Unbelievable Toughness

[catfans5]

Tonight was unbelievable for three different types of toughness:

1) mental toughness. Maryland jumped out to an early lead and got up by 10 in the second half. I thought we were done. Each time the Cats came back. It was simply remarkable;

2) defensive toughness. Do I need to say more. Even Mr. Brown is playing tough defense or is trying to do so. Remarkable;

3) Physical toughness. With 5 mins left, Maryland looked exhausted and we were still fighting. I recall one play with a couple of minutes where Scottie just went right to basket and used his leverage/power to get a layup or a short bank shot. Benson, Skelly and Pardon back down from no one.We can take and give a punch. Quite remarkable.

4) Rebounding. Everyone rebounds. Many times I saw that two of our guys were getting the ball. Vic, Sanjay and Dererk totaled 20 rebound. Again, we out rebound a team. Incredibly remarkable.

Get to listen to the game tomorrow since I will be on the road. Sigh. Go Cats!

 

[mikewebb68]

Our attack of the press was just stunning to me. Complete turnaround from earlier in the season.

 

[D_C_B]

We do so many things really well we used to be just laughably bad at:

Press break

Man defense

Rebounding - defensive AND offensive.

Free throw shooting (until this little one-and-one issue we've had lately)

Creating our shot

Transition/fast breaks

Blocking shots

Dunking the damn ball!

and most of all,

Playing with confidence!!

That's a HUGE list relative to just a couple years ago. Just huge. In all honestly, I'd play with confidence too if I was part of a team that did all of this in just a few years!