Hot & Cold
Once in a while, a team gets lucky and has a tremendous shooting game when it counts. That goes a long way in describing West Virginia’s win last night.
It seemed that anything West Virginia threw toward the rim swished right through. Everything Clemson put in the air clinked and clanged off the rim and backboard. That obnoxious noise is the sound of my discontent. Undoubtedly it will haunt me in my dreams. To emphasize, West Virginia shot 12-20, or 60%, from behind the arc, well above their season average. Clemson, on the other hand, managed a dismal 6-23 for 26%. 3 of those 6 came with less than 45 seconds left and the game practically over.
The Tigers were also unable to create any rebounding superiority. Despite a sizable early edge, they got out-rebounded 35 to 31.
All told, the game was nearly as close as the final 78-73 score indicates. A quick run by the Mountaineers toward the end of the first half established a large lead that Clemson just couldn’t cut into.
I don’t think I want to talk about basketball anymore.
We played good, we just left them open on threes and they shot the lights out. Oh yeah, and not playing the latter half of the season the past few years has hurt James Mays, he has no idea what he’s doing sometimes.
I stopped watching with 2 minutes left in the half when the Tigers let a mountaineer catch a pass on the arc, look at the shot, look at his placement, step back behind the three and shoot a wide open shot. And yes it took the entire thing almost as long as it took you to read that description. As my wife asked, she would rather me not be pissed at the game so I took myself out of it and resorted to another room for peace. I am done with Basketball, the team had a decent year and ended with the best record in a while. Now is it Football season yet?!?!
That 3-pointer was particularly hard to watch. Whatever the reason, the team wasn’t completely ready for West Virginia.