Bear Down Wildcats

Hey guys....didn't see another thread so thought I'd start one.

Who's going? Weeeeee

PS We are wearing our 97 unis for this game!!

Welcome back MTC

Seems like I remember Chi and maybe a couple others posted they were going.

Thank you!
I'm usually around just getting caught up with dumb stuff...like twitter lol

Wont be there but nice to have you back. Stop around more often.

Ah you guys are so nice....

ah yes, a top 5 nonconference matchup between #1 arizona and #4 purdue. surely, this marquee event - the must-see game of the weekend - will be televised nationally on one of the premier television netw--

Hopefully anyone who wants to watch either took advantage of the $2 Peacock deal, or is fine illegally streaming.

mytwocents wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 7:39 pm Hey guys....didn't see another thread so thought I'd start one.

Who's going? Weeeeee

PS We are wearing our 97 unis for this game!!

Me and the Mrs. and the kids will be there! Just shot you a note. If you’re going let’s meet up at the game. Feels like it’s been a hundred years since we’ve hung out.

AZCatGirl wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2023 12:14 am Hopefully anyone who wants to watch either took advantage of the $2 Peacock deal, or is fine illegally streaming.

I'll actually be streaming the game this time

mytwocents wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 7:39 pm Hey guys....didn't see another thread so thought I'd start one.

Who's going? Weeeeee

PS We are wearing our 97 unis for this game!!

I will be attending. I’m using some expiring miles to fly to Indy. I’ll be meeting up with my cousin who lives in Boston and who I grew up with AND who is also a Wildcat!

Once I’m back in Phoenix, I’ll be attending the Alabama game with a friend and Wildcat!

mytwocents wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 9:59 pm Ah you guys are so nice....

Hey what's going to happen if we need a rally? LOL.

TheCat wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2023 8:48 am

mytwocents wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 9:59 pm Ah you guys are so nice....

Hey what's going to happen if we need a rally? LOL.

I'd get kicked out and possibly arrested lol

BTW if anyone has tix or knows someone who's got extras, lmk...I'd rather sit near AZ people

mytwocents wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2023 9:25 am

TheCat wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2023 8:48 am

mytwocents wrote: ↑Sun Dec 10, 2023 9:59 pm Ah you guys are so nice....

Hey what's going to happen if we need a rally? LOL.

I'd get kicked out and possibly arrested lol

I gained some weight in certain areas so willing to take one for the team…

Wish I could be there. I want stories!!!

UPDATE: don't do this

Coming to update on this since I did it this Friday morning-- it does not in fact give the week trial, it charges immediately. Oh well. Chargeback on Monday and fuck NBC Comcast

Will remind everyone in this thread, you can do a free one week trial for Peacock. Fuck NBC Comcast

https://www.peacockfreetrial.com

Or stream east.

Or Fishclamps said he will be streaming

Yeah Fish.....had trouble streameast for basketball but it was reliable for football all year.

AZCatGirl wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2023 12:14 am Hopefully anyone who wants to watch either took advantage of the $2 Peacock deal, or is fine illegally streaming.

If you're not illegally streaming your sports then are you even really a fan?

ChooChooCat wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:09 am

AZCatGirl wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2023 12:14 am Hopefully anyone who wants to watch either took advantage of the $2 Peacock deal, or is fine illegally streaming.

If you're not illegally streaming your sports then are you even really a fan?

Maybe a cheap fan...Lol

This has been the best year ever for streaming the games at little or no cost.

Every game on the PAC-12 channel has been shown free on the PAC-12 International YouTube channel for those in Europe. Just set your VPN to England or France.

Everything on ESPN has been great on Streameast.

I find the sites on my PC, and cast to my TV.

Probably one game I couldn't find, but Fish had it.

At this point, I should apologize in advance to Machina to being a bad fan. But never apologize. It's a sign of weakness mister.

Any info on early lines on this game. It’s basically a home game for Purdont

Cats -3.5 is my guess. 8-0 ATS...

All right how are we gonna handle this Purdue game?

Let Edey eat and keep their guards in check?
Throw 3 7 footers with 5 fouls a piece at Edey?
I think Edey gets his 20 plus no matter what, if we can keep their guards from going off and we have a decent shooting night, I like our chances.

I think their guards have a tough time containing ours. I think Keshad can draw Edey out and open up the paint, not sure anyone else bothers Keshad. The more I think about it, the more I like our chances.

Also, Thanks northwestern for the game film.

5 out teams have not been successful getting Edey into a PnR or outside the paint. I look for him to stay there all game.

Edey has also shot an abnormal amount of FT’s in their big games. Seems the refs don’t like to see him pushed around or looking awkward.

Just play our game but really push tempo. Get our bigs really running down court

Edey is going to get his... Ballo needs to just play without fouling.

Pressure perimeter players and deny post entry passes. Ballo needs to be an immovable force. Fouling is a waste of time. Push tempo!

I've watched Purdue a bit this year and some last year (which is conceptually similar). Here's my critical aspects of playing Purdue and how I believe we match up. The overall theme is our size (which Edey does not encounter much) and also their perimeter play (and how we counter that)

1. Edey scoring. Obviously he scores a lot. But, our size can make it a lot harder than normal. If he scores 20, we're fine, 30, that's a problem. Make him work for it, don't foul him.
2. Rebounding. A huge aspect to their offense and Edey scoring is the offensive rebounds. Add Keshad, along with our size at center, plus the way our guards rebound, and we should be able to really limit the 2nd chances (relative to their normal). This will be huge.
3. Entry passes. They can really struggle with entries, see Alabama 1st half for example. We have to make it hard to get the ball down to Edey. And I think we can, because of...
4. Perimeter play. That's their biggest weakness, and if we can limit Edey to reasonable numbers (20/10 is probably fine), then their guards will have to play extremely well to win. And that is a strength of ours, we have lots of tough athletic defensive minded guys to throw at them. We are a lot more dynamic on the perimeter.They need to hit 3s, and we don't sag in help defense nearly as much this year, probably due to having better defensive players than before. So I like our ability to limit them there.

The 2 major wildcards are foul trouble and turnovers. We only had 8 against Wisconsin, I think we can see this team becoming more cohesive eery game. Foul trouble seems pretty self evident, we can't have Pelle pick up cheapies early like he has and we need to bigs to stay on the floor.

One thing I'm curious is how we handle Edey. 2 years ago vs Illinois, we didn't double Cockburn in the first half, let him get going, and kept the guards from getting too involved. Then in the 2nd half, doubled him every touch and the guards couldn't hit get themselves going after a quiet first half. I expect something similar, although I don't know if we will need to switch it up at halftime.

I definitely have major concerns with the double team. I have seen many teams give up wide open three after wide open three trying to deploy it. They have 5 players shooting over 44% from three. Pretty easy when you are wide open. Maybe we could sprinkle some in the second half when their perimeter players are gassed.

I think we are good enough to play him straight up. No doubling down since he will kick it out and they shoot well on open looks.

Have to pressure the post entry pass. Need to make it challenging at least

Another revenge game.

^^^^ Damn Richard Jefferson got blanked

Our advantage is their guards will struggle on defense against ours. We should get good penetration but will need to pull up for the short jumper and not try and take it all the way to the basket. They looked pretty bad at times vs Alabama.

Or we could just RHJ that crap down Edeys throat!!!!

One of my favorite all time dunks, when Rondae threw it down over that 7'5" guy on UCI.

Would love to see Keshad put Zach on a poster.

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 12:22 pm ^^^^ Damn Richard Jefferson got blanked

And no Loren Woods.

When Justin Wessel gets 15 minutes and Lamont Frazier gets 18, you know you have some depth issues going on that game.

I also think if we can keep the pace up and make Edey run up and down the court, we will tire him out in the 2nd half.

Alieberman wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:27 am I also think if we can keep the pace up and make Edey run up and down the court, we will tire him out in the 2nd half.

Like Wisconsin coach Gard said, if we're (especially Pelle) are hitting threes, we cause really difficult problems for anyone.

Also, control of the defensive boards will be critical.

Biggest game of the year in college basketball and it’s stuck on a streamer whose nickname is the cock.

Haven’t missed a UofA game in years but I don’t have access yet to this channel and I am resisting signing up.

azcat49 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 10:53 am Biggest game of the year in college basketball and it’s stuck on a streamer whose nickname is the cock.

Haven’t missed a UofA game in years but I don’t have access yet to this channel and I am resisting signing up.

Fishclamps says he will stream it.

Thank goodness for Fish, but it's astonishing that a major network is not carrying this game. I dont get it.

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:03 am

azcat49 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 10:53 am Biggest game of the year in college basketball and it’s stuck on a streamer whose nickname is the cock.

Haven’t missed a UofA game in years but I don’t have access yet to this channel and I am resisting signing up.

Fishclamps says he will stream it.

Or do the free 7 day trial prh posted above.

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:33 am

dovecanyoncat wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:03 am

azcat49 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 10:53 am Biggest game of the year in college basketball and it’s stuck on a streamer whose nickname is the cock.

Haven’t missed a UofA game in years but I don’t have access yet to this channel and I am resisting signing up.

Fishclamps says he will stream it.

Or do the free 7 day trial prh posted above.

Coming to update on this since I did it this morning-- it does not in fact give the week trial, it charges immediately. Oh well. Chargeback on Monday and fuck NBC Comcast

Carcassdragger wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:29 am Thank goodness for Fish, but it's astonishing that a major network is not carrying this game. I dont get it.

NBC would like you to believe that peeCOCK is a major network that you definitely should pay money for.

I'm certainly too old to start paying for Cock

Alieberman wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 12:38 pm I'm certainly too old to start paying for Cock

Damn you all know I got it covered, chill

Cats officially a 2 point underdog tomorrow.

It can't happen very often that the #1 team in the country is an underdog.

Fishclamps wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2023 6:51 am

AZCatGirl wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2023 12:14 am Hopefully anyone who wants to watch either took advantage of the $2 Peacock deal, or is fine illegally streaming.

I'll actually be streaming the game this time

wurd. tysm! i may be hitting you up for a link tmrw. i'm so sorry to be a hassle and hate having to ask all the time.

Beachcat97 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 1:38 pm Cats officially a 2 point underdog tomorrow.

It can't happen very often that the #1 team in the country is an underdog.

Well suck me sideways. Cats all day

Chicat wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 12:28 pm

Carcassdragger wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:29 am Thank goodness for Fish, but it's astonishing that a major network is not carrying this game. I dont get it.

NBC would like you to believe that peeCOCK is a major network that you definitely should pay money for.

Let's call it PissDick instead.