Post#674 » by Ruzious » Wed Nov 18, 2015 5:10 pm
Incredible excitement from the crowd. That felt like a championship atmosphere - watching it on tv. And kudo's to G-town for an outstanding effort. Hayes put on his performance of a lifetime.
For MD, Carter's experience makes him far more valuable - right now - than Stone - who looked far from 1 and done - but so did Kelly Oubre in his first few college games. Imo, Carter's biggest play was when he was thrown a low post entry pass - he quickly whipped the ball to Layman for a wide open corner 3 - who swished it. Carter followed that with an outstanding low post move to give him space to swish a short jump-hook. Clearly, "this ain't his first rodeo". Cekovsky looked real good - much better than Dodd - and I think he's gotta get more minutes - being a legit 7 footer with some talent. It's no going to be easy getting minutes to all the bigs.
Kinda disappointed Brantley played only 1 minute. Trimble's going to need more rest in the future. How many big tumbles did he take going to the basket? You can't do that every game. Even with all the other quality players MD has, he's a marked man out there. Layman - great finish to the game after a lousy first half. Last season, he shrunk at the end of several close games. This time, he rose to the occasion.
Gotta laugh at the color commentator harping on G-town not having the kind of size MD has. Their starting front court: Hayes is freaking 7 feet tall and 270 lbs, Derrickson goes 6'7 250, and Copeland's listed at 69 220. Govan's their 3rd big at 6'10 and a massive 270. Poor widdle G-town can handle size.
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
I was thinking thesame thing when I was watching, we need to transport Terp fans to Wizard games.
