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Am I the only one who is psyched to have these guys home Wednesday and Sunday? It's going to be a fun week and these guys deserve some rest.

(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.

Yes. Not enough ball movement. Frazier trying to do too much. Too many turnovers, not enough sharing the ball. I sure as hell hope BorB ain't CF, cuz that kind of ego is baaad for a team. I would have liked more minutes for Watts and Williams. CJ showed up. Swing did not. Lackadaisacal on defense by pretty much everybody.

What happened? The team's mentality was not what I was expecting. I hope Coach can get their heads right. Hopefully it was simply fatigue more than anything.

I'm still excited for UAB to take down UNC. It looked to me like temple went in with the goal of shutting down Frazier and succeeded.

(11-24-2013 08:43 PM)BlazerGold09 Wrote:  Am I the only one who is psyched to have these guys home Wednesday and Sunday? It's going to be a fun week and these guys deserve some rest.

No. they played great this weekend, despite what the basketball neophytes think. Had one half of bad basketball and lost a game to a team that has won a lot of game the last few years.

It sounded to me that Temple hit a hot streak in the first 10 minutes of the second half and cruised home from there. We held them to essentially the same lead they had at 10 minutes in through the rest of the game. Once Temple got out to 20 points, we just could not match them except to hold on the last 10 minutes staying 16 to 21 points behind. We are not yet a team that can give up that kind of margin and overcome it right now.

(11-24-2013 08:46 PM)sadolakced Wrote:  I'm still excited for UAB to take down UNC. It looked to me like temple went in with the goal of shutting down Frazier and succeeded.

Very good point. New Mexico and Nebraska probably prepared for Washington and got burned by Fraizer. Temple had a day to prepare for Frazier, and shut him down. Washington was able to go crazy though.

The missing component tonight that complimented both Washington and Frazier in their big games this year was Rod Rucker. Four points and six rebounds is one of his worst nights as a Blazer.

Yep! I sure was "way too confident" that the team would come in and win this one. I agree with whoever said they looked tired. It makes me wonder if every player on the team has a text phone and was up half the night Twittering and spent all day today, again, twittering, instead of getting a solid nights rest and spending the day "preparing" for a "big" game. They played defense as if they had not scouted their individual opponents, at all.

Temple was prepared for this one. They were, in the second half, the better team, by far. They deserved to win. By the time UAB got down by ten points, or so, there was not a snowballs chance in hades of winning, tonight.

Chad showed absolutely no leadership, tonight.

If this teams goal is to make it to the NCAA Tournament this season, maybe it "is" better for them to have gotten blown out by Temple, tonight, and this early in the season. It sure did set them straight. They won't sleep too good tonight. Sweet dreams, fans! I'm going to bed.

I'm pretty sure they all have a "text phone" and some of them were "twittering".

(11-24-2013 08:49 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(11-24-2013 08:46 PM)sadolakced Wrote:  I'm still excited for UAB to take down UNC. It looked to me like temple went in with the goal of shutting down Frazier and succeeded.

Very good point. New Mexico and Nebraska probably prepared for Washington and got burned by Fraizer. Temple had a day to prepare for Frazier, and shut him down. Washington was able to go crazy though.

The missing component tonight that complimented both Washington and Frazier in their big games this year was Rod Rucker. Four points and six rebounds is one of his worst nights as a Blazer.

+1

For those of you who watched the game, we had what I counted 9 shots in the paint rim out in the 2nd half. Shots just didn't fall. On the flip side, Temple couldn't miss. Tired legs were the difference in the rebound game as well.

We'll be a better team for this entire experience. Clearly, we weren't ready for a postseason-type environment, but we haven't been since Anderson's last year when we played Mempiss in the finals.

Now that this one's over, we can go back to a somewhat normal practice/game schedule. Still chances for two resume boosting wins out of conference (UNC, and yes, @LSU). Unless we win one or both of these, we will not be eligible for an at-large barring a 14-2 record (according to my way-too-early FN predictions).

The good news is that Charlotte appears to be the real deal (up 10 on Michigan in the second half) and Southern Miss and La Tech appear to be opportunities for good wins in CUSA (and we get 2/3 at home).

(11-24-2013 08:33 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(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.

I can take anyone's opinion besides your because you are a complete jack asss

(11-24-2013 09:02 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  

(11-24-2013 08:33 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(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.

I can take anyone's opinion besides your because you are a complete jack asss

Then stop responding to my posts. I really don't care how you take them. Stop calling me out in threads I am not even participating in.

You are not a jack ass, Memphis Blazer. I find you to be quite pragmatic. Me, on the other hand, I am more of a dreamer, a wishful thinker, like most sports fans.

Tonight's loss can be pinned on the double OT loss hangover. Our guys were worn out.

Frazier had an all around horrible game. 10 points on 3/13 shooting, 0/3 from 3 pt land and 4/7 from the line. 2 assists to 7 turnovers.he took us out of our offense the entire 2nd half by being a black hole turnover machine.

This team has got to get more going than a one on one game with either CJW or Frazier going off on alternating nights.

Poor PG play is going to hurt us, because Frazier is definitely NOT a pg. he's a shooting guard in every sense. Not sure what we will do to remedy this as its essentially Frazier and watts at that position. I'm not sure if watts is ready for big time minutes.

Also, swing is not contributing much. His minutes need to go to Williams and maybe even Purifoy until he gets out of this slump. 7 points 0 rebounds on 2/10 shooting. Abysmal.

We also didnt show up on the boards or defensively tonight.

No matter how anyone spins this, this was a bad loss that will bite us. However we still have a lot of games ahead of us and we just had to hope this was a fluke.

(11-24-2013 09:40 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  Frazier had an all around horrible game. 10 points on 3/13 shooting, 0/3 from 3 pt land and 4/7 from the line. 2 assists to 7 turnovers.he took us out of our offense the entire 2nd half by being a black hole turnover machine.

This team has got to get more going than a one on one game with either CJW or Frazier going off on alternating nights.

Poor PG play is going to hurt us, because Frazier is definitely NOT a pg. he's a shooting guard in every sense. Not sure what we will do to remedy this as its essentially Frazier and watts at that position. I'm not sure if watts is ready for big time minutes.

Also, swing is not contributing much. His minutes need to go to Williams and maybe even Purifoy until he gets out of this slump. 7 points 0 rebounds on 2/10 shooting. Abysmal.

We also didnt show up on the boards or defensively tonight.

No matter how anyone spins this, this was a bad loss that will bite us. However we still have a lot of games ahead of us and we just had to hope this was a fluke.

Swap Denzell Watts for Frazier in the starting lineup, and the second unit of Frazier, Williams, Purifoy, Rideau & Mehinti sounds pretty dangerous.

Frazier definitely deserves to start. He laid an egg, but he's one of our top 3 guys. Maybe start watts over swing for a traditional point guard, but I'm not sure watts is ready..

Last time UAB was beat by 21 or more points - Memphis, Feb. 11th, 2012. Memphis 79 - UAB 45.

Middle Tennessee beat UAB by 20 last season.

IMHO, it shouldn't ever be about who starts. It should be about who finishes.

(11-24-2013 09:40 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  Frazier had an all around horrible game. 10 points on 3/13 shooting, 0/3 from 3 pt land and 4/7 from the line. 2 assists to 7 turnovers.he took us out of our offense the entire 2nd half by being a black hole turnover machine.

This team has got to get more going than a one on one game with either CJW or Frazier going off on alternating nights.

Poor PG play is going to hurt us, because Frazier is definitely NOT a pg. he's a shooting guard in every sense. Not sure what we will do to remedy this as its essentially Frazier and watts at that position. I'm not sure if watts is ready for big time minutes.

Also, swing is not contributing much. His minutes need to go to Williams and maybe even Purifoy until he gets out of this slump. 7 points 0 rebounds on 2/10 shooting. Abysmal.

We also didnt show up on the boards or defensively tonight.

No matter how anyone spins this, this was a bad loss that will bite us. However we still have a lot of games ahead of us and we just had to hope this was a fluke.

May I take this moment to disagree with your opinion that Swing's minutes should go to Purifoy. Swing is struggling, but not as much as Purifoy who has scored four points all year and is not even shooting when he is out there. I would also like to differ with you regarding giving Swing's minutes to Williams. Williams is already playing quite a bit and is usually coming in for either Swing or Washington. I am sure we can reach some level of agreement that Williams is playing fantastic in his role coming off of the bench. I fear (and hope you would as well) that changing that role might diminish his effectiveness.

I would like to agree with you and your point that we need to be playing better team ball with balanced scoring rather than alternating superstar nights. I do agree with you that this loss hurts our tournament chances, but that is because all losses hurt your chances and pardon my disagreement, but it is too early to tell how much this game will hurt.

Frazier is learning the point guard position. No one is claiming he is a point guard by nature. He has done a good job thus far. It's a testament to his skill that he can do as well as he has done thus far. It will take time for him to take on the point guard mentality of dishing it out. We've been quite successful in the past with point guards who looked to score (see Steve Mitchell)

I hope my small differences of opinion with your very good post does not cause you too much consternation.