.UtahMBB is good, writes Joshua_Newman, and it's time for fans to start showing up to games.
won its fifth straight game, a 91-70 rout of UTSA on Tuesday evening at the Huntsman Center. Here are the takeaways from the win.A big knock on the 7-foot fourth-year junior early in his career was his lack of physicality, his lack of aggression, and his lack of being able to absorb contact.would never come straight out and say these things, but there were absolutely times when the former Utes head coach would make it clear that Carlson needed to get tougher.
On Tuesday, that continued. His 27 points came on 10-for-14 shooting to go along with eight rebounds and four blocks in just 24 minutes. All of this came with Carlson taking a bit of a beating underneath, but he hung in there. He rebounded, he chased down a loose ball or two. He was physical on the defensive end, which has become commonplace the last two weeks, and he did not shy away from contact.
You’re looking at nine, maybe 10 on a good night like Tuesday was. Smith has said many times in the past that it gets hard if you try to play too many guys, and an effort has to be made to pair it down to a manageable number. That has yielded a lot of screaming into the social media void about the 1990s, and Rick Majerus, and Keith Van Horn, and filling the place, and fans hanging from the rafters during the old Late Night Snack in the WAC tip-offs at 10 p.m., and on, and on, and on.
Brass tacks: If Utah had ticket demand at the level where it needed to open the upper bowl, it would. It doesn’t even have the demand to fill the lower bowl, which brings us to the point.
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