01-01-2021, 09:08 PM
I have zero complaints. Great win. A few too many turnovers but this one was effectively over at the half, and things tend to get sloppier in blowouts. Also, several of the turnovers were good ideas executed poorly with passes just a bit too far in front of the cutter, stuff like that - very fixable, and to me not a brobdingnagian deal given first game after a break and against a top 10 team.
I thought before the game defense would be key, that if we played good D, everything else would fall into place, and that seemed to me to be the case. UA could not score as easily as usual and ended up trying to do things that are not their forte. We held McDonald in check. Outrebounded them by a lot. Not much to dislike in that, really. The team had great energy and aggressiveness.
ASU almost lost to cal. I only saw the end, so no idea how they look in general, but I did see that ASU only had 9 dressed and that game was moved a few hours due to COVI stuff, so maybe ASU has some players out? I haven't looked at their roster lately. The certainly did not look scary against cal.
I thought before the game defense would be key, that if we played good D, everything else would fall into place, and that seemed to me to be the case. UA could not score as easily as usual and ended up trying to do things that are not their forte. We held McDonald in check. Outrebounded them by a lot. Not much to dislike in that, really. The team had great energy and aggressiveness.
ASU almost lost to cal. I only saw the end, so no idea how they look in general, but I did see that ASU only had 9 dressed and that game was moved a few hours due to COVI stuff, so maybe ASU has some players out? I haven't looked at their roster lately. The certainly did not look scary against cal.