BIG BIG props to Gibbs

ctchamps · Mar 17, 2016

Those FT's at the end of the game were cash!!!

CallMeBruce · Mar 17, 2016

You have to appreciate a guy who designates himself as the crunch-time free throw shooter and then drains them all without grazing the rim. Really nice job today.

4in16 · Mar 17, 2016

Loved that after he turned it over the 2nd time he stayed with it stole the ball back and got fouled, huge play.

BUHusky · Mar 17, 2016

And let's not forget his 3 for the lead. Never trailed after that. He was big time late.

Kitaman · Mar 17, 2016

Just the usual senior playing like a senior (dependable). That's March basketball.

msgordon · Mar 17, 2016

that 'pass' he threw with 40 seconds left took a few years off my life...thank god he made up for it almost immediately

junglehusky · Mar 17, 2016

No sweat, huh?

Horatio · Mar 17, 2016

We needed clutch . He was clutch.

CL82 · Mar 17, 2016

Uh, would rather that we kept the ball out his hands until after we cross half court. He nearly killed me.

Clutch at the FT line though.

mauconnfan · Mar 17, 2016

He needed to LOL but seriously in his defense how can you keep throwing it to the worst place on the floor for the trap? he just happened to be there, but he did panic but found a way to close it still.

upstater · Mar 17, 2016

UConn needs to just attack when up by 11 with 2 minutes left and they find themselves in a 2 on 1.

James · Mar 17, 2016

Kids a great shooter he's gotta keep shooting . And no ridiculous head scratching double teams for no reason , gave up a lay up to fortune in the first .

intlzncster · Mar 17, 2016

CL82 said:
Uh, would rather that we kept the ball out his hands until after we cross half court. He nearly killed me.

Clutch at the FT line though.

totally agree. kid's not built to break the press. have him sit across court, come off a little screen and get he ball ever single time. no one i want on the line more at the end.

Hans Sprungfeld · Mar 17, 2016

CallMeBruce said:
You have to appreciate a guy who designates himself as the crunch-time free throw shooter and then drains them all without grazing the rim. Really nice job today.

Those were beautiful free throws, every one of them.

intlzncster · Mar 17, 2016

mauconnfan said:
He needed to LOL but seriously in his defense how can you keep throwing it to the worst place on the floor for the trap? he just happened to be there, but he did panic but found a way to close it still.

we really do suck a beating the press in the back court. seemed to figure it out right at the end though.

Tommyboy · Mar 17, 2016

intlzncster said:
we really do suck a beating the press in the back court. seemed to figure it out right at the end though.

we wait too much for the trap and trying to pass instead of attacking with the dribble.

gtcam · Mar 17, 2016

I have been disappointed in SG
BUT those free throws at the end were clutch and ICE
Thanks for your coolness SG

jibsey · Mar 17, 2016

I don't want to get ahead of myself here but we shot FT's in 14 pretty good and played defense. Let the stars align Sat.

CL82 · Mar 17, 2016

intlzncster said:
we really do suck a beating the press in the back court. seemed to figure it out right at the end though.

Because it was Adams not Gibbs in the corner.

Waquoit · Mar 17, 2016

The guy was money. Very cool how UConn put the ball in his hands every time down the stretch, Did he even graze the rim?

boog204 · Mar 17, 2016

intlzncster said:
totally agree. kid's not built to break the press. have him sit across court, come off a little screen and get he ball ever single time. no one i want on the line more at the end.

He was pretty hideous in that regard. A terrible pass, he got away with a carry, and then was fairly lucky to get fouled another time as he was completely out of control. Free throw shooting was obviously money, though.

BigErnMcCracken · Mar 17, 2016

boog204 said:
He was pretty hideous in that regard. A terrible pass, he got away with a carry, and then was fairly lucky to get fouled another time as he was completely out of control. Free throw shooting was obviously money, though.

They were collectively horrible against the press for a few minutes. Then they fixed it. The guy who throws a pass to a guy who's trapped on the sideline about nine seconds into the shot clock is just as culpable as the guy who throws it away to beat the ten second call. And I don't think you can call him "lucky" to get fouled when it was pretty obvious that he was not giving up the ball precisely to make sure he (and not someone else) was fouled.

boog204 · Mar 17, 2016

BigErnMcCracken said:
They were collectively horrible against the press for a few minutes. Then they fixed it. The guy who throws a pass to a guy who's trapped on the sideline about nine seconds into the shot clock is just as culpable as the guy who throws it away to beat the ten second call. And I don't think you can call him "lucky" to get fouled when it was pretty obvious that he was not giving up the ball precisely to make sure he (and not someone else) was fouled.

Lucky in the sense that if the foul wasn't called there (and officials sometimes swallow the whistle late in games), it seemed like a turnover was imminent. All three announcers were pretty shocked he tried to dribble through that whole sequence.

8893 · Mar 18, 2016

In addition to the very clutch free throws, it was great to hear Rodney's comments in the presser about Sterling, citing him as the one who spoke up at half time and told the others not to get down and to stay calm because they had been in that situation before and had overcome it.

SubbaBub · Mar 18, 2016

Late and close, the ball goes to Gibbs first then Hamilton. Rodney is probably option 3. I'd give it to Jalen at the end of the shot clock, but the best way to beat the press is with Gibbs and Hamilton.

breezy · Mar 18, 2016

8893 said:
In addition to the very clutch free throws, it was great to hear Rodney's comments in the presser about Sterling, citing him as the one who spoke up at half time and told the others not to get down and to stay calm because they had been in that situation before and had overcome it.

any link to the post game presser?

8893 · Mar 18, 2016

breezy said:
any link to the post game presser?

tzznandrew · Mar 18, 2016

Waquoit said:
The guy was money. Very cool how UConn put the ball in his hands every time down the stretch, Did he even graze the rim?

Loved his confidence, and loved that KO called a TO and clearly drew it up so that Gibbs got the shots. Both showed confidence in him, and helped him get more reps. We're going to need a confident Gibbs who can bury the open buckets against KU tomorrow.

breezy · Mar 18, 2016

MOJO alert!
At 12:15 KO answers a reporter's question with "it was just YUGEE"

BIG BIG props to Gibbs

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