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Message: [QUOTE="RichZ, post: 4114379, member: 534"] We had 18 people over for Thanksgiving Dinner. I was NOT involved in the planning at all[I] (other than to make my andouille stuffing)[/I]. Dinner was tentatively scheduled to start between 1 and 1:30. Apologies to the family for hiding out in my office until I was absolutely called to join them at the dinner table. As the elder statesman of the family, my presence was needed for the pre-meal toast. We were down 29-18 when I had to leave the game. Dinner was fine. Lots of blah-blah-blah about things not nearly as important as Husky Basketball. So here's my ThoughtZ on the first half. [LIST=1] [*]Just minor issues early. Couldn't score, couldn't maintain possession, couldn't rebound, couldn't defend. Other than that, we were playing just fine. [*]Why are Ajax and Akok so damned reluctant to shoot? Meanwhile, I had the score tracker on my cell screen, and the cell tucked discretely under a napkin on the table. Not too far into the 2nd half, things started to click. I excused myself and disappeared to my basement office when we were down 41-39. [*]I tuned in just in time to catch Tyrese's insane block, recovery and dunk. Pretty much the best play of his UConn career. [*]At 4:44, off another Tyrese Dunk, with a 7 point lead, I thought we were winning the game. Actually, there was no question in my mind. [*]And then just past the 1 minute mark, it all came tumbling down, off a horrible call by an official who was not in position to see the contact he called. [*]Today's big what-if -- What if we hadn't played like crapola for the first ten minutes? Would the outcome have been different? Because we did play the worst basketball of the season for those ten minutes, and still ended up with the lead with less than a minute to go, even if it was by one slim point. [*]Glad that Sanogo, Martin and Tyrese woke up and took command in the 2nd half, but dammit guys, the game is 40 minutes long. [*]Very concerned about where Akok has disappeared to. [*]One starter didn't score at all, and we got a grand total of 7 points off the bench. That's some bad basketball. But we were still in it at the end. How? [*]There go our sterling shooting percentages. SIGH. [*]How do you lose a game were you out blocked the opponent by 12? I think you'd have to go something like 2 for 16 from three to accomplish that. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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