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11/12/2005, 11:43 PM
Austin Johnson was out for the game so we pretty much rotated two units in and out. Final score was 118-60 OU.
The first unit, which were the starters, consisted of Gray, Bookout, Everett, Walker and Carter. The second unit was Longar, Griffin, Neal, Godbold and Sampson. The only other player on the bench was Ott, who got in some during the end of the 2nd half.
Both units worked pretty well. Both Gray and Bookout played as usual. The important thing I think was just that they both stay healthy. Everett was great again tonight and makes some nice cuts to the basket. Walker played much better tonight and was a force on defense. He is very quick laterally and also played well when they were showing their press defense. Tonight was Carter's first game as a Sooner. He got off to a slow start but settled down later in the game.
The second unit worked well. I have to take back some of what I said about Longar last week. He does look like he has improved some from last year (and probably should not redshirt after all.) He seems to have settled down a bit and played some great defense tonight. Longar has great instincts on D and in time could become the complete player we're hoping. He still is having some problems boxing out but when he got the ball in the paint offensively he was making a few more things happen. Also Longar shot much better free throws tonight than I ever saw last year. I think he ended up w/ 17 pts and 13 rebounds. Griffin is going to contribute alot this year. All I can say is that he is really really strong. All those shots that Neal missed last week seemed to fall for him tonight. He really had a good stroke from 3 pt land tonight and ended up with 20+ points. I think he had four 3 pointers. Kellen and Godbold rounded out the second unit.
Pembroke didn't really have a true center and all 5 of their guys played the perimeter at times offensively. We played man defense the whole night and it wasn't uncommon to see Bookout's/Gray's/Longar's man shooting from behind the arc. They moved the ball well and had a few open 3 pt looks that they knocked down. Despite the fact that we beat them by more points, Pembroke is better than the Northeastern St team we played last week.
The crowd was pretty good. I'm not great at estimating numbers but it seemed like there were around 5-6000 there. Alot of the freshmen from the football team were there too. Duke Robinson is huge...
Our shooting - free throw, fg, 3 pt - was much better tonight. Here's to a great season. :D
The first unit, which were the starters, consisted of Gray, Bookout, Everett, Walker and Carter. The second unit was Longar, Griffin, Neal, Godbold and Sampson. The only other player on the bench was Ott, who got in some during the end of the 2nd half.
Both units worked pretty well. Both Gray and Bookout played as usual. The important thing I think was just that they both stay healthy. Everett was great again tonight and makes some nice cuts to the basket. Walker played much better tonight and was a force on defense. He is very quick laterally and also played well when they were showing their press defense. Tonight was Carter's first game as a Sooner. He got off to a slow start but settled down later in the game.
The second unit worked well. I have to take back some of what I said about Longar last week. He does look like he has improved some from last year (and probably should not redshirt after all.) He seems to have settled down a bit and played some great defense tonight. Longar has great instincts on D and in time could become the complete player we're hoping. He still is having some problems boxing out but when he got the ball in the paint offensively he was making a few more things happen. Also Longar shot much better free throws tonight than I ever saw last year. I think he ended up w/ 17 pts and 13 rebounds. Griffin is going to contribute alot this year. All I can say is that he is really really strong. All those shots that Neal missed last week seemed to fall for him tonight. He really had a good stroke from 3 pt land tonight and ended up with 20+ points. I think he had four 3 pointers. Kellen and Godbold rounded out the second unit.
Pembroke didn't really have a true center and all 5 of their guys played the perimeter at times offensively. We played man defense the whole night and it wasn't uncommon to see Bookout's/Gray's/Longar's man shooting from behind the arc. They moved the ball well and had a few open 3 pt looks that they knocked down. Despite the fact that we beat them by more points, Pembroke is better than the Northeastern St team we played last week.
The crowd was pretty good. I'm not great at estimating numbers but it seemed like there were around 5-6000 there. Alot of the freshmen from the football team were there too. Duke Robinson is huge...
Our shooting - free throw, fg, 3 pt - was much better tonight. Here's to a great season. :D