Re: >>>>>>>OU-LSU Gameday Thread<<<<<<<
Exactly....
For those that complain about us being negative during a game...then don't read. Seriously....so what...we see the game as we do. It's emotion. Coach K gets paid the big bucks to be calm and cool.
I do think they changed the d approach late in first half...just play Simmons straight up mainly.
For those that complain about people complaining about you being negative...then don't read.
See how that works?
It's one thing to point out ways in which the Sooners are coming up short in a certain section of the game or even an entire half. It's quite another to light your hair on fire, rend your garments, gnash your teeth, and claim that you've known all along that Cousins has no business playing the 1.
That last bit is a near quote, btw.
We could have two game threads, I guess: one a glass-half-full thread and one a glass-half-empty. It's a suggestion I've been (half-jokingly) making over on the Hale board for many years, so dominant has the negative crowd become over there.
Expressing frustration and disappointment when a game is not going our way is understandable. It's human. Turning on and even trashing the same players who have given us this amazing season is quite another. And giving up in the freaking first half is just laughable (as today's events proved). If ever a group of players and coaches has earned the right to have us show a bit more faith in them, it's this group.
It's one thing to be a reactionary fan when you're in your teens or even your twenties. But if you're 30 or older and you haven't learned a lesson or two about having faith in your team and showing some patience during a bad stretch -- if you haven't learned to view a tough outing or even a loss with a certain amount of perspective -- then something's not clicking. (In saying "you" in the above post, I'm not speaking to or referring to anyone in particular.)
And by the way,we didn't get lucky in overcoming the missed free throws; we played tenaciously enough to overcome them. I'd say LSU got lucky that we missed those free throws, but we played well enough to keep them from taking advantage of those missed FTs.
Like I said, some have a glass-half-full view; others have a glass-half-empty. You say the Sooners were lucky; I say they played well enough and fought hard enough to overcome those late mistakes.
