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BlueDogs said:
This was supposed to be the make or break year, if I recall. It's always just one more year... I call BS.
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I hope you are right, I didn’t think Diaco was going out either.
 
Fishy said:
There are no must-win games any more.
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Thank you. If there was a "must win" game I would argue that Auburn was it. If Auburn wasn't, then Whichita was...

The "thousand yard" stares from our coaches in the second half told me everything. It is over for KO and his BFF assistants...
 
Saab04 said:
Let’s just say you are the most optimistic person in the universe. But, there is nothing to be optimistic about. And, I promise you more than 15 boneyarders disagree with your optimistism.
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I didn't say only 15 disagree. I said 15 spew their constant nonsense. They pollute every thread on the board...
 
intlzncster said:
But that happens every game. Every game there's a 'reason' for the loss. It's still a loss. If they shoot 40% from 3 and go 0 for whatever from the free throw line, they might still lose to an opponent.

EOD the only stat that matters is who had more points.
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Of course the win matters! Believe me, I feel ill when we don't win. What I'm saying is that the basketball was better today. Certainly a hell of a lot better than against Auburn, but also better than pretty much every game we've played this year. That's at minimum what I want to see: improvements from the players and the coach. I got both today...
 
intlzncster said:
But that happens every game. Every game there's a 'reason' for the loss. It's still a loss. If they shoot 40% from 3 and go 0 for whatever from the free throw line, they might still lose to an opponent.

EOD the only stat that matters is who had more points.
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By the way, I know that my earlier comment comes across like I'm saying, "if my aunt had testicles, she'd be my uncle." But what I'm saying is if both teams shot to their 2017-2018 averages from the perimeter. Wichita State is shooting 40% and we're shooting 31%. Today, they did better than their average (48%) and we did much worse (18%). If we shot our average makes from those open looks, we win and the entire tone of this board would have changed about a lot of other aspects that are otherwise irrelevant to today's game. That's all I'm saying...
 
7-9. Write it down now.
 
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Stairmaster said:
Oh come off it...they're college athletes who play a national non-conference schedule. They're used to it.

If you wouldn't make that excuse for UConn, don't make it for anyone else.
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Though I have no doubt you’ll use it if we get pounded at Wichita. That and they’re a tournament team.
 
Sea Goat said:
Thank you. If there was a "must win" game I would argue that Auburn was it. If Auburn wasn't, then Whichita was...

The "thousand yard" stares from our coaches in the second half told me everything. It is over for KO and his BFF assistants...
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I agree. I think he knows he is over his head.
 
If recent history continues, we'll far behind early (by a large amount) and play basically even from that point forward (for another embarrassing, 15+ point loss), I want to see effort, a sustained effort from opening tip to final buzzer. I know we are limited at a few spots. I realize that an extremely low basketball IQ permeates the roster. There is however no reason this team can't work their collective backsides off for the en
 
UCweCONN said:
I've posted it before, but I'll say it again. I don't think KO wants to do this anymore. He'd be very open to a buy out discussion. He's worn out and he doesn't know how to right the ship. It's not fun for him anymore, and it sure as hell isn't fun for us.
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Did the Easter Bunny pass this along to you?

Why wouldn’t he take his buyout if they fire him?
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
Yeah man WSU cruised the whole way. Especially when we tied it with like 8 min left or were actually leading at the 12 min mark. If the roles were reversed and this was a game vs Central you’d be saying we barely won.
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Perspective
It was a total of like 93 seconds where we were leading throughout the game... It was never as close as you'd like to believe. WSU cruised playing away with no shoot around. But by all means go on believing we truly had a chance. Our offense would say otherwise...
 
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whaler11 said:
Did the Easter Bunny pass this along to you?

Why wouldn’t he take his buyout if they fire him?
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I don't mean he won't want money. I'm sure his ex will drag him to court if he doesn't. I mean he's looking for a face saving way to leave with some dignity and if the administration approaches him they could work out a lesser buyout while he moves on the an NBA job as an assistant or front office guy. I'm not pretending I have inside info. I'm just pretty good at reading people and if you look at KO from years one and two and look at him now, he's not the same person or coach. He's lost the spark.
 
whaler11 said:
I didn’t think they got jobbed by the refs today.

This game distilled it down to something very simple for me:

Every time UConn would make a run - WSU made a shot. On the road in front of a full house - everytime they needed to make a shot they did.

Wichita is good because they can make shots and UConn is not because they can’t.
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Good summation of our problem. They had three shooters on the floor at all times and we had none
 
UCweCONN said:
I don't mean he won't want money. I'm sure his ex will drag him to court if he doesn't. I mean he's looking for a face saving way to leave with some dignity and if the administration approaches him they could work out a lesser buyout while he moves on the an NBA job as an assistant or front office guy. I'm not pretending I have inside info. I'm just pretty good at reading people and if you look at KO from years one and two and look at him now, he's not the same person or coach. He's lost the spark.
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There is no reason for him to not take every cent. Fired is fired is fired.
 
UConn will probably win but we will have to hang on for dear life.
 
UConnDan97 said:
Of course it had a bearing. It means if we make 2 more shots or if they make 2 less. That's all. Over 38 minutes, that's what separated us. The last 2 minutes was the foul game, which always had to happen...
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I agree it had an effect on today's game. But I don't see how anyone thinks that, threes aside, "If we play like this for the remainder of the year, we'll win the vast majority of our conference games."

They've now played 13 games and it's abundantly clear there are a lot of things that sink this team. If it's not the three point shooting percentage and stopping the three it will be something else. I hope he's right but I don't see it based on everything we've seen so far.
 
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HooperScooper said:
I agree it had an effect on today's game. But I don't see how anyone thinks that, threes aside, "If we play like this for the remainder of the year, we'll win the vast majority of our conference games."

They've now played 13 games and it's abundantly clear there are a lot of things that sink this team. If it's not the three point shooting percentage and stopping the three it will be something else. I hope he's right but I don't see it based on everything we've seen so far.
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Well, if you agree that Wichita State is the best team in the conference right now, then it's easy to see why I think that. I suppose if you disagree with that presumption, then that would be the issue...
 
UConnDan97 said:
By the way, I know that my earlier comment comes across like I'm saying, "if my aunt had testicles, she'd be my uncle." But what I'm saying is if both teams shot to their 2017-2018 averages from the perimeter. Wichita State is shooting 40% and we're shooting 31%. Today, they did better than their average (48%) and we did much worse (18%). If we shot our average makes from those open looks, we win and the entire tone of this board would have changed about a lot of other aspects that are otherwise irrelevant to today's game. That's all I'm saying...
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I still don't understand the argument. You're pointing to one stat to say UConn would have won if the previous average of that stat was attained by both teams. How can you look at just one stat to say UConn would have won? UConn shot better on free throws that their average and WSU shot much worse. So does that mean UConn should have lost by more?

If the games played out to every statistical average for both teams in every game UConn plays the rest of the season then we lose most of the games. The team does so many things terribly that invariably they will lose most games if these averages continue. They need to get better in a lot of areas to win games. That I don't think any of us would argue.
 
UConnDan97 said:
Well, if you agree that Wichita State is the best team in the conference right now, then it's easy to see why I think that. I suppose if you disagree with that presumption, then that would be the issue...
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O.K. we'll see. I hope you're right.
 
In response to the OP, "you bet your sweet bippy it is!". I hope Larrier can learn to use his height and catch and shoot over smaller defenders. Late in the second half he caught a pass in front of the UCONN bench and had to dribble, turn his back to the shorter defender-the blonde guy, spin around and miss a fadeaway. Just rise up and shoot the ball TL, show some confidence.
 
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