Hoya ThoughtZ™ II

[RichZ]

1. No idea what was gong on early. We looked like a bunch of guys who had never played together before. Timeout at 16:18, down 10.
2. Thank you Solo! A corner 3 on the 1st post-timeout possession.
3. What a horrible foul call on Samson @ 13:54.
4. It's early, but Diarra not playing well at all doesn't bode well for us. Trying Nowell now. That doesn't seem to be working either.
5. We get within one, and Samson comes out trying to block a shot well beyond the 3 point line. The shot missed, but the ensuing 3 foul shots didn't. Sigh.
6. Fortunately McNeeley immediately got the 3 points back.
7. I felt like when Fielder plowed into Diarra at about 12:30 in the 1st half, the tenor of the game started to change. We were down by 6 at that point, and their best interior player had the ball against a guard. Could've been 8 if Hassan didn't draw the foul, but instead we kept our deficit to 6 or less from that point on, and went ahead about six and a half minutes later.
8. Tarris gives us our first lead at 5:57
9. And 1 minute later the lead is 6.
10. 7 point edge at the half.
11. Ball and Reed have 22 of our 42 points., and we are ahead 16 to 10 in rebounds, 3 to 2 in rejects and 9 to 2 in dimes.
12. 2nd half, the Hoyas made a couple runs early in the half, but 8 minutes in, we'd regained our form and were holding a 10 point lead off Solo's FTs. I felt like we need to win this by 15 or more to start feeling good about ourselves again.
13. Diarra having a MUCH better game in the 2nd half. Looks like a different player out there.
14. We got going really good again when Reed came back in the game at 7:19.
15. Reed ended up with 20 points and 10 boards, a steal, a dime and a block. My choice for POG, edging out Solo by a narrow margin.
16. The following might have been my favorite Solo Ball sequence of the season..

5:49 We are leading by 10.
5:50 Liam passes cross court to Solo outside the 3 point line.
5:51 Solo jukes 2 defenders on a drive to the hoop and lays it in.
5:42 Solo rebounds Mack's missed 3, dribbles down court, passes to McNeeley who passes it right back to Solo.
5:36 Solo misses a straight-on 3 pointer. Badly.
5:31 Karaban rebounds and passes it to Liam, who starts to drive, then passes it to Solo, wide open at the 3 pt line.
5:29 Solo drains a three, and 10 has grown to 15.

 

[alphasigko]

#5... Samson Johnson obviously will never learn

 

[Palatine]

#5... Samson Johnson obviously will never learn

His bad fouls are way down in the second half of the seaon.

 

[alphasigko]

His bad fouls are way down in the second half of the seaon.

Agreed, but he still continues to make dumb fouls like that one

 

[jibsey]

Samson Johnson starts every game with plays designed to get him easy layups or slams and he usually gets 2 or 3 easy baskets. As the game goes on that stops. Why?