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Message: [QUOTE="Kemba Time, post: 3781660, member: 2962"] There's also some pretty strong evidence that this had more to do with where he was at mentally last season, which was undeniably a downward spiral, than an overall attribute of his game. In '18-'19, Alterique was actually often the guy who made the biggest plays late in the game. He made the shots that beat USF on the day they retired Ray's number, combined with Jalen to ice the Cuse win at MSG, made back-to-back absolutely huge shots to send the game at Cincy to OT ([URL="https://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=25747035"]Gilbert hits tough shot to send Huskies into OT - ESPN Video[/URL]) and hit back-to-back 3s that would have sent the Wichita game to OT if they didn't answer with a crazy buzzer-beater ([URL="http://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/26107559"]Shockers shock UConn with buzzer beater - ESPN Video[/URL]). (Remember: there weren't that many close games that year, we were still clilmbing that mountain) This was an exact quote from Dan Hurley about Gilbert after the Wichita St. game: [B]“I love to coach guys that play their best at the end of the game,” Hurley said. “Like, real ballers, in the last five, six minutes, they score field goals in close games. Those are guys that have the clutch gene.”[/B] It ended abruptly when he got clobbered in the eye by some Temple player and that ended his season, but there was a feeling definitely a feeling that good things would happen late if Gilbert had the ball in his hands. Something clearly changed around the Xavier game last year and spiraled from there, and again, why it was best for everyone for him to move on. [MEDIA=espn]25747035[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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