Great and much needed win, Marquette is really good. Sanogo had 24 and 15, he made some dumb plays and missed bunnies. It's scary to think of how dominant he'll be when he cleans that stuff up.
Tyrese said some of the recent poor performance is on him for not making the tough guy plays and getting his team and the crowd fired up. He played like a dog tonight and his teammates and the crowd fed off of it.
Great growth game for Hawkins, he hit big shots in the first half and I liked his defense, it's definitely improving and he needs to play a ton and be a major part of what we do in closing out this season.
It was nice seeing Rahsool so hyped up during the game cheering Hawk and the rest of them on.
Some negatives, there weren't many. 13-14 minutes left in the 2nd half up 9. Fastbreak and Polley turns down an open 3, Cole misses an open 3 on a fast break, Sanogo misses a wide open dunk. Morsell and Elliott hit back to back threes. 11 point lead cut down to 3 in the blink of an eye.. We simply have to cut out stretches like that, Marquette is too good to not go on a run but that one was all self inflicted. There was another one deep in the second half where Marquette cut it to 3 again and it was all self inflicted by Gaffney. Nice kid but he's totally unplayable.
We weathered both storms and closed it out like we needed to. The 4 possession off of one possession at the end of the game was all grit and Tyrese wouldn't let us give up that possession and I believe it was all right off of his tough offensive rebound score and steal.
Hurley coached a good game and is 2-0 against Shaka.