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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2918879, member: 289"] - I thought a week off would help this team and that we wouldn’t see another game in which our “Big Three” of Battle, Brissett and Hughes went 6 for 28 and score 15 points. But blowing Louisville by 20 was beyond my wildest dreams. - Our great late season runs in recent years have begun when we started playing fanatical defense and that’s what we did tonight. There just weren’t that many open shots for Louisville who shot 8 for 26 inside the arc, (30.7%) and 6 for 28 outside of it (21.4%). Defense is something that can be sustained better than offense and ti may signal a good run just when we need it to face this schedule. - The Big Three was 15 for 41 and scored 45 points. That’s an improvement but the thing is: they could improve more than that – and we won by 20 over a ranked team with that. - We did so because we weren’t fully dependent on the Big Three. Buddy Boeheim had a nice comeback with 14 points, including four threes. - Both Elijah Hughes and, amazingly, Marek Dolezaj decided to start driving to the basket in this game and between the two of them they scored 10 points on 12 free throws. Elijah had been settling for threes too much and Marek usually looks to pass first. - After a run of bad rebounding games, we won the boards tonight, 39-36, (it seemed more decisive than that). Marek led with 9, a season high, (he had 10 vs. the Bonnies last year). - Tyus Battle only scored 11 points but had 7 assists to 1 turnover. When he and Buddy play well, we don’t see much of poor Frank Howard, who rode the bench after his 21 point game vs. NC State. - It was another win to brag about. And it was our 18th win of the year. A couple more and we can get to 20 wins. Bubble teams don’t tend to have 20 wins, at least not in the ACC. 18-8 (9-4) and with 6+ to go LET’S GO ORANGE! [/QUOTE]

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