Arizona Hoops 2023-2024 - Getting Up from the Mat After Princeton

[Carolinacacti]

Nice to be number one for a week

 

[TJ]

Gotta win these next two. Theyll be the two toughest games we have the rest of the season.

 

[Russ Smith]

Gotta win these next two. Theyll be the two toughest games we have the rest of the season.

I haven't seen FAU this year but I have seen Alabama and I think you will blow them out. They're not as good. They have talent but they're not nearly as good defensively as in prior years. I really wanted Grant Nelson at UCLA but I see now why the NBA wasn't as high on him as many thought they would be, talented but poor defender and too predictable on offense.

They have some guys who can shoot 3's but they give up way too much dribble penetration.

 

[Phrazbit]

Hate that timeout call on the final play, let em attack in transition.

Whatever play was drawn up clearly got sniffed out... I doubt "30 foot heave" was the plan.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Hate that timeout call on the final play, let em attack in transition.

Whatever play was drawn up clearly got sniffed out... I doubt "30 foot heave" was the plan.

Agree. They’re off balance. You’re only down 1. If you drive you could get contact or at least kick for an open 3.

 

[TJ]

Can’t lose a game in which you shoot around 50% around the rim. Ballo has hands of stone and should be slamming it in instead of doing those floaters. Missing bunnies like that is unacceptable and cost us the game.

We’ll see in March how this loss impacts seeding. If we go 21-2 in conference play and the tournament, a #1 seed is highly possible

 

[Dback Jon]

Can’t lose a game in which you shoot around 50% around the rim. Ballo has hands of stone and should be slamming it in instead of doing those floaters. Missing bunnies like that is unacceptable and cost us the game.

We’ll see in March how this loss impacts seeding. If we go 21-2 in conference play and the tournament, a #1 seed is highly possible

And it is not like FAU is a bad team. They brought back most everyone from last year’s final four team

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

And it is not like FAU is a bad team. They brought back most everyone from last year’s final four team

But it’s a bit like past years - teams with tough athletic players make it difficult on the cats. At least this team has some tougher athletes.

And ballo is a disappointment. He’s just not the beast he should be offensively or defensively as a rim protector. Tore it up on the boards though. And the young euro 7’2” guy needs to get a lot stronger, smarter and more aggressive.

 

[GatorAZ]

Bad scheduling putting those three games in three locations in one week.

 

[TJ]

When you think about the hoops that Tommy had to go thru to schedule this game, it makes it even more irritating

 

[GatorAZ]

This team has gone into the tank since the Wisconsin game. Getting housed by Stanford.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Yeah it's hard to believe this is the same team. Where's the defense?

 

[Russ Smith]

I can't even gloat as bad as UCLA is this year.

Pretty hard to see that coming I was actually expecting UCLA to beat Stanford because they're so poorly coached and then they beat down UA?

 

[GatorAZ]

I can't even gloat as bad as UCLA is this year.

Pretty hard to see that coming I was actually expecting UCLA to beat Stanford because they're so poorly coached and then they beat down UA?

Boswell and Ballo being mediocre lowers their ceiling and leaves them susceptible to bad losses hot shooting or not.

 

[Jttsaz]

Ouch

 

[Chaplin]

Welp, there goes the 1 seed. At least for now.

 

[Dback Jon]

Welp, there goes the 1 seed. At least for now.

Plenty of time to regroup. There is no dominant team and I have no doubt all the top teams will lose multiple games in conference play

 

[Russ Smith]

Welp, there goes the 1 seed. At least for now.

Could be but they had such a tough schedule early if they right the ship, and they likely will, they'll be a favorite for a 1 seed eventually IMO

 

[gmabel830]

Going down to Tucson tomorrow for the game vs CU with my college buddies. Excited, but the butt kicking by Stanford certainly dampened it a bit!

 

[TJ]

Nail-biter

 

[MigratingOsprey]

Going down to Tucson tomorrow for the game vs CU with my college buddies. Excited, but the butt kicking by Stanford certainly dampened it a bit!

Was there as well. First time at one of their games. Good environment.

 

[Carolinacacti]

This team gets a lot of slam dunks

 

[Russ Smith]

Really surprised that game was that close I thought UCLA would lose by 20.

If nothing else UCLA taught Arizona, and ASU, to stop doubling the post from the ball side. He eventually adjusted but literally the reason UCLA had such a big lead, twice, is they kept baiting Arizona into doubling from the ball side leading to wide open 3's for Stefanovic, McClendon et al. UCLA can't shoot but even they can make wide open 3's when the ball is coming directly back to them from the post. There were a lot of reasons Arizona turned it on and won but IMO the biggest one was they finally stopped doing that.

 

[Ronin]

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[TJ]

Kylan’s gotta go DNP-CD. He’s been useless for several games