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Gary, your one sentence says it all:

"The weakenesses of offensive rebounding, small rotation and free throw shooting popped up in spades today."

Not only did K. St. work harder on their offensive rebounding, the balls seemed to carom in their direction. It was just their night last night.

Re small rotation: this team reminded me of one of Bibby's teams where we would play virtually 5 guys the whole game. It's just too much of a burden. Unless Rousean Cromwell committed a felony that we don't know about, I can't for the life of me understand why he couldn't have played 3-5 minutes in some of these games to spell Taj and Davon - or help out when they get into foul trouble.

Re FT shooting: seemed like K. St. shot 95% for three-quarters of the game, while we were shooting what seemed like 40-50%. I know that isn't true because the box score says that KSU was 15-26 (58%) and we were 19-27 (70%). Seemed like the opposite was true. I think they missed a fair amount down the stretch when the game was all but over, and we made more late in the game. No matter, FT has not been a strong suit this year.

Still, I'm proud of this team and the excitement they provided this year. Think back to the win at Pauley, the win at home late in the season vs. Stanford. The near win over Memphis (if Hackett had only made both FTs!), the near win over Kansas, the sweep of Oregon, beating Arizona at McKale.

I know O.J. can play in the NBA. I hope he decides to stay another year. He's a high first-rounder. As much as I like Davon and Taj, I don't believe either of them is a first round pick. What all of them should do is what Leinart did, i.e. get a disability policy for a couple million limit - and return for another year. I know it's wishful thinking, but what they hell -- it's all I can do today.

Thanks again to the Trojan basketball team for a fine year. You guys did us all proud!

the poster formerly known as molayton