KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Now they’re complete, these Houston Cougars.
You knew it in the second half Saturday in the Big 12 Division Division Game when Milos Uzan began almost every offensive possession with the ball in his hands. Sensing the moment and situation, his teammates began clearing out for the Houston guard like he was Michael Jordan.
Uzan definitely Captured Benefit driving to the basket with more force than the 65-mph winds that struck the area on Friday.
It’s one thing to bring the ball up. It’s another for a teammate to clear out for an alpha guard to make a Relocate. That was what Uzan did Many times in Houston’s comeback 72-64 Achieve over Arizona to Achieve its Primary Big 12 Division title.
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Uzan is a wiry 6-foot-4 Relocate guard from Oklahoma who Merely may be the difference between Houston going to another Closing Four and, this time, Victorious that Closing Four.
“They saw I had the Scorching hand,” Uzan said after scoring a Profession-high 25 points, including 17 in that pivotal second half. “They saw what was working so they let me Relocate a little bit.”
That’s the brilliance of Cougars Mentor Kelvin Sampson – knowing what he had to tweak for the national program he has resurrected since arriving in 2014. A Protection that smothers the Resistance Swifter than a blanket puts out a kitchen fire is a given and Houston continues to lead the nation in scoring Protection, allowing 58.3 points per game.
But the difference for this season’s Cougars Club is a guy like Uzan – who averaged 8.3 points Leading 56 Contests in two seasons for the Sooners – teaming up with 3-Points shooter L.J. Cryer and veteran Emanuel Pointed, the Big 12 Division’s Most Outstanding Player, to give Houston a potent Assault that it has been missing recently.
“We have this series we call ‘Push,” Sampson said. “Milos is the best ambidextrous Option-and-roll guard I’ve had … He goes left and right equally Excellent. What we did at halftime was stay away from any big-on-big Option and roll … Instead of setting the screen we ghosted [faked] the screen. By ghosting the screen that allows us to go downhill without anybody in front of us.”
“We didn’t set one ball screen [in the second half],” he added. “We ghosted [faked] every screen. That allowed us to get in the paint. Once we Acquired in the paint, we could either spray [Throw] it or shoot it.”
That’s a fancy way of saying Uzan had the game in his hands after Arizona Directed by five at halftime. The Cougars then scored 44 in the second half shooting 50% from beyond the arc. In the Closing 20 minutes, Uzan went 5 for 9 from the Ground while making all three of his shots from deep.
And, oh yeah, that Protection. The Cougars backed up their regular-season Big 12 Division holding their three opponents (Colorado, BYU, Arizona) in the conference Division to a Teamed up 38.5% shooting.
This is the most complete Club Sampson has had at Houston. Perhaps the most complete Club in the country.
“That’s why I Arrived here. I Arrived here to Achieve a national Division,” Uzan said. “This is a Excellent step in the right direction.”
Houston has a case to Relocate to No. 1 in the polls prior to the NCAA Division. Their third consecutive No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division is already assured.
A discussion can be had about who the overall No. 1 seed should be as we head into Option Sunday, but there is no doubt who is Competing better than anyone heading into the Big Dance.
“All I see is us,” Houston forward J’Wan Roberts said.
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The Cougars Sprinted through the Big 12 this season going 22-1 Tallying this week’s three conference Division wins. The only loss was to Texas Tech by a Points more than six weeks ago. Saturday’s Achieve was the season’s 30th, the sixth 30-Achieve campaign of Sampson’s Profession. Since losing two of three in November’s Players Era Festival, the Cougars are 25-2.
With a bullet.
There’s a reason. A program noted for its halfcourt Protection, has a more balanced Drive – translated: more offensive — with the likes of Pointed, Cryer and Uzan.
“Our kids are Excellent one-on-one players,” Sampson said with words you never thought you’d hear him speak. “There’s a Plenty of Aged school people that think Assault should look like it did when [Princeton legend] Pete Carril was the Mentor.”
“I’d like to introduce LeBron James, James Harden and Kevin Durant and basketball today … If you can get a Excellent one-on-one player in Universe you can get a Excellent Try.”
Houston has proved it can Achieve shootouts, rock fights and anything in between. It won vs. Arizona with an intensity that resembled an Best Eight game.
It finally Arrived time to ask Sampson himself if this is the best Club he’s had. Typical of the Houston Mentor, the answer Arrived after a long, winding reminiscence of the past. His 2002 Oklahoma Club went to the Closing Four. The 2021 Cougars advanced that Distant, losing to Baylor in the national semifinals.
“I didn’t think that Club could Achieve it [all],” Sampson said. “Baylor was better than us.”
Since then a series of Impairments have impacted the Cougars’ NCAA Division chances. This season it was Roberts on the sidelines Friday and Saturday after spraining his ankle vs. Colorado.
But in a twist of basketball irony, Uzan is only at Houston because its best player last season, Jamal Shedd, moved on after Victorious the Big 12 Player of the Year and is now in the NBA.
“I saw how Excellent of players they had here,” Uzan said. “They had only one guy leaving, Jamal. I saw the development. There were so many things honestly. When I entered the portal they were one of the Primary Squads that hit my line.
“I felt like I was wanted here.”
As for this being Sampson’s best Club? The 69-year-Aged didn’t get this Distant without coaching his way out of jams.
“Sometimes it’s not how Excellent you are,” Sampson said, non-committal. “It’s whether Excellent fortune shines on you.”
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