Oklahoma Sooners star player now has his own version of what every athlete dreams of doing
The Sooners leaned on Xzayvier Brown when he had the flu, and he responded perfectly.
No one wants to have the flu. But every athlete wants to have their version of Michael Jordan’s “flu game.” There’s not one athlete who, when they do get the flu, doesn’t want to try and go out there to have their “flu game.” On Saturday, Oklahoma Sooners guard Xzayvier Brown had his.
“X [Xzayvier Brown] is a warrior, man. We didn’t make a big deal of it because we didn’t want it to come out, but he had the flu,” head coach Porter Moser told reporters after the game. “He’s been sick, been really sick, and to fight through it. And Nijel [Pack] was under the weather, but maybe with X it was a blessing that he got in foul trouble and he played seven minutes in the first half.”
Brown pushes the Sooners to their first SEC win this season
The Sooners beat the Ole Miss Rebels 86-70. At the half, it was a two-point game, and Brown hadn’t played very well up to that point. Brown scored 17 of his 23 points in the second half. With the way Ole Miss was defending Pack, Brown was needed in the second half, maybe more than they’ve needed him all season.
“X was definitely battling some stuff today as well,” Pack said after the game. “For him to come out there and play as hard as he did, and we were shorthanded at the guard position, I feel like everybody played—he played—the next-man-up role. Tae played some point guard. My man Jadon came and played some point guard.
“We got that next-man-up mentality. When you get that on the team, it gives everybody else the confidence to be themselves and play their game. That’s what X did, especially in the second half; he was really dominant. He was really unguardable, so that makes this team better. The better he plays, the better this team’s going to be.”
The Sooners didn’t do much of anything well in the first half, compared to how they played in the second half. They shot just 35% from three in the first half, while the Rebels shot 60% on 9/15 shooting from beyond the arc. Oklahoma finished the game shooting better from three than Ole Miss (52%) and from the field than the Rebels (52%). You could say Brown is a big reason, if not the biggest reason, OU won the game in the second half.
On Wednesday, OU will play the other Mississippi team, Mississippi State.
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