Bear Down Wildcats

The awards are starting to come in

Rawle HM
Dusan 2nd Team
Ayton and Trier 1st Team
Ayton Defense team

FUCK YOU LARRY SCOTT YOU ARE THE ABSOLUTE WORST

http://pac-12.com/article/2018/03/04/20 ... -announced" target="_blank

Ayton should win POY and FOY
Dusan should win most improved player

10 players on the first team but only 5 on the second?

Ayton certainly is a surprise on the all defensive team. He was constantly lost, and Cal really exposed that with their firs 16 points all coming in the paint.

azgreg wrote:http://pac-12.com/article/2018/03/04/20 ... -announced

The Pac-12 Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Most Improved Player of the Year, Sixth Man of the Year, Scholar-Athlete of the Year and John R. Wooden Pac-12 Coach of the Year will be announced Monday evening at 5 p.m. PT/6 p.m. MT on Pac-12 Network in a special hour-long Pac-12 Sports Report.

Dusan should've been on the first team. He was incredible during the Pac season.

Merkin wrote:10 players on the first team but only 5 on the second?

Ayton certainly is a surprise on the all defensive team. He was constantly lost, and Cal really exposed that with their firs 16 points all coming in the paint.

azgreg wrote:http://pac-12.com/article/2018/03/04/20 ... -announced

The Pac-12 Player of the Year, Freshman of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Most Improved Player of the Year, Sixth Man of the Year, Scholar-Athlete of the Year and John R. Wooden Pac-12 Coach of the Year will be announced Monday evening at 5 p.m. PT/6 p.m. MT on Pac-12 Network in a special hour-long Pac-12 Sports Report.

I have no metrics to back this up... but it seems to me both Ayton and Ristic play very tentatively in the first half and then more aggressively in the second half. Especially when they go into the second half with 2 or less fouls.

I think Miller is trying to keep them on the floor. Sometimes it is not that ayton is lost it is that he just watch's the layup. With ristic he just does his arms straight up D (which is also a version of just watching).

Then in the second half in those same situations they tend to contest more aggressively.

Merkin wrote:10 players on the first team but only 5 on the second?

Ayton certainly is a surprise on the all defensive team. He was constantly lost, and Cal really exposed that with their firs 16 points all coming in the paint.

Always been a ten player first team (at least since we moved to Pac-12) and five man second. Weird but true.

Ayton led the conference in defensive rebounds, was third in blocks and fifth in block percentage. His position is well deserved, despite his lapses.

To Baycat's point: yes you'd see Ayton slack on his defense in order to stay on the court. The Stanford game was a good example where he picked up two early one's with Furd flopping... then couldn't contest Travis for the remainder of the game.