Clayton - 21 points (9-of-15 FG, 1-of-6 3pt, 2-of-2 FT, 1 Reb, 1 Blk, 3 Asst, 1 TO) Samuel - 15 points (6-of-14 FG, 3-of-5 FT, 7 Reb, 3 Asst, 1 Blk, 1 Stl, 0 TO) Z Pullin - 14 points (6-of-11 FG, 2-of-3 3pt, 4 Reb, 3 Asst, 2 TO) Richard - 9 points (2-of-8 FG, 1-of-5 3pt, 4-of-6 FT, 4 Reb, 2 Stl, 1 Blk, 1 Asst, 1 TO) Condon - 9 points (4-of-5 FG, 1-of-2 FT, 7 Reb, 3 Blks, 0 Asst, 2 TO)
I was sitting courtside as I was when we played Georgia. Our guys were getting fatigued in the last ten minutes of the game. Disregarding the fact we could not get anything to drop offensively, we played with tired legs defensively. Golden needs to consider playing our guards fewer minutes. Offensively in the last ten minutes we settled for jump shots and unlike the first half seldom drove to the hoop. Good team but needs fine tune a few parts of their repertoire in order to finish the regular season strong.
This seems to happen a LOT at the end of games (tired guards that shoot everything short)...surely Coach is aware, but has a reporter ever brought it up in a press conference?
Upon Further Review... Well, one more game down, another saga of Gator basketball. Thanks for this take. It is indeed helpful and I will not dispute what fatigue can do to momentum. I am not sure what comes first, fatigue which begets less-than-stellar basketball play or less-than-stellar basketball that begets mental fatigue. What I saw was a team (THIS team) who got into a groove and then decided that all they had to do was to keep it in the groove and let the game end on their terms, because LSU is LSU. Well, UGa is UGa but that does NOT mean they WILL turn into pumpkins when the clock strikes 12. Heck, aTm lost against Vandy. S__t happens. What is amazing is how all the pieces can mesh so well, especially at home, and then they somehow forget what is in the secret sauce. Driving down the road, allowing your mind to drift, and put a wheel or two on the shoulder should not be a recipe for disaster. Just jolt back into coherency, right the car, and get back to being tuned in. I will place this one into the "a win is a win" category and it builds up the "W-L" resume for seeding purposes. But damn, it feels as if, if they decide to pull this stunt in the NCAA tourney against a mid-major team who was "blessed" to get into the tourney, they WILL lose it because it won't be a UGa or LSU. You want to believe the team FINALLY gets it, but it appears they need to spend more time in the classroom. It is what it is.
Would you guys believe I missed the game last night? I thought it was today for some reason! Oh well... that's why we have DVRs. I'm going to watch it even though it's not the same knowing the result.
Did Aberdeen get any minutes in the 2nd half, he played well I thought in the first half; but didn't recall seeing him second half?
I don't think he did. He had some good minutes for us in the first half, so I'm thinking right around the 10-minute mark (which seems to be the trouble mark for us), I'd put him in for 3 or 4 minutes and see how it goes. That will give us a 5-guard rotation, plus Haugh can also spot us some at small forward. We need to address this late-game issue.
