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Reading comprehension is not your strong suit. I did not say I was in the Caribbean for 3 weeks, I was on a cruise ship during those 3 games. Mission legs are real, yes he came back in Spring 2023, and played catch up all of last year. But you have the same body type but what do I know. I played water polo at the D-1 level, absolutely no cardio there.

I like the way you think.

How about a poll about how to come up with new poll ideas?

I did not comment during the losing streak because I was in Caribbean, priorities you know. I’m not a Smith apologist, he would not have been my first choice. However he is there now, he has improved year over year, and he knows more about basketball than I ever will. Therefore, he has my support until the improvement stops. As for Whalin, not s…[Read more]

Maybe he took Keanu’s spot in the penalty box… 🙂

Yeah, as someone who has been a manager for 30 years now, I always consider that there is information that goes into decisions that aren’t evident to those on the outside looking in. So my biggest hope is that it all makes sense to Keanu and he is good with how the season has progressed.

I just know how hard it was for my son. I’ve probably…[Read more]

Player health and availability is not always binary, ready to go or not ready. Could he have a health issue that reduces availability without becoming unavailable? Then again, development is a thing and one of the development tools is playing time to get to a desired end. Or very likely off court issues like mentioned. This may be analysis without…[Read more]

Just to set the record straight, here are the numbers:
He averaged 21min in the first 6 games where he was 64% from the floor, averaged 10pts, 8.3 Reb, 1.5 Asst, .8 steals, 1 block, and 1.3 turnovers with an average Game Score (adv stat) of 10.8 (which is pretty dang good). Granted there were some bad teams in there, but he had a very good game…[Read more]

How many starting QB’s will Utah have next season?

The TCU road win is something that last year’s team couldn’t do. So I feel very encouraged.
It seems like we have less talent this year (versus last year), but perhaps more grit. I think that will translate well to the game this weekend. It’s just one game (I guess two, if you count the OK State game) so I don’t think we should get our hopes…[Read more]

Majerus also had 2-3 NBA caliber players besides Van Horne who he could rely on. Smith doesn’t that the luxury. Also, using Majerus and Smith in the same post seems almost sacrilegious and wrong!

Majerus didn’t keep his best scorer (Van Horn) off the court because he didn’t play defense.

Majerus stressed defense, yet he saw the net gain with Van Horn on the court.

This team is ranked 132nd in scoring defense, so how well does anyone on this team play defense?

As was posted earlier, Dawes plus/minus is second best on the tea…[Read more]

Wow what an insightful post. Could be that Smith had him on the bench until he upped his defensive effort. Many on here crapped on Whalin early on. They thought he did not have the skills to play in the big bad big 12. I saw him as more of an Alex Jensen with more athleticism. His defensive effort has been phenomenal, not that his conditioning…[Read more]

Wow what an insightful post. Could be that Smith had him on the bench until he upped his defensive effort. Many on here crapped on Whalin early on. They thought he did not have the skills to play in the big bad big 12. I saw him as more of an Alex Jensen with more athleticism. His defensive effort has been phenomenal, not that his conditioning…[Read more]

fire Smith for keeping him on the bench,

Part of settling down the rotation is consistency and that extends to what the other team is prepared for. Sometimes developments disappear when the next team prepares for a specific thing better. Either way, we seem to be settling into more options and better options. Figuring that out with matchups that change game to game is difficult. We tend…[Read more]