Perhaps the 2 biggest plays were complete bonehead plays. Damonte's technical which killed our momentum and gave Arizona free points, and Plummer just standing there and getting a 5 second call.
This isn't the first time we've had it called this season.
Lost by 1 overall rbs...agree with the 1st pt...it seemed every time they missed they had someone on the other side to clean up. A couple of plays made the difference.
What!?!?
We are the 20th best team in America without our most important player. That tells you how good a program Brad and assistants are building here.
Absolutely, my friend. I'm there with you. Switched the game off and went to get the Xmas tree with the daughter. After we got back and set it up I went back to the board and watched the presser. I made a post earlier about how good I feel about this team despite its travails (heck, probably because of their travails.) The loss of AC has been huge and yet I'm sitting there this afternoon watching our team w/o its sophomore PG whom some people (as BU pointed out) listed as a preseason All-American, and it's going toe-to-toe with what is probably a Top 5 team using an offense improvised during the past four weeks. [EDIT: No. Strike that. Not going toe-to-toe. Beating the &$%*ing daylights out of that Top 5 team for long stretches.]
Our most important players were in the game. If Kofi had to play against 2 seven footers each game with no power forward to help him his results would be like today. Hawkins has to get better for this team to get better. Curbelo will help but outside of Kofi and Plumber there were only 6 turnovers and we would never not have those two in the game most of the time. How would we defend or rebound with 3 6'1"guards, Grandison and Kofi on the floor?
Our offensive game plan was actually executed really well, and ball movement/fluidity has actually looked much better. Kofi was a bit off, and at the end of the day we just came up short. Arizona is a damn good team and are coached extremely well. Cut down on the turnovers, get Curbelo healthy and we are in good shape. I-L-L.
Option #1..not sure why its ok for the coach to get a pass when he the team as a whole can not execute in the last two minutes of this game. AZ ran plays and sets that executed down the stretch. Thats a sign of being better prepared and disciplined which is a direct correlation to coaching.So let’s hear it guys. Why did we lose this one? Poor adjustments by Brad? Hosed by the refs? Turnovers? /s
none of the above. We played a great game against a team that was just a little bit greater. Even though this goes as an L, I like a lot of the stuff from this game. Good takeaways to go forward with. Let’s all take a breather (hopefully) for the next few and get revved up for Mizzou!!
Go Illini
I disagree.
At the margin Curbelo's absence makes a big difference, not only because of his ballhandling and PG skills but because (as BU pointed out in the presser) of his defending, particularly his defensive rebounding.
Alot of bounces went their way, particularly first half, that happens. Alot of no block outs, that can't happen. It will get fixed.
Agree x10. But he was counting and Plummer needs to move or someone call TO
BS. It's difficult to execute w/o a legitimate PG and we're trying to do that right now. PG is the most important position on the floor. Without a good one, you're going to look disjointed.
Brad was so right. He is an elite shooter! I get more surprised more by his misses than makes now.
