Fisher:''I still think we were better than Connecticut when they won the national championship,''

[Tbone4457]

If he really said that:
Sooooo, what game was he watching? It wasn't like his team played poorly, they were just beat by a better team. Oh wait, isn't this the same coach that couldn't win it all with Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, and a bunch of other stud players? Hmmmm, maybe it is time to take a good long look in a mirror.

 

[James]

He has nightmares of JLAMB's go go gadget arms.

 

[patrick]

I'll just leave this here:

I love when kemba dove for the ball in the first half, he just wanted it more!!
The only play that might be better then that was when lamb stole the ball threw it to bazz and bazz said no no you did the work you finish it baby!!

 

[noeynox]

Watching those highlights, AO was an absolute phyiscal beast for us.

 

[MTHusky]

Watching those highlights, AO was an absolute phyiscal beast for us.

Who?

 

[3RingsCT]

The step back jumper and skip-step blow-bye drive to the hoop by Kemba was unstoppable. I'm glad to see Shabazz has molded his games after him. He's not quite Kemba, but he looks remarkably similar.

 

[Drumguy]

Sorry Steve, we were 7 points better and that is the only measuring stick that counts.

 

[3RingsCT]

Who?

Alex Oriakhi

 

[B1GEast]

I think he's still mad about the Kemba flop

 

[aboogieee]

Watching those highlights, AO was an absolute phyiscal beast for us.

Who?

Don't do this.

 

[MattMang23]

I still think we were better than Florida and George Mason.

We were a lot like that Mason team in 2011. Not in terms of overall talent- we had much more- but the idea that we were a team of destiny. Once our train got rolling in 2011, no one was stopping us. A lot like that Mason team.

If we played 100 times vs that Mason team in 2006, we win 99 times but not the day it mattered. They were rolling.

Same with us and SDSU in 2011. They may have beaten us 60 out of 100 times, but that day they were never going to beat us.

 

[dsturdy5]

2011 San Diego State = 2001 Pittsburgh Steelers

 

[PRHusky]

Same with us and SDSU in 2011. They may have beaten us 60 out of 100 times, but that day they were never going to beat us.

Strongly disagree with this. They were a good team, but we were better. It continues to amaze me how much even our own fans underestimate how good our 2011 team was.

 

[Kembacity]

Why would a coach admit that he got outcoached and his team outplayed. Superficially it sounds like he's downing our 2011 champs, but in reality he's downing his own skill and his players performance, awful quote for a coach.

 

[Peacefrog]

They tried to, but Quse is already using all of the T-Shirt companies in America. I got a leak of their latest one: "25-0... That's worth something, right?"

How about "Round of 32, hey, it's not THAT bad".

 

[Danzz]

And we are better than them this year too.

 

[Dove]

Watching those highlights, AO was an absolute phyiscal beast for us.

Its shame how Calhoun ruined him.

 

[noeynox]

Its shame how Calhoun ruined him.

I never said or implied that, but to suggest he wasn't a valuable contributor to our last national championship is silly.

 

[art4life]

Hey Fisher:

"Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

 

[AtlantaHusky]

He can join the '99 dook squad as the coulda shoulda woulda champs.

 

[Kitaman]

I have no problem with him saying that. As stated earlier, our rings tell the truth. Hell even my wife even says delusional things about me, I'm just very good at ignoring stupid shiiiiit. Sometimes I'll even tell her she's right to not hear any more of it.

Hell some people here post that we are better team than Louisville this year....just saying.

 

[aboogieee]

Was his reason/ultimate goal to compete for another Nat'l Championship? Think if Ollie became the coach before the mass exodus, these guys would've stayed regardless of sanctions?

Looking at the guys now, they take well to Ollie but you never know if UConn would've performed a coaching search had the retirement been announced earlier...

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I don't disagree with him. San Diego State was the team in UConn's bracket that scared me the most. They were a very good team that could have definitely won the National Championship that year.

Scoreboard.

San Diego wasn't even the best team we played in that regional. Arizona was a far better team than the Aztecs.

One place where Fisher (and many SDSU fans) get lost in the debate is that Jeremy Lamb in March was a far superior player than the November version. It could be argued (if you are being generous to SDSU) that it was a tossup as to who had the best player on the court that evening; UConn with Kemba or SDSU with Leonard (again, being geneous to SDSU as in reality it wasn't a tossup). Once you got past those two, the talent and depth tilted in UConn's favor. Yes, it was closer than I would have liked until the final few minutes and they deserve some praise for that but considering the home court advantage along with our extreme youth (outside of Kemba), if they were the better team the outcome would have been far different.

 

[G0UCONN]

I have no real problem with Fisher's comment. Many coaches and teams think it each March.

But it is what it is ...single elimination ends in one NC ... which makes winning it so hard.

FWIW....Arizona is the one team we beat that year (Kentucky the next one) that I am not sure how we pulled it out and am glad it was not a seven game series... not SD State.

 

[Pmurph678]

I have no real problem with Fisher's comment. Many coaches and teams think it each March.

But it is what it is ...single elimination ends in one NC ... which makes winning it so hard.

FWIW....Arizona is the one team we beat that year (Kentucky the next one) that I am not sure how we pulled it out and am glad it was not a seven game series... not SD State.

I just remember how amazing Zona was at rebounding, never saw a team rebound like that before.