Thank you Wayne Blackshear

[Louisvillian]

Gutty performance. Wayne saved us today and played like he doesn't want to take that uniform off.

 

[real2it]

Played a great game..few mistakes late but could not have won this game without him!

 

[DirtyBird]

He did. He put the team on his back and kept us alive.

 

[PhiTauCard]

Incredibly ballsy move taking it right at/through the 7'6" player to tie the game towards the end. Also, he got fouled on the play.

 

[shadow force]

Big showing from Wayne. Without him UofL is out. He knows this is is last NCAAT and I'm sure he wants to go out big. You could see it in his game today. 19 points and 7 boards.

 

[OldhamCard335]

Wayne did not want it to end this way. You could clearly see that toward the end of the game he was very frustrated. Threw his hands up at one point as if to say, "What are we doing!". He had his miscues but showed me a lot when he took it right at the big guy! We'd be going home without him.

 

[earsky]

Originally posted by OldhamCard335:
Wayne did not want it to end this way. You could clearly see that toward the end of the game he was very frustrated. Threw his hands up at one point as if to say, "What are we doing!". He had his miscues but showed me a lot when he took it right at the big guy! We'd be going home without him.

I'll take those miscues if they come from aggression going to the rack instead of those 3's which he's not hitting a high percentage of.Love the aggression.

 

[VILLN]

All through Wayne's career, if he made mistakes or missed a couple of shots early in a game he seemed to disappear from play. Today he played through the mistakes and kept taking it to them. If he can keep playing with this determination, Q keep playing the way he did today, and get Terry's shot back the way it was earlier in the year, we could make a run deeper than we expected.

 

[Ipartiedwithhopgood]

It's nice to see WB taking initiative as the clock ticks on his career.

He is a confident guy right now. I think we need to make it a primary focus to get him the ball Sunday night.

He made a number of clutch plays today.

 

[shadow force]

One of the things that stood out to me about Wayne this game- besides his great play- was the EMOTION that he showed out there. Like when he hit that and 1 and then at the end of the game he was shouting joyously. That has been missing all too often from him in his career here.

 

[jalovell23]

He played the ENTIRE game and stepped up like a senior is suppose to do.CONGRATS WAYNE..............keep it up : )

 

[Cue Card]

Originally posted by VILLN:
All through Wayne's career, if he made mistakes or missed a couple of shots early in a game he seemed to disappear from play. Today he played through the mistakes and kept taking it to them. If he can keep playing with this determination, Q keep playing the way he did today, and get Terry's shot back the way it was earlier in the year, we could make a run deeper than we expected.

That's a whole lot of "ifs" but I agree 100%. Wayne has to continue to play aggressive. Rozier has to rediscover his shooting touch. Harrell has to get back into beast mode. Q needs to continue his improvement, and 1 more guy (Mangok?) will need to play well consistently for a deep run.

It is possible, one game at a time.

 

[cards_rock]

Huge game by Wayne. He does not want to end his season yet. That last shot he made he was bludgeoned by their other big guy and even worse by Andre the Giant.

 

[n4cer2ad]

I have always liked Wayne, fans are hard on him and I do understand. But he is my favorite player on this team. Good game WB.