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Was at the game last night. A few quick things
1. The crowd was crazy. Too long ago to compare to other eras, but the crowd was incredibly loud. The late start time absolutely didn’t hurt, nor did giving free beer for 90 minutes to a few hundred folks during the Mora event first.
2. Some strange officiating aside, that was a fabulous basketball game. Forget who won or lost and whether the refs balanced out or affected the game. Both teams shot high percentages against an opponent playing good, hard and smart D. Kudos to the players on both teams.
3. That having been said, was it possible to not feel good for our two super seniors last night? Here were two guys who signed up for a program that was only two years from a championship and watched the program disintegrate around them. Their freshman year, they played for a team hat was willing to quit when games went wrong in a manner we’ve never seen. They lost game after game their freshman year, and watched UConn fall to the level of a mediocre mid-major. Or worse. IW waited two and a half years before coaches gave him a chance to make an impact on the game. Tyler blew out a knew just when his career seemed to be taking off, in practice no less, and had to work back from that. Then, add in COVID, and their careers were not going to be what a UConn player should expect. And then, last night, there they both were, contributing at a high level in a win against a Top Ten team in front of a full house going absolutely ballistic in Hartford. So forget the refs, and the Boneyard infighting, and Hurley’s temper, and everything else for a few minutes, and give credit to two young men who seem to never complain but just go out and try to get better and wait for their moment. And last night, at the biggest moment of their careers, after their careers here should be over but for COVID, continued doing what they needed to do to have a moment they deserved. In other words, take a moment with your coffee to remember the things that make this sport so great.
1. The crowd was crazy. Too long ago to compare to other eras, but the crowd was incredibly loud. The late start time absolutely didn’t hurt, nor did giving free beer for 90 minutes to a few hundred folks during the Mora event first.
2. Some strange officiating aside, that was a fabulous basketball game. Forget who won or lost and whether the refs balanced out or affected the game. Both teams shot high percentages against an opponent playing good, hard and smart D. Kudos to the players on both teams.
3. That having been said, was it possible to not feel good for our two super seniors last night? Here were two guys who signed up for a program that was only two years from a championship and watched the program disintegrate around them. Their freshman year, they played for a team hat was willing to quit when games went wrong in a manner we’ve never seen. They lost game after game their freshman year, and watched UConn fall to the level of a mediocre mid-major. Or worse. IW waited two and a half years before coaches gave him a chance to make an impact on the game. Tyler blew out a knew just when his career seemed to be taking off, in practice no less, and had to work back from that. Then, add in COVID, and their careers were not going to be what a UConn player should expect. And then, last night, there they both were, contributing at a high level in a win against a Top Ten team in front of a full house going absolutely ballistic in Hartford. So forget the refs, and the Boneyard infighting, and Hurley’s temper, and everything else for a few minutes, and give credit to two young men who seem to never complain but just go out and try to get better and wait for their moment. And last night, at the biggest moment of their careers, after their careers here should be over but for COVID, continued doing what they needed to do to have a moment they deserved. In other words, take a moment with your coffee to remember the things that make this sport so great.
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