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A few thoughts. 

First, Wow! A game that was fun to watch...something of a rarity this season. 

Second, it's pretty clear that Jahii Carson must be a Jedi, given his ability to convince the refs "That is not the travelling call you are looking to make!"  On a routine move he covers twice as much ground without dribbling as LeBron can ever hope to on his best move. If the ball had spent any more time on Jahii's shoulder he would have needed a backpack.

Third, Nastic deserves at least a little shout out.  The same refs who apparently couldn't see Jahii racking up all those frequent flyer miles [okay, I'll let it go...] managed to call Nasty at least once for simply looking sideways at somebody.  He's not the most graceful guy out there, but still, he gets beaten up pretty badly by the Bachynskis, Terzcewskis, and the other -skis that make up this year's contigent of Pac-12 posts, and doesn't seem to get anywhere near the same level of love from the refs as the others do.  Oh, and don't look now, but I think he is something like 12-for-12 from the field over our last 3 games.

Finally, given that I believe our chances of defeating Arizona [if we won tonight] are about the same as my chances of winning Warren Buffet's Bracket Challenge, and given that we really are pretty much relying on about 5 or 6 guys who have been playing a lot of late night basketball for 2 nights running, and given that a win tonight still probably wouldn't drastically change our seeding, and given my fear that our long absence from the Tourney has relegated us back to being one of the teams likely to get stuck in an early Thursday slot all the way across the country so the more rest we can get at this point, the better, and given that I would really like to win that first round game [regardless of what it means for the whole coaching thing]...I'm thinking that a defeat tonight [as long as it's not really ugly] might not be the worst outcome in the world.

[76lsjumb]

A few thoughts. 

First, Wow! A game that was fun to watch...something of a rarity this season. 

Second, it's pretty clear that Jahii Carson must be a Jedi, given his ability to convince the refs "That is not the travelling call you are looking to make!"  On a routine move he covers twice as much ground without dribbling as LeBron can ever hope to on his best move. If the ball had spent any more time on Jahii's shoulder he would have needed a backpack.

Third, Nastic deserves at least a little shout out.  The same refs who apparently couldn't see Jahii racking up all those frequent flyer miles [okay, I'll let it go...] managed to call Nasty at least once for simply looking sideways at somebody.  He's not the most graceful guy out there, but still, he gets beaten up pretty badly by the Bachynskis, Terzcewskis, and the other -skis that make up this year's contigent of Pac-12 posts, and doesn't seem to get anywhere near the same level of love from the refs as the others do.  Oh, and don't look now, but I think he is something like 12-for-12 from the field over our last 3 games.

Finally, given that I believe our chances of defeating Arizona [if we won tonight] are about the same as my chances of winning Warren Buffet's Bracket Challenge, and given that we really are pretty much relying on about 5 or 6 guys who have been playing a lot of late night basketball for 2 nights running, and given that a win tonight still probably wouldn't drastically change our seeding, and given my fear that our long absence from the Tourney has relegated us back to being one of the teams likely to get stuck in an early Thursday slot all the way across the country so the more rest we can get at this point, the better, and given that I would really like to win that first round game [regardless of what it means for the whole coaching thing]...I'm thinking that a defeat tonight [as long as it's not really ugly] might not be the worst outcome in the world.