Text From Last Night

Here is a new fun blog segment to try. A play on the very popular website Text from last night. Here are some fabricated text messages at various moments of sporting events from the night before (in this case during hte Sweet 16 games) to help provide some commentary. Real texts will of course also apply in future segments.


I think Syracuse's Center has the hands of the guy in the Burger King Commercial!
This is of course in reference to Syracuse Forward Rick Jackson. Several times throughout last nights crapfest of a game by Syracuse, Jackson simply couldn't hold onto what were perfectly legitimate entry passes, and the would bounce off his hands and roll out of bounds. (The guy in the BK commercial is the one that likes McDonalds burger because it fits better in his small hands)


Isn't Zeke too old to go to college?
Isiah Thomas Jr. Plays for UDub. I was shocked when the announcers told me he was only 5'8". FIVE-EIGHT!!! Yet, the kid still controlled driving lanes, seeking contact, putting up an impressive performance in a game where Husky star Quincy Pondexter couldn't stay on the floor. NOTE: Zeke Jr. was playing with a BROKEN LEFT HAND!

Half-Nelsons are legal in the basketball?!?!
Late in the game, after Syracuse made their huge run to close the gap, and actually pulled ahead by 4, after a sweet throwdown. (I believe this is chronologically right, but I'm not positive) Butler had the ball in the half court, and the there was a strip that resulted in the ball leaving play, staying with Butler. This was at the top of your screen. At the bottom, you saw two players, one from each team, sprawling to the ground. Upon further review (thanks to DVR), you could see Butler forward Gordon Hayward perform a half-nelson take-down on the Syracuse player that made a strong positional move to box him out. This was not called, and Butler hit a HUGE 3! Absolute game changer!


Boring! Is anybody ever going to score in this....DAMN!!!!!
This is in reference to the beginning of the Xavier-KState game. It took about 2:00 for the first bucket, but when it happened, it was amazing! The Xavier player started at the top right of your TV screen (at the edge of the paint on one side of the basket) and ran a complete 360-deg route, clearing the paint, circling around the arc, picking up a high screen, just as a teammate cleared out a basket-cut, leaving him alone cutting to the basket, and the Xavier guard delivered an effortless 40ft lead-lob perfectly for a nasty ally-oop.


Is this really happening?
probably came as a reaction to Conrell's quick start. It was soon answered with a firm NO, as Kentucky began a series of steal-fastbreak-dunk/lay-ups.


WHY AM I WATCHING THIS GAME?
Anyone who was regionally given the Kentucky-Cornell game was asking this with 5 minutes left in the Xavier-KState game. This was a fantastic basketball game, and for a long stretch we were forced to watch a hideous contest, where Kentucky would render Conrnell's offense completely inept and then run down the floor, and do something dumb to turn it over. If Kentucky played well at all offensively they should have won this game by 40, the way their defense was playing in the second half.

Did he just...
In a very unfortunate event, after a foul was not called just across half-court (which up on DVR review was likely caused by the ref being at a bad angle), Xavier's Terrell Holloway (who had already made himself known with a BINOCULAR deep 3 moments earlier) sensed more contact and got off a shooting motion, causing Denis Clemente foul's to result in 3 game-tying foul shots. Crazy.

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Obviously, the texter was rendered speechless by Jordan Crawford's game-tying 3 pointer from deep in the parking lot. I personally tackled the ottoman, which was previously holding my feet and then marched around the room in stunned disbelief.

-APT