Thoughts from a dinosaur:
WVU destroyed TCU, first place team in the Big 12 at 3-0, 81-49.
Huggins Heroes Pitbull Defense held the BEST 3-point shooting team in the Big 12 to 7 of 23 in TCU’s 3-point attempts. And most of the 7 came later in the game with the Horny Frogs down by 20 to 30 points!!!
Remember, WVU has the YOUNGEST team in the Big 12! Think about that. Still destroyed TCU to where the Frogs were fumbling the ball away, throwing the ball away, hurrying shots before the WVU tall timbers could get their hands up to block them.
It was the most amazing performance of this season, by WVU. And probably few teams have done it this season.
Also, consider this, from the YOUNGEST team in the Big 12:
Oklahoma State scored 41 points. Season average: 68.6.
Kansas scored 60 points. Season average: 79.5.
Ohio State scored 59 points. Season average: 76.1.
Texas Tech scores 54 points. Season average: 75.1.
TCU scores 49 points. Season average: 71.7.
WVU held those 5 teams a combined 108 POINTS BELOW THEIR SEASON AVERAGES!!! That is holding those 5 teams 21.3 points PER TEAM below their season scoring averages!!! I have never heard of that happening before!!!
#3 Kansas. #11 Ohio State. #22/#21 Texas Tech, 1st place Big 12 3-0 TCU. Not exactly chopped liver.
Huggins Heroes’ Pitbull Defense has to be the best in the country.
FOUR WVU players scored in double figures: Culver 17 and 11 apiece for Oscar T., McBride and Haley. With 11 rebounds, Culver had another double-double, which is becoming almost automatic for him. For TCU, this hotshot 3-point shooting team, only TWO hit double figures: Bane with 13 and Nembhard with 14.
WVU out-rebounded TCU, 38-24. Those rebounds accounted for a lot of 2nd shots. That rebounding skill makes WVU’s floor shooting percentage misleading. What does it matter if it takes 1 or 2 or 3 shots on a possession to make the points? Same amount of points as the other side gets per possession by throwing a prayer shot up and in.
Get this: TWELVE WVU players got rebounds. The only one who did not have a rebound was Macke, WVU’s “Rudy,” who went into the game in the final 3 minutes with his teammates trying mightily to let him get a basket. He missed on both tries.
ELEVEN players got 12 to 25 minutes of action. That will prove valuable down the road.
Notice that this fierce but smart defense held TCU to 31.8% on field goals while WVU had 57.7% from the floor. Also, even with a 20 to 30-point lead the Mountaineers were as alert, aggressive and intimidating as they were early in the game. After the practices that Huggins puts them through, playing the game is not nearly as exhausting.
WVU makes EVERY team it plays look like it’s having a bad game. But the truth is, it’s having trouble with WVU’s defense and rebounding. While fans all over the country brag about how their stars can shoot the eyes out of the basket, Huggins Heroes makes its opponents to too rattled and exhausted to even see the basket.
Nothing but thumbs-up for this team tonight! Only a miscreant would find a middle-finger flaw on this night.
WVU destroyed TCU, first place team in the Big 12 at 3-0, 81-49.
Huggins Heroes Pitbull Defense held the BEST 3-point shooting team in the Big 12 to 7 of 23 in TCU’s 3-point attempts. And most of the 7 came later in the game with the Horny Frogs down by 20 to 30 points!!!
Remember, WVU has the YOUNGEST team in the Big 12! Think about that. Still destroyed TCU to where the Frogs were fumbling the ball away, throwing the ball away, hurrying shots before the WVU tall timbers could get their hands up to block them.
It was the most amazing performance of this season, by WVU. And probably few teams have done it this season.
Also, consider this, from the YOUNGEST team in the Big 12:
Oklahoma State scored 41 points. Season average: 68.6.
Kansas scored 60 points. Season average: 79.5.
Ohio State scored 59 points. Season average: 76.1.
Texas Tech scores 54 points. Season average: 75.1.
TCU scores 49 points. Season average: 71.7.
WVU held those 5 teams a combined 108 POINTS BELOW THEIR SEASON AVERAGES!!! That is holding those 5 teams 21.3 points PER TEAM below their season scoring averages!!! I have never heard of that happening before!!!
#3 Kansas. #11 Ohio State. #22/#21 Texas Tech, 1st place Big 12 3-0 TCU. Not exactly chopped liver.
Huggins Heroes’ Pitbull Defense has to be the best in the country.
FOUR WVU players scored in double figures: Culver 17 and 11 apiece for Oscar T., McBride and Haley. With 11 rebounds, Culver had another double-double, which is becoming almost automatic for him. For TCU, this hotshot 3-point shooting team, only TWO hit double figures: Bane with 13 and Nembhard with 14.
WVU out-rebounded TCU, 38-24. Those rebounds accounted for a lot of 2nd shots. That rebounding skill makes WVU’s floor shooting percentage misleading. What does it matter if it takes 1 or 2 or 3 shots on a possession to make the points? Same amount of points as the other side gets per possession by throwing a prayer shot up and in.
Get this: TWELVE WVU players got rebounds. The only one who did not have a rebound was Macke, WVU’s “Rudy,” who went into the game in the final 3 minutes with his teammates trying mightily to let him get a basket. He missed on both tries.
ELEVEN players got 12 to 25 minutes of action. That will prove valuable down the road.
Notice that this fierce but smart defense held TCU to 31.8% on field goals while WVU had 57.7% from the floor. Also, even with a 20 to 30-point lead the Mountaineers were as alert, aggressive and intimidating as they were early in the game. After the practices that Huggins puts them through, playing the game is not nearly as exhausting.
WVU makes EVERY team it plays look like it’s having a bad game. But the truth is, it’s having trouble with WVU’s defense and rebounding. While fans all over the country brag about how their stars can shoot the eyes out of the basket, Huggins Heroes makes its opponents to too rattled and exhausted to even see the basket.
Nothing but thumbs-up for this team tonight! Only a miscreant would find a middle-finger flaw on this night.
