Fun first 24 minutes or so of game time. Very frustrating from there to the end.
Most of my thoughts have already been said by others I think but I'll still throw them out there...
The refs were refs. I wouldn't say we got screwed by them because the FTs were about equal, but that was two different twenty minute games. Real quick, smooth 1st half and just a slog of a 2nd half. It is so tough to play when you have the change in the way a game is called.
Brad referenced that Tennessee was letting us shoot so that's why we shot so many threes. But I thought I saw a lot of three guys standing on the perimeter and then a little two man game up top. I'm not one for "Demitri, moooooove!!!!!" but it felt stagnant at times and I'm surprised we got to 79.
I mentioned the lack of a PG in the game thread and it's not so much that we need assists in order to score, but it would help so much in setting up our offense. I think the idea was to try and have Domask bring up the ball to initiate the offense. But then you had Ziegler clown him a couple of times and Domask was so shook he didn't want anything to do with touching the ball in the backcourt.
This is going to be the hot take of the post... Today's game reminds me of the past two years in such a way and all I can see going forward is a first round exit because we plop ourselves on the three point line, shots don't fall and we never adjust to get to the basket (or we do way too late).
All of that said, it was great to see the team in person for the first time in...a decade? It was awesome to cheer them off the court with the lead at halftime. And, despite all the above pearl clutching, I am excited about the rest of this year because the potential is there.
