Monday Morning Week in Review

Happy New Years, lets check out what's happened in this last week.
Huskies:
The Huskies lost twice. Both games were hard, at USC and at UCLA. USC should be ranked, after beating two ranked teams in a row then losing a close one to Washington State, who should be ranked too, as they have proven that they are capable of staying with UCLA in a game.
I didn't get to watch the USC-Washington Game because FSN was showing UCLA-Washington State. I did see overtime and double overtime. First off, there were some bad calls by the refs. Pondexter's steal in double overtime was ridiculous because he clearly stole the ball, then clearly go fouled, yet they called a foul on him. Hawes' three pointer was amazing, and I had a feeling he'd take it and make it. A big reason why we lost is because our entire starting lineup except for Hawes fouled out. Hans "frickin" Gasser played 24 minutes! I don't know why Romar played him and not Artem Wallace. Either Wallace was injured, or Romar has no faith in Wallace at all. I however, have no faith in Gasser, so... yeah. How many people fouled out for USC? Just one, and it was a backup forward, Rousean Cromwell. 30 fouls to 18, homefield advantage? I think so. Wilkinson was able to get crucial rebounds in overtime and double overtime because of Brockman not being there. All in all, USC showed they can play, Taj Gibson, Gabriel Pruitt, and Nick Young all played outstanding ball. Pondexter continued his slump, and the Huskies need to find three people to score besides Hawes and Appleby to win.
For the UCLA game, I actually missed it because I assumed it was at night because of football. I did get to watch the Seahawks game if that's any consolation, but I'm still pretty pissed at myself. Turns out, I only missed a 20 point beating anyways. We shot 51% and lost. Why is this? Because UCLA shot 60% while taking 12 more shots then us. They were 12 for 25 from 3 point land, with 5 for Afflalo, 3 for Collison, and 3 for Roll, the three top scorers, and the three guys who killed us. No one on UCLA who shot more than 4 times shot less than 50%, which is pretty embarassing. UCLA probably got lucky, but we still need to improve our perimeter D. We outrebounded UCLA 31 to 24, but we had more turnovers than them with 21 to their 13. Apparently they had great passing becauseCollison had 12 assists and Afflalo had 8!
Overall: I think we need Appleby to become our main focus after Hawes. We should treat him like a McNamara or Redick. It's clear that Pondexter, Oliver, and Dentmon can't score on a consistent basis. If our offense feeds a bit more off of Appleby, then other guys can have an easier time to get open. Next up, Arizona and their 11 game winning streak and Arizona State
Seahawks: (Written by Andover Jon)
Playoffs have started and the Seahawks have "backed in" to them or so everybody says. Well, at least in Week 17, the Seahawks looked pretty good. They played a bad team on the and won convincingly. The only problem was we lost our number 2 and number 4 CBs after already having Marcus Trufant, our number one, out (he'll be out for week 1 of the playoffs too i think). So, right now our already weak secondary (at least to big plays) is even weaker. Besides the final score though, the Seahawks didn't look too great. Alexander managed a pedestrian 3 yds/carry, Hasselbeck finished up with good stats but he seems to be off target this year (I often see his passes skid into the ground for some reason). Our defense had some great stops including a goal line one in the fourth quarter. We should have won last week (worst holding call i have ever seen, Burleson was robbed of a TD return) so at least we are looking up as the playoffs are about to start.
Sonics:
Sonics went 2-2 this week, with two wins at home to the Hornets and Celtics, and two away losses to Denver and Minnesota.
We beat New Orleans, but because Chris Paul injured his ankle, the victory isn't really a big deal because all they have is Chandler and Desmond Mason. Funny how stars like Paul and Dirk get injured against us. Wilcox did well, putting up 22-10 and Ridnour continued to shine with a statline of 27-9-3. Ray Allen curiously went 3-6 from 3pt range, but only 4-8 from the free throw line. He also had 2 blocks. I'm not sure I like starting Earl Watson because then we're like a college team. I'm not really a big fan of Watson anyways, and I think we should trade him because the Sonics aren't making the playoffs.
We lost to Denver because they have AI, and we didn't have Rashard or Ray Ray. Ray Allen was at his son's birth, so our starting lineup was Ridnour, Watson, Wilkins, Wilcox, and Glyniadakis. Sounds like some unknown college's roster except for Ridnour and Wilcox. Iverson smoked us for 44 points and 10 assists, and that was the game.
We then lost a back to back game at Minnesota. Ray Allen was 4 for 16, and 0 for 7 from 3 point land. Everyone on the starting lineup was awful, and Ray Allen and Johan Petro were the only two people to get double digit points. No one's stats were too good on the Timberwolves because they were winning by 25 points going into the 4th, although KG did have 13 boards, 5 assists, and 5 blocks.
We beat the Celtics without Pierce, to continue the trend of the teams we played.
Dallas without Dirk, Toronto without Bosh, NOK without Paul, Denver without Carmelo, nothing wrong with Minnesota, then the Celtics without Pierce. We actually continue this trend by playing Dallas without Dirk, Houston without Yao, then NY without a couple of guys for the brawl. I guess Nate Robinson won't be making an appearance in his hometown, which sucks. The Celtics had good performances by Al Jefferson and Gerald Green, but other than that, nothing too impressive. For the Sonics, Wilcox, Wilkens, and Ridnour did well, while Ray Allen struggled AGAIN with his shooting. Petro is actually playing well, and I don't know why we don't start him, because we started him a few times last year, and I'd imagine that he'd only be infinetley better by now.
Overall 2 and 2 isn't bad, but when you think of the injured superstars, we could have done better. I don't think anyone really cares about the Sonics right now anyways because they suck and they might move.