What a crazy game; I can't believe we finally got one that worked out in our favor it's about time! First off, I sat with my Dad today but great job from the Jungle you guys were loud as hell which helped since the rest of the place was pretty quiet and people were staring me down for cheering lol. I saw a lot of people sitting though in the Jungle what was up with that and I was disappointed that the security made you guys stop the "these refs suck" and "8 on 5" deals because wow those refs were a disgrace (though I thought it was only the one with the receding hairline lol).
Anyway, unless I went crazy, their lack of attention helped us in the end. During one of the timeouts the clock kept going and as far as I could tell 5 to 8 seconds went off without anyone noticing. There's a small chance I imagined that lol but the guy behind me saw it too so maybe lol, whatever helps.
On the players:
Boothe was great imo. Scored a few points and got that huge rebound towards the end (he really skied for that thing). However, as usual his passing was the best part of his game. 6 assists and there was one simply ridiculous one hand pass that he bullet-ed (don't think that's a word but oh well) through the lane but JB didn't convert...
Geno played pretty well. He hit that crazy game winner of course but that was more luck than anything I thought. He only had one turnover though it was bad (not as bad as Burrell's inbound though). His defense really stepped up on Xavier after their run and kept us in the game I thought.
DJ didn't do anything special imo and late in the game I saw him try to draw a charge...I thought that was pathetic and I hope not to see us diving again.
Burrell was playing against the Friars and the refs so he didn't do too bad all things considered (except for that awful foul with 0.1 left what a bad idea), but still not one of his better games (though he showed good range on his shots)...
but that was okay, because Evans stepped up! A great game for him and it was sorely necessary since no one else did much up front. Nearly got a double-double and played his best game of the year I thought.
Wright was what we all have wanted him to be and it's about time he got minutes reflecting that. He kept us in the game against their barrage of sharpshooting. Though it was converted for a PC basket, I was impressed when he hustled back to steal the ball on one of their breakaways even if he did throw it back in to them accidentally. I was disappointed that they scored but obviously would never get on a guy for hustling and it was especially good to see him flying back on D since that isn't his strongpoint.
Horne played good D but needs to stop shooting it isn't gonna work lol. He got hosed a couple of times by the refs.
Rob played pretty well in his 3 minutes lol including smartly following up our break to convert a miss for a dunk. I really would like to see him get more minutes at the expense of...
Tomas, who was just flat out awful. When Providence went on their run to take the lead after we were up 39-30 he was a major part of that. I know he was in b/c of JB's foul trouble, but his foul I can't even put on the ref. He was out of position and then comes back to foul and not even a hard foul to prevent the and-1. I was really really pissed when Norm didn't take him out coming out of the TV timeout but glad he didn't see the floor after that tour.
Norm was alright. I was happy he put Burrell back in to stop their run before it got out of hand but idk what we were doing on offense most of the game lol. The good ol' wait 35 seconds and have Geno chuck it up finally worked though lol so I can't complain too much. If we keep winning I guess he'll stay around, but if we keep winning my problems with him will go away. And as much as I really wanted him gone, nothing beats the happiness of a hard-fought victory so even if this means he sticks around, I'm happy we pulled it out (just like I was happy the jets beat the steelers at expense of a draft pick lol now that we're out of the top 5 that might not have turned out so well)