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<blockquote data-quote="lv20gt" data-source="post: 784517" data-attributes="member: 2299"><p>You're right that the Duke game was our worst in the 5 game stretch. But I think it makes the opposite point you're trying to make. We were playing with an obviously gimped Jose. For most of the year if Jose didn't play well we lost and often by a significant margin. I think it speaks to the fact that we are hot that we beat Cuse fairly convincingly with him going 1-4 shooting with just 1 steal and beat Duke with him going just 3-10 and clearly not himself. It projects forward better than our almost win at UVA because it showed a dynamic that the team really didn't have going back to last year, which was the ability to win without Jose playing well. We almost beat UVA when Jose put up 20 points on 7-12 shooting with 8 assists and 6 steals. Hot teams don't play amazing every game but they find ways to win. For example, people remember Kemba Walker leading UCONN to a championship. If that wasn't the definition of being hot then I don't know what was. And yet in the championship game they shot just 35% overall, 9% from 3, had almost twice as many turnovers as assists. They still won though. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I disagree. Although you'll probably scoff at my reasoning. To me in every game starting with Pitt it felt like we were the team in the driver's seat even when the game was even or we were slightly behind. Basically when we were playing good we were beating teams by double digits in the halves. When we were playing "bad" our opponent was slightly ahead on the back of individuals having halves that they were almost certainly not going to reproduce. To me I was confident that Griffin wasn't going to keep scoring the way he was in the first half, that we'd adjust, slow him down, make a run, and win. And we did, in an almost methodical manner. Duke was similar and nearly played out the same. Moore wasn't going to keep going off for them. It took a little longer, but we erased the lead, and the built it up just like we did against Cuse. Now the difference was against Cuse we put it away while against Duke we screwed around and let the pressure get to us. However, even after that we took control in OT, built a 7 point lead up with a minute to go. To me, I don't think the end of the half 4 minutes and the last 30 seconds are really anything more than flukes. We had uncharacteristic bad decision making that we hadn't seen all year and I get no feeling we will see again. I'm much more likely to think that the way we took control in the second half, again, and then again in OT will more likely be indicative of future play.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lv20gt, post: 784517, member: 2299"] You're right that the Duke game was our worst in the 5 game stretch. But I think it makes the opposite point you're trying to make. We were playing with an obviously gimped Jose. For most of the year if Jose didn't play well we lost and often by a significant margin. I think it speaks to the fact that we are hot that we beat Cuse fairly convincingly with him going 1-4 shooting with just 1 steal and beat Duke with him going just 3-10 and clearly not himself. It projects forward better than our almost win at UVA because it showed a dynamic that the team really didn't have going back to last year, which was the ability to win without Jose playing well. We almost beat UVA when Jose put up 20 points on 7-12 shooting with 8 assists and 6 steals. Hot teams don't play amazing every game but they find ways to win. For example, people remember Kemba Walker leading UCONN to a championship. If that wasn't the definition of being hot then I don't know what was. And yet in the championship game they shot just 35% overall, 9% from 3, had almost twice as many turnovers as assists. They still won though. I disagree. Although you'll probably scoff at my reasoning. To me in every game starting with Pitt it felt like we were the team in the driver's seat even when the game was even or we were slightly behind. Basically when we were playing good we were beating teams by double digits in the halves. When we were playing "bad" our opponent was slightly ahead on the back of individuals having halves that they were almost certainly not going to reproduce. To me I was confident that Griffin wasn't going to keep scoring the way he was in the first half, that we'd adjust, slow him down, make a run, and win. And we did, in an almost methodical manner. Duke was similar and nearly played out the same. Moore wasn't going to keep going off for them. It took a little longer, but we erased the lead, and the built it up just like we did against Cuse. Now the difference was against Cuse we put it away while against Duke we screwed around and let the pressure get to us. However, even after that we took control in OT, built a 7 point lead up with a minute to go. To me, I don't think the end of the half 4 minutes and the last 30 seconds are really anything more than flukes. We had uncharacteristic bad decision making that we hadn't seen all year and I get no feeling we will see again. I'm much more likely to think that the way we took control in the second half, again, and then again in OT will more likely be indicative of future play. [/QUOTE]
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