Gameday: Texas A&M vs. Club Balconesto Olimpico 64

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Thymes
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Bear with me on this one. I'm trying this with a slow iPhone connection.

We're in a municipal recreation center in suburban Madrid. This is a multiple purpose facility with all kinds of different lines on the court. Aggies are wearing all maroon. The opposition is dressed in pink. This is the third day of the trip. Most everybody has gotten over the jet lag.

The game will be played under international rules. The horn sounds like a train whistle.

There are no locker rooms. The Aggies are finished pregame warm-ups in our huddled in the corner of the gym. They keep putting time back on the game clock during warm-ups .

I will try to post pictures. But I am having trouble with Photobucket .
Thymes
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The basketball SID is trying to livestream on Facebook. So please feel free to go to the team's FB page for better info than I can provide.

Five minutes until gametime, as best I can tell .
Thymes
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Aggie starters: Hillsman, Williams, McKinney, and Lumpkin, Howard.
Thymes
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Timeout with 5:03 in first period.

Club Balconesto 8, Aggies 4. They have hit two 3-pointers. We're hustling but ragged.
Thymes
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Ags 12-11 1:36 left in 1st.
Thymes
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CB 17-14 at end of 1st. The Spanish team is living and dying on the three-pointer.
Thymes
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20-20 with 7:28 left in the second period.
Thymes
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Hillsman getting clobbered underneath. But she is 6 of 6 on free throws.
Thymes
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26-22 Ags 4:59 in second.
Thymes
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Timeout, 30-24 Ags with 3:11 on clock.
Thymes
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48.5 seconds left in the 2nd. Ags 36-28. I may be wrong, but I can't remember many points in the paint for the Spanish club. They are scoring all of their points on mid- to long-range junpshots.
Thymes
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Halftime: 36-28 Ags.

A few observations on my part. We are a much more talented team. The Spanish club is very disciplined and has obviously been playing together for a long time. We have missed our share of shots in the paint. But in the second quarter, we made a few nice plays.
Thymes
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Ags by 10 one minute into 3rd.
Thymes
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The darned buzzer (train whistle) goes off randomly during play.
Thymes
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Timeout with 4:34 in 3rd.

Ags 47-32.
Thymes
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BTW, we're using a 24-second clock.
Thymes
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General observation: we are defending the outside shot much better and forcing them to go inside. They still cannot convert much from the paint.

Ags by 21 now, 2:15 left in third.
aggieFann
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So I noticed carter didn't start. Is she playing any today? How is the new PG from UTEP playing ?
Thymes
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We are running like crazy now, and getting some nice plays in transition.

After three quarters, Ags 60-35.
Thymes
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Carter is playing. I had McKinney starting, but I could have gotten the numbers wrong from the roster. She just got a steal and scored a driving layup.

66-40 with 6:16 left in 4th.
Thymes
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Hillsman is having her way with them underneath now. Williams has a lot of outside points. Ags 72-43 with 4:09.
Thymes
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One minute left: 74-45 Ags. Jackson, Wells, McKinney, Lumpkin, and Jones are in the game.

Final: 76-47.

Sorry about the ragged commentary, folks. It has been some 40 years since I've done SID work.
Thymes
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Teams are exchanging gifts on the floor now.
AgDad
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We had good thymes following your commentary. Thank you!
biobioprof
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Thymes said:

One minute left: 74-45 Ags. Jackson, Wells, McKinney, Lumpkin, and Jones are in the game.

Final: 76-47.

Sorry about the ragged commentary, folks. It has been some 40 years since I've done SID work.
Thanks, Thymes!
aggieFann
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Thymes said:

Carter is playing. I had McKinney starting, but I could have gotten the numbers wrong from the roster. She just got a steal and scored a driving layup.

66-40 with 6:16 left in 4th.
Thanks for all of the updates
ontheway
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AG
Thanks Thymes!
Bucketrunner
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Thanks for the commentary
biobioprof
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Thymes
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Kudos to Texas A&M women's basketball SID David Waxman, who recorded (and edited) this and other videos, uodated websites, and filed his stories under less than optimal conditions. He did not have the luxury of domestic facilities, and certainly not even a full stats crew.

Great job, David!
Rudybryan
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