Holy Crap they won a game!

You could have colored me surprised when I read that Canisius beat someone. Especially with such a big win. I didn't even know they could score 88 points. Of course Parrotta pulled out the old Polish Rifle Pawel Malesa for this contest. He scored a career high 25 points with 21 of those from the 3 point line. I guess the coach was like who hasn't fucked up for me yet. Pawel, go out there and shoot it, can't hurt. I guess when you shoot 54% for a game you're bound to win one of them. And keeping the cold shooting Willie Hassell on the bench for half the game helps to. But he was on fire shooting, going 5 for 7 from the field.

But it was finally nice to see Frank Turner break out this year. 17 Points, 13 assists, 6 rebounds in 39 minutes of action. Plus he only had 2 turnovers on the day. The Griffs need Frank Turner to play like this, night in night out for them to succeed. They can't expect The Polish Rifle to fire like that every night. Of course he doesn't play that much to begin with. But a win is a win and a big win like this can only inspire confidence in the rest of the troops.

Fun with Tom Parrotta Quotes

“This win is a good reward for the guys,” Canisius head coach Tom Parrotta said. “This goes to all the hard work and for not giving up. We wanted to play Canisius basketball and that’s what we did this afternoon.”

Well I think the problem was, you were playing Canisius Basketball and somehow Saturday afternoon, you played someone else's style and that helped.

Next game Wednesday at Robert Morris.