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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2073920, member: 289"]
-          Another valiant effort. The team certainly never gives up. I wonder how much consideration the committee gives to valiant efforts.

-          The two grad transfers each scored 20 points. Maybe it’s not such a bad idea after all.

-          John Gillon was only 1 for 6 from the arc and had only 4 assists to 3 turnovers but he carried the team on his back in the second half, driving into the teeth of the defense to get to the basket like Larry Csonka going for the goal line. He went 6 for 9 on those drives and another 5 for 5 from the line, ext4ending his free throw streak to 34 straight, which ties the school record. He also made three steals.

-          JB stuck with the press much longer than in other games. Maybe he had to because we had more trouble closing the gap than in those games but the press isn’t designed to be perfect or over-whelming. It’s designed to produce more positives than negatives. (More upside than downside.) You don’t stop using it because they broke it and scored. You use it to speed them up and wear them down.  Sometimes it can be not working and suddenly start to work in a big way.

-          Frank Howard had his best game of the conference season with 12 points, a couple of assists, a rebound, a steal and no turnovers in 25 minutes. , being pressed into service for Tyus battle who was ill. It wasn’t a perfect performance: 3 for 9 from the field and committing three fouls including a gift with 0.4 on the clock in the first half that got them two made free throws. But it was a productive performance, which more than we had been getting.

-          Tyler Roberson made two free throws after missing 11 in a row. The first one bounced off both the back and front rims but the second one ripped the net. 50% the rest of the way. That’s all I’m asking Tyler. If you can’t be automatic in one direction, don’t be automatic in the other.

-          Playing sick In a game where we batted the ball around like we were playing with tennis rackets, got out-rebounded by 16 and our leading scorer didn’t score for almost 28 minutes, we still almost won.

16-10 (8-5) with 5+ to go

LET’S GO ORANGE!
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