What's the deal with Seattle? Why does every Arizona Wildcat team that goes up there to compete end up having to play against the Huskies and the refs?
Lest ye have forgotten the Arizona football team was defeated this year in Seattle on the "shoe deflection" game (Please see previous ASD posts for incontrovertible evidence that it was an incomplete pass). Now the Cats go up to Seattle and the refs decide that they want a 3 hour game and begin the game by calling 3 fouls in the first minute. Our freshmen struggle to make the adjustment and the result: Derek Williams (our leading scorer) plays 7 minutes.
The game, particularly in the first half, lacked anything resembling a flow. It really didn't seem like a basketball game, it was more likely a free throw contest. A contest that we were winning until the final 4 minutes of the game when Overton began to ice it from the stripe.
You have to give credit to our bench which carried the Cats to a 6 point halftime lead and waited patiently for Wise to get out of his funk (do you think I have some responsibility for Wise's poor shooting because of my effusive praise earlier in the week?). But eventually the consequences of playing 5 on 8 caught up with us and we were beaten.
There is no way that we lose to Washington in a real game of basketball. I look forward to seeing them in the Pac-10 tourney.
In other news, I was struck by the tone of the play of Momo and Parrom. Our New York boys bring an edge that few Arizona players have had. They are genuinely frightening and I would imagine that other teams are going to hate those guys and call them thugs in the same way that we have villanized Sun Devils and Bruins in the past. I wouldn't be surprised if Parrom is suspended for his foul in this past game. Is this a trend that everyone is excited about or are we concerned that we will lose our clean image of the Olson teams?
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