USU at Denver

Well put this one in the books for one of the worst performances for Tai Wesley. I know people have off nights but his was WAY off! He kind of got plagued with silly turnovers and fouls. But I have confidence that he will be ready to play on Saturday.

The Aggies had an OK game. It defiantly was not horrible and not spectacular. I guess I am a little hard on the Ags this year because they return SO much experience. I was reminded of this when I was reading a Aggie Fan forum. The forum went crazy saying the Aggies stink and this team doesn't know how to shoot blah blah blah, and criticizing this VERY young season. Then there was this post by this fan (forum name 5thYearSenior) that really made me think "he is right, the Aggies are doing ok" So take a minute and read this post and you will understand why too:

"Seriously people, do we really have so few level heads around here to not think the sky is falling every time we don't blow a team out of the water??

So SUU and Denver played us close on the road, and Northeastern almost got us in The Spectrum. Do people forget so quickly that we nearly beat a top-25 BYU team on the road and stepped up in big way in that big game? Or that we thoroughly manhandled Utah? Or that we beat a solid Weber State team despite poor 3-point shooting??

My real point though is this...

Look at much of what went on two years ago when we won 30 games, the WAC regular season, the WAC Tournament, and nearly beat Marquette in the NCAA's...

Two-point win at UCSB, thanks to a Matt Formisano game-winner.
BARELY escaping SUU with a road win.
Idaho State hanging tough against us in Pocatello for what was only a 10-point win
Houston Baptist beating us by 8 at halftime in The Spectrum
Wyoming taking us to overtime in The Spectrum.
Fresno State hitting a 70-footer to force overtime in Fresno.


The common theme in all those games... WE WON!!! It might have been ugly, but we did, and that team won 30 games.
So far this year, we've won every game but BYU. It might have been ugly, but we won.

So calm the heck* down everyone. We will be fine. We probably won't beat Georgetown, but who REALLY expects us to? We legitimately might win every other game we play after that, and that would put is in quite a favorable spot come selection sunday.

But please, for the sake of these forums possibly ceasing to be unreadable as they've been, can we quit with the non-stop "the sky is falling" talk. It is freaking ridiculous."**

I was really impressed with this, and those are my thoughts exactly. So I am going to stick with them Ags and cheer for them WIN or LOOSE! They are a really good basketball team!

The Aggies won this game. They held the lead most of the game except for a few minutes when I think they lost focus on the goal.

We had another STRONG performance from our WAC player of the week, Brady Jardine. He is CRAZY flying everywhere and doing everything. Nate Bendall is doing better, he played 11 minutes in this game and I am grateful that he is getting more playing time.

This Aggie team is impressive and they are ready to win.

Final Score:61-53
Record:5-1
Up Next: at No.14Georgetown (7-0) on Saturday Dec. 4
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**This post can be found at http://www.usufans.com/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7226