Tough LossWEll the Mountain Eagles played hard today at Lawson Arena, home of the Goon Squad. They fought hard all the way to the final seconds, until Goons SF Makisig Blancaflor dunk-faced on Reg Torres with 2 seconds remaining. In the final two seconds Marcos Tirado long passed it to Ye, who heaved the ball at the buzzer and hit the rim twice, appeared to go in, but went out. Eagles lost 84-82. Here is GM tough. "I'm lost. I am just distraught right now. We had a chance to take down possibly the best in the league. We also had 1 timeout in our pocket. I was trying to call it but Tirado in-bounded the ball so fast.....we were too late. We missed. We had a chance, it's one of these tough losses that are gonna be hard to swallow for a long, long time. I feel as sad as I did back 3 years ago, when we blown that 2nd half against iSmackNoobs. I just...........I just, errrr I just don't wanna speak right now." then he waved the camera off his face. Here we are with Ye Huaien, who missed the Game-Winning shot as time expired: "Man...........I feel disgusted right now. Feel like I ate something horrible. When I missed that shot, I had my arms over my head, down on the court for 5 minutes. I looked like this:
(http://blog.nj.com/setonhall_main/2009/03/large_uconlose....). Man I feel so sad right now, I had a chance, I just didn't get a really good look. I heard that we had a timeout but we didn't use it. Oh well on to the next one."
Now here is Reg Torres: "Coaches in Leagues need to do better timeout mangement. I mean we had a timeout remaining. I'm just so pissed off that the coach didn't call the timeout. We could've advanced the ball to half court and got a good look. I'm gonna go to the Commissioner's Office Monday and talk about this BS." Then Reg got a chair and threw it at the camera. Well Ye was the player of the night for the Eagles, with 37 points, 5 boards, 3 assist, a block, and a steal. Eagles now drop to 3rd place in the conference, now behind Rum Ham and Almdudlers.
Come by to Dodge Arena Tuesday as the Eagles will try to rebound against the Manutes Treys. This is Derek Alston, reporting for The Eagle.
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