[Charlie]

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 sure what it will be. I like that for all positions, both sides of the ball, as much as possible. We saw that even in the way Covey returned the ball. He once said his style was to maintain an inside or outside option, longer that other return men, through the last defender if at all possible. I believe he meant others began to simply run away earlier than he does. Watch us all you want, we just intend to win more of the individual battles. And don’t be overly complex. And serve more of what you find hard to defend. Maybe then we can have a few open practices.

[Charlie]

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 awful at the FT line but did undress the Kansas center on D, even with some questionable fouls. The many Kansas fans can stay the weekend and find a better chance in Provo Tuesday. Even the halftime was entertaining.

[Charlie]

Will the game be televised? Somewhere anyone can access?

[Charlie]

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 reality to a portal of simple entertainment related Ute sports. Maybe Tony could set the default to have the political forum off unless specifically requested, and easy to see the forum for each post. Then only the willing see these posts and it is easy to jump away from the forum. Caution required.

[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.

[Charlie]

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 for more than 2 games. On the other side, the teams outside the top 4 also have been inconsistent and can disappoint down the stretch as well. A couple will finish strong, Utah has a chance but needs to beat the odds to do so.

[Charlie]

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.

[Charlie]

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

[Charlie]

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 which is quite a problem when others have a scoring 5. We needed Keller to be able to handle more minutes but that didn’t develop. Our relief is subbing a forward for Lovering.

Down the stretch only UofA on the road is out of reach. Possibly, we have a chance to move up. Outside the top 4 we need to find a way to win as many as possible thru the conference tournament. Hopeful with bias because we are only 2 games out of 5th place.

[Charlie]

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 win over the Y. Goodness knows how we keep it going.

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