Monday Morning Review Jan 15

This week was about as bad as it gets in Seattle Sports. The Huskies lost two more to start 1-5 in Pac 10 play, and the Seahawks season is over.
Huskies
Two away losses to Stanford and Cal, probably the 7th and 8th best teams in the Pac-10 right now, better than only ASU and OSU.
Against Stanford, Brockman was amazing, putting up a 23 10 line. Problem is, no one else was. Hawes and Pondexter were horrible, and Appleby only took 6 shots. We outrebounded them 36 to 23, but still managed to lose because we couldn't draw fouls or play good enough defense. They ended up shooting 55% compared to our 48% and our turnovers were about the same as theirs.
Against Cal, Hawes, the number 6 recruit in the nation, was outplayed by Ryan Wright. In this game, only Dentmon performed real well. Cal only shot 39%, but managed to outrebound us 43 to 34. We also had zero blocked shots, which means that our defense forced bad shots, but never went for the ball much and didn't try for the rebound as much. I'm glad we finally drew more freethrows, but we shot horrendously thanks to Brockman's 1 for 6, and we still had five fewer than Cal(probably from fouling in the end though).
Seahawks
An exciting game, and I'm glad Alexander finally did well. I thought we were going to win because we had Josh Brown on our team, but we failed to make anything on three consecutive drives. Whenever we'd get into near field goal range, we'd go backwards and Hasselbeck would get sacked. Alexander was on fire after the first quarter, churning out 10 yard runs seemingly on every other run. Hasselbeck's throwing is still off, and without D-Jack being effective, Hackett playing, Tubbs not there to plug up the middle, and our corners to provid any kind of pass defense, I'm pretty proud of this team.
Sonics
You know it's not a great week when the Sonics going 1-2 is the highlight of the weak. That's the only win for Seattle this week. First game we lost to the Suns away, but that loss was actually positive because the Suns are awesome, Collison posted a 29 pts 21 reb line, and Petro posted a 10 pts 10 reb 2 block line. I'm glade Collison did well because he's one of my favorite players. He's a hustle machine and he gets the most out of his talent. Collison also did a great job on Amare holding him to 12 and 7. I always thought Collison was a tough gritty defender, he just didn't get enough credit because he doesn't get the stats like blocks and steals. Ridnour is still exiled to the bench with minutes in the teens after posting fantastic numbers before. Sure he slumped in the last 2 weeks, but whatever, he's a great point guard. Making Ray Allen handle the ball more isn't good, it'll just tire him out for shooting.
We then lose a close game to Miami, despite almost everyone doing well. Collison again has a good game by putting up 21 9. Wilcox put up 28 13. Ray Allen put up 29, 6, and 7. Ridnour finally got some minutes and played pretty well. Unfortunately Dwyane Wade had 13 assists, 29 points, and 17 free throws, 3 fewer than the entire Sonics team. NBA finals all over again.
Finally the great overtime win over Utah. 29 13 for Collison for his 3rd consecutive 20 9 game. Earl Watson gets 16 assists after getting 11 the game before. And of course, Ray Allen goes off for 54 points, 8 threes, 10 boards, and 5 assists. Lots of free throws shot, as there were almost 80 free throws combined. Utah is a quality team, so this is definetley a quality win. So despite going 1-2, the Sonics looked pretty damn good. Collison has finally emerged, and Rashard Lewis should be back soon.