We're playing basketball right now..

[57stratdawg]

This Fall kid is going to put up 50 on us. This is going to be a complete *** kicking.

 

[HueFreeze]

EL OH EL


I thought he was ineligible?

 

[57stratdawg]

We are awful on D.

 

[Philly Dawg]

Yeah, let's just go ahead and get the idea we'd be good at basketball this year beaten out of us early. The combination of bad defense and inability to shoot strikes MSU again!

 

[Lettucexxxx]

We need more meat on the bench to play the defense capable of beating a team with more size. It will be a hit or miss type of season with this team. If we are shooting the 3 well, we can keep games close. If we cant, we will get beat. Need more meat.

 

[gymdawg.sixpack]

This team will be just fine. If you thought we would be good in Nov you know little about basketball.

 

[Philly Dawg]

I agree we lack size, but that accounts for about 20% of what's happening in this game. We simply play poor defense irrespective of the size of our opponent.

 

[Philly Dawg]

I'll admit it. I thought we'd be competitive with mediocre mid majors. But maybe I just know nothing about basketball. They have 45 points with 6 minutes left in the first half. But hey, its November!

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

They're a veteran team with a 7'6 center. We play 5 true freshmen regularly. Anybody that thought we'd be good early is very stupid.

 

[Philly Dawg]

This game isn't about being "good." We look absolutely dreadful so far in this game.

For context, UCF is picked 8th in the AAC and scored 80 against Nichols State. They currently have 49 with three minutes left in the first half.

 

[57stratdawg]

Whew. Man, that was bad. We went on like a 12-4 run to cut the lead down to 20 at half.

Theyre shooting 68% and was around 80% for most of the first half. They've gotten uncontested looks basically every time down the court.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

This game isn't about being "good." We look absolutely dreadful so far in this game.

For context, UCF is picked 8th in the AAC and scored 80 against Nichols State. They currently have 49 with three minutes left in the first half.

Doesn't matter how they were picked, is it possible they may end up being better than 8th? we are gonna look bad against veteran teams. ESPECIALLY the 2nd game of the season lol.

I have no clue why this is surprising.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

These guys are gonna have to learn how to play college ball. It's alotndifferent than AAU

 

[gymdawg.sixpack]

We began playing different game with 12 mins to go; the game was already over. Good (future) potential teams know when start working on other things. This outcome has long been decided. Our only chance was to outshoot them. But without our best shooter playing its practically impossible.
Also, where a team is "picked" means crap.

 

[Lettucexxxx]

I'm more surprised at how good ucf looks. We will tighten this game up but need to keep driving to the hoop. Need to take advantage of the whistle happy rule change. 2 points in the paint....woof

 

[Philly Dawg]

I hope you are right about UCF being better than they were picked. I'm much less bothered by missing shots than by dreadful defense.

 

[Philly Dawg]

We are making them look good.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

I hope you are right about UCF being better than they were picked. I'm much less bothered by missing shots than by dreadful defense.

I'm really not even concerned with how good they are. They look good right now for sure, just keeping perspective.

These are highly touted freshmen but not UK freshmen. It's gonna take at least half this season and maybe all of it for them to figure out how hard they have to practice and play defense and get some cohesion.

 

[Lettucexxxx]

This game microcosms the upcoming season, more than likely.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

Howlands gonna have some really good teams in the near future, we just had to suffer through last year, gonna have to suffer a bit this year. But when these guys become sophomores and juniors and keep recruits nick weatherspoons...it's gonna be fun. Just have to have a little more patience.

Which because of football this year is pretty thin right now.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Doesn't matter how they were picked, is it possible they may end up being better than 8th? we are gonna look bad against veteran teams. ESPECIALLY the 2nd game of the season lol.

I have no clue why this is surprising.

Simple... People are uninformed, not stupid. We've been discussing nothing but NCAA, Hevesy and such and had very little talk about basketball. I wonder how many even know or care how many freshmens we have on the men's team and that our ladies are ranked in the top 10?

 

[Lettucexxxx]

Cohenz might need to take a walk around the block with Howlandz at Sundays supper club**

 

[olblue.sixpack]

This team will be just fine. If you thought we would be good in Nov you know little about basketball.

You dont have to be a member of LeBron James' posse to know anytime you lose to UCF by 25, it isn't good.