Altmanforprez wrote:What I get frustrated with my friends on their in game reactions is that if you watch enough college basketball you realize what happens in Creighton games isn’t much different than what happens in any other college basketball game (except for the fact Creighton’s guards never get a whistle going to the rim).
Xavier was going to make a push after they got down 20, that almost always happens. Like someone else mentioned, if we have a couple of those open shots in that stretch it wouldn’t have felt uncomfortable, but they managed to get locked back in and finish the game out on the road. Slightly different situation since it was an injury that seemed to turn the tides, but Minnesota was up 20 @Iowa in the 2nd half yesterday and managed to give the lead and the game to Iowa pretty quickly.
If you’re going to be upset at a moment in a game I get it, but these games play out over several stretches. Falling behind by 9 out of the gate isn’t ideal, but that’s something a team like Creighton is going to be able to overcome most nights.
This is what I was pointing to. The response to a rough start on the road isn't, "Well that was rough; gonna have to settle in." It's straight to "We're going to get run off the court," "9 seed incoming," "enjoy the bubble," etc. I just don't understand that mindset where the team is only as good as its last mistake and everything else that has happened doesn't matter. That goes for players who hit a rough patch as well, like vivd said.
Basketball is a complex game and it's never as simple as the other team scoring means bad defense by Creighton, and Creighton missing shots means bad offense and a terrible game plan.
Fan however you want to fan. I'm not a moderator here. It's just that immediately defaulting to the worst case scenario at the first sign of adversity seems like a miserable way to watch college basketball, and it doesn't make for interesting discourse (which is what I'm looking for on a message board) in my mind.