A "good loss"?

by **PonyPower** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:51 pm

Let's all say it together: no loss is a good loss.

With that out of the way, though, I'd say last night's loss at Southern Miss was about as good a loss as a team can have... and I think we needed to lose. We weren't going to run the table, anyway, and it's not like we have dominant talent. But we had won a few games we easily could have lost, and with a young team, that can be great news or very dangerous.

For those who watched it on TV, you saw what I saw - with the exception of a stretch toward the end of the first half, we were basically awful. But we still came back and made a run at the supposed preseason favorites in the conference. In their gym. With their hand-picked refs. (I generally don't blame refs, because we get some calls at home, too, but last night was shameless.)

Brittany Gilliam couldn't buy a bucket until there were about 5 minutes left. Delisha Wills got gang-tackled a couple of times as they doubled her all the time. Jillian Samuels drained a couple of 3s, and they started rotating their defense more - apparently they remembered her lighting them up last year. We got very little from Christine Elliott, and even less from LaLa, Haley and the rest of the bench.

All year, I've been waiting for this kind of game. This team is too young to run the table, and would have been primed for a faceplant in the conference tournament if it had continued. This loss sucked, as all losses do, but we can rebound from it. Maybe we need to get angry, because we've lacked a little fire lately.

Flying to Orlando tonight. Playing 18 holes in the morning and then headed to the game. It will be interesting to see how we respond.

BEAT UCF!

by **PonyPride** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:07 pm

You're right - no such thing as a good loss.

But a lot of your other points seem pretty legit.

by **PoconoPony** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:50 pm

In some games you are merely out of sync. and there is no reason or explanation as to why. This next game will be more revealing as to the character and maturity of this team based on how they respond, deal with this loss and move on. Hopefully, they will get it together and get back into the win column.

by **George S. Patton** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:10 pm

All good points. As PonyPride were talking about last week, if you look at the scores of our conference games, we haven't been dominating but good enough and tough enough to win.

A win at UCF would be tremendous.

BTW, thought the CBS CSTV announcers were this short of putting on the gold and black for Southern Miss. Cool that we were on TV but that was a little much.

"So Miss down by a singleton.'' is the PBP said. Are you kidding?

by **FriscoPMG** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:14 pm

George S. Patton wrote:BTW, thought the CBS CSTV announcers were this short of putting on the gold and black for Southern Miss. Cool that we were on TV but that was a little much.

I was very disappointed in the lack of coverage of the Southern Misses dance squad. They're the best thing Hattiesburg has going but they received very little airtime! Boo to CSTV!

by **angryfan04** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:59 pm

a good loss for the women?.....I thought that doh was handling that for SMU

by **PonyLove** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 11:03 pm

George S. Patton wrote:
"So Miss down by a singleton.'' is the PBP said. Are you kidding?

Every time she said singleton I wanted to hurl.

Nice shot of our PonyPride doing his thing on tv. :-)

by **PonyPower** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 3:28 pm

FriscoPMG wrote:I was very disappointed in the lack of coverage of the Southern Misses dance squad. They're the best thing Hattiesburg has going but they received very little airtime! Boo to CSTV!

Good call, FriscoPMG - they were terrific. EASILY the most attractive feature in Hattiesburg.

I follow the Ponies to a handful of road games - I'll try to update you on what UCF has to offer in that department. :lol:

by **RGV Pony** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 3:37 pm

PonyPower wrote:
FriscoPMG wrote:I was very disappointed in the lack of coverage of the Southern Misses dance squad. They're the best thing Hattiesburg has going but they received very little airtime! Boo to CSTV!
Good call, FriscoPMG - they were terrific. EASILY the most attractive feature in Hattiesburg.

I follow the Ponies to a handful of road games - I'll try to update you on what UCF has to offer in that department.

http://www.ccc-la.com/gallery/view_phot ... oShoot_015

I'm guessing that's the Hattiesburg arts district? Or their rendition of 'uptown?'

by **PonyPower** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 4:09 pm

Possibly. Hard to say - I arrived after dark, and saw only the inside of the bar in my hotel. The drive out of town, though, was right off the set of Dukes of Hazard.

by **PonyPower** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:08 pm

PonyPower wrote:
FriscoPMG wrote:I was very disappointed in the lack of coverage of the Southern Misses dance squad. They're the best thing Hattiesburg has going but they received very little airtime! Boo to CSTV!
Good call, FriscoPMG - they were terrific. EASILY the most attractive feature in Hattiesburg.

I follow the Ponies to a handful of road games - I'll try to update you on what UCF has to offer in that department.

Two words regarding the smokin' UCF dance squad:
LEATHER PANTS
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