Bear Down Wildcats

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UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:00 am
Beachcat97 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:39 am This will be interesting: which was the best AZ backcourt to not make a Final Four? Not necessarily the best overall team, just the best backcourt.
TJ and Nick

Better than our defending championship team in ‘98? Backcourt was Simon, Bibby, Terry and Dickerson.

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This will be interesting: which was the best AZ backcourt to not make a Final Four? Not necessarily the best overall team, just the best backcourt.

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I hope he goes nowhere. He has struggled in the latter part of the season by let's not forget that two games ago he scored 20 in the tournament. Percentage wise I think he is still our top 3 point shooter but could be wrong. We had shots just couldn't make them. Don’t think you can run Boswell back...

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I just hate the day after being knocked out. BTW, I might be gone from this board awhile. After my “reactions” last night my family feels I should be institutionalized. It’s just hard - and increasingly numbing - to see this happen again and again and again. We are officially the “Team That Can’t W...

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I’ll have only fond memories of Caleb’s one season with this program. He’s a good dude, and he’s going to play professionally somewhere.

Thanks, Caleb! Bear down forever!

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So the point I'd make about TJ is that even with him as our PG, surrounded by future NBA players, we still couldn't get to the FF. One tough loss against Wisconsin in OT, followed by another loss to the Badgers in a game that wasn't as close as the final score suggests. Even with one of the best PGs...

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I think it's true that elite guards are maybe the most precious asset in college hoops. This is why Houston deserves to be considered as much of a favorite as UConn and Purdue.

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There was clearly something off with the team's mental preparation, readiness and resilience today. The team I just watched lose to Clemson -- fucking CLEMSON! -- is not the same team I saw win game after game after game this year, against much teams than Clemson. Not to take anything away from Cle...

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There was clearly something off with the team's mental preparation, readiness and resilience today. The team I just watched lose to Clemson -- fucking CLEMSON! -- is not the same team I saw win game after game after game this year, against much teams than Clemson. Not to take anything away from Clem...

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Carcassdragger wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:25 pm Couldn't hit fucking layups, or threes. What a fucking horrible performance and a failure by the staff to sdjust when the threes weren't dropping.

Outplayed and outcoached.

Horrible. Just horrible.

This.

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It's crazy how year after year after year, Arizona shows up in the tourney and has one of their worst games of the season. Sometimes it's the 2nd round, sometimes later. Sometimes it's even the 1st round against an Ivy League team. Game isn't over yet. But so far, only Bradley, Lewis and Ballo are d...

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azcat49 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:03 pm Clemson has NEVER trailed in 2.5 games. Teams are shooting 11-58 from three against them. That is insane

And yet, does their defense really look all that smothering to you?

I see Arizona making a ton of unforced errors and taking bad shots.

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The toughest pill to swallow is that Clemson is not a very good team.

Arizona is not playing like the team we've all watched this year.

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A blowout win would make me lose my voice; a close game would be hard on my heart.

LFG!!!

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CalStateTempe wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:23 pm Those ghosts of whisky, Wichita State, Buffalo, Xavier, are hitting hard today.

The closest game time we get, the more nervous I feel

We're not adding Clemson to that list.

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CalStateTempe wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:23 pm Those ghosts of whisky, Wichita State, Buffalo, Xavier, are hitting hard today.

The closest game time we get, the more nervous I feel

Can't let their bigs get going. And our bigs have to avoid foul trouble.

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U.P. Zona Fan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:39 am We are 7 point faves, we've covered our tourney games, if we keep that up we win.

Need to start covering by more than 1 though.

Just win. I never bet on AZ, so the line is meaningless to me.

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Great call out. I like these graphics but I think the author struggles with correlation vs causation I like them too but I struggle with why folks still use overall tempo or pace as any kind of marker for playing well/efficient. If you have a good defense your tempo is going to be slower. If you ha...

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azcat49 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:17 am I am so excited and really nervous at the same time. I don’t want it to end. We deserve a shot at the promised land

This is exactly how I feel, azcat. I want to see this team keep going.

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Here are the 2024 sweet sixteen TEAM rankings. Each and every player is given a "value" determined by his Hollinger PER multiplied by the PERCENT of minutes he has played for the team. The TEAM value is the sum of the player values. 2087 UConn 2051 Gonzaga 1984 Purdue 1927 Houston 1918 Arizona 1916...

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TheCat wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:27 pm Looks likely Andy to SMU......who will USC turn to? On another note...WSU's AD just went to Washington and is Jedd new boss.

Pasternack?

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On the eve of another S16 for our Proud Tradition, I'll just say that I've had as much fun watching this team play as any over the past 10-15 years. They're a tight-knit group, and that kind of chemistry starts with our coach. In three years, Tommy has already brought us right back to the level we e...

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Strange choice, imo.

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Jordan Pope from OSU has entered the portal.

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Wow. Get that money, CC!!

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It didn’t hit me till this morning that if we win tomorrow, we play either Caleb’s or Jaden’s former team.

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gouacats wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:38 pm I was more worried about Dayton than I am about Clemson. This worries me...

I completely understand this sentiment.

If we don’t bring our best game, Clemson can win. It’s pretty simple.

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I know Tommy's not going to start Bradley. Maybe a more productive conversation is considering how quickly Bradley should enter the game, if KB gets off to a rough start. So Boswell scores 20 in the first game, struggles and it is now time to replace him and potentially screw up team chemistry and ...

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cerec_cat wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:58 pm Clemson looks scary tough to me

They're dangerous. They're playing with house money because no one expected them to be here. And no one expects them to beat Arizona.

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Is SMU actually a better job than USC? If so, USC is much, much lower in the hoops pecking order than I realized. Big Ten school in the Los Angeles market. That should put it, at a minimum, equal to something like Ohio St hoops. SMU's old-money Dallas, and they've been coming on of late in football...

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It’s crazy the path Sampson has traveled. While at WA ST he was a popular choice to replace Lute if Lute had left for KY. Instead he goes to OK and things don’t go that well. He gets in trouble with NCAA. Then he appears at HOU and turns them into a contender for multiple years. I'm impressed with ...

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Would love to get some breakdown of match-ups going here! Hall and "Chef" are the main weapons on offense, but those guards can be dangerous as well. They kept Baylor at bay for most of the game before almost blowing it in the final minutes. Baylor couldn't make a shot until near the end. If we shoo...

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I love the Bradley/JT comparison.

I'm even old enough to remember the key contributions of Jordin Mayes in the 2011 tournament. Also a young guard like JB.

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I know Tommy's not going to start Bradley.

Maybe a more productive conversation is considering how quickly Bradley should enter the game, if KB gets off to a rough start.

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I get all of that.

Also, start Bradley.

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Start Bradley.

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Is SMU actually a better job than USC?

If so, USC is much, much lower in the hoops pecking order than I realized.

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Az kenpom ranking 6th Adjusted defense 12th Adjusted offense 8th Adjusted tempo 16th Clemson Kenpom 31st Adj defense 67th Adj offense 27th Adjusted tempo 260th Not sure why NM and Baylor shot only 9-47 from the three in their losses to Clemson but if we shoot anywhere near our average, we should wi...

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I was at UofA from '96 to '01, so I was there for some INCREDIBLE teams. AZ hoops is the only sports team I follow closely. Pro sports just seems to get worse each year. I think the tradition that Coach Olson established is alive and well, and I thank our lucky stars we've been able to hire two outs...

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Maybe Sampson????? Who knows but some think it might be Cronin. If they don't hurry they might have to pay that buyout to get him. Can you imagine that guy costing you $16M in buyout. Louisville has lost it's mind. Cronin isn't going anywhere. His buyout is too expensive. Also...Cronin? Really? And...

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Is there a team you've watched in the tourney that you thought to yourself, "yeah, Arizona couldn't beat these guys"? Of the teams remaining, I feel like UConn and Houston are scariest. The only reason I leave off Purdue is because I can't see Loyer and Smith going 9-16 from 3 again against us. Tomm...

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If we do face them, this could be significant considering out starting PG is barely old enough for his bar mitzvah. Not according to the fake ID he showed that Vegas pit boss. ;) :lol: I'm gonna take a flyer on young Kylan. His play hasn't been at the level we need, but he's a talented player and h...

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The best coaches were always going after the top rated talent, but that hasn't been working, as John Calipari is starting to realize. The transfer portal is important, but recruiting players who want to follow the process is important too. Calipari's time has passed. He's gotten increasingly peevis...

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RondaeShimmy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:56 am Would you guys rather have Cody Williams, top 5-10 recruit, Kwame Evans, top 20 recruit, or Keshad Johnson for one year? (Both of these kids turned Tommy down last year)

Feel like this is virtually a rhetorical question, but Keshad. No question.

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I think it just depends on the players you get when it comes to Euros. You can say most aren't built for the physicality of the American game but Pelle sure as hell is built like a tank. The thing with Tommy is that he casts too wide a net with his international recruiting. It's his crutch, his sec...

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Hall and “Chef” on Clemson are a handful. Ballo, Krivas and Keshad have to avoid picking up early fouls.

They’re a very solid team, as good as any we’ve seen the last few weeks.

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Clemson looks better to me, not just because they’re ahead but because they make fewer mistakes and don’t rely on one guy for offense. But…Clemson is not as fast/athletic as Baylor, so I’d love our chances of speeding Clemson up, turning them over and running them off the court. Could be Boswell’s r...

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Baylor is not a good defensive team, so there’s that.

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Do we know if AZ plays first or second on Thursday?

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Alieberman wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:08 pm I fucking love everything about Tommy Lloyd

S16 in two of his first three seasons, and he's got us on the threshold of an E8 right now.

BTFD!

Watching games from Austin, TX, this weekend. Incredible city if any of ya'll haven't been before.

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