Kelvin Sampson is salty
It's not unreasonable. But Coach Beilein would never say something like that even if he believed it. Show class in defeat.
Yeah, I think that he is a better person and that is what makes him a better ball coach. You would never see JB with a take like this. He would say something like "Houston played a heckuva game." Because that is what leaders do.
Scoreboard
"It's OK, man. You out-hit them."
He is a cheating piece of shit.
Parcells said " you are what your record says you are" or somesuch. In other words, you deserve exactly what the scoreboard says.
You want to avoid a miracle shot at the buzzer? Hit your FT's and close the game. You want to avoid the miracle shot? Don't let MAAR catch the baseball pass and use a clear passing lane to an open Jordan Poole.
This is a good reminder whenever I want to complain about The Game circa 2016.
earlier today, but wanted to find out more about him. This might interest people:
https://deadspin.com/for-kelvin-sampson-and-north-carolinas-native-amer…
I read that the other day, and I thought it was awesome, I kinda like the guy.
LOL!! Look at the stat line and tell me who the better team was. Oh, wait! You can't, because the stats are pretty much as dead even as dead even gets...
I'd say I'm sorry his team lost a heartbreaker like that, but I'm not. I'm merely happy my team won a heartbreaker like that.
Sampson just blew by Michigan's players with a half-assed handshake, left his players on the bench and walked off the floor before the ruling came down. Guy has zero class.
— Jerry Carino (@NJHoopsHaven) March 18, 2018
How is he even in the ncaa? With him and Bruce Pearl in the tournament, anyone who thinks we have seen the last of Pitino, Izzo or Miller is deluding themselves.
Completely agree
"His post game press conf.was 20 minutes of Izzo playing the martyr....come down off the Cross Tom."
Cheat your fucking balls off, get caught, do it again, get fired, wait 5 years, everything is fine.
Have fun at home Kelvin, the better man won Saturday.
March 20th, 2018 at 11:30 AM ^
sucks for him
It's hard to say who was the better team. The teams were within five or six points all game, and Michigan had a three point lead late at one point.
There are a lot of better teams playing no more games this year.
It's actually pretty easy: Michigan had the better season, got the better seed, won the game. Sampson can think whatever he wants but he's the one going home because his team wasn't actually better in any real way.
I can't even believe people want to entertain that thought. Michigan had a cold shooting night and the refshow played to Houston's advantage for much of the game, since their fouls came later and we had to sit Wagner and Duncan at times. I was beside myself pissed thinking we were about to be beat by a team Michigan would handle 8/10 times easily. Houston's only real threats were Gray and Davis. Gray had a horribly inefficient night inside the arc and we totally bailed him out with a few bonehead defensive mistakes (looking at you Simmons). It was annoying as hell watching him drive to the hoop and throw up brick after brick, and then crying about it literally every damn time. Cassius Winston doesn't like it when Zavier Simpson is in his shirt either, get over it. Davis, a 60% FT shooter, was also 8-8 from the line at one point. Not to mention Michigan missed two bunny shots that would have tied it in the last 30 seconds. None of this is to say Houston isn't good, just that Michigan is a better team than the one that showed up in Kansas last weekend. Both teams experienced bad breaks and the end result was mostly luck except for the fact that Jordan Pool has an overdose of swag.
whistles went the other way ... like when Wagner took a shoulder in the chops for his 4th foul, or his third foul when he was simply jockeying for defensive position on the post man, or the phantom foul on Robinson when the UH dude dribbled off his shin out of bounds, or one of the 13 times that man bun threw his body into the defender while attacking the hoop and got a handful of calls ... M would have won by a couple of buckets and we wouldnt have to be subjected to that scumbag Sampson whine about the game.
Oh stop it. Officiating was questionable all night at both ends. Bottom line; don't go 0 for 2 at the charity stripe to close out the game, and how about make sure short little man bun is facing the baseball throw in. The second is coaching, the first is just simply not pissing down both legs and leaving a puddle at your shoes.
One thing we know for sure is the best coach definitely won.
And then there was this random Houston fan whose tweet made the rounds on Michigan twitter too:
That was the luckiest most bullshit shot ever I hope everyone who had any affiliation with Michigan dies a miserable death very soon
— Austen Anop (@AustenAnop) March 18, 2018
And read the comments. They are pure fucking gold
That was worth the read. Thanks for pointing them out.
This one was my fave:
Here's a close second:
Appreciate the call out. Those comments are, indeed, pure fucking gold.
And does he mean the university or the state? Because there's a big difference in the poole of people that encompasses.
And from a metaphysical perspective he will actually get what he's looking for since we all die (maybe not all miserably) and relatively speaking it will be very soon if soon covers the next say 100 years. So we may have won the game but this guy will have his cosmic justice some day.
LMFAO!!!!! This kid is getting his ass PADDLED on Twitter
The funny part is that it's not even the first time in Poole's basketball career that he's made that exact shot.
But ok. Luck. Sure.
...to determine the better team.
We could consider the teams' resumes coming into the Tournament. Michigan's was better.
We could consider who scored more points on Saturday night. Michigan scored more points.
Slightly outplaying Michigan for 39 minutes and 56.4 seconds gets you nothing.
like Poor Sport/Loser
His team played well, but it had that lead because we missed three layups in the last minute. The loser was going to have a lot of regrets in this one no matter what.
"That's the welp of a beaten cur."
Quote from one of the posters on OP's twitter link:
"The NCAA really needs to start posting the number of points scored by each team on some sort of board during these games, so we can tell at the end who has the most. If they'd had something like that Saturday night, is there any doubt Houston would have come out on top?"
LOL
Hate to say it, he's right. That Houston team played its ass off and almost knocked off a good Michigan squad. It was tight all game but they pulled away at the end and should've had it.
Sometimes you win games you deserve to win, sometimes you don't. Michigan got lucky with this one. Reminds me of a hitter with guys on base in a tight situation who pops up foul but its dropped by the first baseman. They get another chance to hit a home run.
They have new life - gotta do something with it and make a run!
You make your own luck.
Go Blue!
Don't get me wrong, I firmly believe in making your own luck but Michigan got some the other night, and I don't think there's a lot of doubt about that.
Michigan definitely knows a lot about losing games it should win (esp. football - see Ohio State 2016 in football, I won't include this year's State game because Michigan played awful)
Houston was shooting better than their average at the charity stripe prior to the end of the game. Missing two at the end might be considered bad luck but it might also be considered playing to their average.
Making the play you called isn't luck.