This is my take. If Texas runs out to a 15 to 5 lead early and then we play them even rest of the way, maybe rally to cut it to 3 or 4 points once but lose by 8 to 10. I don't think people would be bitching as much if the above had occurred.
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This is my take. If Texas runs out to a 15 to 5 lead early and then we play them even rest of the way, maybe rally to cut it to 3 or 4 points once but lose by 8 to 10. I don't think people would be bitching as much if the above had occurred.
Possibly, but I can’t excuse what I watched in the last 2-3 minutes. It was similar to the Vandy game when we actually had both Butler and Robinson. The mental errors of throwing the ball away, failing to box out, not going up strong, etc. are inexcusable, especially with March less than two weeks away.
In late game situations, you have to play not only like you WANT to win, but like you know HOW to win.
Honestly, sometime I see confusion on the floor and am not sure how to interpret what it suggests.
All a team can really be expected to do is:
Play within the rules.
Play with class and sportsmanship.
Play as a TEAM, unselfishly.
Play with HEART (Desire, effort and courage).
Play SMART ... this is where coaching and practice come into play.
GO CATS !!
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I am about the same way. It could be much worse ...
Vegas had Texas favored by 4.5 for a reason- injuries are killing us
I explained this to you above, but you couldn't muster anything more than just "excuses". I dont care to converse with someone who dips out like that when they are proven wrong only to come back later and try and get back into the discussion.
No, didn't you hear? Texas ranked in the top35 is apparently trash and Vegas odds makers i guess are trash too lmfao.
Vegas had Texas -1.5, bettors moved it to -3.5. I'm not sure where -4.5 is coming from, I never saw that.
But Vegas also had Tennessee as a favorite both times we played them. We won both games, so what Vegas thinks, doesn't automatically mean the outcome is set and before the under 4 timeout, we had control of the game.
The issue is, we're a very erratic team, one game, we look like a well oiled machine, the next, we look disjointed.
Injuries definitely have a major part in that, but even when we were fully healthy (minus Kriisa), we were still up and down, which tells me it’s an issue with players not getting locked in. We had guys that were definitely not locked in last night and it really showed up the last 3 minutes.
Says the guy that accused me of trashing Pope. You're going to see it your way, I'm going to see it mine. We had a couple guys that cost us the game in crunch time, which resulted in us gifting Texas the game.
This is certainly true, perhaps, with regard to men's college basketball, no question ... but difficult to say in all of sports.
Every sport, around the entire world, has passionate fans. Very difficult to determine the MOST passionate ... it seems to me.
We do not take a backseat to anybody in men's college basketball ... !! GO CATS !!
Pope's comments in the post game presser:
"Good enough to win for 36 minutes".
"Gotta be in the moment and close it out."
"Missing players doesn't matter. The team was good enough to win."
Sounds like Pope doesn't believe in excuses, recognized we were the better team and we lost the game in crunch time.
Gee, who here was saying these same things???
"Good enough to win for 36 minutes".
"Gotta be in the moment and close it out."
"Missing players doesn't matter. The team was good enough to win."
Sounds like Pope doesn't believe in excuses, recognized we were the better team and we lost the game in crunch time.
Gee, who here was saying these same things???
I think the issue here is expecting the board to be in one accord when you have way-over-the-top negativity over every tiny thing from many posters that goes unchecked. Then, you get someone like OP pointing out the lunacy of it and someone labels them as being divisive for it. People don’t feel a need to protect their “turf”. People feel a need to protect their program from people with agendas.
Butler was clearly in terrible pain during that game. He played terribly down the stretch. I actually think we would have been better off without him the way he played. I respect him for playing through the pain, but he was bad that game.
Also, If Kerr had not gotten injured himself, he would have been pretty massively important (in comparison to what the team has had to go with) as the primary PG with Butler out. Kerr was not playing great early in the season, but he has history of being a long-term starting Div. I PG with decent success. Just a kick in the teeth all the way around.
I think the issue is a divisive board where both sides feel the need to go at each other. Perhaps that wasn’t articulated well by me. But in the end people have their opinions and I rarely try to sway them. People are welcome to them.
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