Game Recap: UW wins going away!
Wow, what a great energy tonight in Bank of America Arena. The crowd was electric, and ready for this game. What I love about our Dawg Pack is that they do not take a single minute off during the game. They torture other teams with their chanting during timeouts, dead balls, and other stoppages of play. They brought their "A" game this evening, they rattled Stanford's young players, you got to believe that some of Stanford's out of control play was caused by the Dawg Pack. This group of Washington Students have special cheers for certain situations which really make sitting around them pleasurable.
Anyways, UW and Stanford struggled to score throughout the ball game. Two or three minutes would ellipse at times without either team scoring, and it made for a sloppy yet, energetic game. Spencer Hawes started and provided a spark to a stagnant Husky O. Jon Brockman struggled scoring inside against Stanford's Twin Towers, struggling to get the ball over their out stretched arms. I had never seen so many of Jon's rejected. Jon did pick up a plenty of fouls on the Lopez twins though. Sometimes I forget that Jon is only 6'7''. Spencer Hawes was straight dirty last night with the array of moves in the post that left both Lopez brothers a little lost at times. Watching Hawes, and the Lopez twins in the same game really showed how much more developed Hawes is with his foot work, and knowledge of the game. The Lopez Twins will be very good someday, but they do not have the footwork, or imagination that Hawes has with the ball in his hands.
Man, the Pac-10 refs are terrible. I would say there were 5-10 bad calls on both sides of the ball tonight. Usually I bitch about how the refs screwed us, but at times tonight both teams were getting streaks of bad calls called on them. The worst was a blocking foul called on Phil Nelson as a Stanford guard drove baseline around Justin Dentmon. Nelson was established and did not move as the Stanford guard bulled him over. The crowd went nuts. There was a consistent rain of "boo's" from the packed audience for nearly 5 minutes as a timeout was called directly after this play, spilling over into the free-throws granted for the blocking foul. This probably would not have happen if not for the spectacular new video screen installed recently. During the entire timeout, the video replay crew showed the foul from 3-4 different angles, which really angered the crowd. The new screen is dope!
Play of the night, approaching halftime, leading by two with 35 seconds left, Ryan Appleby had the ball poked away from behind by a Stanford guard. The ball is knocked directly to a Stanford player who took off on a fast break all alone because Ryan Appleby fell down after the ball was poked away. The Stanford player went up for a rim-rattling two hand jam that looked like it was going to suck all the air out of Hec Ed, BUT he clanked it off the back iron and it shot out to the free throw line! Hawes was there to rebound the ball, and we settled for a two point lead at half. You could tell then that it was going to be UW's night!
The WAZZU game on Wednesday means that much more now! UW's schedule over the next two weeks is SO brutal that we really need this game to hold onto any hope of making it into the NCAA tournament!
Anyways, UW and Stanford struggled to score throughout the ball game. Two or three minutes would ellipse at times without either team scoring, and it made for a sloppy yet, energetic game. Spencer Hawes started and provided a spark to a stagnant Husky O. Jon Brockman struggled scoring inside against Stanford's Twin Towers, struggling to get the ball over their out stretched arms. I had never seen so many of Jon's rejected. Jon did pick up a plenty of fouls on the Lopez twins though. Sometimes I forget that Jon is only 6'7''. Spencer Hawes was straight dirty last night with the array of moves in the post that left both Lopez brothers a little lost at times. Watching Hawes, and the Lopez twins in the same game really showed how much more developed Hawes is with his foot work, and knowledge of the game. The Lopez Twins will be very good someday, but they do not have the footwork, or imagination that Hawes has with the ball in his hands.
Man, the Pac-10 refs are terrible. I would say there were 5-10 bad calls on both sides of the ball tonight. Usually I bitch about how the refs screwed us, but at times tonight both teams were getting streaks of bad calls called on them. The worst was a blocking foul called on Phil Nelson as a Stanford guard drove baseline around Justin Dentmon. Nelson was established and did not move as the Stanford guard bulled him over. The crowd went nuts. There was a consistent rain of "boo's" from the packed audience for nearly 5 minutes as a timeout was called directly after this play, spilling over into the free-throws granted for the blocking foul. This probably would not have happen if not for the spectacular new video screen installed recently. During the entire timeout, the video replay crew showed the foul from 3-4 different angles, which really angered the crowd. The new screen is dope!
Play of the night, approaching halftime, leading by two with 35 seconds left, Ryan Appleby had the ball poked away from behind by a Stanford guard. The ball is knocked directly to a Stanford player who took off on a fast break all alone because Ryan Appleby fell down after the ball was poked away. The Stanford player went up for a rim-rattling two hand jam that looked like it was going to suck all the air out of Hec Ed, BUT he clanked it off the back iron and it shot out to the free throw line! Hawes was there to rebound the ball, and we settled for a two point lead at half. You could tell then that it was going to be UW's night!
The WAZZU game on Wednesday means that much more now! UW's schedule over the next two weeks is SO brutal that we really need this game to hold onto any hope of making it into the NCAA tournament!
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