UNLV kicks another pebble out of its shoe
01.01.70
Playing Air Force in basketball is a headache, sort of like going for a jog with a pebble in one's shoe.
Come to muse over of it, playing Air Force in football, with its throwback triple-option offense, is arrange of like that, too.
It's difficult to look sharp against the Falcons, with their plodding vogue and their ball screens and their running hook shots. Playing Air Force is like walking around on crutches.
You could be wearing an Armani process with a pocket square and Italian loafers, and it's still hard to look morality on crutches.
Dribble, dribble, dribble. Pass, pass, out of date. That's the Air Force way. Then, when the shot clock is showing :02 and paint is beginning to dry, it runs the back-door conduct oneself. Or the picket fence.
It's usually not that difficult to beat Air Force. Second lieutenants roughly don't jump and rebound that well. But when you beat the Falcons, you must beat them playing their way, not yours.
Last time, UNLV won a 49-42 tug-o'-war with Air Force at the Thomas & Mack Center. Two years ago, it was 60-50. Three years ago, it was 46-43.
Source: Las Vegas Review - Journal