The second game in two nights

[Palatine]

Hurley faced that situation twice last year. Win a game and play the next night. Both times they were blown out in the second game.

If we get by Buffalo it will be interesting to see how we preform in game two. I'm a little out over my skis. But I wanted to get this out there as something to watch for.

 

[Wordbomar]

Beating Buffalo is huge. At the very least, it will give us a game against Xavier and either Miami/Florida. If we beat Buffalo and knock off one of those two, it will be a very successful weekend.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Gotta wonder how well-conditioned his team was in year one post-KO...

 

[SubInATub]

win all 3

 

[uchusky32]

We have much more depth than last year. Need Bouk to be able to play well by second game. Need to beat Buffalo without Bouk having a great game.

Gaffney has to score and have much bigger impact.

 

[imno1]

Akok could play the second game an hour later and still be fresh

 

[uconngb]

We have much more depth than last year. Need Bouk to be able to play well by second game. Need to beat Buffalo without Bouk having a great game.

Gaffney has to score and have much bigger impact.

Asking anything of Gaffney right now seems to be asking a lot. He looks like a deer in the headlights out there.

 

[Psolo12]

Akok could play the second game an hour later and still be fresh

His motor has been extremely impressive.

 

[BlueMAB]

Akok could play the second game an hour later and still be fresh

His motor has been extremely impressive.

Easy to do when it takes you 4 strides to run the length of the court, and you weigh 149 soaking wet.



(issajoke)

 

[GHSWolverines]

We have much more depth than last year. Need Bouk to be able to play well by second game. Need to beat Buffalo without Bouk having a great game.

Gaffney has to score and have much bigger impact.

Gaffney needs that one bucket to gain a little confidence

 

[Chin Diesel]

A large part of JC's legend was his ability to go deep in tournaments and win the second game of NCAAA weekends. He knew how to manage his staff's time and attention to manage the task at hand and still pay attention to the next closest alligator.

 

[Kenny11]

Gotta wonder how well-conditioned his team was in year one post-KO...

After an entire Spring, Summer and Fall under Hurley/Alosi? They were very well conditioned.

Plus, this is college basketball. There is a timeout every 2 minutes or less (which makes it unwatchable for me, with the exception of uconn games). Nobody should ever be tired.

Now, if we are talking about strength, explosiveness, and speed, then yeah I agree.

 

[ucawn]

The success will be determined on bench play. During tournaments you need your bench to play hard D and score points to keep the starters fresh. We should have a good 2nd 5 of Gaffney, Bouk, Adams, Sid, Whaley. Obviously short at the 4 and I wonder how it will look if we threw Whaley at the 4. He’s proven to shoot well from midrange and I say you can give it a shot. But we’re gonna need the bench to step up big time