Tad Boyle is a man frustrated and discouraged at this stage of the season. The Colorado is not too kindly reintroduced in its return to the Big 12 conference, before the final of the regular season with a 2-17 file.
Buffs problems have continued Wednesday evening at United Supermarket Arena. The initial leader and the top scorer Julian Hammond III, the Boyle team was already in a difficult battle against the Texas Tech basketball team n ° 9, and JT Toppin spent the second half of the 91-75 Tech victory, which makes life miserable for the buffaloes.
After scoring nine points in the first half, Toppin became the center of the Texas Tech offensive. The 6-foot 9 inch striker scored six of the first eight tech points to open the second half, then scored the following 13 points of the Red Raiders.
With 7:42 to play on the game clock, Texas Tech collected 24 points in the second half, including 19 belonging to Toppin, which finished with a double-double of 30 points and 14 rebounds.
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Boyle granted Toppin credit for its ability to work against the longest and most robust interior players in Colorado. Bangot Dak (6 feet 11 inches) and Elijah Malone (6-10, 268 pounds) tried to give Toppin different looks. None of the two efforts has made much role.
“JT Toppin plays a very, very high level,” said Boyle after the match. “We didn’t have much answer for him tonight. He had his way with us. And he was not only a guy. It was on several defenders that we had.”
The Colorado plays a rough and physical brand of basketball, as evidenced by several illegal screens in attack and to go to the launcher line 21 times. While Boyle admitted that Toppin is a match problem for several reasons, he also suggested that something else could have played on Wednesday.
“His aggressiveness,” said Boyle. “He turns his body in a way and he pulls mistakes, and he finished. It seemed that in the second half, he finished or, you know, they call the fault, they call the fault.
Toppin recorded its eighth double-double of at least 20 points and 10 rebounds on Wednesday, reaching 30 points for the third time this season, all in the last seven games.
Give credit to Boyle for trying to soften the accusation of flopping, although it barely harms the place where the Colorado coach took his answer.
Toppin was 10 out of 17 from the ground, struck his two attempts by 3 points and has done this kind of thing to everyone since the month. But he pulled six faults in a match that Colorado tried to transform into a rugby match which allowed him another line of lucky statistics.
Of course, January.
This is the price of setting up large figures against teams like Colorado, which has played better lately, but still has a global file of 11-19 after having several NBA recovery choices last season. Boyle has the right to be in his feelings about things at this stage of a lost season. Trying to justify Toppin night with “flops” is stretching it.
Boyle is also intelligent enough to know that when players find it difficult to stop their defensive assignment, they often increase physicity, in turn by firing faults. This is essentially what happened to Colorado. Toppin continued to come to whom the buffs launched him, so they joined the duck.
It doesn’t seem too eccentric, right?
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A particular piece shows the difference between Boyle’s line of thought and reality. During a wild sequence at the end of the second half, Toppin went up for a disputed shot, failed and placed on the ground for a spell after being overthrown. Rather than sitting the rest of the game, Toppin went up, tore off the balloon from Colorado and the Red Raiders chased it to keep possession alive.
These are the kinds of Texas Tech game expects everyone to do, even Toppin, who leads the team in points, rebounds, percentage of goals on the ground and blocks. This is why he is a candidate to be the player of the year Big 12 and a choice of potential lottery in the draft of the NBA this year.
In all, honestly, the Red Raiders could collectively have taken many more than 16 free throws in the game, so the nine Toppin attempts at the band are a blip on the radar.
Boyle may not be happy, wanting to suggest that it is something other than Toppin being the best player on the ground, but reality is a pill that is difficult to swallow when you have won two conference games all season, so he gets a pass this time.
This article originally appeared on Avalanche-Journal Lubbock: JT Toppin ‘has made its way with’ Colorado in Texas Tech Basketball Win
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