The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: Temple Men’s BBall vs. St. Joe
The Good: A great team game played by the Owls, with 16 assist on 21 made field
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goals. The Owls consistanly looked for each other and made a lot of easy shots as a result. This continued on the defensive end as well, highlighted by senior Sergio Olmos, who held St. Joe’s leading scorer Ahmad Nivins to a 6 for 16 shooting night, 27 points lower than his season shooting average. Sergio also showed great spurts on the offensive end. Dionte Christmas also seemed to end his shooting funk, hitting several large shots when St. Joe’s pulled to withing two late in the game.
The Bad: Really, is there anything bad when Temple beats St. Joe?
The Ugly: The game was real chippy late, and Sergio Olmos took exception late in the game shoving Tasheed Carr after after an extra hard foul that should have been called flagrant. If a guys winds up, it’s usually intentional. Another ugly spot in the second half when the referees allowed a St. Joe’s basket on a shot the was clearly taken after the shot clock had expired. Even if it hadn’t, it was close enough that replay should have been used, a request made by the Temple bench that was ignored by the officials. (Overall, it was a well officiated game, at least compared to the typical horrible officiated in many TU-SJU games.)
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