Real Ones Will Know

[Sooner04]

 

[Salt City Sooner]

Versus Texas A&M?

Tech:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ik8aadC7d0

 

[Eielson]

Crocker's blocking me in that pic. I am RIGHT behind him. My wife is in the picture of Hollis draining the jumper against Tech. Godbold's winner was against Tech in Lubbock. If you watch it on youtube you'll see Chris Beard in the Red Raider huddle. The "play" we ran was garbage. But the shot was MONEY.

The horrifically executed play made the moment even more magical. I thought we had a chance inbounding it, but as more clock ran, all faith I had went out the window. If he airballs that like half of America would have, that would have made the not-top-10 plays of the week. I'm not one of Lon's most ardent followers, but there's no way he would drawn up something that ugly.

Godbold was no superstar, and he had a few bad moments (i.e. freshman year inbound pass), but he sure made it look easy at times. I remember our second round NCAA tourney game against Louisville. We start with three awful looking offensive plays, and Godbold bailed us out with three straight threes. We took a 9-4 lead (or was it 9-6?), but I looked to my brother and father and said "we're about to get manhandled." Godbold didn't keep bailing us out, and unfortunately I was right.

 

[Sooner04]

Godbold was no superstar, and he had a few bad moments (i.e. freshman year inbound pass), but he sure made it look easy at times. I remember our second round NCAA tourney game against Louisville. We start with three awful looking offensive plays, and Godbold bailed us out with three straight threes. We took a 9-4 lead (or was it 9-6?), but I looked to my brother and father and said "we're about to get manhandled." Godbold didn't keep bailing us out, and unfortunately I was right.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but two days prior to that Godbold helped right the ship after we blew a HUGE lead to St. Joe's in the first round. He was a really solid four-year player for us.

That Louisville game was about as ugly as it gets for a Sooner fan. We were a 6-seed, and we had NO business being on the court with them. What a bloodletting.

 

[Eielson]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but two days prior to that Godbold helped right the ship after we blew a HUGE lead to St. Joe's in the first round. He was a really solid four-year player for us.

That Louisville game was about as ugly as it gets for a Sooner fan. We were a 6-seed, and we had NO business being on the court with them. What a bloodletting.

I was curious so I went back to the box score. I misremembered. Godbold did not score on the first three possessions, but he did score our first 9 points. We took a 9-7 lead at the 16:11 mark. Louisville went on to outscore us 37-13 for the rest of the half. I thought I was watching us get demolished by the future national champions, but that wasn't even close to the case. They got humbled by a UNC team that was demolished by KU in the Final Four.

You remember correctly about St Joes! We had a 12 point lead at half, and Godbold pushed the lead to 19 by scoring our first 11 points. The game looked over, but we went ice cold, and St Joes went on a 26-11 run to cut it to 4 with 4:19 to play. Godbold scored 7 of our 11 points during that stretch, or we may not have weathered that storm. He led us with 25 points -- 18 of which came in the second half.

 

[WichitaSooner]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but two days prior to that Godbold helped right the ship after we blew a HUGE lead to St. Joe's in the first round. He was a really solid four-year player for us.

That Louisville game was about as ugly as it gets for a Sooner fan. We were a 6-seed, and we had NO business being on the court with them. What a bloodletting.

The Louisville game was consistent with what happened basically every time we played a high level team that season. We get blown out more times than I’d care to remember. I’ve always found that very telling with respect to Capel’s coaching abilities. Good coaches find ways to keep their team competitive even when they are outmatched, but it never seemed to happen that season.

 

[WaymanFan]

The Louisville game was consistent with what happened basically every time we played a high level team that season. We get blown out more times than I’d care to remember. I’ve always found that very telling with respect to Capel’s coaching abilities. Good coaches find ways to keep their team competitive even when they are outmatched, but it never seemed to happen that season.

You are correct in that we got blown out quite a bit that season. I thought we were over-seeded as a #6. That said, I was ecstatic to FINALLY win a 1st round game as a seed other than 1-3. It was unfathomable that in the previous TWENTY YEARS, we had won only ONE 1st round game seeded outside the top 3. As such, even in hindsight, I would have taken a 1st round win and a 2nd round humiliating loss 1000 times out of 1000 vs another 1st round loss.

 

[lexusooner]

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[lexusooner]

 

[Sooner04]

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There appears to be ice outside of Lloyd Noble. A LOT of ice.