Man, I remember that now that you mention it. Pundits had me thinking Affalo > Jordan. The 04s had no part of it and he went 3 for 10.
Media was similarly all about Greg Oden in 2007. True freshman Oden didn’t Affalo and delivered a monster game scoring 1/3rd of his team’s 75 points.
The common themes in both of those championships was UF maintained the lead the entire game after pretty quickly gaining it, and did so with timely counter-scoring every time the opponent started a run, and by consistently defending the perimeter forcing the opposition to abysmal 17% shooting from 3.
That was a true team in every sense of the word!
The reason Oden had a monster game is because Donovan made a key strategic choice and had Noah guard him 1 on 1 for nearly the entire game so the other four could shutdown everyone else (which, as we all know, they most certainly did! :) ). This worked because a graduating senior who was a likely No. 1 NBA draft pick the year before when he decided to come back for a shot at 2, decided to be schooled on national TV by a way bigger true center for the good of the team in the name of a championship and lost millions of $ in salary and bonus as a result. That team really would do anything for each other to win.
Saw it up close and personal here in St. Louis when I was 20 rows up behind one of the goals when they played Butler. All of the many examples of hustle were things of beauty like Horford and Noah guarding on the perimeter on switches against guards and small forwards, all of the off ball movement on offense, the extra passes, the switches on steal attempts, and the infamous Corey Brewer break on the switch(a trait that also helped make him millions of dollars on the next level :).
We Gators have been blessed with some amazing teams over our many championship seasons. This team is arguably the best of all of them.