...and well, we beat dook again.
- Unfortunately, it doesn't go much further than that. Although many won't, I feel sure some will get this. For lack of a better way of saying it, this just felt like a one-off. In other words, we fortunately made shots and FTs --- while they, well... helped us out by STINKING. Let's call it straight, that's as bad a perimeter shooting performance I remember seeing from a dook team in a while (especially considering the good looks they got). I mean, Hurt was laying brick after brick --- hell, one of the two 3s he made took all the paint off the rim before spinning in --- the others weren't even close. Here's the thing: Let's not fool ourselves --- we had very little to do with their poor shooting.
- Good on Walton for bouncing back from a bad shooting night with a tremendous one, and Love for another strong showing against our hated rival, and the Bigs for energy and the team for making FTs, but... our scoring too often wasn't the result of good ball movement and there were just way too many fundamental breakdowns. and on the other end, suffice to say dook's offensive ineptitude had little to do with our defense, other than rim-protection (and some of that was covering for some less-than-stellar perimeter work).
- Good to see Garrison's ankle wasn't serous and him making those 3s on his Senior night, and honestly, seeing Big Stir get his first bucket in forever was absolutely heart-warming and hopefully tantalyzing for next season,
Anyway, all I can caution is there was some fool's gold out there tonight, in that it would've only taken a partial reversal of shooting fortunes for that one to have been a nail-biter... and because dook is just not a good basketball team. Sorry to be a buzz-kill, but a repetition of some of what I saw tonight with just a few less shots falling is liable to portend a shorter March than we'd like...
- Unfortunately, it doesn't go much further than that. Although many won't, I feel sure some will get this. For lack of a better way of saying it, this just felt like a one-off. In other words, we fortunately made shots and FTs --- while they, well... helped us out by STINKING. Let's call it straight, that's as bad a perimeter shooting performance I remember seeing from a dook team in a while (especially considering the good looks they got). I mean, Hurt was laying brick after brick --- hell, one of the two 3s he made took all the paint off the rim before spinning in --- the others weren't even close. Here's the thing: Let's not fool ourselves --- we had very little to do with their poor shooting.
- Good on Walton for bouncing back from a bad shooting night with a tremendous one, and Love for another strong showing against our hated rival, and the Bigs for energy and the team for making FTs, but... our scoring too often wasn't the result of good ball movement and there were just way too many fundamental breakdowns. and on the other end, suffice to say dook's offensive ineptitude had little to do with our defense, other than rim-protection (and some of that was covering for some less-than-stellar perimeter work).
- Good to see Garrison's ankle wasn't serous and him making those 3s on his Senior night, and honestly, seeing Big Stir get his first bucket in forever was absolutely heart-warming and hopefully tantalyzing for next season,
Anyway, all I can caution is there was some fool's gold out there tonight, in that it would've only taken a partial reversal of shooting fortunes for that one to have been a nail-biter... and because dook is just not a good basketball team. Sorry to be a buzz-kill, but a repetition of some of what I saw tonight with just a few less shots falling is liable to portend a shorter March than we'd like...
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