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Lobo's going down hard

OmegaGRIZ said:
Griz got a gift playing the worst 3 seed. Look what happens when unm plays a good team
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Note that that "good" team is the one UM almost beat on the road earlier in the season. Without the horrible homer reffing for 6.5 minutes in the second half after UM took a 12 point lead (in which I believe that 11 of 13 fouls went against the Griz), UM would have beaten UW. Almost beat them as it was.
 
Got nothing for you. Your posts are idiotic and even if I had a response the board takes care of you just like others have told me. So please just don't respond to anything I have to say
 
New Mexico No-Shows might be the most over-rated Top 8 team of all-time. They played 2 pathetic games. If AJ had showed up they woulda been blown out of the first one. I knew the Griz got a favorable match-up, but i didn't know HOW good. We'll never get this fortuitous match-up again. Too bad we couldn't pull it out. We've already proven we can play with UW, and no way AJ pulls a Lobo 2 straight games.
 
The outcome did not surprise me at all. New Mexico was not a team that could play against big guys, and Washington's big guys are so athletic I knew it would be the difference.
 
Could be worse, if you picked Kansas to win it all in your bracket. I did not have them winning it all, but it did hurt my bracket.
 
mtgrizrule said:
Could be worse, if you picked Kansas to win it all in your bracket. I did not have them winning it all, but it did hurt my bracket.
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killed all my brackets!!! tried to do something different in each one, except for Kansas and West Virginia. If WV goes down I am toast...

As far as UNM, they were a good team, but as I said after the loss, they are not the # 8 team in the country. I like their fans, their players and their program, but the Griz should have beat them. They thought they had an off night to let the Griz stay so close, I think the Griz beat them 4 out of 10 times with our guards having an average night. If the guards are hot, we win 7 out of 10. Their style of play works when the can out athlete other teams. The griz didn't and wouldn't give them that chance, udub gave them the chance, and she wasn't pretty. The grizzlies style of play would have allowed them to stay close to udub today, and would've frustrated them as it did the first game, and UNM thursday night. That's why the zags and byu are doing so well, execute and frustrate.

That being said, I would rather be them getting killed in the second round than us losing a heartbreaker in the first.
 
Washington is finally playing to their talent level. They have underachieved the whole season, including the game against the Griz, the way they played today or Thursday they would have beaten us by 35.
 
Unwrittengriz said:
Washington is finally playing to their talent level. They have underachieved the whole season, including the game against the Griz, the way they played today or Thursday they would have beaten us by 35.
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No way, Griz would've slowed it way down and limited posessions...Griz would've held them to under 70, you think the Griz would've only scored 35? Udub bigs had their way with unm bigs, which opened up the outside, no way would they have dominated our big fellas like that. Two different matchups, two very different results.
 
the lobos have two outstanding players in gary and hobson, a decent player in martinez, and not much else. the incredible superhuman hardeman that was supposed to eat us alive had seven points and two rebounds against us, couldn't stop qvale, and today was thoroughly outclassed by washington's big men. next year they bring in two big studs, a transfer from ucla, and a four-star 6'11" high school kid, so if they can keep hobson, they should be a legitimate top ten team next year. i'm just amazed at what little inside presence any of the mountain west teams have, and it's showing in the tournament. of their four teams, two made it to the second round, one in o/t, and that's all she wrote. here, your weaknesses will be exposed.
 
Lobos did not look good, and I can think of three reasons:

(1) Griz game sapped them physically and mentally. They made a special effort and shut down AJ, and did enough so their weakness inside didn't beat them -- and still struggled to win. Obviously (IMHO), that took a lot out of them.

(2) Washington seems to be peaking at the right time. Lot of talent there, and it'll be dangerous if they can keep it together.

(3) Lobos made the really dumb mistake of trying to stay with them in a wham-bam, go-go first half. Halftime couldn't come soon enough -- they were gassed (hands on the hips, no hop in the step ... all the classic signs).

The latter two points are made in a pretty good ESPN wrap-up article:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=300790167

Could the Griz have beat this Huskies team? We'll never know ... but with our better matchup inside, we might have had a better chance.

Have to agree with the other post: With new recruits to fill some of their weak points, the Lobos could be ... what's the phrase? Oh right, "scary good" next year.
 
Unwrittengriz said:
Washington is finally playing to their talent level. They have underachieved the whole season, including the game against the Griz, the way they played today or Thursday they would have beaten us by 35.
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Being in the Pac 10 tv viewing area, I have seen Washington play all year. I think the Griz would have done very well against them...The Huskies are ok, better than the East Coast crowd says, but so are the Griz...consistency is the UM problem...not talent. We have that...and more coming in....next year os going to be a good one....
 
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