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A VENOYING Loss
Written by Coug-A-Sutra   
Sunday, 28 February 2010 00:11

Well, tonight our Cougs faught valiantly back from a 14 half deficit and then faded in the last five minutes to lose 59-52.

I almost enjoyed how hard both teams played tonight, until the jersey popping, tongue wagging crap started.  Oh well.

A couple of notes:

MVP of the Game:  Venoy Overton.  I said in the pre-game that I thought that X and Moore were keys for us tonight.  Well, tonight Overton absolutely schooled Moore all over the court.  All night we ran our offense from near the half court line or were completely out of control driving to the basket.  Overton was responsible for all of that.  He was simply magnificent defensively--the type of guy we would LOVE if he were a Cougar (minus some of the extra-curricular crap.)

Cougar MVP.  Casto played wonderfully and he certainly deserves TONS of kudos. But, this game belonged to Nik.  And boy did he do a FABULOUS job on Q.  FABULOUS.  If you saw Nik's defensive discipline, it really makes you miss the Bennets.  Great job to both kids, but Nik made an NBA first rounder out of control WHEN HE HAD SPACE.  We'll miss you, Nik.

Running in Klay.  What can you say?  Lots of Klay's shots tonight were out of control. Others were good looks that didn't fall.  The bottom line is that he looks like Barry Bonds used to in the post-season.  He just has the yips.  He'll break out of it, but the thing I'm noticing is that his release is getting slower--you don't see him jab-step and pop like he should.  It'll come, but until it does, we're gonna lose.

The Great Cougar Caper(s).  We've got three more games left in the year.  Besides getting Klay back on track, we need to get a role for Marcus.  As I've noted before, I think he might be a good player to bring off the bench.  The other option: have him run the point more and take a wing away from the basket.  But, clearly, he has gotten to the point where he's almost like a 5 playing on the perimeter:  Everytime he catches the ball, he wants to get rid of it immediately. And, to be a good team, you need some offense out of the wing.  And we have none right now when he's in the game.

So, on we go to the Oregon schools.  Lets hope our kids find something to hold onto on the last week of the season.

As is, we have firmly placed ourselves in the cellar.

 

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written by AlexWSu, February 28, 2010
This game was so exciting that the outcome doesn't define what happened. Our players fed off the crowd's energy and played their hearts out. For them to come back from that halftime deficit is amazing.
The refs were out of control
written by Samsinite, February 28, 2010
There were many moments during the last 5 minutes when UW had obviously fouled our players and the refs looked the other way. Someone who recorded this game needs to do a highlight of fouls during the last 5 minutes or so and post it. These refs need to be held accountable. If fouls had been called correctly, this would have been an entirely different game.
Different Game
written by JasonUW, February 28, 2010
You're right, if the refs would have called all those fouls on Casto, it would have been a different game. Holiday got away with a hold under the basket, but for the most part the refs were consistent in not calling much under the hoop.

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