All Hail Posted November 15, 2016 Author Share Posted November 15, 2016 Oregon looking terrible against this zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 yeah that was terrible. 3/21 from three, we were a very streaky outside shooting team last year and today was definitely a flop. burn it and move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 ok, a few thoughts before we burn it and move on: 1. we lose this game with or without brooks. 2. altman teams are always pretty good at attacking zones. yesterday was strange. altman was not pleased. 3. rogue is right, we often start slow and pick up steam in january. i was hoping to avoid this with such a large returning roster, but alas. 4. altman is a fairly straight shooter. listening to him post-game, it sounds like the team bought into their preseason ranking even though altman has said repeatedly over the last month that "we are nowhere near that team at this time." sounds like he let the team do their thing, and now that they've got their butts handed to them they're going to do it his way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Hail Posted November 16, 2016 Author Share Posted November 16, 2016 Interesting scores here: UCLA 102 CSUN 87 Stanford 96 CSUN 69 The UCLA game was close for a long time while the Stanford game was never close. Obviously, it's only one game but I think there's growing evidence that Stanford might not suck as bad as everyone was predicting. Most of the media had Stanford as either the 10th or 11th best team in the conference. However, after an easy win over a quality Harvard squad and a convincing win over a CSUN team that gave UCLA some trouble, perhaps the Cardinal will be tough this year. They also had two guys off the bench score over 15 points in both games. Cal plays UC Irvine today, who is usually a pretty decent team. No word yet on whether Rabb will play today but Cal could really use him back for the sack of cohesion and chemistry alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBug708 Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Csun also ran a whole lot in ucla's game and boarded a bus for Palo alto at midnight for a game two days later. Fatigue might have been a factor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Hail Posted November 16, 2016 Author Share Posted November 16, 2016 Csun also ran a whole lot in ucla's game and boarded a bus for Palo alto at midnight for a game two days later. Fatigue might have been a factor I'm not sure if I buy fatigue being a factor with 18-21 year olds this early into the season but you can't rule it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBug708 Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 I'd buy that they aren't in good game shape yet either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Hail Posted November 17, 2016 Author Share Posted November 17, 2016 Cal without Rabb and Bird against a tough Irvine zone. I'm scared. Edit: - and Mullins. That's 3 starters... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Hail Posted November 17, 2016 Author Share Posted November 17, 2016 Cal down 31-23 at the half. Missing 3 starters is no fun. I'm at this game and while we look awful, Irvine also looks like they should win the Big West. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 lamar 63, osu 60. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Hail Posted November 17, 2016 Author Share Posted November 17, 2016 For Cal, rookie PG Charlie Moore is getting more hype than either Rabb or Brown was receiving at this time last year. "charliem will be way better than me, all he has to do is keep on working...i have a lot of faith n him" -former pac 12 POY jerome randle "i wouldn't be surprised at all if charlie is one of the best ever to ever come out of cal" -coach martin at Pac 12 Media Day I think they need to slow down the hype train but apparently people at Cal have some big expectations for the very small pg. Charlie Moore shattered Cal's freshman scoring record by scoring 38 points in only his 2nd ever college game. What made it more impressive is that he had virtually no help. Moore's 38 points were more than the rest of the team scored combined. If Rabb, Mullins, and Bird can come back healthy, this team should be pretty damn good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaG Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Ducks rebound nicely against a solid Valpo squad 76-54. Odd to see an Oregon team in any sport that is so solid on defense. The offense is struggling. Hopefully Dillon Brooks is back soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 pritchard is going to be so good. also, some really nice flashes from keith smith. you can tell they're deferring but lots of talent/potential there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Hail Posted November 18, 2016 Author Share Posted November 18, 2016 It's amazing how Romar continues to convince top tier recruits to play for him when he consistently cant build a winner. Washington must recruit as good as any school not named Arizona or Ucla and yet year after year they can't play defense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBug708 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Our defense is bad We are playing Alonzo off the ball. But I guess if Bryce is happy, ****** is happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAC MAN Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Didn't realize there was a preseason thread up and running & set up a thread for CU's Legends Classic (I will discontinue that one immediately). I like what I saw so far from CU's defense and rebounding so far and would like to see CU cut down on giving up second chances. Now we'll see where CU could stand within the PAC this season as the BUFFS take on Norte Dame and either Texas/Northwestern next week. Dominque Collier is out for 4-8 weeks due to a broken foot. I think he'll be ready by conference play. GO BUFFS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBug708 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 UCLA cant shoot from the outside and only manage to beat UCSD by about 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAC MAN Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 UCLA cant shoot from the outside and only manage to beat UCSD by about 20 Feeling confident in UCLA's D and rebounding if the shooting goes cold for a game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBug708 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Nope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueDuck Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Dorsey has played like dog crap so far. I know what he did bs Army, but that's Army. He needs Brooks back, he can't create his own shot, and when he's double teamed, he's even worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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