Good points all and a much needed win to put the brakes on a 3 game skid, keep the tourney hopes alive, upset a 12th ranked conference opponent (and likely regular season league champ), and hand Pearl a loss! Glad White is showing a little fire and his disciplinary action for the late guys is noteworthy. As mentioned, would love to see him get after the zebras, as they have been at best inconsistent in many games. Hell, a tech might actually be in order.
Again, happy for the win, but the post mortem shows that in spite of a little more defensive intensity and offensive movement (great cut by Hudson for the layup and one and a nice bounce pass from Chiozza), we shot near 50% from three point range (Igor notwithstanding). That carried us like it has in several previous victories. The FT's, as noted, weren't good and we're lucky they didn't cost us. Young Bassett was our lone inside scoring presence (12 points) and it's good to see the young guys getting minutes. We had more assists than AU, but were out rebounded by 9. Allen coming back to life certainly helped, but I guess the threes will still be the biggest part of our identity. If we just play with better defensive intensity, I guess I can live with it, even though it is still hard to watch.
@Theologator made a great point when he said in a post that he didn't realize how much we'd miss Kasey Hill's defensive abilities. He's right and I wish some of the guys could remember and emulate what he did on that end of the floor.
Here's to finishing stronger than we have been playing prior to yesterday. Maybe the kids learned a little about finishing the drill? It'll be interesting to see what develops in the post moving into next season. This year looks to finish as it has been in that area unless our young PF's can give us a little something.
