Washington @ Arizona St (22) - 2/16/20

[Plebe]

Washington continues its streak of losing games down one possession or less in the final minute and by under <5 for the game. I truly think if you took 20 points and redistributed them across Washington's losses this season, they'd be an NCAA tournament team. @nwhoopfan, do you think they get nervous and choke? Or lose energy/focus? I've never seen such a consistent second-half slump.

I just think it's lack of confidence, ultimately. That can lead to what looks like choking down the stretch.

Too bad they couldn't bottle whatever it was that took them to that huge upset over OSU in last year's P12 tournament.

ASU, meanwhile, seems almost incapable of winning any game comfortably.

 

[Plebe]

I'm rewatching the early stages of this game, and I saw something pretty rare.

There was a long stretch of continuous play (no whistles) before the 1Q media TO. By about the 7:00 mark there were already 5 ASU players sitting at the scorer's table to check in, and by the 5:30 mark there were also 5 UW at the table -- 10 subs all waiting to check in to the game.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I'm rewatching the early stages of this game, and I saw something pretty rare.

There was a long stretch of continuous play (no whistles) before the 1Q media TO. By about the 7:00 mark there were already 5 ASU players sitting at the scorer's table to check in, and by the 5:30 mark there were also 5 UW at the table -- 10 subs all waiting to check in to the game.

I definitely noticed that. I was really hoping that Wynn wasn't going to try to match CTT on every hockey line change. The 5 that came in for UW didn't produce much during that particular stretch (Peterson got it going later). They've made a couple changes to the starting lineup recently. Watkins has started the last several games and Rooks got the start today too.

 

[azfan]