I watch a lot of sporting events and I mean a lot. Everything from big time events like the Superbowl, NBA playoffs, and the BCS title game down to D-III football playoffs, Women's bowling, and everything in between. Sports consume my life it is almost like an addiction of sorts and no matter how much I watch it never feeds that addiction enough I always want more. So when sports are not on TV I play sports video games, read sport magazines, and post on sports message boards. I think in terms of pure hours of researching, watching, and studying sports I have to be right up there with any other fanatic. The only thing I do not have on my side is time as I am still in my 20s (barely ).
What I saw last night by Jimmer Fredette (live and in person I might add) ranks as one of the single greatest sporting performances I have ever witnessed. Now I admit it may rank higher for me than others since it was my team that he is playing for but I was left without words watching him. The forty seven points were nice but that was something we had seen before by even Jimmer himself. What made it so special to me was the way he got to 47. Stepback threes from 25 feet! Cross over dribbles to the middle of the lane where he hangs and hits a shot over the 7'3 Foster, a wide array of scoop shots and layups that he makes look so easy.
Then he starts playing horse with the Utes dropping in a 3 from 22 feet, then 25, then he pulls up from about 28 at the top of the key, and right before the half the dagger from half court 40+ feet away. His reaction after making it was priceless he knew as soon as he let it go it was good and he would have been pissed had he missed it. Jim Boylen said they track the shots and Jimmer had one uncontested shot all night. One shot!!!!!!
He is the ultimate competitor when BYU is struggling he takes over the game, when they need someone to make a shot he does it every single time without fail. On the rare occasions his shot is not falling he is aggressive and gets to the rim to draw a foul and get to the line. He is also a very good distributor of the basketball. Last night Dave Rose said that if the rest of the team had an average shooting night in the first half Jimmer finishes with 10 or 12 assists.
After Rose put him back in the game and Jimmer puts on one last move where he crosses up Clyburn spins to the middle of the floor drives by Foster and finishes with a scooping left handed reverse layup it was the perfect exclamation point to a spectacular night.
Like DDD says I am definitely going to enjoy the ride as we may never see something like this again. As much as I love all the national pub I still like the fact that BYU fans can lay claim that he is our Jimmer, we discovered him we knew from the day he first stepped on campus that he would be a special player for BYU someday. Maybe not this good but he had the tools from day 1. I love Coach Rose but sitting him as a freshman behind Ben Murdock is the second worst personnell move in the history of BYU sports (Rich sitting behind Fowler is the run away favorite). That has all been forgiven now and I am glad Coach Rose is letting Jimmer do his thing and I feel privileged as a BYU fan to be along for the ride.
The only hope for the remaining teams on BYUs schedule to stop Jimmer is if one of them can dig up a scholarship for MikeWaters and convince him to joing them for the remainder of the season because he swears that he can check Jimmer.
What I saw last night by Jimmer Fredette (live and in person I might add) ranks as one of the single greatest sporting performances I have ever witnessed. Now I admit it may rank higher for me than others since it was my team that he is playing for but I was left without words watching him. The forty seven points were nice but that was something we had seen before by even Jimmer himself. What made it so special to me was the way he got to 47. Stepback threes from 25 feet! Cross over dribbles to the middle of the lane where he hangs and hits a shot over the 7'3 Foster, a wide array of scoop shots and layups that he makes look so easy.
Then he starts playing horse with the Utes dropping in a 3 from 22 feet, then 25, then he pulls up from about 28 at the top of the key, and right before the half the dagger from half court 40+ feet away. His reaction after making it was priceless he knew as soon as he let it go it was good and he would have been pissed had he missed it. Jim Boylen said they track the shots and Jimmer had one uncontested shot all night. One shot!!!!!!
He is the ultimate competitor when BYU is struggling he takes over the game, when they need someone to make a shot he does it every single time without fail. On the rare occasions his shot is not falling he is aggressive and gets to the rim to draw a foul and get to the line. He is also a very good distributor of the basketball. Last night Dave Rose said that if the rest of the team had an average shooting night in the first half Jimmer finishes with 10 or 12 assists.
After Rose put him back in the game and Jimmer puts on one last move where he crosses up Clyburn spins to the middle of the floor drives by Foster and finishes with a scooping left handed reverse layup it was the perfect exclamation point to a spectacular night.
Like DDD says I am definitely going to enjoy the ride as we may never see something like this again. As much as I love all the national pub I still like the fact that BYU fans can lay claim that he is our Jimmer, we discovered him we knew from the day he first stepped on campus that he would be a special player for BYU someday. Maybe not this good but he had the tools from day 1. I love Coach Rose but sitting him as a freshman behind Ben Murdock is the second worst personnell move in the history of BYU sports (Rich sitting behind Fowler is the run away favorite). That has all been forgiven now and I am glad Coach Rose is letting Jimmer do his thing and I feel privileged as a BYU fan to be along for the ride.
The only hope for the remaining teams on BYUs schedule to stop Jimmer is if one of them can dig up a scholarship for MikeWaters and convince him to joing them for the remainder of the season because he swears that he can check Jimmer.
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