POSTGAME THREAD: Where Amazing Happens
by Jeff Nusser on Jan 29, 2009 8:36 PM PST
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PrintYou'll have to forgive me. I'm still in a little bit of shock over what I just listened to for the past two hours.
I just kept waiting and waiting for it to all come crashing down. I kept waiting for Klay to force it, for Nik to blow it (oh, wait ... he almost did), for something -- anything -- crazy to happen that would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Instead, we rode the freshman just long enough to stay in it, then got huge offensive plays from our senior leaders down the stretch to keep the margin. Oh, and there was this little thing that this other freshman -- a freshman forward -- did in helping to hold perhaps the best player in the country to just 2-of-8 shooting and 7 points in the final 15:54 of the game.
Yeah, that was incredible. Too bad none of us saw it. (But I digress.)
This wasn't an incredible performance from the entire team, but for the first time, we were able to close out a close game against a quality opponent. Teams have to win some games like this one. And if it turns out I spoke too soon in pronouncing our NCAA Tournament hopes dead, this will be the night we point to as the one that started it all.
Thanks, Cougs. We needed a reason to believe again.
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What a time to get hot
4 of our next 5 games are against the bottom 4 in the conference. The cougs really have an opportunity here.
But on the Road
Big win, but the focus now is Arizona. They were shooting well from the outside against the Dawgs, and that’s something we struggle to stop.
Ya, they could be tough
I know they are on the road but remember, we have only lost 1 road game this year.
I was just talking to my dad about the game because
he missed it and told him the difference was Casto!!! This is what I really like about this team because there are lot of different parts. Are you kidding DC guarding Harden. Brilliant move by TB and it is great that we have the other parts to allow that to happen.
We needed Harms to go off tonight, but instead we got KT. Didn’t really matter, we just needed someone to hit the 3 consistently. Thank you Klay!!
Honestly, you couldn’t have better balance. Hopefully, Klay gets a tad more aggressive in the games to the come.
On a side note, this was the 1st time I was actually pulling for UW. I really wanted to see AZ sink into the desert sands as I want a clear line between the bottom 4 (hoping Stanford was going to fall into it tonight) and the other 6. I am really shooting for post season whether NCAA or NIT (no CBI) and was hoping that UW would just knock the wind out AZ.
Going to be an interesting game. Casto vs. Hill anyone?
By the way, the only team in the Pac-10
we have at least a .500 record against is ASU!!! Career record 32 and 32. We own ASU!! Next closest is Stanford we are 10 game under .500 against them.
Great win!
Casto With some great D, Klay was $MONEY$ from 3, and Aron was great down low. Great Play overall and now we have some easy(er) games ahead of us. Let’s get some more quality wins!
GO COUGS!
I recorded
1 hour sportscenter, and 30 min. ESPNEWS, No highlights, no mention of a top 15 team losing. So dumb!
Just got mentioned
During halftime of the Zags game on ESPN2. But highlights were short, and they didn’t show any of Klay’s 3’s.
Amazing how a terrific win helps cure all.
Well…not quite, but this feels really good. I wish we could have seen it on TV. This team is close to breaking out. We’ll have some more frustrating losses to be sure, but some nice surprising W’s too before this season is over.
BTW…ptown, no way I can pull for the purple puppies. I hate those guys. I want to see them get swept this weekend…and if we can somehow pull out a sweep, this will be a great weekend of Cougar Basketball.
by westsidecougar1 on Jan 29, 2009 9:02 PM PST reply actions
As I've said before on the site
I hope Washington loses every game, in every sport, for the rest of eternity.
Unbelievable
I just logged on to Yahoo to catch the game, thinking it would be the 4th quarter and caught the headline about winning.
Holy Crap that’s exciting. Sounds like we played great D and Klay stepped up. I can’t wait until Saturday.
The D was spectacular in the second half
25 points in what I’m guessing was about 30 possessions. Flat out awesome against the No. 6 offense in the country.
Sole possession of 6th place
Only 1 game back of 3 other teams (USC, Cal, ASU)
He will be
Imagine how dangerous he’s going to be when he starts deciding to take the ball to the rim? He’ll be the kind of scorer we haven’t had since the late ’90s, when Isaac Fontaine was terrorizing the Pac-10.
by Jeff Nusser on Jan 30, 2009 11:06 AM PST up reply actions
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