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Post by beavadelic on Jan 21, 2016 6:24:35 GMT -8
I would be pleased if we never played another Wednesday night game. For whatever reason, we are not the same team in midweek that we are any other day.
The losses that we've suffered on the weekends have been legit efforts by our kids, but for 3 straight Wednesdays, we've reeked. Our energy is different. Our execution is different. Our shooting is different. Our defensive intensity isn't the same, and we look slow and disorganized. Last night, as good as Hamilton clearly is, he got whatever shot he wanted against us. I'm not sure what is going on with that - maybe there are fewer students and less there is less energy in the stands, and we do play a lot of young kids, but it's just strange.
I'm annoyed by the way we are officiated. Two quick fouls on Payton didn't help us - after he gets foul 2 and an early seat on the bench for breathing on a guy bringing the ball up, a UCLA defender bumps him pretty hard bringing the ball down and there's no call (I thought that there was zero hand-checking allowed this year). I counted at least a half dozen times when we went to the hoop and got bodied pretty substantially and there was no whistle. The refs did not in any way lose us that crappy game last night, but they certainly don't seem to have a very high opinion of our team either.
We are getting exposed and are by no means a Big Dance team right now, but I would love it if we could just say "no" to Wednesday games.
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