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Beachcat97

My Questions for Caleb: Should Caleb turn pro after this season? He's unlikely to be drafted by the NBA. (#81 consensus rating - https://www.nbamockdraftdatabase.com/big-boards/2024/consensus-big-board-2024) What can/could/should he improve in another year of college ball to increase that ranking? ...

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The latter by far. We’ll have to see what our region looks like tomorrow. If UNC is the 1 in our region, that’s not exactly an unbeatable opponent. I love our chances to win 2 games in this year’s tournament. That’s really not setting the bar very high for this team. Nobody for this Arizona team is...

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What’s going to be more surprising over the next few weeks? Losing in the first round or reaching the FF? The latter by far. We’ll have to see what our region looks like tomorrow. If UNC is the 1 in our region, that’s not exactly an unbeatable opponent. I love our chances to win 2 games in this yea...

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What’s going to be more surprising over the next few weeks? Losing in the first round or reaching the FF? The latter by far. We’ll have to see what our region looks like tomorrow. If UNC is the 1 in our region, that’s not exactly an unbeatable opponent. I love our chances to win 2 games in this yea...

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Merkin wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:28 am Lloyd has never lost two in a row. So lose the game before the one you want to win.

Think we’ll get to the S16. I’d be surprised to win any more beyond that.

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stats look brutal. esp the way oregon dominated in the paint Our unforced turnovers are killing us - did they hit some tough shots? Absolutely, but we gave up a lot of chances for us to put points on board Not having a PG who could get the ball into Ballo the entire second half is a whole nother pr...

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Think we'll be the 2 in the West.

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MrKyle wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:22 pm If we don’t get some kind of decent level production and offensive execution from our guards we are dead in water

Yep. And like I've been saying for years, the hot shooting is going to come our way one of these years. We have guys who can shoot. But those same guys also occasionally go 1-9.

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we can't win with Love scoring 6 points. That's just objectively true from this point forward. And Boz not giving much either Boz is less consistent than Love offensively, though. We gotta have Love getting around 20 from here on out. It's the risk we took with Love. He wasn't always a high FG% sho...

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we can't win with Love scoring 6 points. That's just objectively true from this point forward.

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Someone explain to me: why won't this happen next week against a lower seeded team with outstanding 3 point shooting? This will happen next Saturday That's what everyone will be expecting. But ffs, doesn't our luck in the NCAA tournament HAVE to turn around at some point? Like, every year there are...

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How does the Pac POY have only 6 points?

This is the thing with Caleb: he's streaky. And if he's not hitting, he'll just keep shooting as our deficit grows.

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Someone explain to me: why won't this happen next week against a lower seeded team with outstanding 3 point shooting?

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MrKyle wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:55 pm Head scratching how bad our offense can be - we really need a top tier point guard; so frustrating to watch our team year after year struggle executing offense

Boswell was among the highest rated PGs in his class, so it's not for lack of trying.

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Here is my concern regarding this game. While we easily won both games we gave Oregon the roadmap for success in the second half of our dominate home win. While I understand our lack of motivation with a large lead it gave them confidence that they could score against us and that we were vulnerable...

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84Cat wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:10 pm UNC is 7th in the net, we're 4th. That would be total bs for them to pass us. Either the net is now worthless or the Pac12 is getting screwed once again

If we win today and tomorrow, we're a #1 seed, regardless of what UNC does.

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Mississippi St.defeating Tennessee in their first game of the SEC tournament is pretty shocking. Lunardi thinks this opens the door for UNC getting the one seed, but could we still have a chance if we win the next two games? Absolutely. Our resume probably outshines UNC's if we win today and tomorr...

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https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/1768475806546669569 This had to happen. Stanford has been better in the past than what Haase has been able to achieve. Anyone remember the Trent Johnson era? He got to the NCAA tourney in 3 of the 4 seasons he was their coach, and he got to the S16 in '08.

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84Cat wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 4:16 pm UCLA/Oregon in a tight one

Altman > Cronin

By every reasonable metric.

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So, I'll say it - today, the 'Cats are playing to keep a #2 seed, and maybe even seeding in the West. At least SLC pod is a lock. I think there's zero chance of us dropping to a 3 seed, even with a loss today. Worst case scenario would be a 2 seed outside of the west region. Our metrics are not tho...

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UCLA lives for another day to play Oregon Oregon isn't very good. I'd rather play UCLA or Oregon than USC It's another one of these weeks this season where we can only hurt our tourney seed, not help it. Beating USC and UCLA does absolutely nothing for our seed position. I'm so over the Pac. Also, ...

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84Cat wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:44 pm UCLA lives for another day to play Oregon

Oregon isn't very good.

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AZ opens at -8.5

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AZCatGirl wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:13 pm USC defeats Washington. We'll get our chance at revenge at noon tomorrow.

USC is playing better and blah blah blah. We should beat them, and we will. I'm expecting our guys to come out focused and motivated.

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What’s going to be more surprising over the next few weeks? Losing in the first round or reaching the FF?

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Louisville cans Kenny Payne after going 12-52 through his first two seasons. At a school like Louisville, you have to TRY to be that awful. There’s a UA hater on Xitter that already floated Mick to Louisville and Lloyd calling up UCLA. He really enjoys the engagement. Mick can’t leave because ucla ...

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KillerKlown wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:36 pm
PHXCATS wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:24 pm Clown conference
We never asked for your location.

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azgreg wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:37 pm

Terrible news.

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I can't take that bracket sim seriously.

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Have we ever had a transfer play just one season for us and win Pac POY in that season?

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3 teams from the SEC in the FF?

Not happening.

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Drake would beat Gonzaga I'm not as confident as you are in this prediction, but I do think Drake has shown they're a good team and could knock off some teams from stronger leagues if given the chance. We're gonna have a very hard second round game this year, provided we can get past that damn firs...

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A second round AZ/Zaga match-up may be too enticing for the committee to pass up. Also, don't sleep on Drake.

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AZCatGirl wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:11 pm
84Cat wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:03 am We got work to do this week

The only way this even has a chance of happening is if we drop Thursday's game, which we wont.

I don't see that happening either.

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Well, this just gets us back to everyone’s favorite age old question: which Arizona team will show up? If our guys are dialed in and getting after it, they should steam roll this weak ass Pac field, including WSU. If they think this week’s games are inconsequential and that these teams can’t beat th...

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g32knights wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:29 am Whether the Cats or a two or a one seed, Gonzaga is going to be in the pod.

Bring ‘em on.

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But are you ready to move on from Lloyd if he doesn't win two games in this year's tourney? Heck no, Lloyd's a keeper. He'll get there, he is still learning too. Already running a deeper bench than he did last season. The main reason I'm not more sanguine heading into the postseason is because this...

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I mean, Tommy now bears the weight of Arizona's decades-long Final Four dryspell. But we're talking about a guy who has now won the Pac in two of his first three years as our coach. Tommy is doing very well. Only speaking for myself, and a few others, it's all about the NCAA tourney, period. Who re...

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I mean, Tommy now bears the weight of Arizona's decades-long Final Four dryspell. But we're talking about a guy who has now won the Pac in two of his first three years as our coach. Tommy is doing very well. If we don't get to the Final Four this year, in Tommy's third season as coach, I can't reall...

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Also, Tommy isn't going to win Pac COY, and that's a crime.

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Listening to radio this morning they had a handicapper on who yet trashed the cats and said I’m no way they should be a 1 seed. He said losing to Oregon St in what he said is the worst P5 conference in modern times should automatically disqualify them for that seed. Heck, if USC beats us we will ha...

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If all the data tells us that a 1seed gets to the FF twice as much as a 2 seed, why the heck wouldn’t you want to be a 1 seed. It seems you should care I'm kinda on the side of, it doesn't really matter what our seed ends up being. That data feels suspect to me, like it needs to be broken down furt...

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Chicat wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:34 am UCLA fans are going to miss us.

No one in the B1G is going to give a shit about any of their programs.

Kansas is about to become our new ucla. And KU, very unlike ucla, has a robust and relentless fan base that will equal the energy of our own.

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I thought Cronin's post-game presser was: 1) a great recruiting tape for Arizona, 2) an invitation for five or more of his regular player to GTFO. Cronin is a terrible rep for his own program. He's uncharismatic, peevish, whiny, and he lacks self-awareness. Somehow he has fooled people into thinkin...

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Alright, now the pissing contest is hopefully let's get back to the topic at hand. If Tennessee beats Kentucky on Saturday I don't really see a path to the Cats being a 1 seed, regardless of what happens in the conference tournaments. No. We control our fate. If we don't lose again before Selection...

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Alright, now the pissing contest is hopefully let's get back to the topic at hand. If Tennessee beats Kentucky on Saturday I don't really see a path to the Cats being a 1 seed, regardless of what happens in the conference tournaments. No. We control our fate. If we don't lose again before Selection...

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No excuses tonight.

Cronin has effectively lost his team, and their season has been a shit show.

Yes, we're their Super Bowl, but we are the better team. And we're playing much better since we spotted them a 15 point lead at McKale.

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I'm starting to see momentum for Caleb being Pac POY, which he richly deserves.

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Alright, now the pissing contest is hopefully let's get back to the topic at hand. If Tennessee beats Kentucky on Saturday I don't really see a path to the Cats being a 1 seed, regardless of what happens in the conference tournaments. No. We control our fate. If we don't lose again before Selection...

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Just in watching the Vol/SC game, I am not sure how SC has won as many games as they have. Was not impressed. I still think if we win out we will get the 1 line Tennessee's high ball screen defense stymied the hell out of them. Tennessee has looked very good the last few weeks. But UConn and Housto...

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