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One player, Senior Guard Jitim Young, goes out and scores 20 or more and NU loses. After the game, we hear the coach wonder what happened to the rest of the team's scoring. In the Michigan game, the 3 guys who play the middle combined for 9 points, a team high for them this year. We were kidding about it during the game Cat Chat. Meanwhile, the rest of the "French Connection" seems to be disconnected, and at least once during the last few games, WGN's analyst Shon Morris has commented about the team just standing around during games while Jitim [and Vedran Vukusic] tried to do everything. Obviously, you don't want your top scoring player to slow down his scoring, but you have to wonder if there's a feeling on the Wildcats that since this is Jitim's last year, he should go out and try to do it all. NU has a couple of high scoring recruits coming in next year. One of them is Sterling Williams from Young Magnet who is averaging close to 20 points a game, while his team is lossing. He thinks he's found the answer... "If I score a lot, and we don't win, people tend to stand around, watch and wonder what was going on. " Last night Williams made the rest of his team play in the first half; he got them to make shots and play more of the game before he took control hitting 12 points on a 5 for 5 run. He made the game a team effort, and Young won in an upset. Meanwhile, there is a report from the Daily that T.J. Parker thinks he's starting to figure out what's taken the edge off his game. He's decided that he doesn't have to "look good" at point, he just has to play the game. Maybe that's what the rest of this Wildcat team needs to do ... stop watching and ... Go out an play the game.
"If I score a lot, and we don't win, people tend to stand around, watch and wonder what was going on. "
