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(02-15-2014 04:12 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(02-15-2014 04:09 PM)Montgomery Blazer Wrote:  I honestly don't think it matters if UAB wins out from this point on.

I don't see an NIT bid.

I don't think anyone honestly cares what you think, since you honestly don't know what you are talking about. If we win out, we are going to the NCAA tournament, genius.

You knew exactly what I meant.

Even without Memphis, I just don't know if UAB has the horsepower to actually win the CUSA tournament.

I'll punt to you and your infinite wisdom, Great One.

(02-16-2014 01:33 AM)Montgomery Blazer Wrote:  

(02-15-2014 04:12 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(02-15-2014 04:09 PM)Montgomery Blazer Wrote:  I honestly don't think it matters if UAB wins out from this point on.

I don't see an NIT bid.

I don't think anyone honestly cares what you think, since you honestly don't know what you are talking about. If we win out, we are going to the NCAA tournament, genius.

You knew exactly what I meant.

Even without Memphis, I just don't know if UAB has the horsepower to actually win the CUSA tournament.

I'll punt to you and your infinite wisdom, Great One.

the reason you get the constant abuse is based on your own behavior. when you show up saying how great 127-197-1 Watson Brown was and then starting a thread saying we should hire Lane Kiffen all future posts are going to be ridiculed whenever the opportunity, however slight, is there.

(02-15-2014 06:25 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  We just have to man up and stop losing to these crappy teams. It's as simple as that. No reason on this earth this team should've lost to temple, unt, ecu, fiu, and fau. I could understand losing to one or maybe two of those teams, but that's way too many craptastic losses for a team that has shown they have what it takes to compete with truly good teams.

I don't know if its internal or external, but this group just doesn't seem to have the motivation to play against bad teams. That's probably the biggest thing we have to correct for the remainder of this season and for next season. Even though we can't shoot worth a damn and turn the ball over a lot, we still should've beaten at least 3 or 4 of those aforementioned teams. Shooting and turnovers be damned, this team was good enough go beat those squads if we just played with some fire and motivation.

That speaks to bad coaching, or, at best, inexperienced coaching. Given how long he was an understudy, he should have learned how to motivate a team, I would think.

Unless, of course, the team simply doesn't care.

(02-16-2014 12:49 PM)Grammar-Nazi Wrote:  

(02-15-2014 06:25 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  We just have to man up and stop losing to these crappy teams. It's as simple as that. No reason on this earth this team should've lost to temple, unt, ecu, fiu, and fau. I could understand losing to one or maybe two of those teams, but that's way too many craptastic losses for a team that has shown they have what it takes to compete with truly good teams.

I don't know if its internal or external, but this group just doesn't seem to have the motivation to play against bad teams. That's probably the biggest thing we have to correct for the remainder of this season and for next season. Even though we can't shoot worth a damn and turn the ball over a lot, we still should've beaten at least 3 or 4 of those aforementioned teams. Shooting and turnovers be damned, this team was good enough go beat those squads if we just played with some fire and motivation.

That speaks to bad coaching, or, at best, inexperienced coaching. Given how long he was an understudy, he should have learned how to motivate a team, I would think.

Unless, of course, the team simply doesn't care.

I hope it's not coaching or Haase and staff's ability to motivate. We are clearly better than our record indicates, but we haven't played like it.

Next year will be the true test. If we don't have a break out year, something is really wrong.

At this point of the season, with 6 seniors 3 juco one of the oldest team in ncaa, if we need the coach to do anything but make adjustment....we will be beaten by every 2-8 team in the conference...nm, well anyway I mentioned earlier what we needed for this team was some Marsh defensive moments.

The team should have trapped earlier, should have extended the defense earlier, should have went to the zone earlier,but more then anything we should have hit free throws.

we hit the front end of free throws we win. Nothing the coach can do about that.

I find it interesting that a lot of coaches only trap when they are behind at the end and not more frequently during the game.

It would seem that if you were good at it that you could get up by a dozen or so & then relax a little.

Nope. That's a "gimmick" that coaches like mike Anderson use that doesn't work consistently.

(02-17-2014 10:47 AM)rebounder2u Wrote:  At this point of the season, with 6 seniors 3 juco one of the oldest team in ncaa, if we need the coach to do anything but make adjustment....we will be beaten by every 2-8 team in the conference...nm, well anyway I mentioned earlier what we needed for this team was some Marsh defensive moments.

The team should have trapped earlier, should have extended the defense earlier, should have went to the zone earlier,but more then anything we should have hit free throws.

we hit the front end of free throws we win. Nothing the coach can do about that.

The coach could have motivated them to hit the FT's.(kidding. I don't buy into the coach being a motivator as much as some others do)

And experienced doesn't mean good. I don't need to point out the flaws our seniors have, but when two JUCO guys come in and lead the way, that shows what we were working with.

I hope we are a year away from being really good. I think if nothing else, next year's team will be better than this year's. We will be very young though. If we can get the JUCO PG we are after, that would be huge. If not, we may still have some similar problems to what we have this year with better talent, but younger talent.

(02-17-2014 11:09 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  Nope. That's a "gimmick" that coaches like mike Anderson use that doesn't work consistently.

XCMA: 4 post season appearances at UAB, and our last 3 tournament wins; 3 post seasons and a 31 win season and an elite 8 in 5 years at Missouri; and currently is on the brink of getting Arkansas back to it's spot in the top third of the SEC, after having just 18 and 19 wins the last 2 seasons.

(02-17-2014 12:55 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  

(02-17-2014 11:09 AM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  Nope. That's a "gimmick" that coaches like mike Anderson use that doesn't work consistently.

XCMA: 4 post season appearances at UAB, and our last 3 tournament wins; 3 post seasons and a 31 win season and an elite 8 in 5 years at Missouri; and currently is on the brink of getting Arkansas back to it's spot in the top third of the SEC, after having just 18 and 19 wins the last 2 seasons.

What Arkansas team are you watching, The ones I see are talented but not top tier talent.
The team I see will get Mike fired if he dont win more games against better talent.
But, who cares thats someone else problem.. the change in the charge block call means you need basketball players as well as the athletes who play basketball.

Arkansas this year isn't a good team unless they are playing at home.

(02-17-2014 12:55 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote:  and currently is on the brink of getting Arkansas back to it's spot in the top third of the SEC, after having just 18 and 19 wins the last 2 seasons.

There's a team with a 14-10 record in the Top 3 of the SEC.

I will admit my finger isn't on the pulse of Arkansas basketball, but I would be really surprised if Anderson is meeting their expectations at this point.

Arkansas is 1-5 in conference on the road. The games in which I have seen them were against UK & Missouri. They split very close games in those two and appear to be equal or close in talent to their competition.

I don't keep up with SEC BB recruiting, but I would not be surprised if, outside of UKY, Vandy, UFL and maybe UTK, there is trouble getting top national BB recruits to overlook the SEC "football first" attitude at most of its schools. Getting top BB talent to come to Bama, AU or UGA may be as easy as getting top FB talent to come to UKY and Vandy.

I don't keep up with SEC BB recruiting, either.