Notice yourself smiling? That is because it's basketball season has started and Turgeon didn't think we were awful.

72-59 isn't some sort of crushing win--- the margin was within a point of last year's opener ---but in the post-game Turgeon said, "We will have a good offense." Considering his comments last year, we know Turge is brutally brutally honest, and when he said we are going to be good at something I believe it.

Digging though the box score...

I don't have the play-by-play, but I bet Turge burned through all of this timeouts in the first half trying to figure out why we couldn't shoot or gaurd. In the first half we shot 12-31 (38.7%) while Kingsville shot 13-25 (52.0%). Something happened around half time and we flipped the stats: good guys went 16-28 (57.1%) and bad guys went 10-27 (37.0%).

Our defense must have improved in the 2nd half. Besides the obvious drop in field goal percentage, we started forcing Kingsville to make harder shots. In the first half only 15% of their shots were 3-balls; in the second half 50% were behind the arc. Again, I don't have the play-by-play, but I don't think they just started chunking 3's to catch up; they only shot 5, and were never down by a ton.

Bryan Davis played like Bryan Davis; 1-8 shooting and 8 boards in 29 minutes. He has to contribute more on O.

Somehow both BJ Holmes and Nathan Walkup had 4 fouls. I am going to speculate that is because of the tight ball-guarding.

Before the season Turge said Dash "is going to help us" and Loubeau's "head is spinning." Seems he had his names mixed up. Dash was 0-2 with a turn over, and Loubeau was 4-6 with 3 boards.

JC, DRow, and Sloan played great. 14 points, 14 points, and 5 assists respectively.

I am glad basketball is back, so were the nearly 9K fans and 3K students.

--UPDATE--

Here is a short highlight video.