Charts, Awards

by Grady Clapp on Mar 7, 2009 10:27 PM PST

Player of the Game: Taylor Rochestie. 23 points (8/20, 3/8) with 4 assists, and a gutsy second half performance. The five turnovers weren't good, but an overall solid performance when we needed one.

Unsung hero: Aron Baynes. Forget the 18 rebounds Jon Brockman had; Baynes made the Senior an offensive non-factor on Senior Day in Seattle (7 points). Baynes snatched 11 rebounds of his own, to go with 16 points on 4 of 5 shooting (8 of 10 FTs). He got a fair amount of touches in this one, but it still wasn't enough.

Play of the Game: Tough choice here, but I'm going with the Taylor Rochestie three to bring the game to 58-56 with 4:27 remaining. Incredibly (although not a huge surprise), it would be our last field goal of the game.

It was over when... Isaiah Thomas made a lay-in to give the Huskies a six point lead with 1:51 remaining.

Stat of the Game: The Huskies outrebounded the Cougars 36-29.

Incompetent Quote of the Game: "We all have learning methods. Some are more visionary learners." -Lorenzo Romar. You'd think the vastly superior University of Washington education Lorenzo Romar received would've taught him the word is visual.

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Those charts must be all messed up. I know we really won that game !!! The refs had it in for us !!!

by golfpunk on Mar 7, 2009 10:41 PM PST reply actions

It wasn't over when we were down six with two minutes left

It was over when Rochestie slowly dribbled the ball up the court, then somehow Nik ended up with the ball and shockingly missed his open baseline three. Not to just continually throw him under the bus, but plenty of comebacks have been made by teams down by six with two minutes left.

by Broberg on Mar 8, 2009 10:05 AM PDT reply actions

Pace

I don’t understand why the Cougs play slow when they are behind with less than 2 minutes to go. I’ve seen this often enough and it drives me crazy.

I feel so bad for Nik. I don’t know where his game went but he just can’t make the shots.

by CougarsRock on Mar 8, 2009 10:37 AM PDT up reply actions

Better to get a quality shot after 30 seconds than a bad one after 10

All that does is allow Washington to get a rebound, come down, and milk the clock on their end. It’s more important to get a good, makeable look. If it comes in the first 10 seconds, fine. But Washington was really playing some nails defense down the stretch. They did exactly what they wanted to do, which I’m going to talk about in a post here pretty shortly.

CougCenter

by Jeff Nusser on Mar 8, 2009 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions