[LuckE2Bhere]

I was the guy that Spiny seems to have seen behind one of those baskets ;-)  8:30pm start undoubtedly had a lot more to do with the attendance than the donation policy, as my son and his friend were 2 of the 3 kids I saw there in the second half.  Lefty - you could have easily walked up to the window and bought the cheapest seat in the house and sat pretty much wherever you wanted!

I would agree with most of Spiny's answers to 97fan's questions, and add that in his post-game interview (on the radio while driving home), JD referred to Andy Brown as a "glue" player and a "winner", whose contribution doesn't always show up on the stat sheet.  Sure hope he's right, and that Andy was still just getting back up to game speed last season, as it would be awesome to seem him put up stats like this consistently (G*d forbid "more" of that other stuff)!.  Couldn't be happier for a kid, personally!

Unfortunately, Anthony Brown was a starter who effectively failed to contribute.  Allen played a few minutes relatively early, but Verhoeven only came on for the last minute of scrub time.  On the other hand, Sanders was a very pleasant surprise...  I'd beg to differ with Big Brother on one of his no-look passes: a beautiful bounce pass which perfectly threaded the needle through the lane and gave someone (Huestis?) an easy dunk!  Sure hope that was a sign of things to come too :-)

[LuckE2Bhere]

I was the guy that Spiny seems to have seen behind one of those baskets ;-)  8:30pm start undoubtedly had a lot more to do with the attendance than the donation policy, as my son and his friend were 2 of the 3 kids I saw there in the second half.  Lefty - you could have easily walked up to the window and bought the cheapest seat in the house and sat pretty much wherever you wanted!

I would agree with most of Spiny's answers to 97fan's questions, and add that in his post-game interview (on the radio while driving home), JD referred to Andy Brown as a "glue" player and a "winner", whose contribution doesn't always show up on the stat sheet.  Sure hope he's right, and that Andy was still just getting back up to game speed last season, as it would be awesome to seem him put up stats like this consistently (G*d forbid "more" of that other stuff)!.  Couldn't be happier for a kid, personally!

Unfortunately, Anthony Brown was a starter who effectively failed to contribute.  Allen played a few minutes relatively early, but Verhoeven only came on for the last minute of scrub time.  On the other hand, Sanders was a very pleasant surprise...  I'd beg to differ with Big Brother on one of his no-look passes: a beautiful bounce pass which perfectly threaded the needle through the lane and gave someone (Huestis?) an easy dunk!  Sure hope that was a sign of things to come too :-)