Let's get physical, physical!

To the UNLV non-believers, the 2007-2008 basketball season was supposed to be a bridge year, a year from greatness to not-so-greatness and back to greatness again. And really, in a way, who can blame the naysayers? We lost four of our starters, and one of our upcoming stars was red-shirted by the NCAA. So it's even more gratifying when this season's basketball team has the same record as last year's at this time, 22-7. It just goes to show what one heck of a coach can do.

For the game against TCU, I wasn't able to attend due to unforseen circumstances. I stooped as low as trying to bribe my 12 year old sister with food, and being a middle-schooler admist college kids, because hey, desparate times called for desparate measures. Too bad they didn't work.

It might be a good thing though, because I have more details than I would if I were at the game:

-Poor, poor Terr-Bear. He got cut up, stitched up, and threw some 3!'s up. Really, not many people can have five stitches to the face, and then come back and do some damage. Oh, but CT did. In the post-interview game, he said that he only has a few games left and wants to play as much as he can. Go, Terry, go!

-If Terry's injury didn't tell you, I'll state the obvious, and that is it was one physical game. TCU played down and diry, and so UNLV called it, and raised it. Finally the refs started making some calls though.

-Just like the article in the RJ said, R-Geau really does do everything. Wherever the Rebels need him to be, magically, he's there. He had steals, points, rebounds, whatever they keep stats of, chances are he had numbers in it. I think he's resposible for getting the run started during the second half, propelling it from a 3 point game to a runaway.

-Darg and his defense. Man oh man. Oh, and his offense is pretty damn good too, he finished with 15 points.

- Mr. Adams. Back to back 3!'s? Getting past three defenders to lay in the ball? Another 3!? Seriously, I think we should write the U.S. Mint and talk them into printing a 3 dolla bill with Wink and Darg on it. How can they refuse?

-Yeah-Bailey! He is a force to be reckoned with. At the beginning of the game, he was responsible for all of UNLV's 4 points. And he made his free throws when we really needed them.

-Shaw is a defense machine. He forced I don't know how many of TCU's turn-overs, but I'm going to guess that it was quite a few. Oh, yeah, the man can get rebounds too.

-Troy Cage, the somewhat of a mystery man. He played a few minutes, and got on the board with 4 points, 2 of those being from a slam dunk! Not bad at all, not bad at all.

-Ken-Doll had to step in for Terry after The Incident, and he did just fine. And later in the game, he had a wild one-handed jumper that found it's way into the basket. To quote the announcer, he has "potential." Lots and lots of it.

-And of course, I can't forget Mo, who finished the game with 3 points.

-The announcers were saying that Coach Kruger should win MWC Coach of the year, if not National Coach of the year, and I couldn't agree more.

See you at the white-out on Saturday, let's send Bailey and Terr-Bear out with a bang. And a W.