PDA

View Full Version : USC; Another Beauty For The Pac II...

TucsonDon
11-20-2005, 05:55 PM
Department of redundancy department...

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/boxscore?gid=200511200609
Auercat
11-20-2005, 06:13 PM
Good G-d!

Bearing Down on The Cats, Bruins and Huskies (And Maybe The Ducks) Having to Carry The Pac Ten This Season. The Rest of The League Has Been Freakin' Pathetic Early On :fur:

Auercat
TucsonDon
11-20-2005, 07:28 PM
Well, the verdict is in: Tim Floyd needs to start paying...err...I mean playing some better players.
NOVABruin
11-20-2005, 07:31 PM
But their future is still brighter than UCLA.
TucsonDon
11-20-2005, 07:33 PM
Of course.
TheOriginalAZ
11-20-2005, 08:03 PM
The worst part is they let this guy score 4 pts

Austen Powers 2-3 0-0 0-0 0 4
Itamicbomb
11-20-2005, 08:10 PM
Nice win for my hometown team - Shewmake didn't even have a good game.
DCCat
11-20-2005, 08:47 PM
The worst part is they let this guy score 4 pts

Austen Powers 2-3 0-0 0-0 0 4
At least they're no longer coached by Dr. Evil.
ByJoveByJingle
11-20-2005, 09:11 PM
But their future is still brighter than UCLA.
Should Bruin fans be chirping about a game involving Northridge?
haji81872
11-20-2005, 09:41 PM
We can now.

Seriously though, is this just an anamoly or is the Pac in for another rough year.

Washington looks rough, but they are winning and are missing a player or two, and they get it going in the second half so I think they will be ok.

I love, love Jay John but this was a bad loss. I think they have some serious issues to deal with, but have faith in Jay to get it fixed.

USC you can maybe shrug it off to learning a new system and gelling as a team. Cromwell played well, as did Lodrick and Young. Pruitt had a bad game, but he is too good to play like that all year. I think they will continue to struggle thoughout the season until the learn how to defend. Certainly they are talented enough to get some wins this year.

Stanford loss as had been pointed out before is fairly typical for them. Yet, I think they have some problems as well that may keep them from being the type of team many suspect of them. They need to find some more consistent scoring options.

It has been an ugly start and hopefully the Pac can get things turned around. I don't even know if Arizona winning Maui will help because everyone expects them to do well. UCLA needs to beat Memphis (a tall order) and the other teams have to beat the rest of their nonconference opponents they are supposed to beat or once again the Pac wil get zero respect come tourny time with seeding and bubble teams. Obviously it is early, but this is a disturbing trend.
11Banners
11-20-2005, 09:59 PM
Should Bruin fans be chirping about a game involving Northridge?

I don't know, but are you going to keep "chirping" about our offense without 3-4 starters playing?
ByJoveByJingle
11-20-2005, 10:50 PM
Yup. Just like you will keep chirping about how Howland has the SoCal recruiting market covered and Arizona will never take another recruit out of it.

Seriously . . . if Arizona struggles that mightily with a 2nd rate team no matter how many starters are out, there will be (and historically has been) plenty of criticism. Are you guys really content to play the injury card? I'd be concerned if I were you. Not mortally concerned . . . but concerned.
TucsonDon
11-20-2005, 10:55 PM
Boy, I missed basketball season.
ByJoveByJingle
11-20-2005, 11:02 PM
:) :cheers:
11Banners
11-20-2005, 11:17 PM
Yup. Just like you will keep chirping about how Howland has the SoCal recruiting market covered and Arizona will never take another recruit out of it.

Seriously . . . if Arizona struggles that mightily with a 2nd rate team no matter how many starters are out, there will be (and historically has been) plenty of criticism. Are you guys really content to play the injury card? I'd be concerned if I were you. Not mortally concerned . . . but concerned.

Yes, we're mortally concerned. I'm sure Arizona fans would take it in stride if 3 or 4 starters were missing from the lineup. We won by 18 or 19 yesterday, but hey, we should have won by 40 against a tournament team from last year when we had 2-3 freshmen on the court for the majority of the game. Considering many Bruins feel Farmar and Shipp are our two best players, it would be interesting to see if Arizona lost Adams, Mcllelan, Walters and fox. My bet is the 'Cats would struggle.
ByJoveByJingle
11-20-2005, 11:36 PM
Yes, we're mortally concerned. I'm sure Arizona fans would take it in stride if 3 or 4 starters were missing from the lineup. We won by 18 or 19 yesterday, but hey, we should have won by 40 against a tournament team from last year when we had 2-3 freshmen on the court for the majority of the game. Considering many Bruins feel Farmar and Shipp are our two best players, it would be interesting to see if Arizona lost Adams, Mcllelan, Walters and fox. My bet is the 'Cats would struggle.
What was the excuse for the NMSU game?
Longhorned
11-21-2005, 12:38 AM
Regarding Northridge and the other PAC-10 losses, it's times like these that I HOPE they're not paying attention to us in the east....
DCCat
11-21-2005, 01:36 AM
Meanwhile, Oregon beat Savannah St. 83-23.
Flipper
11-21-2005, 12:00 PM
What was the excuse for the NMSU game?

I honestly felt the Bruins played well for the most part, with 2 bonafide starters out, and Fey having practiced once or twice ONLY.

Besides, if that MickeyD transfer (Ingram) hadn't shot the lights out, it would have been a 20+ point blow-out.

One thing about this 3rd edition of Howland is that the Bruins will play tough D, and they'll rebound the heck out of the ball. The one common thread of all the Bruin games so far is that, even if the half court sets aren't there yet.
11Banners
11-21-2005, 12:52 PM
What was the excuse for the NMSU game?


They scored 83.