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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1287241, member: 289"] - Every time this team has pressed this year, they’ve been successful with it. I know you don’t want to press too much with a thin team, (Matt Park, when Salatin suggested they press more often, asked “How much Tabasco sauce did you put on you salad?), but this team is good at it and we need to use all the weapons we’ve got to win the game. Pass the Tabasco sauce! - Yes we have a big three but it’s easy to cut off the center for the ball or the basket or to make sure a three point guy has somebody in his face. Michael Gbinije is the one truly versatile player we have. He can hit from outside. He can drive to the basket to score. He can pull up shots. He can pass to open teammates. He can rebound and get follow shots. That sweet turn around tonight saved our season. - No matter what the opposition does, it’s always Christmastime. In some ways, Rak had a bad game but this was his line: 15 points, 12 rebounds, 2 assists, (one a beautiful feed to Cooney under the basket from beyond the three point arc, 4 steals and 5 blocks. I’ll take it. - Cooney got beat up and exhausted but hit our only three of the second half while being mugged from 25 feet out. He tied Silent G for the team lead with 18 points. - Actually, Ron Patterson had a good game overall. He played actual defense, gave some energy to the offense and scored 8 points with a couple of assists. - I had a bad feeling about this game. Everyone pointed to it as a win and yet it was a “must” win”. The thing about the ACC is that it has no bad teams. Tech almost beat Virginia. We can compete with anybody in this league but everyone in it can compete with us. There are no easy games. And during the game the sorts of plays that happen when you’re going to lose kept happening: A Lamizana three, (from the side!); a Tech free throw that hit the back rim, bounced to the front rim, sat there and then toppled over into the basket; Tyler Roberson gets his hand on a rebound but can’t corral it because his other hand it caught in the net., etc. Yet we overcame all that to win. It made anything seem possible. - We had 12 steals, 4 each from Christmas and Gbinije. How do we live? We STEAL!!! [MEDIA=youtube]ttKg62pkcc8[/MEDIA] 15-7, (6-3) with 9+ more LET’S GO ORANGE!!!! [/QUOTE]

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