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Message: [QUOTE="newfrontier, post: 4834306, member: 8141"] Oregon State Beavers shot horribly in the first half, missing many open shots. At the halftime break, Coach Rueck chalked up the poor performance, at least in part, to Oregon's length disrupting the Beavers game (just like it did to Portland and Santa Clara...oh wait, a much smaller Portland team beat the Ducks by 31 points, outscoring them 91-60, and a shorter Santa Clara team beat the Ducks by 39 points..where was Oregon's disruptive length in those games?). Rueck needs to find a better excuse. Other options (what is your choice?) - 1. Ducks really really stink this year, so the Beavers were looking past them, what with USC and UCLA up next. 2. Beavers were jacked up so high for the game, they couldn't concentrate, nor shoot straight, nor think straight in the first half. 3, Ducks have won 3 of the last 5 games at Gill, so they were overconfident. 4. Rueck's game plan and coaching approach to the game were all wrong, requiring substantial halftime adjustments. 5. Beavers were very nervous, given it was their conference opener. (FAN FAVORITE ANSWER) 6. Beavers were just unlucky in the first hALF as the law of averages and "odds" caught up with them. They were simply due for their poorest shooting half at home in nearly a decade. 7. Rueck is aging and is just not as sharp as he once was. 8. Beavers are still a young team and still learning. Let's face it. Oregon is the worst team in the Pac-12 this year, even below ASU. The Beavers should have won by 50 points, not just 21. . [/QUOTE]

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