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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 3410390, member: 181"] This entire thread is a festival of bold face names and uncommon pairings. [USER=571]@Dove[/USER] rightly ponts out the "wow" of [USER=833]@nelsonmuntz[/USER] & [USER=915]@calluke[/USER] oddly allied in criticizing [USER=62]@Excalibur[/USER]'s OP. [USER=93]@8893[/USER] & [USER=6716]@AntG168[/USER] are at odds on (among other things) whether it is or isn't "waaay" or "waaaay." [USER=1023]@freescooter[/USER] is a seemingly ignored standalone, as is an uncharacteristically consise & non-provocative [USER=974]@Palatine[/USER]. And I weigh in with genuine appreciation for @sky_ball having contributed this unadorned explanatory note on how it came to be that a walk-on played those final seconds, offered as though only to be of service to others. This thread is an interesting near relative of the "politics makes for strange bedfellows" saying. Overall, I like it. My own take is a repeat from elsewhere. We can consult our memories, re-watch the game, or pore over the box score and tell stories about horrific field shooting, crippling foul calls made & ignored, turnovers, etc. But have no doubt, Houston fans can do the same. The teams played an intense game that pushed both sides into uncommon moments, reactions, and responses, good & bad. When a team's point guard misses his first 3 free throws, it creates a pretty uphill conjecture that he'll make all of his later free throws. Turnovers and other mental lapses issue forth from having to play nearly error-free ball. Both teams forced near-fatal/head-spinning errors from each other. Everything was done to force Houston to make its free throws, and Mills and Jarreau responded with a combined 20-23. UConn could not match that, and I'm sad that I cannot expect anything like that because I remember sering closeouts that combined, "You don't get to score again" defense with the necessary made free throws in 1999, 2004, 2011, and 2014. Hurley has referred to this year's offense as "not good enough," and correctly noted that defense will be what creates wins. But without elevating the status of points that are obtained without defensive challenge, this team will lose every game that hasn't built a insurmountable margin much earlier. [/QUOTE]

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