WTH was that ThoughtZ™

[RichZ]

1. Newton seems to find a way to draw an early charge pretty often. He's probably done it 5 or 6 tmes this year.
2. We won the other night by limiting our threes. Last night, we started the game firing away willy nilly from deep.
3. It's time for Hurley to put JoeyC on a VERY short leash. If he doesn't make a positive play in 2 minutes when he gets in, he's got to be taken out, and not see hardwood again until a similar stint in the 2nd half. His defensive liabilities are too severe to play him if he's not scoring at will.
4. Be that as it may, he was only a tiny sliver of our problems last night.
5. Newton was our best performer in the first half, with 8 points and our ONLY two assists of the first half. But he also had two fouls and two turnovers in the half.
6. In the first half, it seemed like the entire team forgot how to play defense. And how to put the ball in the hole.
7. Second half started off just as bad. Maybe worse. But about 3 minutes in, the Huskies suddenly remembered how to defend and how to shoot. 5 minutes later, a 16 point hole was down to 2.
8. But 3 minutes later, it was back to 11.
9. And then back to 1. And back to double digits. And so on. Déjà vu all over again?
10. Clingan needs to practice foul shooting about 4 hours a day. He gets fouled quite a bit, and over the course of his career, that will only increase. When a guy who shoots 70% from the field struggles to hit 50% from the foul line, fouling him is sound defense.
11. Seemed like everyone in a home uniform other than Newton, 2nd half Hawkins and a somewhat lesser extent Sanogo, had a bad game.
12. I'm encouraged by the fact that Sanogo had 4 assists to go with his 11 points and 9 boards. He may be working his way out of his black hole tendencies.
13. If we had played as well for 10 minutes in the first half as we did in the 2nd half, we'd have won by double digits. But we didn't. And that's troubling.
14. I suspect that whole fiasco with what amounted to a 10 minute break in action had nothing to do with Miller not realizing that Freemantle had fouled out. He was buying time for the 6 remaining players that actually played to get some rest.

 

[prankster]

As to point 14, I agree. And the officials indulged him.

 

[tentoes4rings]

As to point 14, I agree. And the officials indulged him.

Same sentiments on 14. He may have done filthy things at Arizona but Miller is super engaged and can really coach. Switch coaches and we’d be 2-0 vs Xavier this year.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Hawkins was on about as wild of a heater as I’ve ever seen in the second half.

 

[willie99]

Great game, disappointing result, great experience

Newton knows what he has to do. Hawk took it too another level. Sanago played well

We'll be fine