How about Jin Soo Kim's unexpected 5 point coming out party? Interesting, but no.
The person that was 100% responsible for the Terps finally beating Miami was Alexander Ovechkin.
The number one rule in sports fanship is that if you have a jersey to wear, you wear the appropriate jersey to support your squad. It's a rule I've only broken a handful of times. And in honesty, I can't even remember the last time I pulled it off before last night. I got some weird looks like my Caps jersey on, but in reality, they should have been loving the game winning attitude I brought to the Cable Box.
Faced with yet another Terps 'Canes game I had to make a change. Ovie put in 2 in the 3rd Period to top Detroit, kind of a big deal, so I decided "Hey, why not openly support a winner at the Comcast Center?"
Sure enough, it made the difference. Say what you want, but I've been wearing my standard 23 Mike Jones jersey for years at Maryland games, and lets be honest, it hasn't gotten anybody very far.
Ok, now some actual analysis.
I hate that Gary has been in the news somehow midseason for how awful he is at recruiting. Hey we get it, we don't get good players despite being in the heart of basketball talent country (Sports Illustrated did just point out that PG is, per capita, the most NBA Talent rich area of the country.). That being said, I really feel like we're putting a team together here.
I hate to be the standard DC, "this year isn't our year, but next year we're gonna be great" guy, but look at the facts. Milbourne is just straight up trashing the place. Junior. Bowie is out hustling everybody, and somehow is establishing himself as an actual point guard. Sophomore. Mosley is nasty. Fact. Freshman. And I'll be honest, I'm a huge Dino Gregory fan. Sophomore.
Vasquez would be an asshole to leave because he can't shoot. Hayes is finally finding his role as the shooter. Things are coming together. Yea we're 3-4 in conference. Yea I don't think we have much chance of cracking the important 9-7 barrier.
Here, however, is the optimism. As Herm Edwards once said, you play to win the game. I don't think we've got a shot at knocking off Duke UNC or Wake, but history has shown that thats our personality. Giant Killer when we aren't the giants ourselves. We're more likely to get some Ws on Tobacco Road and drop one or two to some awful team.
The point is my expectation level is low. And that means that as long as we aren't hosting an NIT game, we're bound to do something crazy.
I've also been informed that Vasquez was one assist shy of a triple double. Thats prettay prettay good.
I don't think we're very good, we can't rebound, and we still can't shoot very well. Regardless, mark my words, my Terrapins will make noise this month, and when they do, you can give all the credit to a Russian dude wearing #8.
Also, Torres just netted 2 against Chelsea... I'm gonna go drink beers. Hoooray!
