It’s been mentioned in prior threads but Hurley’s “short leash” threats in his presser, which seemed to be directed at the starting guards...... Gaffney got a lot of minutes and although he had 4 TOs, I thought they were mainly ball handling issues and not bad decisions on his part. Minute distribution will be interesting today as well as whether the “short leash” threats get acted upon should we see bad shots or decisions by the starting guards.
Only 10 TO's compared to 26 and 22 the last 2 games... Hallelujah !!! ...
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But it was a tale of 2 halves
..Gilbert stunk up the first part of the game with 2 TO's and another 3 strait misses to "lead" UNH to the 18-9 advantage. Then like you said DH's
“short leash” and in came Gaffney (played 21 mins...2-3 on 3's/ 5 asst/ only 1 TO) and Bouk (14pts /7 reb) to turn the whole game around....along with Adams(3-5 FG/ 2 asst) and Whaley (3-3 FG/ 6 rebs/2 asst) who changed the game on D too. Like DH said post game, it was a tough D match-up for Josh vs. the UNH perimeter bigs. I loved the rotation and didn't miss Wilson not playing, who can't wait to rush up the 1st, 2nd or even 3rd bad shots he loves to force as soon as he comes in......which only makes things worse.
Then the start of 2nd half was " the Gilbert show." Is he hearing footsteps behind him from Gaffney .
...who lead the 15-0 Uconn run in the first half with him on the bench ? Game changes alot when this team doesn't have a guys shooting 2-12 or actually getting shots up instead of the TO's. Then add in one of Akok's best offensive games of the year and you have blow out city....(now about those missed FT's....
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