(03-20-2022, 11:36 PM)M T Wrote: At the time, I thought Lacie's 3 tonight was critical. The score was tied and KU getting the lead might have really given them a boost. Lacie put the first nail in their coffin in the 3Q.
As a smaller matter, Lacie also silenced the KU band with her 3. Those of us who were at the Friday early game probably noticed that after Georgia Tech's point guard shot an air ball, KU's band would loudly chant "air ball, air ball" whenever she touched the ball from then on. They kept it up to where it was really annoying. They finally stopped the next time she made a shot, which was quite a while later.
Tonight Lacie shot an air ball, triggering the KU band. We got the O board, the ball came right back to Lacie, and they started chanting. You can hear it on the TV broadcast. But Lacie calmly drained the 3, and that quickly shut them up before they got well started.
BTW, my favorite Lacie 3 is this one from the South Carolina game earlier this year. A bit of heroics mostly forgotten as Stanford couldn't quite pull out the win.
https://youtu.be/chWohzxFN5o
Tonight was Lacie's last game in Maples too. We'll miss them both!