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
These are risks we've accepted for the entire history of the sport.
I don't want to be get-off-my-lawny any more than you do, but the instinct to just throw iconic tradition unique to college sports in the garbage because something unfortunate happened one time so now we need to legalize and regulate and control it into an antiseptic artificial paste utterly horrifies me at a deep level.
May all of life be as loud and messy and beautiful as Tobacco Road basketball games always have been.
I'm fully in support of court storming having taken part in it a couple of different times (albeit on a much smaller scale) when I was at EIU. There is a way to do it and not have it be an issue like what happened today at Wake Forest. If the players aren't able to clear the court before it happens, then whatever security staff the venue has needs to be blocking the opposing players from the home fans so stuff like this doesn't happen. With where the Duke player was this obviously won't be as easy, but it's still something that can be dealt with properly.
Seems defense is a luxury that most teams don’t have this season, minus Houston
Step back 3 from Pope. He is fun to watch.
OrangeBlue98
- Des Moines, IA
Combine Illinois' offense and Houston's defense, and I truly think that team would be close to the "them vs the field" favorite for the national championship.
Just when I think nobody could have a leakier defense than the Illini, UK hangs 117(!) on Bama.
Edward’s from UK had like 29 pts. He was unconscious.
I love Ty, but I'll take a legit PG with handles, vision, and an outside shoot all day (regardless of height). 6'6 doesn't matter that much when you spend most of your time on the perimeter. Skills over height any day.
We've had a hard time with pressure and we've had a hard time defending quicker guards.
Illini beat Iowa, then Beavers win by 12 and Jordan Pope gets 30. Good day.
You think Ty is still our primary ballhandler/PG? Have you watched a game lately? lol
foby
- Bonnaroo Land
Offense is not even close to our problem lately.
I'll take it. Aren't we undefeated as a 14?We will fall in the rankings but I don't think it will be as bad as most of us thought. Dare I say fall to 14.
No. Domask is and he’s not ideal either. Like Ty, he’s a damn good player, just not a PG.
He's leading a top 5 offense. His turnover rate is elite. He's averaging 18 ppg in conf play on nearly 50 percent shooting and 88 percent from the FT line.
Yeah, he's not Luka, but he's definitely been our point guard.
None of this matters to some of the fanbase. Just because we have the 5th best offense in the nation and the best offense our fanbase has seen in over 30 years, they don't like that we don't have a traditional or shooting PG and think we'd be even more effective and our offense would look prettier if we did. Doesn't matter that our offense isn't the root of the issues we've had. If only we could just score more than 90ppg on average instead of 86ppg all our problems would go away... You always love what you don't have.
- Status