Last night we took on the Oles of St Olaf in game 3 in a row of horrendous nicknames. Like I said in previous postings that thy were predicted to finish second the preseason poll. They have plenty of talent and like us, have struggled a little bit early. They have two of the better players in the conference in Stu Neville and Bobby Fong. Both of these guys are capable of going off for 30 at any point.
Game got off to a back and forth start as both teams got settled in. Olaf got a couple of offensive rebounds early and all I could think was "here we go again." after those possessions we got on the glass and took away any 2nd opportunities. We started to get some easy buckets which increased our confidence tenfold and we looked like a completely different team than we have lately. At the half we were up 37-27 and I thought we played well for about 15 if those 20 minutes.
The second half started off really well as we quickly increased our lead to as much as twenty. Our intensity level was where it needed to be and hopefully our guys understand how hard we need to play every possession.
We got a great effort from a bunch of guys last night. I will not say we are where we need to be but it is a step in the right direction.
As many of you know, my brother goes to Hamline and is usually leading the student section in cheering and ragging on the other team. It was brought up this morning that he was swearing at guys on St Olaf during the game. Was he all over their players? Yes. Does he do that at every game? Yes. He definitely wasn't swearing because he knows that I would not let him come to games if he did. Last year he made a comment he shouldn't of to a kid and apologized the next day to the player, their coach, our AD, and our coaches. He wouldn't do anything to jeopardize my career or his for that matter. Let's just leave it at this, "Don't stay in the kitchen, if you can't take the heat."
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