Right, all Im saying is the five seed isn't the end of the world although the four seed would obviously be much better.
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2012-13 Colorado Basketball Game thread: Colorado @ Cal The Patchuoli Fight
- Thread starter absinthe
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This.
That sucked
CVilleBuff
Well-Known Member
Hate to say it, but until this team actually runs a coherent offense, we're about at our ceiling.
I don't care who ya play, shooting 20 something % won't cut it. Yep, forget this one quickly.
Yep. At some point, Tad needs to realize that's handcuffing the team.
Get home and win 2 before the tourney.
Predictable as an atomic clock.
rialto
Member
this is a great point - CVille knows his college basketball incredibly well.
CVilleBuff
Well-Known Member
Yep, this wasn't unexpected, a top 50 road loss isn't the end of the world even though it sucks. Better be ready to beat Oregon though
Buffenuf
massive tool
35% shooting and they win going away! Missed layups are inexcusable.
Cal just wanted it more then we did. They outworked and outhustled us big time. Were able to get it inside, while we took jumpers much of the day. Only positive is that it should be easy for the team to get over this loss, and get ready for Oregon in 5 days. Guess our defense was good until the last 5 or so minutes
thanks joel...say hey to kreckman for me
pwbuffan
Active Member
Agree and I am not sure why Ski isn't coming off the bench right now, Boyle needs to open his eyes on this one.
CVilleBuff
Well-Known Member
This isn't a hard concept. We do not have the depth for ski to be a role player. Tad is well aware of what the ideal is, we simply do not have the personnel.
Those who don't like Ski seem to think he needs to learn some sort of lesson and feel that keeping him off the floor will accomplish this. Why they think further destroying his confidence will do this, I'm not sure. I'm also not sure what giving even more minutes to Chen, who's already being overplayed at least as much as Ski, does to help our offense.
CVilleBuff
Well-Known Member
And clearly when we score 46 points, taking off one of our few threats for offense (however inconsistent it may be) is not the answer.
Yeah, it definitely wasn't our day, but what makes it so frustrating is that we're so determined to make things hard on ourselves on offense. Today was the perfect example of a game where we could have benefited from creating a few easy looks through motion, pushing the tempo, and ball movement.
Offense was horrendous today. 2nd lowest point per possessions this season (.81 PPP). Only the KU game was worse (.75 PPP). For a team that we still hear wants to push the pace this was also their second lowest game in terms of possessions, 57 possessions today. Only in the Oregon game did CU have a lower number of possessions (54).
I am as much aware of Ski's deficiencies as anyone but you bring up a good point to consider in addition to some other things. First off it wasn't like Tad had a bunch of other options to go to. Chen has his role but as you point out he isn't going to add much in extra minutes, he's playing to his full role. We also aren't keeping anyone else on the bench who is going to add something Ski doesn't. Who else is going to get his minutes and add more? Adams? Talton? Eli?
We also have to keep in mind that as much as we want to win now Tad is building a program. Ski may never get it and if he doesn't somebody else will eventually take his minutes but he has the talent that if he does get it he could be a huge difference maker, a guy who can change games at the highest level. Tad isn't going to throw that away.
Also in this game it is easy to pick on Ski but I didn't see anyone tearing it up out there either. If you want to bench Ski for missing shots and not playing solid basketball we might as well forfeit the game because nobody else looked hignly impressive either today
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SteelCity Buff
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He did look good in transition today, but I wasn't impressed with him when Cal came to Coors. I'm hoping Hopkins will be an upgraded version of Wallace.