That’s the one thing about Silas - really good player, but doesn’t feel like a floor general, identifying matchup advantages. A lot of his production is more off the fact he is very skilled and plays his butt off.
Given the amount of violence the refs were allowing, I thought his 3rd was a very soft call. Those refs were very inconsistent for both sides.
Agree with you about the refs but BM should understand his need to stay on the court. He gets caught reaching and/or trying to play catch-up on D too much.
True, he has to realize he is potentially so great offensively that he needs to factor that into foul risk exposure but granted he really had little choice in this instance. Reed’s rebounding, paint points, and rim protection puts him on a similar position.
I get the ball will be with the guards if we are ahead with less than a minute left, but won’t we go inside in a back and forth game? Also, Smith is in the 50-55% FT range.
I hate to say it but I wondered what we were thinking putting ourselves in that position. It seemed like a strategy and not a player going off script. Given we were not in the penalty it was not like we would give them 2 foul shots with us up more. And the risk of a 3 plus a foul shot made me think what are we thinking? At any rate, they could have called a foul.
Gotta go with the 2014 team, hands down. Shabbaz and company were automatic during that entire run.
It's really not a question. And not just because the Squid refused to foul late in the final game. A few weeks after that game I heard Izzo on Dan Patrick shilling something. Before they got into the sell, Patrick asked him why he lost to UConn. He said "foul shooting". Not the suffocating defense, putz?
