Bear Down Wildcats

eoe

So much revisionism going on... GoAzCats looked much the same (or worse) March 2005 when Mustafa Shakur was reviled more than Mannion could ever imagine and Lute was a has-been worn coach who needed to step down Pull out two wins this season just up to this point (@ASU, @UO/vs. UO) and the narrative...

eoe

dovecanyoncat wrote:For play in the key or on the keyboard?

I, for one, would not be upset if we were subjected to hearing about Zeke's piano skills ad nauseam (6 times to be exact) during the NCAA tourney broadcasts

eoe

Clearly running two bigs makes more sense, see: Buffalo College basketball does not need two big men (Koloko + Lee, Koloko + Zeke, Koloko + Zeke) in at the same time I can't imagine our rebounding would suffer with our length and we would spread the floor so much more. Lee and Koloko can't shoot any...

eoe

his second half was the best half of his in two months, perhaps all season He needs the game to be wide open so badly, plodding up and running weave and heave offense totally neutralizes his strongest physical trait, speed Make the plan fit your players, not your players fit your system. Opponents ...

eoe

ASU as 3 seed, UA as 4 seed: If UA beats UW If ASU beats Wazzou If USC loses to Ucla If CU beats Utah In this scenario, Arizona, ASU, and Colorado would be in a three-way tie at 11-7. Arizona would have the best collective win-loss record against the group and would get the 3 seed. Agree. In that s...

eoe

97cats wrote:his second half was the best half of his in two months, perhaps all season

He needs the game to be wide open so badly, plodding up and running weave and heave offense totally neutralizes his strongest physical trait, speed

eoe

1 seed - OREGON 2 seed - UCLA 3/4 seed: COLORADO, UA, ASU, USC (all teams at 10-7 currently) UA as 3 seed, CU as 4 seed: If UA beats UW If ASU loses to Wazzou If USC loses to UCLA If CU beats Utah UA as 4 seed, ASU as 3 seed: If UA beats UW If ASU beats Wazzou If USC loses to UCLA If CU loses to Uta...

eoe

Number 3 all time in assists by an Arizona freshman, tied with Gardner, 16 away from Bibby...

So sharp today

eoe

Energizers like Hazzard are critical for the NCAAs... A couple of 3s can turn a game. The depth has been totally shredded from last year to this year (Williams, Doutrive, Jeter, Hazzard) They want to run on offense and it fits the team’s players better, but first time I see so many guys ask out for ...

eoe

Beautiful 2nd half

Incredible off-ball defense and all of a sudden shots start dropping and Miller stops bursting vessels.

Murphy is a great assistant, he’s always talking up the players and hi-5’ing them, especially the frosh

eoe

Sean Miller is Bruce Pearl who is Sean Miller

eoe

Bruce Pearl :lol: The biggest f u to the NCAA He can’t stop blatantly cheating and the NCAA would rightly slap our program down forever Leonard Hamilton? This dude was on the verge of being fired multiple times and took a lot of heat for consistently underperforming...just like Scott Drew. It’s alwa...

eoe

He's maybe an inch above Pastner in the "former Arizona players turned coaches" who I never want coaching their alma mater

eoe

ChooChooCat wrote:
Beachcat97 wrote:The timing of this article really sucks.
I don't think any one any where will care about it, because it says nothing except Miller agreed to an interview and didn't do it. Wow, breaking news.

You're right, no one cares. A blip for the jaded reporter.

eoe

I'm not asking about issues between players and coach - I'm asking about conflict BETWEEN players.... Not an insider, but recall with prior players both Doutrive and Trier were really unliked by the other players. Just from appearances, it looks like Gettings is not very popular either. Last week a...

eoe

Miller is one of the elite recruiters in the game because he puts in a lot of effort and has the Arizona name backing him. He wasn't jack shit of a recruiter at Xavier. Any coach hired to coach at Arizona that would put in a decent amount of effort would be able to recruit very well to Arizona. I d...

eoe

Now that everyone's angst has started to simmer down: Some snippets from a good write-up with a markedly objective assessment of the state of our program's coaching philosophy... a PLAYER'S program https://www.si.com/college/arizona/basketball/arizona-offense-and-defense-blaming-sean-miller-misses-t...

eoe

The rest of the season is the cherry on top. I think the culture has been transformed No doubts that Cronin would do so, but Cronin is very reminiscent of Miller. His teams just don’t cut it amongst the top tiers when it comes to adaptability, making adjustments, recruiting your type of player, whi...

eoe

Lots of ignorance going on Nico will be a steady NBA PG The kid is number 1 in APG in all Div 1 amongst freshmen His shot being way off isn’t a mechanics thing and he has proven against elite competition he can fill it up He will be a lottery pick and will stick in the NBA, his game is NBA 100% and ...

eoe

Do you trust Heeke and Robbins to hire a new coach? Not really and there are very few coaches significantly better than Miller, but sometimes it just doesn’t work and you need to hit reset. Now seems like a perfect time with the investigations, major disappointment following an understandable but s...

eoe

97cats wrote:side backboard way too many times - I can’t get past that right now

he makes the game difficult - Smith and others are at a disadvantage

he is really immature

Mannion took a 35 foot three down 5 with 6 min or so

The look on Miller’s face was incredible

eoe

Mannion has made the game difficult I just do not see the play calls that work to utilize Mannion’s game? What happened to those high pick and pops? The down screen and floaters? It’s the same awful motion every single time down and Miller trots our 3 bulky guys in Stone Zeke and Lee at once trying...

eoe

97cats wrote:3-14 and another overall awful game

Playing in a dog shit motion offense better suited to the TJ McConnells of the world and not Nico’s game isn’t his fault. His speed and handle is elite

eoe

Mannion 3-14 is the bigger story for sure, no question. his play had made it more difficult for everyone to have success. Smith 1-9 with 3 turnovers had no shot. i blame the PG Not his fault we couldn’t manage a roster or recruit better Smith being a starter was never a good sign Instead of fading ...

eoe

UALoco wrote:ASU is gonna win the pac12, ready for something new yet?

Oregon will

The one thing we can be sure of is ASU continuing to fall short in basketball. They are the luckiest major team in NCAA, their luck will run out

eoe

Have we had enough yet? Or do we require more? Ask the fucking boosters who like friendship more than good basketball. Was never in agreement with you until today Some of the players absolutely quit playing Miller’s verbal lashing of Hazzard at the half vs ASU, Miller trashing his team repeatedly a...

eoe

Boy, I remember way back on...when was it...yesterday, when we were talking about winning this one and losing on Saturday. This season is fast approaching the Ayton season for most disappointing of Miller’s AZ tenure. Just an absolute shit show. Seems like the team has quit on him. First 8 min of t...

eoe

Absolutely pathetic performance tonight....team just sucks, nothing else to say. Need to move on. Miller needs to pack his belongings and move on Offensive philosophy and coaching is pure shit Metrics be damned, zero ability to utilize your quickness and athletes on D to speed games up Deciding to ...

eoe

On February 4th, UCLA's defense was ranked 181 on Kenpom. It only took six games to climb 56 spots. The current ranking is weighed down heavily by the performance of last year's team and this year's pre-conference results. It's much easier to just dismiss UCLA altogether than address their immense ...

eoe

Ailing USC looks to get better on and off the court At the end of a miserable weekend, Nick Rakocevic stuffed his 6-foot-10 frame into his seat on a late Sunday flight out of Salt Lake City, closed his eyes, and thought of how badly he wanted to be home. USC’s senior forward had spent most of his fi...

eoe

Dosia wrote:Hopefully they don’t spread that to our guys.

My thought too...

UCLA will be hard enough as is without players feeling worn and tired

eoe

Maybe someone from the coaching/training staff should have checked him out. If you do that, then Green has to be removed. You don’t get to “check someone out” and not exit the game. And at that point, Altman then decides who shoots the FT. At that point, watching him roll around for that long, I fe...

eoe

Who here would take Mannion over Pritchard right now if you were an NBA GM? Seriously!!! I’d take Remy Martin too. And Wright at Colorado. And that doesn’t mean I don’t think Mannion can be in Pritchard’s neighborhood in a few years. But certainly not now. Would I take an incredibly gifted passer a...

eoe

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/bracketology/ As has been noted here ad nauseum - and then emphatically denied by NET enthusiasts - this team’s seed range is 5 to 8. Any shot at a 4 seed left the building yesterday. Not sure the NET agrees with you... Here: Net Bracketology for 2/23 ha...

eoe

The loss definitely sucks...but just in response to what many are saying: - I actually think Green is a GREAT player. He isn't a top scorer but he does all the little things and is extremely athletic. He could do the best in the NBA out of all 3 freshman. Im going to cut him some slack on the misse...

eoe

Yay, bring in another GT who won't understand the pack line, won't rebound, or provide anything else of substance. Do what we do. Lol. But next time will be different! Were the additions of Gettings and Hazzard not good enough for you? You can't scream for one and done/top flight recruits, complain...

eoe

UCLA with Mick Cronin's ugly ass basketball is going to be a pain for years to come. Would rather avoid UCLA, hate slow down/prayer basketball. Muck it up and hit enough shots hoping the other team misses more than usual, pathetic

eoe

Beachcat97 wrote:
Chicat wrote:We are up to #7 in the NET rankings.
That is so, so crazy to me. Imagine if we'd beaten Gonzaga or Oregon.

Or if Green's 3 with 8 seconds at Baylor dropped....
Or if Nico Mannion wasn't 1 for 25 at Baylor.......

eoe

Chicat wrote:We are up to #7 in the NET rankings.

Up to #11 KenPom
offense - 16
defense - 23

Win vs Oregon and we can beef up the resume considerably with a chance to win the league even with a split in SoCal

eoe

Huge game tomorrow. We haven’t faired well in those in awhile it seems. Oregon will be very focused after losing to the scum and I doubt Pritchard gets in foul trouble Can't find any insight about N'faly playing. We can abuse them in the post and play the perimeter tight. Every impactful player thi...

eoe

azcat49 wrote:Huge game tomorrow. We haven’t faired well in those in awhile it seems. Oregon will be very focused after losing to the scum and I doubt Pritchard gets in foul trouble

Can't find any insight about N'faly playing. We can abuse them in the post and play the perimeter tight.

eoe

We scored 89 points and hit nearly 50% of our 3s. Our PG had a 6:1 assist:turnover ratio. Our SG has 6 assists. All this while Dylan and Stone went 1-7 and 2-7 respectively. Mac hit 3-6 from deep. But yeah...we suck as a team on offense. Unfortunately, that is misleading as a lot of our offensive a...

eoe

Think our worst possible seed is 6, best is 4. I mean, if we run the table from here to Selection Sunday, maybe 3. Somebody get Nico some spinach. Our worst seed is a like play in 11 seed. If we collapse down the stretch and go like 1-6 and lose our first PAC 12 game we could still even miss the to...

eoe

ASU consistently the benefactor of getting the marquee game first, while UA gets the trap game. Of course Oregon has a terrible shooting night and ASU misses playing N'faly like they missed Da Silva. There were some awful, awful calls in that game too.

eoe

So...is ASU going to miss playing against N'Faly tonight like they did with Da Silva at Stanford? Their luck is unparalleled

eoe

Pressing too much to get out into the break for easy offense, very obvious. It's a mindset issue more than any mechanics IMO

eoe

How's the old Pac awards race looking? POY? Pritchard? COY? Boyle? Altman? FOY? Stewart? Okongwu? Preseason Pac-12 rankings: https://x.pac-12.com/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_featured/public/2019-20_mbb_preseason_poll__1570467298.jpg?itok=BaXBrkEx Current rankings: TEAMS CONFERENCE OVERALL 1...

eoe

Better just to cheer for Sean Miller and stop mythologizing our own self doubts by projecting them onto this impression of him standing in front of a white board of X's and O's completely baffled and chewing on his dry marker: "What am I doing? I don't even know how to talk to these players! Should...

eoe

What’s the rumor someone dropped in the i game thread last night about nico going Italy after the season? I meant he could end up there if it doesn't work in the NBA. He's probably a career backup at best. He has good vision but not elite quickness or explosiveness, and his jumper is clunky and doe...

eoe

Total guess/speculation here. But Sean Miller during his halftime interview mentioned how so far this year they have been missing too many wide open shots. He said that if guys don't knock down the open shots they will no longer be allowed to take them. Now Pitts has struggled on offense. Has not s...

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