BG victim Cincinnati on a roll!

JoeFalcon · Post by **JoeFalcon** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:01 am

After hanging tough with #2 Memphis and defeating the greatest team in MAC history (Miami of Ohio), the UC Bearcats took down Rick Pitino's Louisville team. This is the same UC team that BG beat in their hometown earlier this season--how's THAT for a quality win?

Somehow, someway, our slow, unathletic, underachieving, young, poor-shooting, short, undermanned, inexperienced bunch got it done. This shows that deep down beneth the visibly painful growing pains lies a quality team with tremendous potential.

Why not some wishful optimism to counter the mindless negativity and incessant pessimism? Somewhere in the middle just might be realism.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:26 am

That's definitely starting to look like a pretty good win for us.

Falcon137 · Post by **Falcon137** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:38 am

By roll you mean 2 in a row after losing 5 straight?

mathalete · Post by **mathalete** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:45 am

if a roll is two in a row, can we go on one?

JoeFalcon · Post by **JoeFalcon** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:49 pm

Falcon137 wrote:By roll you mean 2 in a row after losing 5 straight?

Yes, including the Miami team you anointed as the greatest thing to happen to basketball since they cut the bottoms off the peach buckets. Not so 'horrid' after all, eh?

More than making a case for Cincinnati, the point was to highlight a positive about our program in the same way that you choose to dwell on the negatives. True to form, you took the glass-half-empty route. Thanks for proving my point!

Falcon137 · Post by **Falcon137** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:03 pm

JoeFalcon wrote:
Falcon137 wrote:By roll you mean 2 in a row after losing 5 straight?
Yes, including the Miami team you anointed as the greatest thing to happen to basketball since they cut the bottoms off the peach buckets. Not so 'horrid' after all, eh?

More than making a case for Cincinnati, the point was to highlight a positive about our program in the same way that you choose to dwell on the negatives. True to form, you took the glass-half-empty route. Thanks for proving my point!

OK, well 1st I said Miami was the best team in the MAC, which they still are. Wins vs Xavier, vs Miss St., and @ Illinois have proven that.

Cincinnati is a far different team from the one we played back in game #3 as are we...they've been getting healthy and adding guys we've seemingly gotten worse.

If being a realist is looking at the glass half-empty then yep I am.

Just an FYI---Everyone win for us is a "good" win. We currently own 1 win with a winning record (7-6) Belmont. 2 wins vs. teams who have 0 or 1 win (Furman & Eastern Illinois) and the only loss we have to a team with a winning record is 9-3 Illinois St.

JoeFalcon · Post by **JoeFalcon** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:48 pm

You can be a realist about this team and still acknowledge that the win over Cincinnati is looking better now.

A optimist would say: "See, we beat Cincinnati and they beat the MAC's best team, so that means we should win the MAC." (I'd disagree)

A realist would say: "That looks like a pretty good win now and shows we have some potential." (I'd agree)

A pessimist would say what you said: "It's meaningless...a lot has changed... they still have a losing record." (I'd disagree)

Looking at Miami through that same negative filter, you could say that the teams they've beat are similarly matured and improved at this stage, that they've peaked at the wrong time and are headed on a downward spiral. I'm not trying to convert you from pessimism if that's your cup of tea. I just think being realistic about this team doesn't have to mean dismissing any and all good news that happens to come along the way.

Falconboy · Post by **Falconboy** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:17 pm

I saw snippets of that game and I'll say right now that I don't know how for the life of me that we beat that team no matter how bad UC supposedly was back in game #3. The overall athletic talent and size of that team should've handled us but we did have Hamblet back then too. Maybe UC just horridly played down to us. I'd really like to think that cuz we beat UC and they've now beaten UL and hung with #2 Memphis that means we're good but it doesn't.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:36 pm

UC beat #19 Villanova today, too.

Falcon137 · Post by **Falcon137** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:50 pm

TG1996 wrote:UC beat #19 Villanova today, too.

UC has been playing much better lately.

BGFalconfromCincy · Post by **BGFalconfromCincy** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:48 am

Falcon137 wrote:
TG1996 wrote:UC beat #19 Villanova today, too.
UC has been playing much better lately.

as a life long UC fan its good to see them finally bringing things together after the early season struggles, and its makes BG's win over them look better