[NU Sports] Cats-Purdie

[Beamsley, Jeff]

It may have been hard to tell from the box score, Rowley probably had the best five minutes of his career against Purdue in the first half.
 
He came in at the 10 minute mark with the Cats down by 4.  Johnson was making his presence felt.  Rowley sparked the cats to a 12-0 run that ended with Purdue calling a time out to regroup and get Johnson out of the game after he picked up this third foul.  During that five minutes he had the assist that gave NU their first lead of the game, scored four points from the line to extend the lead, pulled down two defensive rebounds the second of which turned into points, and drew three fouls.  One of those fouls was from Moore. The other was from Johnson.
 
When Johnson fouled out at the 4 minute mark, NU was up by one.  When Moore fouled out at the one minute mark, NU was up by 8.
 
Even the announcers recognized the effort and asked where this guy has been all season.  I think it was the headband myself.  
 
So if you want to take this away from him because he will never be Bill Walton or play in the NBA, that's your choice.
 
For me, it's way more fun to celebrate the moment.
 
It's also true that those five minutes may be the best basketball he will ever play.  He certainly didn't duplicate that effort in the second half.  But because of those five first half minutes, we won a game against a ranked BT opponent that could end up being the difference come tournament time.  So I think "magnificent" is a perfectly accurate description of his first half work, because he came up big when it mattered. 
 
Jeff 


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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com on behalf of Dennis W. Brandt
Sent: Sun 1/17/2010 2:38 PM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Cats-Purdie



>> Did you watch the game?
>
> I was wondering the same thing.
>

Rowley made four foul shots, a few uncontested rebounds and perhaps one that
was contested, and muffed the few garbage shots he tried.  If that is
"magnificent," then Bill Walton must have arrived here from the planet
Krypton.  Luca did a fine job against Purdue - which I stated in a previous
post - but I will not anoint him All Big Ten until I see him consistently
play well against all comers.  We lost the Illinois and Michigan State games
because we had no answer for their front lines, and Wisconsin hammered us on
the boards in the second half.  Did YOU watch those games?  I wish Kyle and
Luca all the luck to become first-round NBA picks, but I'll have to see it
first.

<Well, Mr. Brant was correct

Well Mr. Marks83588, you go right on amusing yourself - and me - with your
amateur psychology, but at least spell my name correctly.

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