Charlie

I just got back into the country and restarted a news feed. I can’t believe we have a chance to upgrade our Men’s BB program to Alex Jensen. That and even the possibility that Andre Miller would help out would be almost like having Rick come back. I hope Utah has financial resources to make this all happen.

I agree. To answer the question what does it take to make the tournament, Utah would have to go on a streak wining out with exception of Az and do something in the conference tournament. All those games are possible but we could also lose any of them. I would say we need to consistently play at our best level, something we have not been able to do…[Read more]

Remind me, didn’t the 12 send 8 teams last year? It’s very possible Utah is swirling around the cutoff currently. Win at UCF before a loss to UofA, and the rest of the games are winnable. We do need to play decent in the conference tournament to make something happen.

This is the answer… The players should have stayed after coach K was let go.

Pretty much the FT issue is Lovering, not so much the team. It is several games now that others are more than happy to foul him to try to come back. They are more than willing to not guard him at all on the outside giving him a 5 on 4 to try to find a pass since he does not shoot much from the outside. The dilemma is he is our best inside defender…[Read more]

One change I am hoping to see is an offense that relies on execution without needing mystery each week. I would love to see practice open to fans to watch sometimes. An attitude of sure you have seen all that we do but all the way up to two seconds after the snap there still remains more than one thing we may be doing and you must hesitate to be…[Read more]

Kansas never led in the game while Utah had bright spots. To begin the year if I could see two wins I would have picked the Y and Kansas who was #1 for the first month of the season. Sadly, if we just had Carlson or a 5 that can score we would be just fine this year. Thankfully, we were treated to a very entertaining game tonight. Lovering was…[Read more]

Will the game be televised? Somewhere anyone can access?

Myself I don’t mind commenting but I think it is important to be able to see if it is in the political forum. Politics are good topics among respectful people, however, as we learned on the previous Ute site it is a topic that can become emotional and divisive. Most important is the easy ability for Ute fans to escape from the weight of daily…[Read more]

I don’t mean to pitch Erickson, he is just a guy. But he has got his FT% up to the high 80s this year. He did airball a FT but the game ended with the 3 he hit and 3 for 4 at the line in the last minutes for out last points. Not all league but no other all league guys showed up to end the game. By rule, I gota say thanks to anyone that helps get a…[Read more]

The FT shooting was frustrating, no doubt. Not an excuse but several players did get gassed. FT% in the first half was acceptable, but not great. Second half it dropped but not much. But the OT period we were 4-12 which is god awful while the Y was 0-1 in OT. Still, for the game Utah was 53% vs 40% for the Y. We noticed every FT in overtime and…[Read more]

The stats are all a big part of understanding but not all. Not in any box score / stat sheet are all the little things specific to position and switching, on both offense and defense. Coaches like for example Rick, can get very specific about what they want players to do. They practice and go over the concepts that are not so much for every coach…[Read more]

One of those nights. In crunch time they left Dawes open for a 3, that is not his shot, and we needed a bucket. I thought oh no, but he drained the shot.

I have not noticed it so much in other games but tonight I could see being tired factor into FT shooting. In the first half we shot FTs very well. Coming down the stretch we were tired but then so was the Y. You could see they wanted to foul Lovering at the end. I think it was at the end of regulation with seconds the Y got loose on the base line…[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]

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]

Being retired and trying to have 700 on while working the the garage etc., has become very difficult. Pretty much an all time low. For some reason the SLC radio market tries to attract Y and U fans together even though there are several stations. In the old days, you flipped to KSL to hear about the Y and KALL to hear about the Utes. Even both…[Read more]

This is, I believe, a concept that is not understood by many. There are precious few programs with the critical mass and momentum to change coaches, replace legions and simply hit the ground running. I so much wish Utah was one but I think I grasp the brutal facts of our reality that Utah is one of the schools in the tier that fight hard just to…[Read more]

We have been thin recruiting DL players that are around 300 lbs for a couple of years. Odd because for years we have been deep with this need. Raass may be a RM coming in at some point but may take some time warming up. The two we lost to the portal, at this point, would appear to have created a problem in the middle. Currently, we have no backups…[Read more]

I think spots can be won in the spring and with so many new guys, who is at spring practice will have impact. I am wondering if Kaufusi will be inside or outside. There is lots of young LB talent but I expect Barton and Damuni to be the ones we see most the time. If any of the young talent has cover skills they could see time at SS. Johnson will…[Read more]