Colter_Nuanez56
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PeauxRouge said:
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--Hometown officiating is the bane of college basketball. That we should expect it makes it no less insidious. And of all the places we have been homered through the years, UDub takes first place. So if you'd told me before this game that the fouls would be even, and we would actually win this game at the foul line, I would have suspected incipient dementia.
--I'm beginning to think our free throw percentage last night was not an aberration. Vazquez and Whitney are deadly, and Owens, Bannan, Steadman and Parker all look good at the line. This could turn out to be a strength of the team.
--The offense looked much better last night, especially the crisp ball movement, and the way we attacked their zone. I'm wondering if DeCuire doesn't put in the defensive sets before he addresses the offense. Let's put that "offensive coordinator" job on hold for the moment.
--So we were wondering who would take the "big shot." Vazquez now is that guy, with Whitney not far behind. These two kids are velvet hammers. Smiling assassins.
--Do you feel a twinge of sympathy for UDub? They're not afraid to schedule us, give them that. Then they pay us $50,000 to go in and leave them with a humiliating loss. And yes, it's always humiliating for a Pac-12 program to lose to anybody under Power 5. Last night, in the game preceding us, UTEP took down Arizona State in Tempe, and the hometown announcers were, "Shame, shame, shame on this program." I'm sure there will be reverberations in Seattle.
--And one last thing. Why is it that the information that is so scarce to people on this board is so freely disseminated by announcers at Pac-12 games? Why is it that so many people on this board can't know what is apparently common knowledge to the announcers? If we're not supposed to know for some legal reason, why is it okay for them to blat it over an entire network? Right way we learned what this board had been asking for a days, "What's up with Carter-Hollinger?" He got dinged against Southern Utah and is in the concussion protocol. Oh....
--I'm beginning to think our free throw percentage last night was not an aberration. Vazquez and Whitney are deadly, and Owens, Bannan, Steadman and Parker all look good at the line. This could turn out to be a strength of the team.
--The offense looked much better last night, especially the crisp ball movement, and the way we attacked their zone. I'm wondering if DeCuire doesn't put in the defensive sets before he addresses the offense. Let's put that "offensive coordinator" job on hold for the moment.
--So we were wondering who would take the "big shot." Vazquez now is that guy, with Whitney not far behind. These two kids are velvet hammers. Smiling assassins.
--Do you feel a twinge of sympathy for UDub? They're not afraid to schedule us, give them that. Then they pay us $50,000 to go in and leave them with a humiliating loss. And yes, it's always humiliating for a Pac-12 program to lose to anybody under Power 5. Last night, in the game preceding us, UTEP took down Arizona State in Tempe, and the hometown announcers were, "Shame, shame, shame on this program." I'm sure there will be reverberations in Seattle.
--And one last thing. Why is it that the information that is so scarce to people on this board is so freely disseminated by announcers at Pac-12 games? Why is it that so many people on this board can't know what is apparently common knowledge to the announcers? If we're not supposed to know for some legal reason, why is it okay for them to blat it over an entire network? Right way we learned what this board had been asking for a days, "What's up with Carter-Hollinger?" He got dinged against Southern Utah and is in the concussion protocol. Oh....
citay said:
Taking the big shot is one thing, but my concern is that we don't have anyone who can take over a game, either to stem the tide and finish at the end. Pridgett. Rorie. Oguine. Okoh. The big foreign kid-transfer who may have been from Germany. Cherry. I probably missed a few.
PlayerRep said:
Remember this: Five of our seven-man rotation last night were underclassmen. Of the players you mentioned, Akoh and Breunig transferred in as juniors, and I don't recall that any of the other players you mentioned were "take-over-the-game" types as underclassmen. Certainly not Pridgett. But Owens and Whitney are certainly capable, maybe even this year.
This year's team reminds me of one of those old Polaroid photos that started out faint and wound up in brilliant colors. (Oh...you don't remember those.....)
CleanHOUSE
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PlayerRep said:
I agree here, our 3 guards are nice players but don't have size or a elite tools to bully anybody like an Oguine or the Bruneing did. Whitney looks like he might grow into a more sturdy frame. However, DCH and Owens do have the athletic tools to consistently win one on one battles but they are just not "scorers" right now, but sometimes guys make that jump like Pridgett who was always a great athlete but was a but stiff as shooter, and then he kinda just took the next step. I think we have several guys who can win athletically and create their own shot we just need one of them to become a scorer and this team will really be cooking. Right now we are a run the ball and play defense type of team without anyone who can take the top off the defense to use football analogy...so if we get behind its going to be tough.
CleanHOUSE
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citay said:
I mean I think we won that game, but they were also unforgivably bad in a few areas with TO in first half and FTs so they certainly did somethings to straight up help us win. I felt like I was watching us play ourselves of the first four games last night.
citay said:
My pet peeve for years is that coaches can control how hard players play. Not sure why it always falls on players. Washington was listless mentally and physically last night, and you do have to look to Hopkins a bit. They spent large amount of that game squandering its natural advantages in length and athletic ability.
I love the zone, but if your team consistently has spells of indifference to effort and details, just from my perspective that zone they ran isn't the answer to increase effort. They were sloppy in it in the first half, and gave up so many easy looks to owens that had he any feel last night would have had close to 20 points in the first half alone. UM was beating them with simple high post entry after a quick reversal. At times it was akin to a zone defense that you'd see out of a high school team and not the type you'd come to expect from a Pac12 program with plus athletes. If that comes off as critical, because it is, because clearly Hopkins has made decisions with this roster and his schemes that clearly doesn't fit the attitude or the personnel. Just an observation though.
Compare that with Travis who will cut bait with guys who won't buy in. Satterwhite is the most recent in a long list of guys who have either left the program or rode the the pine because of their lack of attention to detail, attitude and effort.
That's hard to fit on the back of a jersey...
BelierPeaux
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cclarkblues said:
:lol:
BelierPeaux
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Colter_Nuanez56 said:
Oh, it's a cool photo, but only if you didn't watch the game...
So maybe that's a majority of people who see it!?
Hoops watcher
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grizindabox said:
Bender was the last eastern kind of guy they had and that didn't work out very well.
It’s always a good day when we beat a PAC-12 team. An even better day when that team is UDub!
Enjoy it, Griz fans. It may be ten more years until it happens again. (But I doubt it.)
Enjoy it, Griz fans. It may be ten more years until it happens again. (But I doubt it.)
It happened before in Seattle UW-Hec-Edmunson gym, Nov 29, 1993, UM-80, UW-73, with our own Travis D a senior! Great game to watch as a UM alum, and UW grad student. We sat right behind the Griz team cheering them on, in a fairly empty gym, and a bunch of surprised Huskies!
