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Oregon State 59, WSU 55

Is euthanasia legal on a basketball season?

 

Player of the Game - Klay Thompson - Welcome back, old friend. 18 points on very efficient 7 of 11 shooting, including 4 of 6 from distance. If you had told me this would happen before the game, I would have guaranteed a victory. Too bad. Klay also had a team high eight boards. Downside: 0 to 4 assist to turnover ratio. The "stop shooting" threads over on Cougfan should shift to "stop passing".

Unsung Hero - Nikola Koprivica - For future years I'm seriously considering renaming this the "Nikola Koprivica Unsung Hero Award". 12 points on 4 of 6 (2 of 4) shooting, 6 boards, and a positive (2:1) assist to turnover ratio!

It was over when... WSU couldn't rebound the missed front end of a one-and-one with under 30 seconds remaining. It would've given the Cougs the ball down one with a chance to win. Instead, one of the Tarvers went to the line and made it a three-point game. This is pretty much the kind of thing we've come to expect.

Stat of the Game - Let's not kid ourselves. It's a miracle we almost won a game where we had 15 points and 15 turnovers in one half. Unreal.

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Sad

We can’t even get the pictures to make fun of our experience right.

by Jeff Nusser on Mar 5, 2010 8:15 AM PST up reply actions  

kinda fitting I think

made me laugh anyway

www.nwfan.com

by coug2828 on Mar 5, 2010 9:00 AM PST up reply actions  

Same here

Especially since I have a pretty good guess what the pic was supposed to be

by Brian Floyd on Mar 5, 2010 9:06 AM PST via mobile up reply actions  

For those who didn't see it,

here’s a link that should let you.

I don’t know why it was removed.

by TiltingRight on Mar 5, 2010 2:25 PM PST up reply actions  

Impressive second half from the Cougs.

I must admit, as I sat at home listening to this game I thought that after the first half the Cougs were done. OSU was running, had tons of momentum and has been a pretty good closer this year. That run to open the second was scary. Thompson reminded everyone in Corvallis that, “Oh yeah, he’s pretty good, isn’t he?” and I honestly felt like the Cougs would win by 3 until the final 1:20.

Wish this one was on TV.

Now go beat Oregon.

by ArbyOSU on Mar 5, 2010 9:20 AM PST reply actions  

I am keeping the faith. Oregon is a must win!

The funny thing is, I would rather be an up and down team than a team who is never competitive, e.g., 2008 and 2009 Coug football teams. I used to think the opposite by the way until I actually had to watch a bad team like the 2008 and 2008 Coug football.
We should be glad for 4 pt losses.

by ptowncoug3012 on Mar 5, 2010 9:37 AM PST reply actions  

Im not glad for that 4 point loss

We had multiple good chances to take the lead and left them on the table

by Brian Floyd on Mar 5, 2010 9:58 AM PST via mobile up reply actions  

This is hilarious

You’re keeping the faith, and I’m done. How does this happen? Are we in bizarro world?

by Jeff Nusser on Mar 5, 2010 10:14 AM PST up reply actions  

We may just be. I pretty much written off getting my hopes too high

and therefore am really ok with the up and down. Maybe Coug football has fried my fandom senses so much anything better than being stomped is a positive!

by ptowncoug3012 on Mar 5, 2010 12:32 PM PST up reply actions  

I don't think my hopes have been very high recently

But they’ve failed to even meet that low bar. That’s discouraging.

by Jeff Nusser on Mar 5, 2010 12:35 PM PST up reply actions  

And, while we're on the subject

Does anyone else find it pitiful that “anything better than being stomped is a positive” for us right now?

I mean seriously … think about that.

by Jeff Nusser on Mar 5, 2010 12:36 PM PST up reply actions  

Id rather be stomped to be honest

Because we haven’t been getting run. We’ve been in games and can’t put a full one together or get over the hump in games.

This makes me want to pull my hair out

by Brian Floyd on Mar 5, 2010 12:40 PM PST via mobile up reply actions  

Pulling my hair out

is better than the empty, soulless feeling I was getting every game during football season. WAY better.

by TiltingRight on Mar 5, 2010 2:27 PM PST up reply actions  

I cant figure out whats worse

Feeling like we have no shot during football, or knowing the potential and watching us get painfully close only to lose in basketball. I’m leaning towards the latter

by Brian Floyd on Mar 5, 2010 2:41 PM PST via mobile up reply actions  

Can't it all just suck?

I mean, do we really have to debate the varying merits of suck?

by Jeff Nusser on Mar 5, 2010 2:54 PM PST up reply actions  

It all sucks in varying degrees

Which is how to also explain being a Cougar athletics fan at times

by Brian Floyd on Mar 5, 2010 3:40 PM PST via mobile up reply actions  

Hope.

There’s more in basketball in the near term than football.

by TiltingRight on Mar 5, 2010 3:59 PM PST up reply actions  

How does the 8-9 play in game work at this point?

since we lost this one… to avoid the 8-9 game, do we have to win saturday and stanford has to loose, putting us tied with stanford… and in a tie, were we split our games with them this year, does it then fall to overall record in which case we bump ahead of them and the 8-9 game is then oregon-stanford?

just trying to see if there’s a scenario left that doesn’t involve us playing back to back games against Oregon.

by can-head on Mar 5, 2010 10:13 AM PST reply actions  

The easiest way I can explain

Is it comes down to record against teams from the top down. If we win and Stanford loses, we both were swept by Cal, ASU, and UW. After that its a jumble. If OSU finishes fourth (they win and Az lose with USC also losing) we take the 8. If Az wins, we take the 7, same with Asu over usc. It gets confusing

by Brian Floyd on Mar 5, 2010 10:28 AM PST via mobile up reply actions  

Do we have to go through all of this again. haha

Last year somebody had too much time on their hands and made a huge hypothetical PAC10 seeding post. That’s just too much time to be thinking about something that is going to become irrelevant in a matter of days…

by cfred on Mar 5, 2010 11:44 AM PST up reply actions  

I dont care about seeding

I do care about avoiding Wednesday. Win tomorrow and odds are good we do that. Lose and odds are good we play Oregon on Wednesday

by Brian Floyd on Mar 5, 2010 11:50 AM PST via mobile up reply actions  

Eh

At least there is always baseball!!!

by spokanecougar on Mar 5, 2010 10:21 AM PST reply actions  

Oregons womens team is actually fun to watch

If you get a chance and are in Pullman go watch

by Brian Floyd on Mar 5, 2010 11:51 AM PST via mobile up reply actions  

To answer the first question...

Yes, and the needle is in the arm. Just waiting for someone to push the plunger.

by Wazzu Willy on Mar 5, 2010 10:45 AM PST reply actions  

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