Bear Down Wildcats

At least ASU also lost.

And Lloyd joins the air ball squad

Merkin wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 2:09 pm Love, Lewis, Veesaar really stinking up the joint

Townsend was the biggest stinker today

No one will know that this was a 1 possession game with a few minutes left. Complete no show to end the game

Townsend was worst for sure - but love/ado/kj/veesar close behind

dmjcat wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 2:11 pm

Merkin wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 2:09 pm Love, Lewis, Veesaar really stinking up the joint

Townsend was the biggest stinker today

True, but I have very low expectations for Townsend.

Merkin wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 2:10 pm

dmjcat wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 2:09 pm I can't think of the last UA player that has regressed more in 1 season that Caleb Love.

$800K that could have been used for the ASU kid

Love was on the decline midway through conference play last year. I feel like he’s point shaving at this point

Xavier is up on Marquette

They just seem off. Can't really point to one thing.

Postmaster wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 2:13 pm Xavier is up on Marquette

Almost blew it, but nice upset by Xavier.

Getting out rebonded 50 - 34, ouch

Hopefully Stephen is serviceable next season

Team needs a visit from Sidney Freeman.

Merkin wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 2:10 pm

dmjcat wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 2:09 pm I can't think of the last UA player that has regressed more in 1 season that Caleb Love.

$800K that could have been used for the ASU kid

Or to keep Ballo. If we had Oumar in the lineup we would have at least 2, maybe 3 more wins. (Including today)

Postmaster wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 2:16 pm They just seem off. Can't really point to one thing.

Tough atmosphere, earlyish tip, a team that is probably more athletic than us, and a regression to the mean.

All that being said it was a one possession game for a good long while. But we never looked capable of taking command. And then our propensity to panic kicked in.

Last FG by the UA was 7:34. Did not score at all the last 5 minutes.

Love +/- -20.
Bradley +/- -15.

ADO had the only non-negative score at 0. Veesaar was only -2 which is surprising to me.

Keep saying this, but Lloyd won't listen to me, but whatever he is doing at the 8 minute mark, do the complete opposite.

You don’t coach a team to play differently at the 8:00 minute mark. “Hey guys gather around, this is the way we are going to play differently from the first 32 minutes…”

It had always been about effort & aggressiveness which leads to stops/rebounds and free throws. But if you can’t hit a FG for the last 7-8 minutes of the game it doesn’t matter what the coaches say…you are going to lose.

Love was supposed to be the go to scorer down the stretch but that obviously is not the case.

KaibabKat wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 2:27 pm Team needs a visit from Sidney Freeman.

Took me about 4 days to figure this out. Had to get Sherman and Peabody to get in the Way Back machine.