RichZ
Fort the ead!
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2011
- Messages
- 5,203
- Reaction Score
- 22,130
- Bouk came out on fire. But from his first rest onward, he was a different player. All that aggressiveness was gone. Prior to his first sit, he had 12 points in less than 5 minutes. A half minute later, he missed a 3 and sat soon after. When he came back in, the energy was gone. The rest of the half, he made two layups and missed 3 jumpers. The 2nd half, other than a steal and a couple boards, he made a layup, missed three more three pointers, and ended up fouling out.
- Actually, other than Whalley, the whole team seemed a little out of sorts. Energy and enthusiasm was lacking. Polley only took two shots and never even hinted at attempting a 3. Cole never attempted a 3, and never got to the line (although the last part might've been more about the refs than about his effort). Overall, I didn't feel any enthusiasm on the part of the team. Is that the result of the empty gym? Or a let down after Hurley got all over them for their defense in the first game? Or what?
- The officiating crew -- aka the 3 stooges. We were aggressive on Defense, but not 24 fouls worth of aggressive. The last call on Bouk was an absolute travesty. Both players going for a tipped ball, so they are basically on top of each other. Opponent gets ball, lowers his shoulder like a fullback and drives it into Bouk's jaw. Blocking foul on Bouk. Of course it was predictable, with the way the game was called. None of those three refs should have a job this morning.
- Sanogo, for the paltry 11 minutes he played, did not chase the ball on the perimeter! This is a good thing. But the big Aussie seemed a little quick for him. That's a bad thing.
- Not at all sure why Jackson only played 5 minutes, unless DH wanted Tyrese to get back the minutes Emmert stole from him in the first game.
- I understand not finding a minute or two for Springs and Brown, but kind of surprised that Josh didn't play at all.
- Tyrese and Whalley combined for 20 of our 41 boards.
- I thought Gaffney was the only Husky who seemed able to get favorable calls from that crew of clowns. And when it got sticky toward the end, he was a big part of holding off the charge.
- Ten boards, a steal, 4 dimes, 5 blocks and oh yeah, 10 points. Mr. Whalley was by far our most effective player in this game. One particularly interesting note -- of our five 3 pointers made, four of them came off Whalley assists.
- Not sure why, but I expected Tyrese to spend a lot more time on the perimeter and to be mostly a jump shooter. Small sample, but a lot of minutes for his first game, and he was nothing like what I expected.
- Maybe the eager anticipation for the season to get underway had me too hyped, but after two lackluster efforts against what should be inferior teams, I'm not as eager to see how this plays out as I was just a few days ago.