yeah i watched it four times in a row to try and figure exactly this out and i couldn’t. we were defending. just fine and then the entire thing in by collapsed right there. but that’s the difference between a well coached and well drilled team and an incomplete, questionably coached team like ours- we’re going to make mistakes more than they ever will.
we shot a million ft’s in the 2h and uconn didn’t. if swain (84% ft shooter) didn’t miss a bunch of those 2H ft’s we might have stayed in the game a bit longer.
smaller lineup, more spacing, no alpha, everyone eats.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSIXkAtDlA9/?igsh=Y3o3aWUxMGR2dWRq
god damn it, i guess the IG embedding problems are back. awesome.
the number of times that our ball handler picks up his dribble only for all four of his teammates to just stand there sedentary as he looks for some help IS TOO DAMN HIGH.
we have a chance to make it a three point game at the line, we go 0-2. five seconds later uconn gets the patented “UT opponent absurd desperation heave” to swish in, followed five seconds later by another deep three. boom. ballgame.
i made the second post after they got their 10th point, but the two posts merged. thanks a lot obama.
holy shit what a rally. kinda feels like the winner of that rally will be the match winner. aggies up 12-10.
also the fact that i deadass created our saliba chant remains one of the coolest things of my life, and i demand that you all come to my funeral and burst out singing it at the most inopportune time.
i have a song for zubi that’s done to the tune of The Association’s “Windy”. i’ve never actually written permanent lyrics so they change a bit every time lol, but it’s more or less:
who’s coming down and setting the tempo
bossing the match with the greatest of ease
he left from spain to come to north london
it’s martin zubimendi!!!!!
lolol
the difference with gyorkores is undeniable. what’s tough right now is finding how to fit eze and odegaard together, as we did seem to be more dynamic and dangerous when odegaard was out and eze was playing his position. of course trossard was also starting then, as were saliba and gabriel and timber (😭😭😭), so it really is difficult to even say exactly why our attack is or isn’t better than it was a month ago. christ, we’re so injured that a post about how gyorkores opens up space for the wingers turned into a diatribe about our injury crisis. shit is inescapable.