Bear Down Wildcats

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CB should test the water to see if he can work his easy into the lottery. It's a relatively weak class, so not impossible. But most draft boards have CB no higher than 20. And if that's the case, he should come back. Could have a Benn Marhurin type sophomore season and be a guaranteed lottery pick.

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Too many defensive deficiencies all year. Especially against teams with size. Like the fight in this team, but can't allow a team to shoot 60%, give up possibly 100, and win.

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I think 64 was perfect. Who cares if it means less at large.

This X 1000%

I would actually prefer they go back to 48 like it was for years. No seed lower than 11 has ever made the Final Four, and the lowest seed to win it all was an 8.

Based off the Final Four and Champions, this is a ...

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I think 64 was perfect. Who cares if it means less at large.

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I still don't comprehend how the some play-in games are 11 seeds and some are 16.

The last 4 auto qualifiers are the teams that play the two games against teams seeded at 16. The last four ar-large teams are the ones that usually play as 11 seeds. Occasionally, they might be 12 seeds, but that ...

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IMNSHO, Akron to the teams that needs to "adjust", not Arizona...

I rarely agree with Machina, but we are all in sync on this. Why does Arizona have to be the one to adjust? Like someone posted above, Akron is quite short: At No. 361 in effective height

This is going to be the real concern ...

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Akron vs. Arizona looks like a classic mid-major versus P1 tournament game. Arizona has the size and athleticism, but Akron is scrappy and plays a lot of guys that aren't afraid to shoot from the outside. I'd like to see us run everything through Awaka to start. Unless the shot is an open dunk or ...

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The Zags can beat Houston. Hard to bet against Few in a short turnaround game. That's provided Gonzaga can get by UGA. Not an easy game.

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I can't watch this team. No matter how big a lead we build, we're guaranteed to crumble and let teams back in. So fucking frustrated. No lead is safe.

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The BIG12 Tournament court. Are they supposed to be playing basketball or Q-Bert? I can't tell.

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We took 2 out of 3 against ranked teams in a neutral setting, and beat a traditional power Rice in their house. Very successful trip. Winning today would've been icing, but just not in the cards.

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Pitino Jr. would be an interesting hire. But if Pitino Sr. has any input, he'll tell Jr. to pass. Pitino Sr. told Billy Donovan not to take the Florida job. Florida was a place where successful basketball coaches went to retire or move on to greener pastures. It wasn't a destination job like ...

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TT, ADO, and Martinez can't play at the top level. Doesn't mean they can't play a few minutes and give the guys who can play at this level a rest. Because players like Love, Bradley, and KJ can't play at a top level for 38 minutes a game apiece. Much better to give TT and ADO 10 to 15 minutes a game ...

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We need Townsend to eat up 15-20 minutes and his 5 fouls. When the bench is really short, and you know you need to play long minutes, you tend to let up a little on D so you don't get into foul trouble. You also want to save yourself a bit to have energy on O. Have Townsend eat up 8-10 minutes a ...

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Nice to see Love, when he didn't have a great shooting night, not hang his head and play balls out D all game. And he had 6 assists.

Great game by both teams. TTech is for real.

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PAC-12 Network was also available on Sling. And many of the local sports watering holes around the Gilbert area where I live. ESPN+? It freezes on me every damn game I watch on it, and I've yet to find a bar that subscribes to + on a regular basis. If anyone has any recommendations in the Gilbert ...

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Thought I saw Townsend on the bench, celebrating, at the end of the game. Probably kept him out as a potential concussion protocol. I assume, if he passes a few tests, he should be good to go.

Townsend and ADO are who they are. You hope players like this have improved since high school enough to be ...

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I like that each player is ready to take and make a big shot. Love's 3 when BYU took a lead was clutch. But it was Jaden's corner 3 that turned out to be the dagger!

Great game plan too. When playing a great 3-point shooting team, run them ragged when they play D, and run them off the 3-point line ...

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Kudos to Bryant. Played his ass off, hit a huge shot, and bear hugged Love after the head butt to keep Love from doing something worse.

Classless move by Crybaby Hurley. The BIG12 should fine him.

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2.3 seconds. You have time for two dribbles before the shot. Iowa St. did the right thing playing prevent D for no long passes. But they could have fouled Love between dribbles. Impossible for him to be in the act of shooting if it's time correctly. Easier said than done. Would have also fouled with ...

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We need ADO out there for a few minutes to try and stretch the D. He's our best outside shooter, and when he's hitting, the offense is more than efficient enough to make up for his defensive struggles. When ADO isn't hitting his shot, like last night, he's too much of a defensive liability. But it's ...

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Why can't we play a decent 40 minutes any game? We have these braindead stretches every game where for 5+ minutes, we just play idiot ball.

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When I think of Townsend, I think of an old baseball term. A, "4-A Player". This guy tears up AAA, but struggles in the Majors. And just when you think you should send him back down to the minors, he shows flashes of brilliance and you think now he'll finally play up to his potential...only for him ...

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I get the math. Have a big lead late, slow the game down and limit the number of possessions your opponent has. But when we go in "prevent offense" mode, we lose our intensity and focus on D. We also give up too many easy baskets on turnovers and allow our opponent a chance to get comfortable. Maybe ...

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Baylor is a very good team. We turned down the D intensity early in the 2nd half and let them get comfortable. But we knew all we needed was to run time, hit our FTs, and have one, good defensive stand to win. And that's just what we did.

Losing focus with big leads has been a problem this year ...

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Getting Salave'a back home to Tucson is quite a coup in my opinion. He coached some great players and teams at Oregon and Miami. He can also help open and keep Polynesian pipelines coming to Tucson. Honestly, I'm surprised Salave'a's name hasn't come up for some mid-major head coach openings, and he ...

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We're about 12 - 15 years away from retirement. Starting the conversations now. We know staying in Gilbert/Phoenix is not an option. Just too hot here in the summers. We're also not snow people. We love Show Low/Pinetop, but not in the winter.

Tucson is an option, but also hot. We love the central ...

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I don't mind the rotation. It's working. KJ and Bryant are our top NBA prospects, especially with Mo out, and both can be game changers off the bench. So is Veesaar.

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Out in transition, we're deadly. In the halfcourt, we're flat, and fall in love too much with the 3 ball. Some of our best halfcourt offense in the 2nd half was when we ran pick and rolls and got the ball inside.

I know it's their style, but I doubt we see too many teams try to speed us up like ...

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Miller's teams never lacked toughness. Tommy's teams, unfortunately, have a habit of only playing 25-30 minutes a game. And it's those time when you are struggling you need to be tough, play great D and maybe get yourself an easy transition bucket to right the ship.

No coach is perfect, and Miller ...

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We are not a tournament team this year. Feast on cupcakes, but 0-fer against real teams. And the BIG12 has a lot of real teams that will eat us up and spit us out. Not sure what's wrong, but we look bad against decent competition. Real bad.

Yes we are

For fuck sake

If the tournament ...

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We are not a tournament team this year. Feast on cupcakes, but 0-fer against real teams. And the BIG12 has a lot of real teams that will eat us up and spit us out. Not sure what's wrong, but we look bad against decent competition. Real bad.

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ASu gets out to hot starts. But in their last two games at K-State and against BYU, the game got closer in the 2nd half and ASu held on to win. If we can avoid the disaster start, we have a chance. If ASu gets out to a quick lead and we're down two plus scores before the the band has had a chance to ...

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The season is over. Biggest disappointment season since 1999? Too be ranked to start the season and not make a bowl? And with some NFL talent on the roster? Unacceptable.

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Another half with 7 or less points. Fucking pathetic.

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Losing both lines of scrimmage again. Throw in undisciplined D and an offense stuck in 1986, and the crap product in the field speaks for itself. I'm out. If rather watch my dog shit on the lawn.

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Another half of scoring 7 or less. How many halves fit this description this year?

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I know. Let's run a slow developing counter play! It's guaranteed to not get us more than 2 yards every time!

This is worse than Tomey.

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Their FG kicker hit from 45 already that could've been good from 55. So a 30 yard kick is a chip shot. So 4th and 2, chip shot, play for the fake!!! It was so fucking obvious the fake was coming. But our coaching staff? Fucking morons!

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How is there a WV player wide fucking open on every pass play?

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D staff isn't as bad as the O staff. But hard to really tell. Get a lead on us and teams can run vanilla, safe stuff the rest of the game.

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This staff is awful. I'm talking Mackovic, Canales, Sumlin level bad.

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Cool helmet. But when's the last time we won with an alternative helmet?

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O-line was supposed to be a strength. They stink. And the play calling isn't helping. Slow developing runs, and slower developing pass plays. Results speak for themselves. 1 TD a game is awful.

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The O-line has been a disappointment so far. We got manhandled by both the K-State and TTech defenses, especially the first half against Tech. But somehow, we played great against Utah? The inconsistency makes no sense.

The playcalling has also been suspect. Up 1 late in the 4th quarter against ...

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Left too many points in the field. Don't deserve to win when you score only 1 td with 6 fg attempts.

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What a pathetic display of football. Maybe the worst half yet. Followed a good effort at Utah and let TTech run over us like their an NFL team and we're a high school team? We should ashamed.

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I'm hopeful that the bye week helped this team gel, and we'll get the type of effort we saw in SLC the rest of the year. A lot of the players are the same, but remember, the coaching staff is not. And the players and coaches just didn't feel like they were always on the same page the first three ...

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Sunset for Oct 5 is around 6:00 PM in Tucson. Temperature difference between 7:00 PM and 8:00 PM will be negligible. The one hour difference for those of us who live in the Phoenix metro area, is not. And viewership numbers will likely be down as well, as the game starts at 11:00 PM Eastern, and won ...

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Good news the game will be on Fox. Bad news, kickoff is at 8:00 PM. https://www.azdesertswarm.com/football/ ... big12-2024

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