As long as we don’t play like crap we will win this gave. That Montana game actually made me feel better strangely. It reinfirced what I knew already. This team is mentally tough along with physically. I’m convinced we’re a top 5 defense in the country. Duncan looked great on d out there.
Montana got us to play an ugly , physical , scrappy brand of ball and we took their punch withstood it and then beat them at their own game. In years past that game would hace been trouble for us and we may have lost or it would hace been a nail biter.
The only thing I didn’t like is I would have liked to have seen Poole more particularly in the second half. We are going to need him ready to go and ready to create and score if we’re going to make a run. I wanted him to get a feel for the atmosphere more and to get comfy so he’s ready to step up when we need him.
Besides that I was happy. Hopefully moe got that choke job out if his system. Happy to see Simmons is ready and his scoring could be key to. If we can get 6-8 out if him and 8-12 out of Poole every game here on out we might go big.
Maybe I’m irrationally overconfident, but the way Simpson has handled opposing PGs, playing a team that depends on their’s for all their offense strikes me as a good matchup.
I’m also irrationally relaxed. This team has a calm and resilience like no other. I think MAAR’s ultra-chill demeanor is part of that. I have to say I love the expression on his face when he gets fouled hard or nicked up, it’s pure suffering and torment. He really sells it.
MAAR was such a mess last game - that kind of freaked me out. He didn’t seem to have his legs under him altogether. I know he managed to pile up some points, but that was not his standard game.
I’ve been a huge MAAR fan since the beginning and have so much confidence in him that it shook me to see him not look right.
I wonder what the crowd balance is going to be. Frustrating that as the higher seed the game is like 6 hours closer to them than us.