Well, we've done it again and dug ourselves a big hole 45-29. It's gonna take one hell of an effort on our part, and/or a big collapse by ASU in the second half, if we pull this one out.
Well, it's about 25 point lead now. Nothing like getting your ass kicked by ASU.
Typical Trojans this year.
(02-14-2013 09:45 PM)eh9198 Wrote: [ -> ]Typical Trojans this year.
It's bad enough losing to these guys period, but to get drilled by them is another.
This team is bad. Really bad. I'm getting to the point where I doubt we'll be any better that mediocre crap next year too. The good news is that everyone will be back. The bad news is that everyone will be back.
I didn't see the game, but listening to it sounded like a high school team was playing a college team. I'd guess we'll probably show up and do better Saturday night against MT, but I expect to lose again. I don't know how we could play much worse than we did tonight. I've said all along that we'd lose to MT in the Rock. Of course it didn't help that Will has been in bed for two days, but we'd have had our asses kicked tonight anyway.
(02-14-2013 10:14 PM)Scotto Wrote: [ -> ]The Florida trip is where the West is won.
Explain. I don't think WE are going to win it in Florida. [/b]I'm figuring that we'll be down by 1 1/2 games after Saturday night. Looks like the schedule favors ASU the rest of the way. I still think the men split in Florida. I thought we'd beat ASU at the Jack, but after that shellacking tonight, I am thinking we might lose that one too.
(02-14-2013 09:49 PM)Scotto Wrote: [ -> ]Made more free throws than we attempted.
We're personally hoping to win our next 3 games so we dont have to worry about whether or not FIU or FAU will choose to show up for those games.
I know FIU swept us this year, but that was part of our Jekly and Hyde team that figured out how to sweep USA just a week or so later. You just never know what to expect out of the Florida trip.
Not haaving Neighbor at full strength really hurt you guys.
(02-14-2013 11:16 PM)chiefsfan Wrote: [ -> ]Not haaving Neighbor at full strength really hurt you guys.
It definitely hurt, but not 20 points worth.
(02-14-2013 11:16 PM)chiefsfan Wrote: [ -> ]We're personally hoping to win our next 3 games so we dont have to worry about whether or not FIU or FAU will choose to show up for those games.
I know FIU swept us this year, but that was part of our Jekly and Hyde team that figured out how to sweep USA just a week or so later. You just never know what to expect out of the Florida trip.
Not haaving Neighbor at full strength really hurt you guys.
Sure it hurt us some, but not 24 points worth. From listening to Ray Tucker, and it's hard to tell what is happening by listening to him, but it sounded like they ASU took us out of everything. A full fledged clock cleaning.
(02-14-2013 11:31 PM)LRTrojan Wrote: [ -> ] (02-14-2013 11:16 PM)chiefsfan Wrote: [ -> ]We're personally hoping to win our next 3 games so we dont have to worry about whether or not FIU or FAU will choose to show up for those games.
I know FIU swept us this year, but that was part of our Jekly and Hyde team that figured out how to sweep USA just a week or so later. You just never know what to expect out of the Florida trip.
Not haaving Neighbor at full strength really hurt you guys.
Sure it hurt us some, but not 24 points worth. From listening to Ray Tucker, and it's hard to tell what is happening by listening to him, but it sounded like they ASU took us out of everything. A full fledged clock cleaning.
We shut down your inside game, and outside of a couple flury's, really limited the driving ability of your PG.
Peterson and Washington just dominated down low...We shot 51 percent which is incredibly unusual for us, but we probably would have won either way considering the inside game, and the way we shot FT's
I think Neighbor hurt simply because we were able to key on your guards in the 2nd half, confident he wouldnt try and step out on us.
I've been going to games for more than 50 years and I have never left a game before it was over, but with three and a half minutes or so left, I was so disgusted I got up and left. It was one of those games where ASU played probably as well as they possibly could, and we played as poorly as we could. I was ashamed to be a Trojan fan tonight. It was totally embarrassing. Losing is one thing. Just getting totally mauled is another. Dark night for our program.
One thing I've seen since Brady arrived at ASU.
The only time we do well against UALR is when we force the issue in the paint. Attack and draw fouls or attack and get easy baskets. We've done bumpkus when we don't do that.
As for the game. ASU shot very well, best group of shooters Brady has had, but they've had more than one cold night.
UALR's future looks really good with this group of underclassmen.
(02-14-2013 09:50 PM)eh9198 Wrote: [ -> ]This team is bad. Really bad. I'm getting to the point where I doubt we'll be any better that mediocre crap next year too. The good news is that everyone will be back. The bad news is that everyone will be back.
There will be some new players in the mix. You can probably count on it.
(02-15-2013 12:13 PM)outsideualr Wrote: [ -> ]There will be some new players in the mix. You can probably count on it.
Just recently the talk on this board was that every player on this team could play, and we were loaded for the next few years. That Shields was going to be the John Wooden of the Sun Belt, if Duke, Kansas or Kentucky didn't come in here and hire him out from under us before he had a chance to become the John Wooden of the Sun Belt.
I think every player can play. But there are some pieces missing. We have some height, but not the kind of bodies we need underneath. We need a few one dimensional players. Big tough guys who might never hit a shot from more than two feet from the basket, other than free throws, but can keep people away from the basket, get rebounds and put backs around the basket. I don't want the 6'10 guy who wants to be a shooting guard. That's why we have shooting guards. Big guys at our level should be physical forces underneath. Let the smaller guys hit the outside shots and just control the paint. That's exactly what ASU did to us last night.
(02-15-2013 02:04 PM)outsideualr Wrote: [ -> ]physical forces
Ah, you may have coined one right there.