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Message: [QUOTE="RichZ, post: 3433856, member: 534"] [LIST=1] [*]Skyline Chili is the chili equivalent of Deep Dish pizza from Little Caesars. [*]Can you imagine what it'll be like once Bouknight figures out that [B]BOTH [/B]halves count? [*]Bouk's stunning move around Cumberland for the lay in at a little under 9 minutes left in the first half should be put on a loop and played 24/7 at the Werth Center. [*]When we got down 10, then made the three triples to cut it to 1, it seemed like it stayed 28-27 for[B]EVER[/B]. Actually it was about 2:20 and included 10 changes of possession. [*]Keeping Cumberland scoreless in the 1st half was huge. Despite spotting him 3" and 25#, Vital [I](and Adams, but mostly Vital) [/I]was relentless in covering him and frustrating him. Cinci's best scorer went 1 for 11 for the game. [*]Vital didn't shoot great overall. 4 for 4 from deep in the 1st half was incredible, but he was 0 for 5 from deep in the 2nd half. But lets call it 0 for 4, since one of those was the 3/4 court heave at the end of regulation. Yet he managed to find 19 points, 5 boards, 4 dimes, 3 steals and a block. To me, his put back of Adams' missed 3 half way through the OT was the biggest single basket of the game. That was stolen points right there. [*]If I had to give a game ball I'd give it to CV, but I'd tell him to let Adams hold it for a while, because with 16 points, [I](including those big threes in our late first half run)[/I], 5 boards and great spot coverage of Cumberbund, he was doing a pretty good impersonation of CV. I hope he can do that consistently next year, because despite the bad rap CV gets here after every mistake, we're going to need a player with Vital's energy and cajones next year. [*]The crowd reaction on Bouk's 3 over Vogt at about 5:15 stirred a lot of great memories. That's the way Gampel used to sound on every big play in a big game. [*]The refs were not horrible -- until OT. Then they just became consistently bad. [*]Between the two announcers, they pronounced Vital every way you could possibly imagine [*]Whaley brought incredible energy. I love that he even cleanly blocks shots that he mistimes the jump on. [*]We outrebounded Cinci[I] (overall and on the offensive boards)[/I] despite their interior size and quickness. [*]In a statistical oddity, the two teams tied in steals, blocks and turnovers. [*]Live, it felt like Vogt scored in the upper teens and had double digit rebounds. I was shocked that he finished with 10 points and 4 boards. Watched the replay[I] (thanks tcf)[/I] and it still felt like he had a double-double. [*]Speaking of watching the replay, I usually do so only to analyze. Today, I enjoyed the game again, and felt the same apprehension when we were down and the same elation when there was no whistle on that last play as I did in real time. From a fan's perspective, it was that good a game. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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