Eat it Martin

I was going to do a full recap of the weekend, but as of right now this tournament has only one story, and that story is Stephen Curry. I already explained last week that I had a huge man crush on Curry, but now it is a full blown obsession. I may drive up to Davidson and propose, soon.

After his spectacular performance in his First round game against Gonzaga I warned Martin to beware. Unfortunately for Martin the one thing he is blinded by is Hoya Paranoia. Martin will admit that the Giants are fallible and even the Mets at time have faults, but when the Hoyas are going well he literally thinks they are indestructible. I warned him on this website and I also sent him a text message asking him if they were ready for the Curry show?

His response was something along these lines; “whatever, if you want to bet against Town than good luck with all that.” Well thanks for the luck Martin, it worked.

Now to say I was supremely confident throughout the game would be a total lie. The Hoyas played a great first half and really made Curry work for everything he got. However, credit has to go to Coach Bob McKillop who never wavered and kept going to Curry in the second half.

Again with his team down and facing elimination he stared the pressure directly in the face and overcame it with his shot making ability. As the clocked ticked under ten minutes to go in the game and his team trailing 43-50 Curry drained a three to bring them within four. Over the next 9 ½ minutes Curry himself would outscore the Hoyas 21-20 and lead them to victory.

At the 4:52 mark Georgetown’s Chris Wright made a free throw to put Georgetown ahead by 1, it would be their last lead of the season. On the ensuing Davidson possession Curry made a backdoor cut to the basket and laid the ball in, drew a foul, and completed the three point play. The next tome down court Curry head faked and drove Jeremiah Rivers and DaJuan Summers this time making a circus layup. And then just in case you forgot he pulled up behind a ball screen at the top of the key draining a three pointer capping a Stephen Curry 8-2 run. Davidson lead 65-60, Georgetown called a timeout and game was basically over at 2:41 on the clock. Curry would go on to make 5 of 6 free throws sealing the game in the last thirty seconds.

By the numbers, in the second half where Curry shines, he was 6-13 from the field including making 4 of 10 threes and nailing 9 of 10 free throws for 25 second half points. He also added two defensive rebounds and 2 assists and played 36 minutes without turning the ball over



Also I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but here goes. I have successfully picked 12 of the sweet 16 teams in my bracket. Also I gave you 5 teams that would pull off at least one upset and had a chance to make the sweet 16, those teams where; Butler, Kansas State, Kentucky, Western Kentucky and Davidson. I also gave you 5 teams that I wouldn’t pick to do anything in this tournament, and those were: Pittsburgh, Notre Dame, Duke, Connecticut and Southern Cal. Not bad huh? Sometimes I do know what I am talking about, right Martin?