In Game The TBP Official In Game Thread: Bulls at UTSA Roadrunners

[M50_BULL]

9 minutes ago, Brad said:

Ugly game, but got the win.  UTSA probably offered the most physical game of the year.  More to follow.

I thought it funny they called that jersey pull a flagrant (rightfully so) because they were doing that the entire game.  
 

It was physical, not our best work offensively and we were on the road.   That usually spells doom.  So happy to see us persevere.  

I’d like to know too.  

Boom! I was yelling watching those jersey pulls the entire game with no whistle. I know I can be biased at times in favor of our Bulls but they were stretching the heck out of those shirts.

So yeah that was a fitting call in the end.

[BULLSHTR]

I thought the defense was great almost the entire time. This game was close because we missed our shots.

Just looking at 3 pointers:

As a team, we shot 17.4% (4-23)

2-7 Youngblood
1-5 Miguel
1-2 Knox
0-2 Stroud
0-2 Placer
0-2 Pryor
0-2 Reid
0-1 Hines

 

Edited February 22 by BULLSHTR

[NAIROBIBULL]

1 hour ago, BULLSHTR said:

I thought the defense was great almost the entire time. This game was close because we missed our shots.

Just looking at 3 pointers:

As a team, we shot 17.4% (4-23)

2-7 Youngblood
1-5 Miguel
1-2 Knox
0-2 Stroud
0-2 Placer
0-2 Pryor
0-2 Reid
0-1 Hines

 

Yup, we were flat as a pancake. It is SO fortunate that we played a poor team or we would have gotten crushed. Let's hope lesson learned about endurance and always bringing your A game. But true, our dmD kept us close enough. This scare should knock any "big heads" back down to size just in time for SMU. Glad they also are going to get worn out a bit before they play us.

[Bull94]

9 hours ago, Friscobull said:

Live by the 3 die by the 3

it's the reason we are 18-1 in our last 19.

[Bull94]

10 hours ago, Dave_Glaser said:

STOP shooting 3s JUST STOP!

we were going to have an off night shooting. glad it was last night.

do not stop shooting them though. you think curry stops shooting them when he has an off night?

 

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Edited February 22 by Bull94

[Brad]

5 hours ago, BULLSHTR said:

I thought the defense was great almost the entire time. This game was close because we missed our shots.

Just looking at 3 pointers:

As a team, we shot 17.4% (4-23)

2-7 Youngblood
1-5 Miguel
1-2 Knox
0-2 Stroud
0-2 Placer
0-2 Pryor
0-2 Reid
0-1 Hines

 

Of course we scored something like 20 of our first 26 points in the paint.  

We ran into trouble when they took the paint away and said, "yeah, shoot some threes"

As it turned out, we still couldn't make threes and then started forcing 1 on1s in the paint, missing many of those too...

[Dave_Glaser]

1 hour ago, Bull94 said:

we were going to have an off night shooting. glad it was last night.

do not stop shooting them though. you think curry stops shooting them when he has an off night?

 

Listing Stephen Curry’s 5 worst shooting games of his NBA career

WWW.SPORTSKEEDA.COM

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Stephen Curry had a torrid time against a stacked OKC Thunder side, which had the likes of Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant, James Harden, and even Serge Ibaka in a...

 

Wasn’t being that literal, just expecting that they would decide to find other ways to score and maybe finally get into the bonus - which they did only in the final minute down the stretch.

[Brad]

UTSA can play defense and be physical...it's not an outcome of magic or fate that off nights just happen. If were that simple and random, we wouldn't need practice.  i.e., every single hold or jersey grab disrupted timing on those perimeter patterns.

[Bull94]

4 minutes ago, Brad said:

Of course we scored something like 20 of our first 26 points in the paint.  

We ran into trouble when they took the paint away and said, "yeah, shoot some threes"

As it turned out, we still couldn't make threes and then started forcing 1 on1s in the paint, missing many of those too...

you are looking at one game. BTW we dominated them in the paint 36-16 (unlike every other game) and we barely won.

we are shooting 36% from 3 for the year.

that and our defense (in particular our 3 point defense) is why we are winning.

it's inevitable to have an off night shooting.

look at the analytics and you would understand how the game is played today.

 

[Brad]

8 minutes ago, Dave_Glaser said:

Wasn’t being that literal, just expecting that they would decide to find other ways to score and maybe finally get into the bonus - which they did only in the final minute down the stretch.

Yeah it was hard to believe in the second half it was something like 8-1 in fouls, USF leading.

1 minute ago, Bull94 said:

you are looking at one game.

That was last night, yes.