Driving back home from the
Concordia-UQAM contest last night, I was trying to figure out what I just saw.
The host Citadins grabbed 44 rebounds- 17 on the offensive glass, made 12 more
free throws than Concordia attempted going 28 for 30... held league leading
scorer Kyle Desmarais to 16 and the conference's second leading scorer, Evens Laroche to
8 points. The Citadins' Eric Cote-Kougnima lived perfectly on the free throw line
going a gargantuan 17 for 17 enroute to a 26 point night (which in the Q is
like scoring 47 in another conference!) and they somehow managed to lose by 13.
How does that happen??? Twenty seven Citadins turnovers may explain it and the
Stingers stingy defense must get a lot of credit for forcing UQAM into low
percentage shots. The 20 offensive rebounds Concordia worked for were another
factor- they just crash all night. A lot of guys can make threes. Even more
guys take threes. But in this case, it was making threes when it counted the
most- your up two- and now your up 5 ! The other guys go on a scoring run and
bang- you silence them. Decee Krah did just that- 3 times in the 4th quarter-
he was 5/13 for the game- but 3 for 3 when it counted the most.
There is a lot ot be said for " Playing your
game." This is what I saw last night from Concordia. They played their game.
It's not rocket science, this game. They get all loose balls, they score in
transition off steals, they score on the same endline out of bounds play, they
crash offensive boards and they set up an inside game by attacking the defense
and drawing help slipping it inside for 2. Simple. They know when to help and
when not to help. Play your game.
Loved Pete Campbell's line after his Golden Hawks
scored 110 points against Waterloo this week, " We played fairly well
offensively." I guess they did.
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