This might normally be a trap game, but given the weakness of the schedule I don’t think there’s any chance we’re overlooking this one.
Interestingly, Wright St is dead last in the country in Kenpom’s luck metric. They have a track record of being super shaky in close games this season.
“Below, the definitive ranking of the top 10 Bill Raftery sayings.
10. “MANTOMAN!”: We have to start off the countdown the way Raftery starts off every broadcast: by teeing up the defensive alignment. Even the teams who choose not to open in man-to-man come out “in a 2–3 zone with MANTOMAN principles.”
9. “A big ticker”: The second-highest compliment Raftery can bestow on a player or team’s character is the size of their ticker (heart), especially relative to their physical size.
8. [Unintelligible, squealing “OOOH!”] This is more of a punctuation mark than an actual phrase of Raftery’s, but his ability to vary pitch and inflection to match the moment (as he did during the aftermath of Kris Jenkins’s title-winning shot in 2016) is a gift that transcends language.
7. “Big fella!” A term of endearment assigned to any frontcourt player 6’9" or taller—or 240 pounds or heavier.
6. “A nickel-and-dimer!” Used to refer to a touch foul Raftery disagrees with. Simple. Subtle.
5. “A little kiss!” The production truck takes great care to come back to every bank shot so that Raftery can break down any creative usage of the glass if he misses it the first time around.
4. “Send it in!” The root of Raf’s most famous individual call, Jerome Lane’s backboard-shattering dunk in 1988, shows up so early on this list only because the energy of that call hasn’t found a fitting challenger in the last 30 years.
3a. “Onions!”
3b. “Onions! Double Order!”
Raftery’s go-to late-game catchphrase (and its more advanced state, reserved for back-and-forth battles in crunch time) has become the line most closely associated with his style. If you don’t know what onions refer to, well, you can read about it.
2. “Get those puppies organized!” It takes an especially pure three-pointer from a “big fella” to draw this one out of Raftery, but the literal translation of this line produces such a beautiful image that it’s nearly impossible to top.
1. “Lingerie on the deck!” Raf has several sayings more famous than this one, but it’s clear this is the line he most relishes having an excuse to use when a defender has his ankles broken.”
Looks like it’s swung 3 points in our direction in past few hours. Unconfirmed reports that Loudon Love is dealing with an ear infection.
Loudon Love, sounded like a bad porn name but he always had our number.
With fans like these…
84-73…Miami…and Suder with a big night.
My scientific survey:
More Miami fans
=>Uh, no.
We’ve gotta get better on the glass
Weak interior D
10-8 Miami Byers to shoot FT after the break. There are certain things Woolfolk does that I’m not fond of.
This old announcer sucks.
Very weak but Woolfolk keeps going out high
Leaving the paint open
I think he’s said I have no clue 6 times
Unfortunately the interior looks like a huge vulnerability
Just cannot rebound
Just giving up layup after layup
How many more times are we going to let them penetrate untouched!
