A very effective double team getting into his passing lanes I’m sure lots of teams tried to double Brand.
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I will go to my grave believing we'd win at least seven out of ten in that matchup.
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Yes, but they all doubled down from the guard position, which Langdon's shooting and Avery's quickness was able to exploit. We doubled big to big, which they couldn't capitalize on.
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Ricky doesn't get enough credit for his offense in that game. JC's gameplan was for our guards to attack the hoop. No one was doing it early, Then Ricky stepped up, and played more offense in the first half of that game than he had all season. Then at the end... his glove defense made all the difference in the world.
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The team was so tight to start, think needle and tractor tight. Moore stepped up with those early buckets and the team settled down.
Ricky knew Avery from Augusta and was older than him so he knew that he could take him.
And I still feel the sting of that Laettner game winning shot in the Elite 8 game in '90. Chris Smith played a tremendous game and put us in position to go to our first Final 4 at the time. Payback is a "B" though and ohhh did it feel so good.And he's still feeling it 25 years later.
