Bear Down Wildcats

EVCat

How can we be so quick and massive? I mean, certainly, Wichita St showed us that quick quard pressure can give us trouble if we aren't smart, but we defend and run with MASSIVE length. No Roman needed for this massiveness

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I think what we've learned tonight is our starting 5 is very good, but the second 5 are not as equal as we thought. They are good, but the starters are for a reason.

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Limit unforced turnovers and this is a laugher.

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Is MASSIVE back?

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Pac 12 Teams - Highest rated OOC home opponents 2021: 6 Baylor vs. Oregon 8 Villanova vs. UCLA 9 Tennessee vs. Colorado 31 San Francisco vs. Tempe Normal 39 BYU vs. Utah 73 Boise State vs. WSU 79 Texas A&M vs. OSU 107 Santa Clara vs. California 112 UC Irvine vs. USC 127 North Dakota State vs. Arizo...

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Alex Barcello almost beating Oregon by himself at the half. Really happy for Alex. Wish it was here. He was going through some shit the same time we were going through some shit and...well, shit. But good for Alex. He would thrive in Lloyd's system I will not slander Miller or what he did (and proba...

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The announcer issue is due to having 12 games in one day. We are unlikely to see a return of this guy this year.

Thought Ernie Kent's son Jordan was rather good on the mic for today's Ducks game

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Longhorned wrote: ↑Tue Nov 09, 2021 9:27 pm Yeah, I'll say that's a better looking product than I've seen v. NAU since the early 2000s.

To be fair, our last 5 games vs NAU have been 43, 39, 34, 55, and 33 point wins

EVCat

And Koloko...Koloko is why we can get away with overplaying. Packline has its place...i hate when teams jump passing lanes and give up as many 5 on 4s as they get runouts. But a rim eraser makes the overplay easier.

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Not a packline

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I am going to scream if I have to hear "POE-zeshion" one more time. I have found my fingernails on a chalkboard.

11-5 is also, apparently, a game with "shifting momentum."

EVCat

We are not going to see that 5 star recruit parade from Lloyd, and that is partly by design. It's not a matter of not wanting them...it's a matter of not entering that market with the appetite and focus necessary to win those battles. But Lute was never a top 5 class guy either, and Gonzaga was noth...

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Conover was a stud QB at Chandler High...I think he graduated a year ahead of my kid. Not big, not super fast, not a gunslinger, but just seems to do everything right. I am kind of happy he isn't the starter, as, despite not being a BYU fan, I hope he has a pretty good career. I remember the Vegas B...

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Let me sum it up - can Lloyd recruit "Arizona good"? Or do we know what that is anymore? That is what concerns me. Dylan Anderson is Arizona good. Every dude who chose to stay instead of transfer is Arizona good. Pelle is Arizona good. Bal is Arizona good and Ballo is worth a shot. Justin Kier is a...

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it seems retaining players that were seemingly sure to leave when Miller was fired is ignored as a recruiting win. But all the focus is on 2 players who were already 2 years into being recruited and still gave Lloyd some consideration before going elsewhere, like Lloyd was supposed to flip TyTy from...

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We've had a guy from Finland (Lauri) and now a Swede, so we just need a Norwegian to complete the Viking holy trinity. I'm Norwegian. I might have some eligibility remaining, and I carry bags and grab water well. I just need a pretty healthy stipend to hold my family over during my non-earning play...

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So where is Nolan Hickman going to end up? It just seems crazy that there's this free run to start at a program with the pieces and the history while also being a hero of sorts, and no one of a high ranking wants it.

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I have to check myself occasionally to make sure I am not letting anger over Robbins' handling of FCSM bleed into my perception of Lloyd. That was an issue early on, but I am impressed with what he has done to even keep 2021-22 treading water after what rightfully could have been a nuclear winter I ...

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I'll be real, since Lloyd took over, we've lost Brown, Akinjo, Simpson and Dezonie and added Ballo. That's not a good add/loss ratio. Maybe he makes it up, but the longer it takes, the harder it is to convince me it's an actual plan and not desperately patching holes. To be fair, if we point out wh...

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Goddamn...was watching a KTLA story on Clarke's accident and had no idea there was video of it. They just threw that on seemlessly, no "look away"...my God. If he doesn't hit the pole, he's flying into a house...it's just an intersection down the road from the Northridge Fashion Center, an intersect...

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bachelor's degrees aren't tech school degrees. They aren't meant to land a decent paying job. They can, but the intent is a whole education with a focused major, not how to do job x. If that isn't what you want, you don't go...

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Can we all just get real for a second, stop all the bullshit and address the real issue this new coach brings? Is no one brave enough to bring it up? Fine... I’ll step up... Tommy????? Not Tom.... not Thomas..... but Tommy? Do we have a 5 year old coaching our team? I think it is a flow thing when ...

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I don't know (from the very little I've seen of him) that Lloyd is a guy who can get me to ride or die with him the way Sean Miller did. There were just things about Sean Miller's personality, both in calm and exciting times, that made me love him. I'd run through a brick wall for the guy, and stil...

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Not going to pretend to be Robbins' pal or in his circle, but I know in limited conversations I had with him 2 years ago, in informal (dinner, drinks) settings, he kept saying he "liked" Sean but felt he was too hard on players, who were afraid to make a mistake/played "tight". He was pretty willing...

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I cheer for my school's team. So I'm in. I won't 2nd guess the coach...he didn't cause this mess. And i believe we were better with Miller. I also thought we should have kept Tomey (!) and was thrilled with Kevin Sumlin (?), so my record is clearly mixed. I will be very happy to be wrong.

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I am intrigued. I am also still upset about Miller being fired, and wonder how much more we had to pay to walk Lloyd back from the ledge, but at least I see potential in this hire, something sorely missing from the line that seemed to form behind him. If he is as successful as Miller, I'll be thrill...

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Jason Williams was about to pick up his 3rd foul by riding on Jason Gardner's back, and then the UofA President got involved. Oh shit. I was in Maloney's in Westwood watching this. I was in the Metrodome. My 1st Final Four. Said "I will be at every future Final Four we are in." Under 4 time out in ...

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Lloyd is the only potential "win" of the discussed candidates, and was, apparently, the reason for the move and, while I agree Robbins and Heeke are pretty bad at this, they do function as humans at some level and had a reason they fell in love with this guy. So here we go. Nowhere near a home run h...

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Pacific is a difficult place to win. For sure. But does Arizona want a coach that didn't do the improbable, but rather did the same thing the coaches before him did, at Pacific? Would we hire any of the other guys that did all they could do at difficult Pacific, winning 50% of their games? I mean, w...

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So, how are you guys doing? Awful. 2nd Pfizer shot when COVID positive-evel awful (sorry...bad joke. That happened to a friend tho. A doctor. Got really sick...nothing more, just miserable for a few days). Just...THE TIMING MAKES ZERO SENSE IF SEAN WAS WILLING TO COACH 21-22!!! Only got my first do...

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Thinking about donating my Arizona gear to charity in lieu of straight burning it. In my 2 hours of just losing my shit this morning, I got the mailing address for Robbins and planned on sending him a bunch of my recent hoops memorabilia with a note asking him to torch it like he did the Miller era...

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ChooChooCat wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 5:46 pm So, how are you guys doing?

Awful. 2nd Pfizer shot when COVID positive-evel awful (sorry...bad joke. That happened to a friend tho. A doctor. Got really sick...nothing more, just miserable for a few days).

Just...THE TIMING MAKES ZERO SENSE IF SEAN WAS WILLING TO COACH 21-22!!!

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I'm laughing at all the twitter comments asking for Pastner. That's the kind of people who want Miller gone I'm trying not to melt down too aggressively on FB under my real name. People are calling for Bibby, Geary, just any alum who coached at any level. Like how do you look at Mike Bibby being fi...

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if that's pushing rumors, I would expect the ABOR to have none of that. Would be pretty ballsy, even for Robbins, to do that to/put that on the ABOR, the one group that has some power.

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"Sources told ESPN that Arizona had been considering a contract extension for Miller, but the Board of Regents would not approve it because of the ongoing NCAA issues."

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ESPN just said we were going to extend but the ABOR wouldn't agree.

That would be news to me. But this is ESPN. So...

EVCat

The story looks so obvious here. Homer Drew lives in Arizona. Bryce Drew coaches in Arizona. Larry Drew played against the Suns here in Arizona. Scott Drew will be announced 3 days after Baylor's championship parade. He has done all he can do at a small Christian school in BF Texas. He's ready to ta...

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I just want to add some perspective on Sean's accomplishments at Arizona. I am contrasting this to Mark Few's as he is often called one of the best coaches in college basketball. Mark Few has been in 4 elite 8's since he has been at Gonzaga (20 years). It took him many years to get to his first. Sc...

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in the fantasy game of trying to figure out where we would be seeded if we made the tournament this year, I think it is important to consider motivation. The team had the tournament taken from them mid season. To think that didn't impact the outcome of a couple of close games is to not really unders...

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Thamels take: https://sports.yahoo.com/coaching-carousel-sean-miller-arizona-patrick-ewing-191946911.html 1....Here are the options: the school is going to decide to fire him, there will be a mutual parting of ways or some type of toothless extension lacking significant guaranteed money that would ...

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Barcello was never a catch and shoot 3 pt bomber. He was miscast here, and we simply had too much talent to let him be a primary ball handler who created his own shot. Add to it some family stuff that hit hard right as he got here, and him losing confidence, and he just needed a change. Still...funn...

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we need the tournament to happen to serve our ban. So...

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I always assumed Kriisa would be available by conference play, or by conference play after the weird early Colorado (cancelled) game.

This is when it matters, when the rotation usually tightens, yet we are minus Kerr and any real competition to know what the rotation should be

EVCat

A perfect season and we're still a bunch of Karens. WTF is wrong with us?? Our fanbase is spoiled. Undefeated into December, an average margin of victory of 19 and we still don't have two key contributors playing, newcomers coming up big on the stat sheet... What does it take to make this coddled f...

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I just saw this...hadn't visited in a while. Venmo on its way (or already there...not sure how instant it is). Thanks for continuing this board. I know Twitter and other social media are where much of the fandom has gone, and I participate there as well, but it seems less community-driven and more h...

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It simply doesn't happen without a therapeutic cocktail of meds that blunt the worst of the virus, antibody therapy, and/or a vaccine. We are closer to the first, but the second and third are moving along at a fantastic rate. Two vaccines into phase 3, eight through phase 2, and government money beh...

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Unpopular opinion perhaps: don't live in the city. Live in one of the terrific surrounding areas like Alameda or Berkeley or San Mateo. They're pricey too, but nothing like these ridiculous prices I'm seeing you guys mention. SF has changed, anyway. High end development has pushed out so much of th...

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He truly has no business playing basketball again. When discussing the trajectory of Arizona basketball the last 2 to 3 years, the impact of the really unprecedented losses of Brandon Williams and Ray Smith cannot be overstated. You add losing these two talented and bright kids to the rest of the s...

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Book stuff he pleaded guilty to. Like other schools like OK St who already received theirs, that's a Level 1 infraction. Arizona will receive that at minimum. It's the other stuff that we don't know what the NCAA will do. There might be some kind of "failure to promote atmosphere of compliance" lev...

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