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

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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.
 
Sorry Steve, we were 7 points better and that is the only measuring stick that counts.
 
Rdm203 said:
I still think we were better than Florida and George Mason.
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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.
 
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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.
 
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Dove said:
Its shame how Calhoun ruined him. :rolleyes:
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I never said or implied that, but to suggest he wasn't a valuable contributor to our last national championship is silly.
 
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.
 
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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...
 
nelsonmuntz said:
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.
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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.
 
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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.
 
G0UCONN said:
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.
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I just remember how amazing Zona was at rebounding, never saw a team rebound like that before.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
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.
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Now you are just wrong. Arizona was not FAR BETTER than the Aztecs. Arizona had almost got knocked out in the first round that year by a mediocre Memphis squad. Arizona had lost to every ranked team they played going into the tournament, including getting drilled by BYU earlier in the year. They lost 4 games in a weak Pac 12 and didn't even win the conference tournament. SDSU lost 3 games all year that year, 2 to BYU (before Davies was suspended) and 1 to UConn.

Kemba's flop was really instrumental, and Leonard was draining shots to keep it close until the very end. Arizona was hot in the tournament, but they were hardly FAR BETTER than the Aztecs.
 
G0UCONN said:
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.
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We beat Kentucky twice that year. I don't lose sleep about that one like I thinking about that last hoisted 3 against Arizona.
 
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Waylon, did SDSU have a better season leading into the tournament than Arizona? Yes. The same could be said for Louisville, Duke, Pitt and another handful of teams in comparison to us in 2011. That doesn't make them better teams.

Yes, Zona had a tight one with Memphis (a reasonably talented team). IIRC, SDSU had a very tight game with a Temple squad that couldn't score.
 
And Fisher's FAB 5 team was better than UNC but a little thing called an unauthorized timeout ended that......Wouldn't that be the coach's responsibility? Opponents 2, Fisher 0.
 
tzznandrew said:
We beat Kentucky twice that year. I don't lose sleep about that one like I thinking about that last hoisted 3 against Arizona.
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Good point about that last three by Zona....looked good, thought for sure it was in. Yelled "no!!!" I am afraid to watch a rerun for fear it may go in next time...
 
Meh sounds a bit like sour grapes(prunes?) by an old guy. The metric of the tournament is single elimination. If finding the 'best' team was the purpose of the tournament we might as well put all the analytics guys in a room let them come up with the winner instead of playing the games.
 
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