Park Ridge crossed the bridge into Richmond after their win last night in downtown Vancouver. No Roy Hibbert for the Panthers in this one as he stayed out a bit too late at the Roxy and missed a team meeting this morning. The Rogues jumped out to a very early lead but then slipped into a shooting nightmare for the rest of the first half. The home team managed only 33 points on 29% shooting and were down by 15 at half time. As my high school basketball coach always used to say though, "basketball is a game of runs"... The Rogues went on an 18-4 run at the start of the 4th to close the gap and were down 6 points with 2 minutes to go when they got 2 free throws from Holiday and then back to back fast break buckets from George Hill and Horford to knot the game at 84.
With 13 seconds to play, defensive specialist Hill (who had 4 blocks) foolishly sent Eric Gordon to the line where he calmly hit his 25th and 26th points of the game. Richmond called a timeout with 12 seconds left, ran a play for Horford but the ball never got to him (or anyone else with the cajones to shoot for that matter) and the Rogues inexplicably didn't get a shot off to extend this one into OT or possibly even win it with a 3. Aargh!
This road trip to Beautiful British Columbia might be remembered later in the season by the Panthers faithful as the weekend that turned their season around.
With 13 seconds to play, defensive specialist Hill (who had 4 blocks) foolishly sent Eric Gordon to the line where he calmly hit his 25th and 26th points of the game. Richmond called a timeout with 12 seconds left, ran a play for Horford but the ball never got to him (or anyone else with the cajones to shoot for that matter) and the Rogues inexplicably didn't get a shot off to extend this one into OT or possibly even win it with a 3. Aargh!
This road trip to Beautiful British Columbia might be remembered later in the season by the Panthers faithful as the weekend that turned their season around.
