Bear Down Wildcats

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I'm still a little bearish on this team until I see some changes with our defense and bench. It's difficult to criticize a coach that's won 90 percent of his games, but I'll give it a shot. Going forward, CTL needs to find guys that have instant impact talent with high ceilings. His recruiting in my...

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I don't care what anybody says, after basketball games you never fight Whataburger employees for any reason. Too much liability.

Seriously, Rick Barnes needs to win coach of the year every single year for convincing his players to wear those ridiculous uniforms.

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Wrong sport azgreg (football), but you still proved my point. If Jedd Fisch can pull a top 3 class last year and we haven't been a football school in over 20 years, then Lloyd's gotta a lot of catching up to do.

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You know I thought the same thing about Maryland - that there was no way that they were a top 20 team. I saw some UCLA fans comment that they played a really tough schedule over the past 10 days and were just gassed and mentally checked out. Apparently they played much better against Wisconsin, Tenn...

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Saw a tweet that the last 20 tournament winners have come from teams in the top 12 in week 6. So we have a chance https://twitter.com/JohnGasaway/status/1602401755278417920 I really like this stat. It's even more encouraging that we are the only Pac school listed. That being said, I was impressed w...

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Great win tonight, I was worried that we would show up slow and lethargic like the previous couple of games. We got a nice little resume heading into conference play. We need to pay back Tennessee though. Defense still needs improvement, that still remains a work in progress. I'm surprised no one ha...

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Maui was critical in allowing us to see what our ceiling could be if we played disciplined and focus basketball. Cincinnati, SDSU and Creighton are legit, and those victories demonstrated the versatility that we have on our roster. But like I mentioned before, we don't have great athleticism or dept...

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Like I said before, Bal is a disappointment. It seems he's worse than last year.

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Coaches have different strengths. Miller was a beast on the recruiting trail and learned lessons with each class. His final class was a complete home run - - Kriisa, Tubelis, Mathurin, Terry and Batcho (who is killing it at Texas Tech, people are saying he can guard 1-5 at 7 feet). Was a good develo...

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I will confess, I was not high on Ballo when he came here. In fact, I thought it was a mistake. I'm very happy to eat my words. If someone told me that Ballo would win MVP of the Maui and put up 30 and 13 I would have fell down laughing. I just didn't see it based on his level of play at Gonzaga. CT...

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I told everyone that I saw some Kemba Walker in Ramey... he proved me right. Kemba torched Maui and led UCONN to the title the same year. Hope Ramey does the same.

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What the heck was THAT!!!

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It's really exciting watching the players develop and show what they can do. Ramey is a real plus to the roster, I see a little Kemba Walker in him. We're gonna need him to rise to the occasion because SDSU and Arkansas are no joke. I'm worried about our confidence levels on this court. Last year, t...

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The thing about teaching moments is that you need to learn them IN GAME, not in the film room. JDL should have been benched last series, now we've got a disaster, he's unraveling.

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JDL's the future, but he's got leadership/maturity issues. Put Fifita in, we need a different look.

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I've been where JDL is at. He wants this win too much... it's screwing his judgment.

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I was going to wait till after Maui to weigh in on this season, but I wanted to share some observations about what I'm seeing so far. This year is weird, we have one of the least athletic teams we've had in a while, but I think it bodes well for our tournament ceiling. I think it forces us to focus ...

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Choo, where have you been? I've been saying this for the longest. You could look at his game tape at Utah and see this guy had NBA potential. I've always compared him to Luke Kennard/Casey Jacobsen, although he's more athletic than those two. When he's healthy he's got a nice burst in transition. He...

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I'm totally with you Spiff. There's an old saying that 'wise men differ, and only fools fall apart'. I can never understand for the life of me why a bunch of UofA alumni, mostly middle aged, would spend time throwing darts at each other when we have far more things in common then we do different. We...

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I can understand some of the tempered expectations because of the loss of DT and Koloko. But basketball's all about trade offs. The year before last, we had more talent on paper, but were nowhere close to being a dominant team. This year although we have no Koloko, we have more frontcourt depth with...

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Ah yes, good news at last. Thanks Choo for the heads up. The only thing we're missing is a combo forward. Actually, if Akot wasn't such a head case, he'd be perfect for what we need. He has elite guard speed, but only showed it in brief spurts when he was here. I just can't trust anyone who quits on...

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Ramey makes us a much more difficult team to deal with. I really like Veesar as well. I think our success next year depends on how well Tubelis matures. I've always been high on him and think he could be the X factor we need. This team reminds me of the 2019-20 Gonzaga team with Petrusev. Under the ...

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I'm bothered by the point that about 80 percent of the teams in the tourney would give their eye teeth to have somebody like Dalen Terry on their roster. Just one of our players. Not even talking about Benn or C-Lo or some of the other budding guys on the team. At this level, talent does matter and ...

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I don't know how you can acknowledge the uselessness of two key starters throughout the tournament, and then still gripe with the fact that we made it to the second weekend and lost to a solid, experienced team with a great head coach. We didn't look great in the tournament in any individual game, ...

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Choo, for the record I did not originate this post. I just merely cosigned with other posters, I'm not sure where your energy is coming from. You might want to direct it at them. I do believe that it would have been better to wait to extend him and then give him a hefty raise, You can have a positi...

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Choo, for the record I did not originate this post. I just merely cosigned with other posters, I'm not sure where your energy is coming from. You might want to direct it at them. I do believe that it would have been better to wait to extend him and then give him a hefty raise, You can have a positiv...

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Lastly, I gonna give a little criticism to Lloyd. While he did a great job his first year, I wouldn't say that you need to play a team like Houston in the preseason to prepare for the tourney. I always go back to the UNLV/Duke games. They get blown out by UNLV and humiliated and the next year they ...

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Sampson out coached him, that’s for sure. But Lloyd did the best he could putting together a freestyled “cook what’s in the cupboard” version of his offense in his first year. Don’t think we could expect the boys to have the punch to the counter punch down yet. A confluence of headwinds though - in...

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Brooks would be great; not ideal, but plugs in some holes. Outside of that, Lloyd is going to have to scavenge the mid majors and the DII's (or lower). Maybe he can find a serviceable player or another Derrick White (Colorado) or Brandon Clarke (Gonzaga).

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Love Efe, and would love to have him on the roster. But his presence doesn't give us a lot of flexibility on perimeter defense. Losing Koloko, Benn and Terry basically takes away our athletic advantages on the team. I mean, just look at the end of regulation of the TCU game, that really displayed ou...

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Geez, I need to take some Tylenol now... I really thought DT was coming back. Wasn't the biggest fan of him coming in. He really shined last year, if he would have stayed this year would have been special. Next year's ceiling is a lot lower, but if we get Ramey and a solid big we can still make some...

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Point taken. I don't think 12 is good, but 9ish is allright. I think you can have high impact players who are comfortable with 20 a game. Even if they could start somewhere else. That Kentucky team was exactly what I was thinking of.

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Not sure I agree with the too many bigs situation. If we want to win a title we need depth and versatility at all positions, especially at the lead guard spot. Considering all the bad luck we've had I think putting together a roster like that is just hedging for the inevitable.

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I'm in the minority here, but I think Ramey is a slam dunk. Major talent in a major conference playing in major games that matter? Sign me up. We certainly need that leadership presence on our team. I see him as the closest thing to what NWG brought to Gonzaga. A lot of the other names being floated...

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Ditto, I think that he could really skyrocket here. Especially considering the way that everyone improved last year. He already knows the conference and would have an extremely strong supporting cast. I would have no problems starting him over Ballo. He's just more dynamic in my opinion. To Spiffs p...

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Considering how big our team is besides Kerr, I'd take a guy who's 5'10 and can slash and score to backup Kerr. Boum? He's 6'3" Didn't you mean "He's 6'3, Boum!" I just wonder because we're almost assuredly selling a transfer on being a backup with Kerr, Terry and Larsson pretty entrenched. I don't...

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This is very interesting. I think someone said on here that Lloyd is not actively looking through the portal to fill vacant scholarships. If that's the case then I hope he has an ace in his pocket, because other teams are loading up. Arkansas is looking really good in the portal and they have a top ...

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I feel bad, I totally wrote Hubert Davis off and never thought he could get the Tar Heels rollin. They're legit. I'm curious to see what they do. And yeah, Roy went out the right way. Can't stand the whole Coach K lovefest.

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Caleb Love is giving UCLA all they can handle.

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My posts can be a little silly at times, a little dramatic. But it's always to make a point. Saying that we need to upgrade the point guard and frontcourt positions is not ground breaking, and we certainly need more toughness. We had plenty of tests leading up to the Houston game that should have pr...

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It's part of the reason why I was making a clarion call for roster upgrades. We need athleticism, toughness and maturity. There's no way we should get run off the court by a bunch of nasty grad students. It starts at the point and ends at the frontcourt. Watching the second half was like watching Sc...

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I like what CTL did with the program this season. It reinvigorated the fanbase. For a big chunk of it, we were the dominant team in the country. But we're just fooling ourselves if we are going to pretend that the perception of us and other west coast teams is that we're too soft. That has nothing t...

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With a super stacked team. That may not happen for a long time, to have that group of players. And they were stacked this year and got beat by a far lesser defensive team than Houston. I've watched tons of basketball and we simply don't cut it defensively. We have to make serious changes if we want...

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With a super stacked team. That may not happen for a long time, to have that group of players. And they were stacked this year and got beat by a far lesser defensive team than Houston. I've watched tons of basketball and we simply don't cut it defensively. We have to make serious changes if we want ...

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Zu will add to his skill set and make a lot of us feel like chumps for dunking on him. To be sure, his flaws were exposed and he got his head handed to him. Houston took his fucking lunch money on every fucking possession. Unless he wants to transfer, which I bet he doesn't, he'll be humble (more h...

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If we played the way we can play and came up short, I can accept that. But not with warning signs all over the place and being cocky with no leadership, adjustments or maturity. Just deer in headlights.

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Merkin wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 10:37 pm
cpt wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 10:28 pm It’s not just that we lost in the Sweet 16. We played terrible 3 games in a row. We played soft and many guys played with no heart. We never looked like a one seed.

This ^^^ times 100

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Zu will add to his skill set and make a lot of us feel like chumps for dunking on him. To be sure, his flaws were exposed and he got his head handed to him. Houston took his fucking lunch money on every fucking possession. Unless he wants to transfer, which I bet he doesn't, he'll be humble (more h...

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KillerKlown wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 9:55 pm Need some No Easy Buckets NYC and Philly talent again.

Exactly, I hate getting blown out on TV. Especially when we have better talent on paper. If you don't have athletic junkyard dogs on your team, you ain't goin' far.

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