Garret is a hazard!!!! nfm

HCBS knows best,

RC

I must have watched a different game or a different Garrett. The one I watched had 11 points, 3 boards, 2 blocks and no turnovers. I think that's a pretty good night for a "hazard."

In the first half, Marquette knowingly left him open and he jacked up some threes that were effectively turnovers. But in the second half he was in to play lock-down defense and he is better at that than almost anyone on the team.

LJW has the answer:

www2.ljworld.com/sports/2018/nov/22/note...s-marcus-garrett-se/
Coach brought him in for defense.
Brooklyn, N.Y. — Kansas sophomore Marcus Garrett was on the floor to start the second half of KU’s come-from-behind, 77-68 victory over Marquette at Barclays Center Wednesday night.

And Kansas coach Bill Self said afterward that there was a very simple reason for Garrett temporarily taking the spot belonging to freshman guard Quentin Grimes.

“Well, we were just trying to play the guys that played the best,” Self said of his thought process after KU trailed 47-38 at halftime. “It wasn’t punishment for Q. Q had a rough, rough, rough half. I thought that was our best chance to come back, to play our best defensive team and no matter how you slice it up, Marcus is part of our best defensive team.”

Garrett, who has logged seven starts in his first 43 games as a Jayhawk said he found out just before leaving the locker room at halftime that he’d open the second half on the floor.

None of Garrett’s previous starts have meant all that much to him. He’s not the type of player who worries about such things. And he wasn’t worrying about it on Wednesday night. All he knew was that somebody had to help second-ranked Kansas (4-0) get things turned around and he was willing to give it his best effort.

“He let us know we were trying something new just to get a spark,” Garrett recalled of Self’s halftime instructions. “I just knew we had to lock in defensively because they were making everything that first half.”

Garrett, whose floater in the lane at the first-half buzzer accounted for the first of a 24-0 KU run that spanned the end of the first half and the first 9:15 of the second, finished with 11 points, three rebounds, two blocks and a steal on 4-of-13 shooting in 28 minutes.

Asked if he had ever witnessed anything like KU’s tidal-wave run on Wednesday night, Garrett said, “No. I’ve never had one in my life. That was impressive when coach told us that. It really didn’t feel like that. We were just playing one possession at a time and I didn’t realize they didn’t score until the 10-minute ............

The words of inspiration from HCBS must have been exemplary even by HOF standards.

Or maybe he said, " Just #@&*! guard somebody and don't take dumb shots"

Nice to see my "angry post" turn out to be wrong in the second half. I'll eat crow for Thanksgiving if it gets us a "W"!!!!


RC