The Terps are 13-7 and 3-3 in the conference–not bad
Coach Turgeon Post Game:“I thought we were great defensively. The first 20 minutes we really prepared well. I think in the last eight days we’ve gotten so much better as a team. A lot of it is preparation; I think we really guarded their sets well. In the second half they spread us and we weren’t quite as good, but we were still pretty good in that stretch. I thought our execution was better than it has been. Quite frankly, I think up until the 38-minute mark we were as good as we’ve been this year. It felt very comfortable when we had double-digit leads and the guys were playing well, but true to course the way we are, we had to make it interesting. Giving up layup after layup and we missed free throws, but give credit to them because they had a lot of fight in them. We had one bad turnover against the press and besides that I think we handled it pretty well. I’m proud of our group, it was a great win for us. Any win is a good win. We are 3-3 in the league and we’re heading in the right direction which I’m happy about. It shows in the way we play.”
Senior Captain Sean Mosley is the glue of this team. When all was failing including trouble at the free throw line, Sean nailed 5 straight free throws to more or less secure the lead. He wound up with 15 points and remember he has only 4 games left in Comcast.
The ACC’s leading scorer Terrell Stoglin finished with 28 including 21 in the 2nd half. You can criticize his 0 assists and 5 turnovers all you want but without him there would several less W’s.
Another great crowd lifted the Terps when the lead was collapsing. Let’s a Saturday afternoon ACC game–I bet that would work for attendance.
Kevin Plank and John Feinstein were in the house today.
It seemed like Coach Turgeon wanted to get Pankey and Padgett into the play immediately today as the first 4 plays were feeds down deep.
The effort of this team is unmatched across the board. If they can bring these “habits” on the road with them then watch out!!!
It appears as each game passes Nick Faust’s strong moments improve. He was a force in the first half. hen things are going right for Nick his aggressiveness seems both powerful and under control. He is one of the guys improving mightily with each game.
So we begin to enter crunch time for the Terps–10 games left in the regular season–4 at home –6 on the road. Miami on Wednesday is a great test for Maryland. After the max effort exerted the past 2 games, a repeat could produce victory.
Check out Sean Mosley’s account of the game.
On the team’s improvement:
“Each and every game I think we are starting to mature, slowly but surely. If things weren’t going our way on offense early in the season it affected our defense. But now when we aren’t scoring the basketball we can still get stops. We held them to 19 points in the first half and that was a great job by us. When we aren’t scoring the basketball we try to frustrate the other team, get stops, get to the free-throw line and get things going again.”
On the team’s defense:
“We didn’t want them to get a three-point play, but at the end of the day we didn’t want them to get easy layups at the basket like they were getting. During the game sometimes you get caught up in not wanting to foul and stop the clock. At the end of the game though we had guys go up to the free-throw line and make big free throws for us, that is what is most important. That’s why I think we are starting to mature overall. It is definitely a big win for us.”
This kid will be a Coach someday–count on it!!!
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