Cards Crush the Bulls 80-54; Rolf’s Recapsulation

It’s a forty minute game and Stan Heath’s South Florida Bulls found that out first hand tonight. Louisville only led by a single point at halftime 33-32, but exploded in the second half for a 22-3 run to end any thoughts of a South Florida upset. Edgar Sosa led the Cardinals with 16 points while Samardo Samuels added 14 points and Earl Clark chipped in for 12 points.

The Cardinals started off quite slow as they took several challenged shots, which is a no no for Slick Rick. As he has pointed out many times, a team makes an average of 20% of all challenged shots attempted and Louisville makes 10% of all challenged shots. The prime example tonight was T-Will. He took eight shots before the second television timeout and only made two of them. However, like the rest of the squad, T-Will woke up in the second half and ended with 5 points, 10 rebounds, and 6 assists. He also provided yet another highlight reel play on a jumping, between his legs assist to Earl Clark for a dunk and one.

As I stated earlier, the Cardinals exploded from the outset of the second half and that run was sparked by the defense of Preston Knowles and Andre McGee. They hounded the South Florida point guards, or anyone else foolish enough to try to bring the ball up the floor. Those two have a special kind of energy that simply cannot be replicated defensively by any other pair of guards I have seen this season, anywhere.

We here at the Pinkie would also like to give a big time “Congratulations!” to Will Scott for being selected as one of only fifteen students on the entire planet to be accepted to prestigious Oxford University to study in their Masters program for Chinese Studies, which includes six months of studying in China. Great job Will and please do not vomit all over the Great Wall, they get piiiiised when you do that.

Everyone played tonight for the Cardinals, including the Human Victory Cigar himself Lee Steiden. As a matter of fact, everyone who played scored for the Cardinal Birds, except for the aforementioned Human Victory Cigar Lee Steiden. However, the now thrice mentioned Human Victory Cigar Lee Steiden did attempt a three pointer (I will not mention he airballed it) and that’s essentially as good as scoring. Now, time for the Good, the Bad, and the Ari Wolfe:

The Good – Bench production. The game tonight essentially ended once Andre and PK-2 started the second half with their relentless defensive pressure. However, there were also other contributions from the bench tonight. Jared Swopshire played ten very productive minutes with 5 points, 3 rebounds, all while playing very active defense. George Goode, who we refer to around the Pinkie offices as George Great, returned to action pitching in a point, 3 rebounds, and altering every shot headed his direction. By game’s end, the Louisville bench provided 30 points, 12 rebounds, and 8 assists.

The Bad – South Florida as a team. They aren’t good folks.

The Ari Wolfe – This one was tough. Usually I can pick on an official, a punk from the other squad, or some awful announcer (Ari, I’m talking to you my friend), but tonight there was really nothing to qualify as Ari Wolfe bad. Therefore, from henceforth, whenever there’s a situation in which no one qualifies as Ari Wolfe quality, I will simply fall back on the Cordless Powertool himself of which this award is named. So tonight’s Ari Wolfe Award Winner is the man himself, Ari Wolfe.