Bear Down Wildcats

12-25.

3PT 4-16 not so great either.

Good shooting is for teams that don't know how to grab rebounds.

We'll be fine...two very good FT shooting bigs, SJ can shoot FTs and will get a ton, and TJ is capable of being another 70+% shooter.

Opening game jitters. This team doesn't scare me at the line like AG and freshman Rondae did last year.

yes please

Do this every game and March will be fun.

29 of 34

Best part of the game. Other shots sure weren't falling.

3 games in a row we've shot it well. I really do think we've turned the corner.

71.4% tonight

87% after missing the first 5.

Gotta make those 1and1's though. That is an extra few missed free throws in my book. But yea I'm not complaining tonight.

Sorry, but not entirely a clutch team yet. Did not like those misses from Stanley, TJ and York in the final two minutes.

catgrad97 wrote:Sorry, but not entirely a clutch team yet. Did not like those misses from Stanley, TJ and York in the final two minutes.

what DO you like? anything?

dcZONAfan wrote:

catgrad97 wrote:Sorry, but not entirely a clutch team yet. Did not like those misses from Stanley, TJ and York in the final two minutes.

what DO you like? anything?

Shooters. High basketball IQ. 40 minutes of desire.

The ability to know when a team is about to be put away and stepping on their throats.

Most of all, I'd like to gag the next ESPN talking head who tries to say the SEC is "clearly No. 1" in both basketball and football. It happened tonight with that studio nimrod next to Williams and Greenberg.

catgrad97 wrote:

dcZONAfan wrote:

catgrad97 wrote:Sorry, but not entirely a clutch team yet. Did not like those misses from Stanley, TJ and York in the final two minutes.

what DO you like? anything?

Shooters. High basketball IQ. 40 minutes of desire.

The ability to know when a team is about to be put away and stepping on their throats.

Most of all, I'd like to gag the next ESPN talking head who tries to say the SEC is "clearly No. 1" in both basketball and football. It happened tonight with that studio nimrod next to Williams and Greenberg.

Dude you try way too hard to sound cerebral.

Have you not watched all the games this year.? This team has flaws that can be fixed ... but I don't think their toughness is in question. At least not to date.

shot 71% from the line. Hit 6 of 8 to close out a game.

That is all.

Yeah, after all those misses early, including usually reliable Tarzewski (wasn't he very solid last season?), the end line from the charity stripe was actually pretty good. Acceptable even. It just seemed like we missed a bunch because they were all consecutive early on.

Free-throws were pretty awful yesterday. Don't give me the 6-8 at the end or 71% (which is not good enough to win in the NCAA or against elite teams). Missing the front end of one and one is just as bad as missing two. Also anytime you miss a clutch free-throw (in my opinion down or up by six or less under four minutes left) that is huge as well and worth more than one miss.

Can't argue with such a solid opinion based on feelings.

Machina wrote:Free-throws were pretty awful yesterday.

Don't give me the 6-8 at the end or 71% (which is not good enough to win in the NCAA or against elite teams).

Since those facts aren't good enough, how's bout this: After missing their first five free throws (All but one by Zeus' inexplicable charity stripe brain fart), the Wildcats made their next 14 in a row. FOURTEEN! Bad free throw shooting teams don't tend to string 'em together like that.

Missing the front end of one and one is just as bad as missing two.

Wrong again. There is value in drawing a personal foul, even if no points are scored, that is an improvement over simply missing a shot.

Also anytime you miss a clutch free-throw (in my opinion down or up by six or less under four minutes left) that is huge as well and worth more than one miss.

Besides the front end of a 1-and-1, no free throw has any more value than any other, regardless of when it is taken. There's no such thing as clutch. But hey, who am I to argue with your feelings?!

pokinmik wrote:Gotta make those 1and1's though. That is an extra few missed free throws in my book. But yea I'm not complaining tonight.

Or counted as turnovers. Missed two front ends.

catgrad97 wrote:Sorry, but not entirely a clutch team yet. Did not like those misses from Stanley, TJ and York in the final two minutes.

Who would? Did not like the ones from other players over the years either.

Machina wrote:Free-throws were pretty awful yesterday. Don't give me the 6-8 at the end or 71% (which is not good enough to win in the NCAA or against elite teams). Missing the front end of one and one is just as bad as missing two. Also anytime you miss a clutch free-throw (in my opinion down or up by six or less under four minutes left) that is huge as well and worth more than one miss.

Every team misses free throws during all portions of the game. Simon, Dickerson, Walton, Gardner, Frye, Jefferson. You name them, they've missed them in crunch time. You just remember the Arizona misses.

catgrad97 wrote:

dcZONAfan wrote:

catgrad97 wrote:Sorry, but not entirely a clutch team yet. Did not like those misses from Stanley, TJ and York in the final two minutes.

what DO you like? anything?

Shooters. High basketball IQ. 40 minutes of desire.

The ability to know when a team is about to be put away and stepping on their throats.

Most of all, I'd like to gag the next ESPN talking head who tries to say the SEC is "clearly No. 1" in both basketball and football. It happened tonight with that studio nimrod next to Williams and Greenberg.

You completely misinterpreted. The SEC has the #1 RANKED team in both sports. He was not trying to argue that the SEC is the best conference in basketball. I know ESPN is incompetent, but please they aren't THAT bad.

Yes no one would make the claim that the SEC is a good basketball conference. I mean, they are probably the worst out of the power conferences, although the PAC isn't that far behind.

Free throws were the difference tonight. Clutch.

gumby wrote:Free throws were the difference tonight. Clutch.

I'd imagine the sdsu fans are bemoaning their performance from the line, and rightfully so. cost them the game.

Very nice to be on the winning end of the free throw battle.

UCLA and SDSU going through what we did last year. Now I know how other teams must have felt when we went to the line.

20-24 is damn solid. Won the game at the line. ,

Stanley Johnson = 21-26 in Maui

97cats wrote:Stanley Johnson = 21-26 in Maui

people only remember the 5. That's just how it works.

Most people would insist FT shooting is way worse today than back in the olden days, too. They also had to go up hill both ways to go to school and think all kids get participation trophies and are coddled in win-de-emphasized youth sports (this couldn't be farther from the truth, as anyone with kids playing competitive sport knows).

It's just the typical "bah" of so many fans.

Stanley was clutch. And will only get more so. Which is pretty awesome to think about...

FT shooting is better across the landscape than it ever has been...just don't ask Don MacLean

Arizona has made almost as many as its opponents have attempted. So while the percentage needs work, we still need to stay aggressive.

BTW, the natty team shot 65 percent from the line. Perimeter studs did not shine in this regard:

Bibby, 70
Dickerson, 71
Terry, 71
Simon, 75

How many people here remember it this way?

However, all points in OT against UK ... free throws. Just never know, so keep the declarations of What Must Be Done!!! to a minimum.

gumby wrote:Arizona has made almost as many as its opponents have attempted. So while the percentage needs work, we still need to stay aggressive.

BTW, the natty team shot 65 percent from the line. Perimeter studs did not shine in this regard:

Bibby, 70
Dickerson, 71
Terry, 71
Simon, 75

How many people here remember it this way?

However, all points in OT against UK ... free throws. Just never know, so keep the declarations of What Must Be Done!!! to a minimum.

And I wanna say that Donnell Harris hit a few from the charity stripe in OT. Memories are a drunken haze, but I think that was the case.

Yep. He sure did.

Off glass, in fact. More than one.

Stanley Johnson was absolutely a winner at the line in the final minutes against SDSU. He is our clutch dude this year and defenses and refs are going to have to bend over backward to try and foul him out before he can carry the team to the buzzer.

Just wish York and TJ were as automatic, because they're going to be the first ones to be fouled to stop the clock.

Olsondogg wrote:Yes no one would make the claim that the SEC is a good basketball conference. I mean, they are probably the worst out of the power conferences, although the PAC isn't that far behind.

Pac 12 teams gotta start breaking some ankles or something like that of their star players to stop them from going pro too early; like Ashley w/his ligament injury last year. Maybe then we'd collectively be good again. Damn draft keeps depleting us (well at least the other 11 teams).

Funny how the memory works. Harris missed 4 of 6 FTs. Davison, Terry and Simon were 8-8. But Harris got huge boards, and was clearly the freshest player out there. Kentucky was just gassed.



Love the shots of Lute being cool as can be. So smart to play Terry instead of Dickerson down the stretch.

Not from UTEP but he was pretty upset last night about FTs

That % will get you beat somewhere

box score

http://content.usatoday.com/sportsdata/ ... #box-score

Gotta drive Miller crazy. At least three guys who shoot them worse than last year.

No excuse for TJ. Tarc may be reverting to the mean, but if the shimmy won't save Rondae, what will?

Ashley has regressed, too.

Completely a mental issue. If the first couple guys get up there and clang a few, I believe it's starts creeping into everyone's mind. Frustrating to no end. I hate missed free throws

None of the guys seem to mentally prepare up there. They have to get a little routine and get their heads on straight.