Bear Down Wildcats

ChooChooCat

FTR I have long wondered why Scheer couldnt tell us what was going on during the offseason.

It's the way Lloyd and staff operates. Hell when Miller was in charge, me, a literal dipshit that goes by ChooChooCat, knew about Kerr Kriisa roughly 3-4 months before he became an official commitment ...

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Okay, so just a quick sanity check on my scorecard at the moment. So, we've got Bradley returning in the backcourt, the 5-star freshmen (Burries, Aristode, and Peat), and Krivas returning at center, with Awaka and Dell'Orso also as returning veterans. Then you've got debatable contributions from ...

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AZCatGirl wrote: Wed May 14, 2025 7:41 pm Apparently it's not over yet:

It's over.

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Alieberman wrote: Wed May 14, 2025 12:33 pm We will now see soon if the "player in waiting" was all smoke or not?

It’s not.

ChooChooCat

Were all the Euros that have flamed out to date for Lloyd soft?

I had much bigger issues with their lack of shooting and defensive/rebounding chops than softness. Oh and to be honest on-court idiocy regarding Kriisa.

Pelle in particular was pretty darn tough.

To be honest the issue literally ...

ChooChooCat

Also- are we still assuming this plan B player is not yet in the portal? I believe that means they would have to be a grad transfer, and we would not be able to contact them until after the dead period right?

The portal is closed, if we are to take a portal guy it has to be one in there now. I ...

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SunnyAZ wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 4:45 pm Should go after this guy. Sure he's 22 and has already been draft eligible but he'd be the best player on the lol

https://x.com/gsole14/status/1919456371981828345

There's not a world that exists where Arizona can afford him. Hell we can't even afford Dame Sarr lol.

ChooChooCat

If what I heard for possible CB replacements is accurate, I wouldn’t expect ADO to start, assuming Arizona wraps up one of the options.

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NickyBCats wrote: Wed Apr 30, 2025 10:55 am So is this the backup plan for CB?

Don't believe so.

ChooChooCat

Obviously I prefer Carter to come back, but if not- the best option I’ve seen so far is sarr. We now have a little more versatility in the front court, and having sarr allows us to go 3 guards without one of them being ADO.

I don’t hate ADO, just not a fan of him starting halves against ...

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Postmaster wrote: Wed Apr 30, 2025 6:31 pm Do we think Sarr is waiting on CB's decision?

I don't think Sarr is in the conversation at all for us to fill CB's spot due to everything that Winger has said above me. He's far too expensive.

ChooChooCat

Obviously I prefer Carter to come back, but if not- the best option I’ve seen so far is sarr. We now have a little more versatility in the front court, and having sarr allows us to go 3 guards without one of them being ADO.

I don’t hate ADO, just not a fan of him starting halves against the ...

ChooChooCat

Think you all can bank on Bryant not coming back.

Time to move on to: who plays the 3 for Lloyd next season?

If I had to guess, it'll be somebody not living on this continent at the moment.

You thinking Sarr? Or just speaking in generalities?

Could be Sarr for all I know, but just ...

ChooChooCat

Obviously I prefer Carter to come back, but if not- the best option I’ve seen so far is sarr. We now have a little more versatility in the front court, and having sarr allows us to go 3 guards without one of them being ADO.

I don’t hate ADO, just not a fan of him starting halves against the ...

ChooChooCat

College paying more than the pro’s. Who’d a thunk that

College is definitely a more guaranteed income at this point. There are just way more spots than the NBA.

Shit man, if someone wanted to pay me $50k to play basketball at UA plus give me a free education I’d jump on it. Better ...

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Lando05 wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 3:07 pm
ChooChooCat wrote: Thu Apr 24, 2025 2:44 pm
TheCat wrote: Sat Apr 12, 2025 10:58 pm Any ideas who it might be?
Yes.
Is it a coach who used to be on Rodney Terry's staff?

Si.

ChooChooCat

Winger wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 10:35 pm Think you all can bank on Bryant not coming back.

Time to move on to: who plays the 3 for Lloyd next season?

If I had to guess, it'll be somebody not living on this continent at the moment.

ChooChooCat

TheCat wrote: Sat Apr 12, 2025 10:58 pm Any ideas who it might be?

Yes.

ChooChooCat

Lloyd, for anyone that hasn’t seen this, “fully expects” Carter Bryant to do the NBA testing deal.

And, in potentially tangentially related news, former Lloyd Team USA SF Shelton Henderson has just decommitted from Duke.

Edit: oh and I forgot …. and though I do not know who the player was, I ...

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Winger wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 5:10 pm
TheCat wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2025 3:00 pm Exactly what do YOU know about Nelson's defense?
I know he can't play it at this level.

Same as ADO.

Arizona is going need Aristode to be good and immediately.

ChooChooCat

I don’t understand what makes people think players won’t improve some from year to year?

I think Tommy has a pretty good record of developing dudes

There's things that can be improved on of course, but ADO's physical limitations will always remain limitations. Effort and basketball IQ are not ...

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What do you all make of this revenue-sharing information?

“If approved, schools will be permitted to directly pay athletes through about $20.5 million in revenue sharing during the 2025-26 athletic year.

“In addition, nearly $2.8 billion will be set aside as back-pay damages for athletes dating ...

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Postmaster wrote: Tue Apr 08, 2025 9:25 pm Does James suck? He hardly gets any mention.

He doesn't start for his HS team. He can shoot 3s and that's about it at this point in time.

ChooChooCat

Well something is wrong if her agent was contacted and she had no interest. Much bigger budget, better Womens basketball fan base, could easily double her salary. Big XII isn’t exactly the most difficult women’s conference. I guess she could have her eye on Stanford

She wanted around the money ...

ChooChooCat

How soon before Tommy jumps to a program with more money?

Imo that isn't very likely but we could use one of those hands off secretive booster collectives for certain.

It certainly isn't happening any time soon. Nova offered him the job and the phone call lasted no more than a minute from ...

ChooChooCat

Thanks Choo and man this board has been center since Winger/Choo/JMJ/Dirtbags came back.

I knew he had a main squeeze but didn’t know she was softball affiliated. Does she have ties to North Carolina? She should just stay in Tucson and they can go off to the NBA together.

I liked what I saw out ...

ChooChooCat

Getting Burries would definitely be the win we need with all the portal news. Maybe help convince anyone else from jumping ship because of how good we'll be?

The guys that have left don't care about how good we are going to be, they have other priorities. Veesaar is the only one that could ...

ChooChooCat

Getting Burries would definitely be the win we need with all the portal news. Maybe help convince anyone else from jumping ship because of how good we'll be?

The guys that have left don't care about how good we are going to be, they have other priorities. Veesaar is the only one that could come ...

ChooChooCat

I am probably missing something obvious, and I have ownership of ideas at play when it comes to Martinez (dude can't play at this level), but can someone explain why it is that Lloyd takes a player and gives him a scholarship when he knows he isn't good enough to play and will accordingly transfer ...

ChooChooCat

Monday has now come and gone. I expected to see announcements on what coaches are let go and.....nothing.

Outrageous if we're expected to witness another year of this same staff continuing to fail.

At this point expect only Babers, Akina, and Gonzales gone.

If you feel that’s a waste of ...

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azcat49 wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 6:57 am Only three? Man I would jettison about 4 more. I would also let those coordinators bring in their own position coaches

Yup, but the guys from San Jose State are just too good to let go or something. Truthfully the only assistant that should keep his job is probably Carter. Everybody else can go.

ChooChooCat

Absolutely no one can argue that CBB Did a good job. His team looked undisciplined, unmotivated, potentially poorly conditioned, poorly prepared and executed poorly. You certainly could say that it is hard to think that those things will change in a season.

I do though wonder if Babers was ...

ChooChooCat

Monday has now come and gone. I expected to see announcements on what coaches are let go and.....nothing.

Outrageous if we're expected to witness another year of this same staff continuing to fail.

At this point expect only Babers, Akina, and Gonzales gone.

If you feel that’s a waste of ...

ChooChooCat

Absolutely no one can argue that CBB Did a good job. His team looked undisciplined, unmotivated, potentially poorly conditioned, poorly prepared and executed poorly. You certainly could say that it is hard to think that those things will change in a season.

I do though wonder if Babers was forced ...

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From Nick Fowles via twitter:

I wanted to share some thoughts to my AZ Wildcats out there. I'm glad Coach Brent Brennan will be back at the UofA. I got to spend several days with him and really enjoyed my time. It was obvious the love he has for Wildcat nation and those roots run deep. I know ...

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Not a lot to like about anything in Arizona Athletics sans the Triathlon program as of late.

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Purdue just fired their coach after going 1-11 in his second year. I can certainly see CBB coaching us to a similar record next year. So our next coach will take over a program in about the same condition as Fisch did

Purdue just had the worst season of any team in the Big10 going back like ...

ChooChooCat

Scheer said on the post-game the rumor is he's back next season and DRF is gonna make an announcement

Good

100% the right call unless you have an absolute no doubt home run hire waiting and it is 100% he will accept and will 100% succeed

That's such a dumb way to look at it. The best ...

ChooChooCat

Scheer said on the post-game the rumor is he's back next season and DRF is gonna make an announcement

Good

100% the right call unless you have an absolute no doubt home run hire waiting and it is 100% he will accept and will 100% succeed

That's such a dumb way to look at it. The best hire ...

ChooChooCat

Tommy can have an absolutely shit year due to poor roster construction and still be the long term right guy. He can't let obviously glaring issues like not having a starting guard that can shoot consistently happen again though. All 3 of our guards in a vacuum are great players we would always ...

ChooChooCat

If I'm remembering correctly, Love's NIL was for Love specifically, as in it would not be there to spread around to other people.

Story I heard is that the money came from a single “booster” and was earmarked specifically for Love. The day I heard that I posted and told everyone I knew ...

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Beachcat97 wrote: Sat Nov 23, 2024 8:41 am Sounds like the honeymoon is over.

Still almost a whole season ahead of us, but man, this team looked pretty unimpressive last night. And Duke didn't even look that good, imo.

If you hold a team under 70 in McKale you should win every single time.

ChooChooCat

If I'm remembering correctly, Love's NIL was for Love specifically, as in it would not be there to spread around to other people.

Story I heard is that the money came from a single “booster” and was earmarked specifically for Love. The day I heard that I posted and told everyone I knew close ...

ChooChooCat

You think the ‘SC, much, tOSU, ND, etc etc are gonna agree to profit sharing?

Pass me some of what your smoking…

No, I suspect that the Big 2 conferences will never agree to profit sharing, and I don't think that there is much hope of getting a law through Congress to force it. As a result I ...

ChooChooCat

This is a very poorly constructed team.

ChooChooCat

Let’s keep bragging about that recruiting class guys. This is just the beginning by the way.

https://twitter.com/terrydifferent/status/1856834505837088902

Are you that clueless???

You do realize he's decommitting to a Power 2 conference school (SEC) with about 10x the NIL$$$$$$$$ we have ...

ChooChooCat

Winger wrote: Sat Nov 16, 2024 6:20 pm ASU 21
KSU 0

Maybe the ninja move for DRF is to allow Brennan to coach vs the Devils knowing we’re going to get smoked.

Everything points to ASU steamrolling us regardless who coaches, but if you want to fire him you just can’t take the risk he pulls off a miracle.

ChooChooCat

Also Dell Orso, who played mostly in his stead, is a huge defensive liability.

Outside of the officials and Love this was story #3 for me last night.

Arizona came in to this season with a bunch of questions, one of the most significant being outside shooting.

So, ADO addresses that for ...

ChooChooCat

If CBB is let go it will be traced solely to his decision to hire Babers. I still wonder if he was prompted by a few of the boosters in that choice.

This win will hold off the naysayers for a week but he has to win next week. He is notDRF’s guy and she won’t let him become that.

If he makes ...

ChooChooCat

Let’s keep bragging about that recruiting class guys. This is just the beginning by the way.

https://twitter.com/terrydifferent/status/1856834505837088902

Are you that clueless???

You do realize he's decommitting to a Power 2 conference school (SEC) with about 10x the NIL$$$$$$$$ we have ...

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