Whoa. In that case, Xaivian is definitely a happy camper even if the season didn’t go quite as planned.
also worth noting that we broke the story of him leaving well before and that was sourced from our contacts and disseminated by “mr p”. all in the record of the board if one looks back.
i trust my sources.
Xaivian was not happy, however, when he did get called out.
You gotta foul every single solitary time. Up three and you let a guy with 40 shoot??? With 6 seconds left???
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You deny the kid with 40 hard and foul in the backcourt to eliminate continuation with 5.9 left
I might have put 4 on him 
and one under the basket
They played it questionably ( being nice). Simmons did contest pretty well but kid is 6’9 so
As a footnote if you don’t deny or foul; you turn the kid esp when he is 6’9 on a live dribble.
You do it early bc of continuation rule
I think all of this is letting Jones off the hook too easily, because the game was still only tied, not lost, and in OT, AJ fouled out. No-one on Yale did, but Penn still won in OT.
He sure sounded smug and omniscient in his press conference, though.
Sports end badly 99.9% of the time.
It sucks to lose. Presser was gold.
“To the man in the arena…”
He has the right to be given his record. Penn had a 5% chance to win that game in the final minute of regulation and he got burned. He had his team in position to win against a very hot opponent. I just don’t get the Penn fans who are almost gleeful to say that Jones screwed up. The decision not to foul happens all the time and while you and I may disagree with it, let’s exult in TJ’s mortar shot of a high arcing 3 and leave criticism of Jones to Yale fans. He’s had an unbelievable run and this does not tarnish that.
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Yeah, agreed with you on TJ’s 3s. Both of them, really. Tough shots on the move with intense pressure.
Penn defied the odds all weekend long, seemingly outmanned and that situation got even more dire in yesterday’s OT, and facing the “co-coaches” of the year on Friday and Saturday.
I found it somewhat unbecoming of Jones (I watched the YouTube recordings of all of the press conferences) to dismiss Penn’s victory as essentially “what TJ did .. he’ll never pull off something like that ever again, but he did today, and they needed all of that to pull off this victory”.
Oh, and “it’s getting tougher and tougher to win in this league”. But that’s the nature of competition, no? Seemed like a bit too much of sour grapes.
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It is most obviously and undebatably a compliment to the league.
Shows great humility when you have dominated the league of late.
couldn’t have been more gracious in a horrifying defeat where the staff most definitely committed untold blunders as I wrote incessantly above during the game.
To the league, perhaps, but I don’t think he made a single complimentary remark about PENN as a TEAM and what it accomplished this weekend under very trying circumstances.
Penn just won the league.
I mean he called out power and thrower and complimented Fran and said he was happy for him and his nephew
I have never blown a 6 point lead with 13 secs left having a kid score half the other teams points.
But when I do the given I coach I hope I am so gracious. I hope
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He sure didn’t look or sound happy when saying he was happy for Jay.
And again the remark about Power had that sorry excuse of a caveat thrown in there. Happy about Fran who is a friend.
But nothing about Penn as a TEAM and what it accomplished.
Dude you won. Be happy
He coaches Yale not Penn and he knows they blew it in regulation. His brother is his best friend dressed in Penn gear. His seniors are devastated
He isn’t thinking about Penns accomplishment but rather his failure. He was beyond gracious 20 mins after arguably his worst defeat ever considering the circumstances.
I can’t believe he said he was happy for Fran and his nephew. I wouldn’t even have thought to say that!
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The image of Jones from the weekend that sticks with me is his embrace of a sobbing Cooper Noard of Cornell at the end of the Saturday game. It reminded me of a similarly gracious act by Coach K embracing Makai Mason in Providence after Duke beat Yale in round 2 of the 2016 tourney. James Jones is class and it’s poor sportsmanship to be so critical of him.
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I’m not really sure why it’s so outrageous to say that Penn won entirely because TJ Power had a once-in-a-lifetime game where he hit everything he threw at the rim. That sounds to me like an accurate description of the game. Sour grapes would have been adding (also accurately) “…and if we fouled up 3, none of it would have mattered.”
While the 2 shots at the end certainly were “once in a lifetime” shots, I think we’re likely to see performances like that from him next season. He has a skill set very unusual in the Ivy League. BTW, without Cam Thrower, Penn doesn’t win in OT. But I’m with you in not finding anything Jones said to be objectionable, especially after an unbelievably tough loss.
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If we’re likely to see multiple performances like that from him next season, we’re looking at the greatest Ivy League season in history.
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The guy showed why he was a 5 star recruit…not a lot of those in the Ivies
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I agree with this and made that point 3 weeks ago
He has a special skill set at that size, no doubt
Top 15 recruits are ranked that way bc they are viewed as NBA players with those measurables and skills