RichZ
Fort the ead!
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- Bad D by Clingan almost as soon as he got in the game. His presence under the hoop stopped a driving Nova guard, but as soon as the guard started to back out, DC moved away. Guard turned and beat him to the rim and scored before he knew what happened.
- Six and change left in the half, score is tied, both teams are chucking bricks and turning it over. I just don't have a good feeling. We don't play well when the flow is choppy.
- Aaaaand... Newton throws a pass to the ref.
- Wow. We actually got the benefit of a call (Joey drawing the charge) that really could have gone either way.
- Ajax threw the worst pass of the season for Sanogo. Threw it from almost half court to a triple covered Adama. He did the same thing in the 2nd half, but from the three point line. Both times, Sanogo had zero chance of catching the ball.
- Horrible goal tend call on ajax The ball clearly came off the rim, and he caught it below the rim, on his way up.
- Since I got all nervous around six minutes, we put some distance between us and them. But I was no more comfortable or confident than I was when the game was stagnant.
- At the half, we had 8 dimes to nova's 1. And we were up 10 zip on fast break points. Why was I still nervous?
- First 5 minutes of the 2nd half, suddenly we're looking at genuine UConn Basketball!
- But then the refs started doing their best to get nova back in the game. Get your shot blocked? Fall down. If you're wearing white, they'll call a foul on the defender.
- We were definitely playing 5 on 8 for the middle 8 or 10 minutes of the 2nd half.
- Nova started fouling on purpose the last 3 minutes, and committed 7 in that span. Prior to the intentional fouling, we had been called for 17 fouls to their 9.
- For the game, we shot 45% to Nova's 36%, 30 to 25% on threes, and 93 to 67% on freethrows. We outrebounded them by 10, had 15 assists to their 8, and 5 blocks to their 1.
On the other hand, Nova's bench scored 11 points, while we settled for one three pointer from Alleyne. Neither JoeyC nor Clingan attempted a shot. - Ajax shot 4 of 5 from the field, led us in offensive boards, trailed only Adama in total boards, and led us in assists. Other than the 2 horrible passes to Sanogo, he only committed one other turnover.
- Clingan's game tonight was not a thing of beauty. 2 boards and a steal. He got his hands on a lot of rebounds and a lot of passes, but 'nova players just kept hacking at his hands and taking the ball away or knocking it free before he ever really had possession.
- Our late game FT shooting when Nova was intentionally fouling, brought back fond memories of the '14 championship run through the NCAA's, when we never missed a late game FT, and all that nervousness from earlier became a distant memory.
