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#IsitNovemberYet? - Hype thread

I expect Ski to take it to another level this year.

Why? Sense of urgency. He's a senior and this is his last go around. I think we'll see any or all of - an increase in defensive intensity and focus, leadership (it's now fully "his team"), and end-game "want to".

I might be wrong on the history, but I think Ski will be the first CU player to play in 4 NCAA tourneys (yes, I did go there).
 
I'm not quite sure where to put this so im putting it here... The Nuggets just announced a preseason Game at Coors on OCT 21 vs Portland...so $$$$
 
BehindEnemyLines said:
I expect Ski to take it to another level this year.

Why? Sense of urgency. He's a senior and this is his last go around. I think we'll see any or all of - an increase in defensive intensity and focus, leadership (it's now fully "his team"), and end-game "want to".

I might be wrong on the history, but I think Ski will be the first CU player to play in 4 NCAA tourneys (yes, I did go there).
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While he's at it, he may as well lead us to the Elite 8. He doesn't want to leave CU with a losing record in the Dance.
 
Wish there was a former Buff on the visiting team, but I really like this idea. The more attention the pro teams bring to CU the faster we can grow the fan base.
 
tante said:
are we really doing a Utah schedule this year? I kinda thought it was between our super RPI schedule last year and what Utah did.
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Utah was an extreme example. It's nowhere near that bad. But it's definitely a team playing down a notch in it's non-conference schedule. I, personally, am 100% ok with this. The team needs the time to become cohesive and it's not an RPI killer as both Nik and Rumblin have shown. It's just not murderers row.
 
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Oh my Jelly.
 
Goose said:
This. I'm very glad our non-conference schedule doesn't have the murderers row that last year did. The team needs confidence. The Utah route is definitely the way to go this year.
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We'd have to replace our top few opponents with St.Katherine's, Evergreen State, BYU Idaho, Savannah State and such to go the "Utah route". Record breaking weakness.
 
CVilleBuff said:
We'd have to replace our top few opponents with St.Katherine's, Evergreen State, BYU Idaho, Savannah State and such to go the "Utah route". Record breaking weakness.
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Evergreen State????.............Wait....isn't that one of those made-up colleges that mountain resort town T-shirt shops use to move merchandise?
 
Buffnik said:
As long as we win, the Buffs should have an OOC RPI in the Top 30. SOS won't be Top 5 like last year, but it should be Top 40.
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I think we'll have a couple slip ups (not sure if I could call losing to WSU a slip up really), that will negatively impact that. But yes, if we run the table in OOC, then by all means the RPI will be fine. It's not as bad as a Utah schedule, for sure.
 
I'm most excited to see how Fletcher and Talton have improved. We have the ability to go 10 deep, although I imagine certain players will separate themselves from others and you have a typical 8 man rotation
 
Shldr2Shldr said:
I don't know if you can say for a fact they are putting in more work than anybody else, but the majority of the team is training in a pretty unique environment. The altitude training may have an overestimated in terms of homecourt advantage, but it does play a huge factor in the conditioning of the team and how they perform at the lower altitude schools.
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I hate you.
 
BTW - we've been talking about a 10 - man rotation for years. It's never come to pass. My best guess is that we have a very solid 8 - man rotation, and guys like Stalzer, XT, King and Thomas end up with pretty limited minutes. Maybe one of them just makes a huge jump and demands more playing time, but I get the impression that as the year goes on, Tads bench gets shorter.
 
sackman said:
BTW - we've been talking about a 10 - man rotation for years. It's never come to pass. My best guess is that we have a very solid 8 - man rotation, and guys like Stalzer, XT, King and Thomas end up with pretty limited minutes. Maybe one of them just makes a huge jump and demands more playing time, but I get the impression that as the year goes on, Tads bench gets shorter.
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I think XT will be back up point.
 
CU would have to be hella stacked, if XT doesn't make the Top 8 players on the team

I also don't think CU will see a 10 man rotation. I could see the advantages of it, at altitude, if Tad wanted to emulate the 40 minutes of hell. But most likely some players will progress more then others, and those will be the players that get more minutes
 
No more than 8 guys should average over 8 minutes a game once we get into the conference season and start shrinking our bench for the Dance.

Exceptions, of course, for match ups, foul trouble or and injury limiting a guy during a game. But core rotation should shrink to 8... 9 tops.

That said, I'd be so happy if Tad could limit Josh to under 30 minutes a night in the OOC to keep him fresh for the end of the season this year.
 
I dont think any coach would complain about having 10 or 11 guys that could be in the eight man rotation
 
Buffnik said:
No more than 8 guys should average over 8 minutes a game once we get into the conference season and start shrinking our bench for the Dance.

Exceptions, of course, for match ups, foul trouble or and injury limiting a guy during a game. But core rotation should shrink to 8... 9 tops.

That said, I'd be so happy if Tad could limit Josh to under 30 minutes a night in the OOC to keep him fresh for the end of the season this year.
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I don't know... he's got to put up a lot of points early to stay in the hunt for the Wooden Award. I say, let the big dog eat.
 
rosstr said:
Football will crash and burn here shortly. But Tad ... my friends, Tad is starting a Tom Izzo like run at little ole CU.

The real season is coming. #RollTad
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Well that didn't take long.

We really are going to become a basketball school...
 
BeBe said:
He's still a growing boy I guess ... listed as 6'1" as a frosh, 6'2" last year and now 6'4".
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Geez, that's kind of incredible. Plus, he already looks about the same age as tony parker, if not older :lol:
 
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