UConn squeezed into the Top 25 with it's win over Mich St.
Short of winning (and I'm not sure that would be enough for some on here) what will it take for you to feel positive about the game after it's over?
UConn squeezed into the Top 25 with it's win over Mich St.
Short of winning (and I'm not sure that would be enough for some on here) what will it take for you to feel positive about the game after it's over?
All I expect is good offense, good defense, and good rebounding. Nothing ridiculous about any of that.
Serious question: could we do all of those things and not win? Even winning teams feel like they do those things poorly most of the time. To think that we could fulfill all those goals and still lose is crazy.
So far, rebounding is actually worse (which is fairly difficult to believe).
The first two years of [Redacted] have, game after game, taken me back to my childhood. And by that I mean that watching our team is like playing an old school tough-as-nails Nintendo game where you die over and over again in the cheapest way possible, enraging you to the point where you throw the controller (it really was fortunate that the original Nintendo controllers were basically indestructible) straight into the TV set in sheer disbelief of what just occurred on the screen.
I don't need us to beat UConn or "keep it close" or put up 120 against Radford. I just want to watch our team play a brand of basketball that doesn't make me throw my much more fragile remote into my much more fragile flat screen and question whether I should legitimately start seeking out a new college team or just start doing meth before our games.
If we can at least start there - and I'll admit there were a few teasing moments when we looked like a team last year - then that's something. It's not about whether we lose by 10, 20, or 8 or if we backdoor cover or some random player catches fire and keeps us in it for a half.
I just want to see actual basketball. I want to see kids that know their assignments and execute at a higher level than my high school team did. I want to see a team where the sum is greater than its individual parts so I can believe we might be one stud player away from being an NCAA team again.
I would also like to wake up tomorrow with Rory's golf swing.
You found more positives than negatives in the Radford game... I think a more intriguing question would be for the boards to ask you what would it take for you to feel negative about the game after its over?
Its hard to really overstate just how bad Radford appears to be this year. If that game was indicative of the rest of the season, we're going to look back on Bz's first year as his honeymoon period.
Still chuckling at people who thought UConn would be worse than us this year. They reload.
We hope to break the top 200.
Xavier is going to beat us also.
If Dino was coaching and we had 3 NBA players on the roster, then I would feel comfortable in this regular season game. UConn got legit production from unexpected sources, but I don't expect these guys or MSU to play like they did last week for all season. That said, we have [Redacted], so hope has gone to die already.
So at #23, UConn ranks about 60 spots higher than any team we have beaten since Jeff [Redacted] arrived, correct?