Biggest shot of the night- Svoboda trey at the end of the first half. It looked like a called play for him out of the timeout. Big difference between being down 8 and down 5.
Prettiest play of the night - Crutcher anticipates a pass and picks it off cleanly under the bucket. He then throws a perfect lob pass over the top full court for one bounce and Josh needs to do nothing but grab it and flush it. It was the perfect pass in that situation.Trying to throw it directly to Josh on the run makes it a far more difficult play as he has to catch it on the run and most likely take a dribble as well.
Defense - the switching between man-to-man and the match-up zone worked well. The zone slowed dribble penetration, allowed Kostas to protect the middle, and helped us stay away from even more serious foul trouble.
Don't think Josh touched the 3-point shooter. Looked more like the Reggie Miller school of acting to me.
Frosh are going to be up and down. Tonight they were up.
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