Bear Down Wildcats

KaibabKat

If Arizona is still playing at the end of next week most will agree that Tommy Lloyd is an elite basketball coach. If not he will probably be considered an, aw shucks, fairly good coach.

KaibabKat

Salt Lake City is nice - altitude should have less impact on us than Long Beach AND there are far fewer opportunities to party hardy the night before games.

KaibabKat

A #2 seed means we are deemed to be one of the best eight teams in the country. Making the. Elite Eight will be meeting expectations. A Final Four, or better, and we exceed expectations. A sweet sixteen, or less, means we have not played up to expectations. Let the games begin.

KaibabKat

Well, what do you know - a D1 basketball team from Maricopa County, Arizona is going to the big dance. Nope, it isn't the Normal School.

KaibabKat

Arizona Player Efficiency Ratings (minimum 10 minutes played) in the 2024 postseason though 2 games:

32.7 Oumar Ballo
21.1 K.J. Lewis
20.9 Jaden Bradley
15.0 -----average D1 player---------
11.7 Pelle Larsson
11.1 Keshad Johnson
6.1 Motiejus Krivas
1.9 Kylan Boswell
-1.4 Caleb Love

KaibabKat

Best team won.

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There must be a terrible odor in that facility the way Arizona is stinking up the joint.

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How to blow a 14 point lead. Being outplayed and out-coached. Where is the Pac 12 player of the year?

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40 minute Bird Scores Wins vs. losses (change):

Ballo 29 vs. 21 (8)
Johnson 19 vs. 20 (+1)
Love 22 vs. 16 (6)
Krivas 20 vs. 14 (6)
Larsson 19 vs. 10 (9)
Bradley 12 vs. 9 (3)
Lewis 15 vs. 6 (9)
Boswell 18 vs. -2 (20)

KaibabKat

So far this season Arizona has lost 7 times. Is there a common denominator in those losses? Here are the average "40 minute Bird scores" (similar to PER) for our eight rotation players in those 7 games.

21 Ballo
20 Johnson
16 Love
14 Krivas
10 Larsson
9 Bradley
6 Lewis
-2 Boswell

KaibabKat

First one to 40 wins.

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I almost feel sorry for Bobby this year.

Almost.

KaibabKat

Team may have memory retention problems - Should have learned the same lesson(s) at Stanford or ar Oregon State weeks ago.

KaibabKat

There goes the #1 seed in the NCAA's.
There goes All American honors for Caleb.

KaibabKat

#1 seed?

Maybe in the Little Sisters of the Poor pickup tournament.

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S L O P P Y

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Chicat wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:16 pm Kaibab did you come up with that? Because that is super interesting.

Yes

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Everybody it seems has a different way of ranking teams from NET to a fairly sophisticated KenPom to the old eye test. Here are the current top 15 AP teams ranked a bit differently, and hopefully fairly. Each and every player on a given team is assigned a "value" by multiplying his Hollinger PER rat...

KaibabKat

"The top 16 teams, as selected by the committee, will host the first round games, provided they submit a bid and meet the minimum hosting requirements."

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WNIT may be an appropriate, and very fun, end to this challenging season.

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Spaghetti for everyone.

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Should have started Weitman second half...

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Oregon free throw defense was stellar in the first half.

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Boswell off the bench > Boswell starting.

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Take no prisoners.

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30 minutes in - out played and out coached on our home court.

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Why is it that all the Wildcat players are so handsome and all the Tempe Normal players so ugly?

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I thought TCU was in the WAC with the UA, but looking them up, they only shared one season. Quite a beat down by Texas Tech over the years. Looking them up, Texas Technological College won the Border Conference 16 times. Was in Lubbock for game when Arizona was highly ranked under Jim Young. The Ra...

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A.chance? You saying we got a chance?

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In control from the opening tip to the final buzzer. As it should be. Leaders of the Pac.

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If the "7 minute" rule is in effect Cats should win by 5.

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If Love keeps it up at this pace we are watching one of the all time greatest individual offensive performances by an Arizona Wildcat.

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Pelle Larsson is the best point guard on this team. Play him there.

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Over eight Pac-12 games Kylan's median player efficiency rating is 0 (as in zero, nothing, nada). I am willing to wager that there is not another starting point guard in all of D1 basketball that is that low over their entire conference season to date.

KaibabKat

Hope the team managers packed an extra supply of deodorant and air fresheners after the way this team played tonight.

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When your starting point guard actually has four negative PER's over eight Pac-12 games there should not really be any question what the biggest problem is for this team.

KaibabKat

This is ridiculous. The team ranked #172 by KenPom and we are struggling against them.

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Now, about the importance of the first four minutes of the second half....

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Boswell would not be a starter on at leaat eight pac-12 teams.

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Should not be this close.

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Did Boswell make the trip?

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Looks like we may have come ready to play.

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Player Efficiency Ratings:
9.4 Kerr Krissa
13.6 Kylan Boswell
15.0 Average D1 basketball player

KaibabKat

KaibabKat wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:54 pm IF we end up winning this thing it will be due to stellar free throw shooting by Ballo.

bump

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IF we end up winning this thing it will be due to stellar free throw shooting by Ballo.

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Any truth to the rumor that Cronin had Princeton develop the UCLA game plan today?

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P A T H E T I C

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Good thing we're a football school.

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Good thing we're a football school.

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