mobrien
Masters Student
Posts: 402
Loc: New York
Reg: 04-18-17
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03-24-19 10:02 PM - Post#282637
In response to penn nation
Other than that one spurt in the first half, we did a relatively good job handling their pressure. Turnovers were still a problem, but they weren't catastrophically bad.
Lewis was a beast inside, Baker blocked a couple of shots and was a difference-maker defensively, and Kirkwood was fantastic when the refs weren't fouling him out on utterly BS calls. (The block they called on him in the first half, and then the push off a play later were game-changing, terrible calls).
Bryce made a couple of big threes in the first half to keep us in it, and then a few layups at the end, but was really laboring with his knee there in the second half. He was trying to bring the ball back on that final possession — it slipped out of his hand before it got blocked — which was really too bad. I thought he was going to win it for us there.
A disappointing, but at the same time pretty encouraging performance. That was a good team in a tough environment, and we had a chance to win at the end. We can hang with the big boys — and we're getting Towns back and bringing in Ledlum. Just need to keep everyone healthy.
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