SB weathered the storm. For a while it did not look like UMBC was gonna miss. Good games from Walker and Woodhouse…I feel that Woodhouse is the key. If he can knock down the open three's it makes teams pay the price for doubling Warney. Nice help from the bench. Good D from Kam and a big three from Nyama. Now we need SB to hit 70% from the line for the next two games...
I agree with you on everything except Walker. Walker cant shoot to save his life. 3 for 10 at the charity stripe, seriously dude?. I can do better shooting lefty, and I am a righty. McGrew had a bad night but, cant get down on him because of one bad game.. What can we say about Warney and Tre. Those two stepped up to the plate like seniors should. Good for them!!!!
Hammer, you're too hard on Walker. He is who he is - an All-Defensive Team player for whom you take the good with the bad. I actually thought tonight was the team's best night in terms of shot selection, and for Walker by far. He took only one three, and did what I think he does best, which is drive the ball in the halfcourt set. He's effective getting to the rack when he's in control (i.e. not dribbling in transition). The fouling at the end was brutal, I'll give you that.
You're right on with Woodhouse though. We need him in double digits on Monday and then, hopefully, when everything's in the middle of the table next weekend. Also, he's a calming force for a team that can be frantic and lack flow offensively.
Enormous night from Jameel. They obviously had no answer.
The big question is: where was Rayshaun and is he OK? Seventeen minutes in a back-and-forth game like this makes no sense to me. I see he started the second half then disappeared aside from a one minute spell around the four-minute mark.
Or maybe the bigger question is: can we not throw up brick after brick at the line on Monday? Total abomination tonight and a major cause for concern.
I thought the bench was great. Huge effort from Nyama playing major minutes down the stretch. There was a time when we were down 59-56 and we have Nyama-Thrower-Mitchell-Sturdivant-Walker on the floor. I said to my buddy "who the heck's going to take the shot here?" Nyama drills a three to tie it, and after a UMBC make, Walker banked in a runner in the lane. Ty, DeShaun and Kam did what we needed them to do - mainly defend and give the first five a breather.
I had the Albany game on my phone the whole night. What an incredible turn of events. Let's not have a hiccup ourselves here.