Bear Down Wildcats

No. 17/21 Arizona vs. Oregon State

Thursday, Jan. 11 at 7:00 p.m. (MST)
TV: Pac-12 Network (J.B. Long & Eddie House)
Radio: Arizona IMG Radio Network (Brian Jeffries & Ryan Hansen)

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BetOnline and TopBet have AZ @ -15.
Covers.com has AZ better in 6 of 7 categories. nt OSU is better in DEFENSE!!!

U of A big. 22 plus big. Buy the line up!

Cracking 1 (Jack and Coke)!

How the team responds this week will be very telling.....hopefully someone stands up and provides some damn leadership in the locker room. BTFD.

OSU plays a very competent zone.........I hope we are hitting 3's tonight otherwise it could be a long night.

Eddie house?

RondaeShimmy wrote:Eddie house?

That's what I was saying to my daughter. Who in the hell let him in our house ?

Ugh

That's some bad ball...

We look like complete shit

The Cats aren't even playing good enough to make any post-season tourney right now.

RondaeShimmy wrote:Eddie house?

Painful, isn’t it? Bad luck too.

We are putting in 0 effort.

How can we not constantly beat the zone with Ayton?

lol at getting outworked and outhustled again. I see the team has really regrouped since Boulder.

Miller's comments seemed to fall on deaf ears.

I guess Miller's words fell on deaf ears in the locker room

RondaeShimmy wrote:How can we not constantly beat the zone with Ayton?

We do. He’s shooting like 76% against the zone.

YoDeFoe wrote:

RondaeShimmy wrote:How can we not constantly beat the zone with Ayton?

We do. He’s shooting like 76% against the zone.

I know!

Settling for outside shots early

Hopefully we get that out of our system, soon.

Is RR coaching basketball? This seems like RR type of defense/team.

RondaeShimmy wrote:

YoDeFoe wrote:

RondaeShimmy wrote:How can we not constantly beat the zone with Ayton?

We do. He’s shooting like 76% against the zone.

I know!

Settling for outside shots early

Ayton's touched it like every fourth possession it seems

JFC Randolph

We need a point guard to penetrate and create. Damn, we need some energy. Drive and attack!@!!!

Inching back. . .

Randolph sloppy but I'll take the effort

Alkins not looking great

Randolph bringing “energy” if not execution, as previously noted.

YoDeFoe wrote:Randolph bringing “energy” if not execution, as previously noted.

That describes Lee, Smith also

RondaeShimmy wrote:

YoDeFoe wrote:Randolph bringing “energy” if not execution, as previously noted.

That describes Lee, Smith also

Ladies and gents: our bench.

Team plays so much better when Ristic is on the bench.

I feel like the Trier era needs to come to an end.

YoDeFoe wrote:

RondaeShimmy wrote:

YoDeFoe wrote:Randolph bringing “energy” if not execution, as previously noted.

That describes Lee, Smith also

Ladies and gents: our bench.

And the bench isn't great, but at least they have energy. Right now they are better than the starting 5.

WildcatStunner wrote:Team plays so much better when Ristic is on the bench.

Ristic is the best practice player per Miller. Not a gamer.

Ristic is just so limited. He makes shots but just kills momentum with slow defense and fumbling rebounds. Maddening. To reach our ceiling I don't think he can be a key contributor in March unless he plays limited minutes. He's such a liability.

Catintheheat wrote:

YoDeFoe wrote:

RondaeShimmy wrote:

YoDeFoe wrote:Randolph bringing “energy” if not execution, as previously noted.

That describes Lee, Smith also

Ladies and gents: our bench.

And the bench isn't great, but at least they have energy. Right now they are better than the starting 5.

Depressing

How is it that with our size advantage and teams always playing zone that we do not kill teams on the offensive boards?

zonagrad wrote:We need a point guard to penetrate and create. Damn, we need some energy. Drive and attack!@!!!

Well, if the NCAA doesn't slap us with probation/tourney ban in the offseason you will get your wish next year with Williams. If they do you will get Barcello (scary thought)

Alieberman wrote:I feel like the Trier era needs to come to an end.

Addition by subtraction with all of our upperclassmen. Poor players and leaders. No effort coming off a bad loss and public shaming by SM.

We have turned into a team of chuckers.

jsbowl16 wrote:How is it that with our size advantage and teams always playing zone that we do not kill teams on the offensive boards?

Because Miller doesn't know how to play against a zone............period

(2) 7 footers and we are chucking up 3s.

This is the stupidest team I've ever seen.

Alright Keith Hernandez

Tinkle has both feet on the court at least half the time.

Stop shooting threes!!!

Need a player to take charge. I normally would want that player to be the point guard, but that isn't going to happen. Trier or Alkins simply need to take command and decide we are going to attack, under control. Attack the paint, drive the ball, dish the ball to Ayton or any open teammate.

We are playing so tight. I have no doubt we'll win this game. But Trier & Alkins need to relax and enjoy the game and just go. They're so out of sync.

Good play on both ends by Akot...

Game.

Tinkle is owning in iso. Zo can't guard him.

Team isn't very good are they