RichZ
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Spent a few hours this morning on you tube, reveling in the 2014 tourney,including watching the entire championship game. Found it surprising how many details of that game I'd forgotten in just two and a half years. Thought maybe some other 'yarders would enjoy reliving it, too.
Like I had forgotten that Amida and Kromah came in at the 15:32 mark, and both had an immediate impact. Amida had a block at 15:28, grabbed the rebound of the blocked shot and handed it to Bazz. Kromah sunk a jumper at the other end at 15:21. KY turned the ball over at 15:10, and at 14:54 Bazz buried a three from way out. KY missed and Brimah grabbed the rebound at 14:34. Amida actually had 3 blocks and 3 boards in his first 3 minutes on the court.
At about 13:10, Boat had my favorite play of the game, when he pwned the vaunted KY interior defense by dribbling into traffic, turning as if to take it back outside, and as the defense relaxed, spinning back around his befuddled man to make an uncontested reverse layup. 17-8
Our lead continued to grow until KY went zone and worked their way back into it.
I'd forgotten how cold we started the 2nd half, too. Even knowing the outcome, I couldn't help but get nervous every time they got within one or two.
9:00 left, we have a 3 point lead. Boat hurts his ankle but stays in game. Niels misses. Harrison misses. Young draws a foul. 4th on Phil. Amida already on the bench with 4. Daniels replaces Phil. Neither Phil nor Amida would get the chance to foul out, because we play the last 8:30 of the game without a center. I had forgotten that completely.
Young makes both FTs. 1 point game.
The next few minutes there's not a whole lot of scoring. Turnovers and missed shots by both teams. The lead goes up and down, but never by much, and we never get tied or fall behind. Lead finally gets back to 6 points with 2:45 left. Almost breathing room.
Randall misses, and we get possession. Now we slow down the offense with 2:15 to go. 6 points ain't much, but at about 2 minutes it's huge when your team hasn't missed a FT in 2 games and the worst FT shooter you have on the floor is Kromah, at just under 70%.
Burn the whole clock, Giffey misses, Kromah rebounds and tosses it deep to Bazz. Vitale calls it the biggest rebound of the CT season. Vitale is an idiot. Think back a week or so earlier. This one is with a 6 point lead. It ain't even close to Brimah's late board against St. Joe's.
1:50 to go. KO calls timeout to make sure everybody is on the same page.
Run clock, miss. The Jellies get possession with 1:20 left.
Young gets a layup. 4 point game. 1:06.
KY fouls. Not in bonus yet.
Run more clock and feed wide open Kromah under rim, he gets fouled going up. 25.1 on clock.
Makes both. 6 point game with 25 seconds left.
KY inexplicably burns 11 seconds before Harrison chucks a three and misses. The other Harrison gets the board and misses another three.
Board goes to Boat with 6 seconds left, and that is all she wrote.
Reporter asks Squid, why didn't you foul the last 2 minutes of the game. "Because they don't miss from the line." The way he said it sounded like a direct shot at his team's 13 of 24 FT shooting.
Like I had forgotten that Amida and Kromah came in at the 15:32 mark, and both had an immediate impact. Amida had a block at 15:28, grabbed the rebound of the blocked shot and handed it to Bazz. Kromah sunk a jumper at the other end at 15:21. KY turned the ball over at 15:10, and at 14:54 Bazz buried a three from way out. KY missed and Brimah grabbed the rebound at 14:34. Amida actually had 3 blocks and 3 boards in his first 3 minutes on the court.
At about 13:10, Boat had my favorite play of the game, when he pwned the vaunted KY interior defense by dribbling into traffic, turning as if to take it back outside, and as the defense relaxed, spinning back around his befuddled man to make an uncontested reverse layup. 17-8
Our lead continued to grow until KY went zone and worked their way back into it.
I'd forgotten how cold we started the 2nd half, too. Even knowing the outcome, I couldn't help but get nervous every time they got within one or two.
9:00 left, we have a 3 point lead. Boat hurts his ankle but stays in game. Niels misses. Harrison misses. Young draws a foul. 4th on Phil. Amida already on the bench with 4. Daniels replaces Phil. Neither Phil nor Amida would get the chance to foul out, because we play the last 8:30 of the game without a center. I had forgotten that completely.
Young makes both FTs. 1 point game.
The next few minutes there's not a whole lot of scoring. Turnovers and missed shots by both teams. The lead goes up and down, but never by much, and we never get tied or fall behind. Lead finally gets back to 6 points with 2:45 left. Almost breathing room.
Randall misses, and we get possession. Now we slow down the offense with 2:15 to go. 6 points ain't much, but at about 2 minutes it's huge when your team hasn't missed a FT in 2 games and the worst FT shooter you have on the floor is Kromah, at just under 70%.
Burn the whole clock, Giffey misses, Kromah rebounds and tosses it deep to Bazz. Vitale calls it the biggest rebound of the CT season. Vitale is an idiot. Think back a week or so earlier. This one is with a 6 point lead. It ain't even close to Brimah's late board against St. Joe's.
1:50 to go. KO calls timeout to make sure everybody is on the same page.
Run clock, miss. The Jellies get possession with 1:20 left.
Young gets a layup. 4 point game. 1:06.
KY fouls. Not in bonus yet.
Run more clock and feed wide open Kromah under rim, he gets fouled going up. 25.1 on clock.
Makes both. 6 point game with 25 seconds left.
KY inexplicably burns 11 seconds before Harrison chucks a three and misses. The other Harrison gets the board and misses another three.
Board goes to Boat with 6 seconds left, and that is all she wrote.
Reporter asks Squid, why didn't you foul the last 2 minutes of the game. "Because they don't miss from the line." The way he said it sounded like a direct shot at his team's 13 of 24 FT shooting.
