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the good things ,,,,,
Frazier will be playing for UAB next year ,,,,,,that is a good thing :)
so far best rpi win ....Nebraska 140
,,,,worst RPI LOST ....Temple 164

Did some of you think were gonna blow temple out? How much more prepared could the man prepare them? Could it be that maybe temple was the better team tonight?

This fan base has grown high expectation for only second year coaches. ready to give up on basketball season and the coach already?

Chad Frazier was "HORRIBLE", tonight. Seven turnovers. 3-13 from the field. Two assists. Jordan Swing wasn't much better. 2-10 from the field. Zero rebounds. One assist. The team had a total of 7 assists. Defense was terrible. Temple scored a ton of points down low. What a disaster!

(11-24-2013 08:23 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  Temple has won 24, 24, 26, 29, 22, and 21 games over the past six years. How some of you thought we would waltz our way to victory is beyond me. They are a good team and totally dominated our big guys. Gorilla is right that the team and the fans came in way too confident that this would be a blowout in our favor.

This is still a team learning how to play together. Games like this, not 30 point individual performances will make us stronger and a better team by conference time. For those of you who think our tournament chances are over now because of one game in November, shut up and go look at some tournament history and learn something.

You can't stand people having a different opinion than you.

This was a bad loss, and it will hurt our tournament chances.

That doesn't mean we won't get in, but we've made it harder with this loss.

(11-24-2013 08:13 PM)BlazeNBham Wrote:  Got to win the games you are favored in and the games you deserve to win.

The team that deserves to win is usually the one that does.

Im finding it hard to see a win for temple in their league. Cincy, Louisville, Memphis, UConn, UCF. SMU and Houston will be playing really well by the time they play them. Rutgers could steal one against them as well. Doesn't sound as good of a loss or win for us than I thought it would be. they may not win 3-4 games in their league.

(11-24-2013 08:27 PM)rook360 Wrote:  Did some of you think were gonna blow temple out? How much more prepared could the man prepare them? Could it be that maybe temple was the better team tonight?

This fan base has grown high expectation for only second year coaches. ready to give up on basketball season and the coach already?

Seriously. This is UAB we're talking about. It's not like we're top 10 caliber cause we almost beat NM and beat Nebraska.

(11-24-2013 08:26 PM)UABFRENCHY Wrote:  the good things ,,,,,
Frazier will be playing for UAB next year ,,,,,,that is a good thing :)
so far best rpi win ....Nebraska 140
,,,,worst RPI LOST ....Temple 164

Did you know that the RPI is absolutely meaningless in November. Right now Youngstown State and Indiana State are in the top 10.

Defense was bad all the way around. rebounding want much better.

(11-24-2013 08:29 PM)Smaug Wrote:  

(11-24-2013 08:13 PM)BlazeNBham Wrote:  Got to win the games you are favored in and the games you deserve to win.

The team that deserves to win is usually the one that does.

I don't think New Mexico deserved to win. And I think Kirk should've been fouled out way before bairstow as well. JMO.

We have such high expectations, but in truth, how many people expected us to be a tournament team 2nd year.

Seems like the guys were playing tired; shots almost going, just coming up short to the rim even on layups. Which also would explain the lack of defensive intensity and turnovers. And there didn't seem to be enough passing the ball around on offense.

(11-24-2013 08:28 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  

(11-24-2013 08:23 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  Temple has won 24, 24, 26, 29, 22, and 21 games over the past six years. How some of you thought we would waltz our way to victory is beyond me. They are a good team and totally dominated our big guys. Gorilla is right that the team and the fans came in way too confident that this would be a blowout in our favor.

This is still a team learning how to play together. Games like this, not 30 point individual performances will make us stronger and a better team by conference time. For those of you who think our tournament chances are over now because of one game in November, shut up and go look at some tournament history and learn something.

You can't stand people having a different opinion than you.

This was a bad loss, and it will hurt our tournament chances.

That doesn't mean we won't get in, but we've made it harder with this loss.

Wow. Amazing insight you have there. Any loss, Einstein, makes it harder to get into the tournament. My responses are to your fellow Mensa club members who are saying this loss will keep us out of the tournament and our NCAA hopes are over.

Truth is, we have very slight NCAA hopes this year. We are not the team that played against New Mexico or Nebraska. That was just a glimpse of what this team can be.

And it is you that is intolerant of other people's opinion. You can't help yourself but to attack me anytime you don't agree with me.

(11-24-2013 08:27 PM)rook360 Wrote:  Did some of you think were gonna blow temple out? How much more prepared could the man prepare them? Could it be that maybe temple was the better team tonight?

This fan base has grown high expectation for only second year coaches. ready to give up on basketball season and the coach already?

Bingo!
I couldn't believe the first post in this thread, complaining that we were "only" a five point favorite.

Haase needs to open up that Basketball 101 class to everyone, not just women. Change the name to Basketball Reality 101

Y'all crazy tonight. College basketball is as competitive as it's ever been top to bottom these days. Vermont (1-5) just lost to Duke at home by 1. Get over it and enjoy the game.

It's one bad half of basketball playing 3 games in 4 days. In November. Dial it back a notch guys

There was a brief second half push that was actually quite impressive. But we just aren't conditioned, we were tired. 2OT loss just last Thursday? Another game on Friday?

We're a good team, just ran out of gas towards the end. Luckily, regular season games outside of this tournament are more spaced apart, more time for rest. Oh, well. Conditioning is also something that's fixable.

(11-24-2013 08:31 PM)alwaysb Wrote:  Seems like the guys were playing tired; shots almost going, just coming up short to the rim even on layups. Which also would explain the lack of defensive intensity and turnovers. And there didn't seem to be enough passing the ball around on offense.

There's a lot of truth to this. That New Mexico Game was a real and playing an extra half-game had to have had a huge impact on our playing ability down that final stretch.

To lower expectations:
don't expect better than a 15 point win against Fla A&M
don't expect better than a 15 point loss against unc

(11-24-2013 08:39 PM)Hambit Wrote:  

(11-24-2013 08:31 PM)alwaysb Wrote:  Seems like the guys were playing tired; shots almost going, just coming up short to the rim even on layups. Which also would explain the lack of defensive intensity and turnovers. And there didn't seem to be enough passing the ball around on offense.

There's a lot of truth to this. That New Mexico Game was a real and playing an extra half-game had to have had a huge impact on our playing ability down that final stretch.

Right. New Mexico is a good team and looked tired against UMass, and lost.