1. Smith is a better coach than Young, at least he was tonight. He drew up several good plays (one of the coaches did anyway), and the team played stellar defense the entire game. He may be an awful recruiter, but he’s a better in-game coach than KY.
2. Good players:
– Ausar: super timid first half, passed several wide open layups for questionable passes. Don’t know what happened, but he came alive in the second half.
– Madsen: LOL, just kidding, I’ve never seen someone play worse tbh.
– Lovering: He was the best big man on the floor tonight, and it wasn’t close.
– Sharavjamts: He didn’t do much on the stat sheet, but he is a coach’s dream when it comes to running an offense. He sees the floor amazingly well, and didn’t force anything tonight (with the one exception being the end of regulation, and that was a good idea, it just got deflected).
3. Thoughts on Dawes – He is clearly a good player, but I can see why Smith doesn’t like playing him in favor of some of the other guys. Dawes stands around with his hands down A LOT. He is either lazy on defense, or he simply has no idea what is going on. He doesn’t move around nearly as much on offense as the other guys. I can see why he would muck up the flow of the offense Smith wants to run. That being said, he needs to play more.
4. FREE THROWS!!!! Anyone paid to play basketball (these guys pretty much all get paid) should shoot 65% from the line MINIMUM. If a giant like Wemby can shoot damn near 90% for the year, nobody has any excuse. It is a lack of effort or a severe mental issue. I see guys like Lovering, who have a different free throw stroke every time they shoot and I just can’t help but be livid. These guys should all be able to hit 70% of their free throws with their eyes closed. We should have won that game by 10 in regulation.
5. Watching Big12 refs make CBB a lot more fun than it was with Pac12 refs. They let a lot of things slide and the game flowed much better.
Utah @ 
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