A Good Loss:

[Danzz]

Sure the loss hurt but it is still just one game. If we split with Cincinnati and Louisville and get to the semis or finals in our tournament we'll be fine. The NCAA tournament is a new season and we would probably be a 7 seed which is really no different than an 8 seed. Even if we were to win out it is hard to see us anything better than a 5 seed. We would have to play a good team to get to the sweet 16 anyway.
No loss is ever good but this one isn't the end of the world.

 

[jibsey]

- A young, unproven team taking a prohibitive favorite down to the wire. Said young team develops confidence and learns some lessons about (a) how good it can be and (b) what it needs to do to get there.

- A dominant team has been coasting on talent and letting inferior opponents make games closer than they should be. A late season loss to one of those inferior teams drives home the point that talent isn't enough and gets the team to re-focus for the stretch run.

Two quick examples. Feel free to ask if you have more questions.

(This game, by the way, was neither of those. It was just a bad loss.)

Good points, we are not certainly not young and inexperienced and if you break down the various aspects of our team or play you can't point to one area where we are consistently dominant. We do shoot free throws well.

 

[Kitaman]

How can it be good when it causes Freescooter to come out of hibernation?

 

[RedStickHusky]

Wtf is a good loss?

any one incurred by bcu, duke or syracuse

 

[Husky999]

Whatever a "good loss" is… that was not it.

 

[ColoradoUCFan]

Obviously you are taking the word good loss too literal and not from the perspective of what can be learned from a loss. It is obvious that no loss is really good, but what you learn from it is....think a little deeper people!

Since we're getting touchy and philosophical, to quote Yoda, "There is no try. Just do."

 

[Waquoit]

Whatever a "good loss" is… that was not it.

Exactly, this was a bad loss.

 

[8893]

I'm still a little unclear on this concept. Is this a good loss?

 

[Husky Dad]

I was wrong and trying to be up beat. No good losses.

 

[Woof 101]

This was not just a loss but an whoop'n. The only possibly minutiae of anything good would be that we now know how the opponents of our womans team feel when they play anyone outside of their top 10.....Game in and game out.

Good losses only happen in the NBA..."Hey Sam you guys got your butt whipped today!" "That's ok I got paid!"

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Whatever a "good loss" is… that was not it.

Jesus, you went back two weeks to find that thread and post this? When the team gets embarrassed on national TV it's a lot easier to read the venting of the people who happen to be around when they win than it is to read the garbage being spewed by clowns like you who seem to register for the sole purpose of posting on days like this.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

A good loss is when you are 20-0 and feeling too full of yourself for your own good.
You forgot about the hard work that made your team great in the first place.
Every thing the coach is saying is going in one ear and out the other.
That's a good loss.
When you fighting to get as high a seed as possible to increase your chances of getting by the first game of the NCAA ,no loss is good. Some are worse than others. That is entirely dependent on the next few games.

 

[traitor71]

A good loss? Christ, maybe the guys could have lost by 40 or 50, then we could have had a great loss.

 

[UConnDad]

Boat didn't get in senhor it was their guy. That's a positive.

 

[DogMania]

Wow, I clearly don't see this as a good loss, but on the other hand, I don't see this as bad a loss as some see it. It was a game that pretty much got out of hand from the word go. Granted we got it down to 7 early in the second half, but the turning point IMO, was when we lost that loose ball with 3 UConn players the closest to and ended up giving up 1 out of 2 FTs during that trip and then I think either a 2 or 3 the next trip where UL stretched it back to 10 or 11.

We had a whole bunch of momentum built and would have had the ball down 7 with a chance to knock it down to a 2 possession game, but as noted above it stretched to 10 or 11 and then it was all down hill from there. UConn spent a lot of energy to get back into that game, that it getting stretched out to double digits again was like a shot to the gut that they simply never recovered from.

Would I have like to see them compete better and keep the game close? H*ll yes!!! Am I alarmed that the game got out of hand once it hit around the 20 mark in what seemed to be an instant? Not really. This team has shown great guts falling behind late to end up coming out on top enough times that I don't doubt their toughness.

Keep in mind it all starts 0-0 from this point on. We have two win-and-advance lose-and-go-home tourneys like everyone else. Let's just root for our team and hope for better outcomes. Who thought that the 2011 team had a shot at going 11-0, well I did sort of post the question why not back in 2011. So with some favorable match-ups and some solid performance who knows what this team is capable of? A 9-0 run isn't completely out of the question, though it's unlikely this time around due to having too many vulnerabilities to overcome compared to the 2011 team. But as for this bad loss, I think it's a mistake to take all that much from this loss other than it was a bad performance against a team we simply match-up poorly against.

Did everyone forget that a few days ago, we beat the #1 AAC tourney seed and co-regular season champion? Sky is not falling my friends!