Tonight I can't do the player reviews, finals week is coming up and the profs are loading on the work. Anyways, I'll drop a short review and try to put up a more complete one along with the Maui review at the end of the week
Final Score UW-102 LBSU-75
Offense was much much much better tonight, our shooters were hot, MBA made a bit of a return, Aziz started and C.J. went for 20 points on 6 for 8 from the arc. Gaddy went 3 for 3 from the arc and Isaiah was terrible from range 0-6.
All players who scored scored in the double digits except for Aziz who finished with 1 point. His efforts were stopped short tonight after a scary fall that busted his lip and required stitches at the half. C.J. lead the team with 20, followed by I.T. at 19, Gaddy at 17, MBA at 14, Holiday at 11, Gant and Venoy both put up 10. Terrence Ross and Brendan Sherrer did not score during their play time.
I.T. and Ross lead with 6 boards a piece and UW out rebounded LBSU 36-30, not great, but I'll take what I can get. Still something that needs work from our post players. MBA went a perfect 7-7 from the field btw, a great improvement over his inconsistent play in Maui.
10 steals and 7 blocks today, 4 blocks by MBA. 24 assists on 41 shots, we continue to pass extremely well. The team did a great job of finding the open and hot C.J. Wilcox who was unstoppable tonight. MVP of the game definitely goes to C.J. tonight, he is showing himself to be a major contributer and will get many more minutes. With Suggs injured right now and his still less than stellar play, C.J. and Ross are in prime position to seize minutes as Romar looks to reduce his 10 man rotation to 9.
Yet again, only one bench player scored for LBSU and their high scorer was Casper Ware who had 18, getting 7 from 10 free throw attempts.
Overton had a ridiculous 8 assists, but 3 sloppy turnovers. Isaiah had 6 with 0 turnovers. Darnell was again perfect behind the arc, 2-2.
What Needs Improvement
Rebounding
Still are not where we should be in terms of our post players getting boards. Narrowly out rebounding LBSU is not going to cut it. We should dominate the glass against lower caliber teams, much like we did with McNeese. We have too much size and talent not to do it. When one person goes up for the block, the others need to be looking to rebound.
Fast Breaks
Quite a few turnovers came from sloppy transition basketball where we out ran ourselves. Ross missed a perfectly easy lay in by over rolling the ball instead of banking it off the glass. Overton threw a few sloppy passes as did C.J. on a few occasions. We are fast, but we can't let ourselves get ahead and play out of control.
What Was Good
3 point shot
Except for Isaiah, our team shot amazing behind the arc. If you exclude Isaiah's 0fer stat, we went 14 for 20. Thats 70% folks, absurd. C.J. was a beast on the court tonight.
MBA
Offense, defense, much better tonight. Still not a great rebounding effort, only 5 boards, but perfect from the field along with his 4 blocks and a steal. Maybe Romar should make him come off the bench a little more often, he plays a little tougher. Give him something to prove.
Passing
Another terrific night with over a 50% assist rate on made shots. Keep it up boys.
Final Thoughts (for now)
A good rebound game after tough losses. C.J.'s air ball didn't phase him at all, he is ice cold that kid. Need to keep this momentum and mentality rolling through the week, into the weekend as we face a tougher test at home against Texas Tech who we lost to in overtime last year. Something that could have been avoided had Elston Turner made one of his free throws in the final seconds. Allowed the opposition to shoot a few more threes than I would have liked, 8-19, but our offense was in too much of a rhythm for that to affect us much.
More later this week, I promise.
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