This one hurt. Hurt big time. I took some time to try to chill before coming to the board and I'm still nauseous, nerves still going big time.
I used to follow Maryland basketball religiously since I was born there (but lived in Georgia for twice as long) and this one reminded me of the Terps' debacle of a choke job vs. Duke in their Final Four year. (year before the Terps won it all)
Total meltdown for everyone involved. It simply avalanched on us and everything went against us.
JJ suddenly couldn't catch a pass. Harris was one on one mishandling the ball out of bounds. Hell, JJ fell down trying to split a trap and luckily it went off an Aggie. Parker didn't meet the pass. Though we inbounded several times after turnovers and not made shots, I don't remember Yante running the baseline at all. (we DID inbound after made free throws or a made shot, didn't we?)
I got very nervous when Wilridge had that silly foul that ended up in an "and 1."
Yante handled the double teams very poorly, especially late in the game.
The official call on the last play of the game has me confused. I understand the clock stopped and we took about a second more than was left in the game. However, as a player, you base playing decisions on what you see on the clock. Time and score. Shouldn't the correct call be to go back to when the clock froze and give us possession with 5.6 seconds to go?
This will be tough to overcome for the team and Fox.
I used to follow Maryland basketball religiously since I was born there (but lived in Georgia for twice as long) and this one reminded me of the Terps' debacle of a choke job vs. Duke in their Final Four year. (year before the Terps won it all)
Total meltdown for everyone involved. It simply avalanched on us and everything went against us.
JJ suddenly couldn't catch a pass. Harris was one on one mishandling the ball out of bounds. Hell, JJ fell down trying to split a trap and luckily it went off an Aggie. Parker didn't meet the pass. Though we inbounded several times after turnovers and not made shots, I don't remember Yante running the baseline at all. (we DID inbound after made free throws or a made shot, didn't we?)
I got very nervous when Wilridge had that silly foul that ended up in an "and 1."
Yante handled the double teams very poorly, especially late in the game.
The official call on the last play of the game has me confused. I understand the clock stopped and we took about a second more than was left in the game. However, as a player, you base playing decisions on what you see on the clock. Time and score. Shouldn't the correct call be to go back to when the clock froze and give us possession with 5.6 seconds to go?
This will be tough to overcome for the team and Fox.
