RichZ
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Disclaimer: I did not see the game. No ESPNU access. Further, I do not know if I want to see the game at this point.
Still, from listening and from following the game as best as possible from ESPN's 'Play by Play" write-up and from the box score, I do have some thoughts about this debacle*.
*Debacle. While debacle seems to only be used these days in reference to catastrophic failures, the original and still valid meaning of the word specifically refers to the sudden breakup of an ice jam on a river. Nothing whatsoever to do with the game, but since I used the word in its common current sense, I felt some inexplicable urge to include its real meaning.
Still, from listening and from following the game as best as possible from ESPN's 'Play by Play" write-up and from the box score, I do have some thoughts about this debacle*.
- The Houston guard (Jurreau?) couldn't hit a shot (3/10, 0/2) but still managed to score 18 because the refs just kept sending him to the line (12/15). He was also their leading rebounder with 11 boards. But he also committed 7 TOs.
- Speaking of 7, That's how many offensive boards our whole damned team got. We had 35 opportunities for offensive boards on missed field goals, plus another 4 or 5 on reboundable (ie, not on the 1st shot of a 2 shot foul) misses from the FT line.
- It was apparently a pretty physical game, but the refs getting all ticky tacky in an effort to "take control of the game" is never a good thing -- especially when they let things like taunting go uncalled, then call a T on our bench for complaining about it.
- Whalley had by far the best game of any Husky, and of his career.
- Vital played OK-ish. Didn't shoot great, but still managed to lead us in scoring and had his usual assortment of steals, rebounds and assists.
- Gilbert played as poorly as any game by a UConn starting point guard that I can remember. Didn't make shots. Didn't make FTs. Lead the team in turnovers.
- Wilson fouled out in 13 minutes of playing time. Can't really hold it against him due to the general incompetence and home cooking served up by the refs, but still, 13 minutes?
- When was the last time 3 Huskies fouled out of a non-OT game?
- Akok is not an offensive savant. We seem to get a couple highlight reel defensive plays from him every 2 or 3 games, with too much of the other night's general lack of production in between. I'm really having trouble digesting one for nine from the field.
*Debacle. While debacle seems to only be used these days in reference to catastrophic failures, the original and still valid meaning of the word specifically refers to the sudden breakup of an ice jam on a river. Nothing whatsoever to do with the game, but since I used the word in its common current sense, I felt some inexplicable urge to include its real meaning.
