Got to lock down BYU from 3. The best chance BYU has is if they continue shooting lights out from distance. If that happens, it will be close, but I don't see that happening. One other chance for BYU is if Houston gets in foul trouble and BYU goes to the line a lot. I can see that as a very real possibility. If Houston stays out of foul trouble though and plays their regular D they should win easily barring BYU just going nuts from downtown.
Coogs defense is in amazing mode. This could easily be an even bigger lead. If our shooters get hot.....
When Cougars plays like this, they are a serious problem. Keep it up guys, your defense is suffocating. BYU is a dangerous team, but, so far, Coogs in control. Don't let up. For a serious basketball fan, this is beautiful stuff.
I just laughed at Kevin Young when interviewed between a TO saying “the Houston defense wasn’t the issue for us” say whaaaaaaat?
That was an obviously "bravado" statement. "No, they are not really locking us down, it just looks that way." Duh, you stupid or something?
And those shots were critical, stopped the BYU mini run. When you combine sharp shooting with shut down defense, hard to deal with.
It is pathetic the lack of respect and interest given the Cougar basketball team by Houston sports media and Houston sports fans in general. Collectively here on ClutchFans for instance people are more interested in Cooper Flagg and other nonsense. What the men's basketball team is doing is historic. In some ways even better than what was accomplished during the days of PSJ. I still enjoy watching a Rocket or Astros game but nothing compares to watching what the Cougars are putting out on the basketball court at the moment. We may never see anything like this again by a Houston sports team. Great to be alive and watch it all unfold in real time.
I don't get Houston period! We have the #2 team in the NCAA, we have a good young NBA team and coverage is minimal at best. ABC 13 haven't covered a Rocket's game in weeks. I keep saying if our Basketball teams were on the East Coast, it would be NONE STOP coverage.
I saw that. Young was the one that was scared. Young has no idea how deal with coaching and preparing a team to play a real defense. A head coach is a grounding point for the players, the players reflect what is inside the coach. Sampson is TOUGH, RENTLESS, and HUMBLE. Young seems arrogant, prideful, and inexperienced.
