2025-26 Arizona Basketball

[Winger]

Gonzaga is in the WCC.

It took Few 18 fucking seasons to make a Final Four.

And after making the Elite 8 in his first season (not his players) he failed to make it back the next 15 seasons.

15 consecutive tournaments without an E8. 18 without a F4.

For nearly 2 decades Few was the poster child for not fielding athletic enough teams to matter.

Which was exactly my point. That crap aint going to cut it for Arizona in its OOC, the B12 conference, nor in the NCAA tournament.

Where Lloyd has dramatically underperformed to date for the record.

[TheCat]

Gonzaga is in the WCC.

It took Few 18 fucking seasons to make a Final Four.

And after making the Elite 8 in his first season (not his players) he failed to make it back the next 15 seasons.

15 consecutive tournaments without an E8. 18 without a F4.

For nearly 2 decades Few was the poster child for not fielding athletic enough teams to matter.

Which was exactly my point. That crap aint going to cut it for Arizona in its OOC, the B12 conference, nor in the NCAA tournament.

Where Lloyd has dramatically underperformed to date for the record.

Well it has ONLY BEEN 25 YEARS Fucking since we made the final four. 18 sounds good to me. How many in the last decade did Few make? Being the scholar you are why don't you tell me how many years it took John Wooden to make it to the final four? I guess he was the poster child for being inept. Why you have to run every other team down is beyond me. The NBA does not take unathletic guys does it? 11 Zags were feature on opening day rosters and many are foreigners. In the last ten years the best team on the west coast has been the Zags and that they built their team with foreign players because they don't have the resources other teams have had. The Nuggets won last night because of a foreign Zag player.

If that crap ain't going to cut it I can imagine your frustration when a roster made largely of Arizona freshman falls short in the OOC, B12 and the tourney. At a minimum we will be starting two freshman and the only time that has been really successful at Arizona was Arenas and Gardner that I can remember. I think we are about to see a baptism by fire for our freshman and while that will lead to more losses and bitching it will help our guys.

If Lloyd in your words has "dramatically underperformed to date for the record" (a recurring theme of yours) he has won more games than a handful of coaches in NCAA history in his time as a head coach (the real record) while upgrading the hell out of the schedule each year. Your definition is not recognized by ANYONE with knowledge of the coaching profession or in the coaching profession. You think they tap slouches to coach USA basketball? I mean it is only a committee of the top basketball minds in the country that pick the coach and his staff.

Of course they don't know as much as a prominent poster on the internet.

[ChooChooCat]

Okay, so just a quick sanity check on my scorecard at the moment. So, we've got Bradley returning in the backcourt, the 5-star freshmen (Burries, Aristode, and Peat), and Krivas returning at center, with Awaka and Dell'Orso also as returning veterans. Then you've got debatable contributions from Nelson from Harvard, LeBron's other son Bryce, and two 6-11 freshmen who may be redshirt/long-term projects. And we may get a Euro wing player who we hope is more comparable to Pelle Larsson than Dell'Orso. If that's way off, somebody please unscramble it.

You can debate the contribution from Nelson but I don’t believe that holds for the other 3. The rest is right save for we don’t know what Bryant’s “replacement” is going to be yet. Allegedly Mike Luke said it would be someone who withdrew from the draft. Others have speculated that it will be a player from overseas. I believe we need another guard in addition to Bryant’s replacement. Long way of saying we are still sort of in limbo when it comes to next season’s team.

Luke was reaching with the whole "someone withdrawing from the draft" shenanigans. It'll be international.

[PHXCATS]

Why do people listen to Luke?

[azcat49]

Why do people listen to Luke?

Truth. Guy is a total idiot

[TheCat]

Why do people listen to Luke?

Truth. Guy is a total idiot

That is the truth.