From: ewstroup@cc.utah.edu (ERIC W. STROUP)
Subject: Utah tops San Jose State
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Date: 29 Dec 1992 10:03 MST  


Utah 60,  San Jose State 47

(Box at End)

This was a seriously ugly game.  It was more of a contest to see who could
get their shots to bounce the farthest off the rim.  It seamed that neither
team was in any kind of flow offensively.  The Utes were lucky to be on 
their toes defensively and to have a slight height advantage.  The shooting
percentages tell the story Utah ended up 45.5% for the game, while SJSU posted
a horrible 27% (13% 2nd half).  This crappy shooting lead to alot of rebounds
to the guards and alot of offensive rebounds for SJSU. 

The game started similar to the last one when the Utes lost the tip and a guy
named Greene put in the first shot (Green from UW-M hit first shot Saturday)
Utah's first possession ended up in a turnover, and SJSU held a 13-5 lead 
early on the strength of 3 3's (this coming from a team that was only 29% from
three point land coming into the game).  Utah went on a 11-2 run to make it 
16-15 and then the lead bounced around for a few minutes as both teams flailed.
Utah only led by four at the half to a SJSU team out of the Big West 
conference that had a 3-4 record coming into the game.  Utah missed alot of 
lay-ups and other easy shots and was losing alot of rebounds to the Spartans.

The second half started with a great defensive effort by Utah.  They held SJSU
to one point in ten minutes.  That pretty much sealed the game and the Utes
coasted the rest of the way.  


COMMENTS:

Larry "Call me Shaq" Cain - an incredible night for the wunder-pole.  He did 
his best impression of a center.  7 BLOCKS!!!!  8-10 shooting (most of them
were dunks). He could have done better on the boards, but when the shots are
so bad that they bounce out of bounds at the scorers table what can a center 
do?  Each game for larry has been better than the last.  He is playing with 
great confidence.  One nice feature to his game is that he has learned how
to jump.  You could actually stick a small phone book under his feet during 
on of his blocks.  The bad news is that the nickname "Sugar" may beginning to
take hold.  LArry played 30 min of inspired ball.

Josh Grant - Josh had an ok, ho hum , kind of game.  Good numbers on the 
rebounds (considering the shots taken), and only one turnover. Josh was making
some great cuts to the hoop and had good floor movement.  He played 32 mins. 

Phil Dixon - Phil looked and played very tired.  His shots weren't even 
close.  He wasn't even trying to get a good shot.  He took a couple NBA
3's.  He finished with 2 turnovers to 3 assists and only 3 points in 27 mins.

Byron "Lord Byron" Wilson - Majerus had a discussion with Byron and told him
that he didn't like him missing the easy lay-ups by taking wimpy shots.  Byron
interpreted that to mean that he should dunk everything.  It made the game
interesting.  Having a 6-2 guard trying to out muscle a 6-9 (265) SJSU center
was fun.  His only foul was offensive and he didn't have a single turnover.
He also had 8 rebounds in his 32 mins.  Byron thrives when he can play HARD.

Jimmy Soto - The Sotosaur had another quality game.  He does well and the 
team does well when he doesn't have to score and can simply control the game.
He played both point and 2 guard during the game.  Jimmy had 5:1 assists to 
turnovers and also had 3 rebounds (he's 5-9 with his hands up) in his 33 mins.

Darroll Wright - Darroll sat out last game because he missed a practice.  This
was very disappointing to Darroll and also to some of the UW-Milwaukee players
because Darroll is from Milwaukee and played with many of those guys.  He came
back last night and faced Jason Allen of SJSU, one of his AAU teamates in
Milwaukee.  Darroll didn't play many mins, but you could see the effect of a
Majerus lecture - tough D and heads up ball.  

Tony "They spotted me two fouls" Block - This guy is a foul magnet.  He gets
the same number of fouls as the mins he plays.  What a disappointment.


Scoot		4-13	4-8	6	1	3	13
Greene		2-4	0-0	2	0	2	5
Brotherton	0-4	0-0	4	0	5	0
Mitchel		2-7	2-2	3	6	3	8
Shepherd	2-10	0-0	8	3	1	4
Gardiner	2-7	1-2	2	0	1	5
Logan		3-7	0-2	3	0	1	6
Allen		2-7	1-1	1	0	0	6
Williams	0-4	0-0	3	1	0	0
		17-63	8-15	36	11	16	47

UTAH
Grant		6-10	2-2	11	3	4	14
Dixon		1-5	0-0	3	3	2	3
Cain		3-6	8-10	5	0	3	14
Soto		3-6	2-2	3	5	1	8
Wilson		3-9	3-4	8	1	1	10
Wright		1-3	2-2	3	2	1	5
Rydalch		2-4	0-0	2	2	1	4
Block		1-1	0-0	3	0	3	2
		20-44	17-20	38	16	16	60

Halftime- Utah 34
	  SJSU 31
Shooting- FG: UTAH 45.5%
	      SJSU 27.0%
	- FT: UTAH 85.0%
	      SJSU 53.3%
Three-pointers- UTAH 3-14 (Grant 0-3)
		SJSU 5-14 (Mitchell 2-3)
Steals  - UTAH 3
	  SJSU 3
Blocks  - UTAH 10 (Cain 7)
	  SJSU 1
Turnovers - UTAH 10 (Dixon 2)
	    SJSU 7 


-Eric
ewstroup@cc.utah.edu
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