Minnesota Ute

Ug, I dont understand the hate.
H. Erickson 10 min, 2 asst, 1 turnover; no shots
B Carlson 9 min 1 foul. No shots, no rebounds;
No assists. No turnovers.
C Pajama 14 min 1-4 2pts 3 rb no assist no turnovers.

These are all not positive, but they arent super negative either. They are all filling roles by soaking ups some minutes without getting in…[Read more]

Yup that is exactly right, it seemed like a fairly precipitous decline from a 4 to 6 bid league to a 1 to 3 bid league, and it has been shades of sucky ever since. I’m less of an aficionado on FB so I’ll leave that to others, but I for one am excited about the change for Bball and I’m glad that the program seems like it’s on the upswing for that…[Read more]

Rollie is no better than a MWC guard is an asinine statement. I’m not saying he’s god’s gift either but I’ve watched a lot of Utah basketball over three decades, he is pretty good. He and Deivon will complement each other nicely.

We are 8-2 with losses to an undefeated #6 Houston and a good St. Johns (7-3) team with losses to Michigan (6-5), Dayton (8-2), and Boston College (8-3). We have a good squad with some depth, better than average athleticism, and whether folks on here want to believe it, good coaching (for the first time in a long time).

You should want to go…[Read more]

His Pick and Roll with Keba is nails and why he has such high assists for his minutes, but outside of that, he had a terrible game (worse than normal). But I continue to remind people that Exacte’s numbers were the same last year so he is not the answer either. Pajama had a bad night, but overall he’s not bad. I would say rotate him with Rollie…[Read more]

Yeah I’m a big fan of the +/- because it does a nice job of capturing some intangibles like simple solid defense. So I appreciate the point. I’d be interested to know what Exacte’s looked like last year because to my eye, I just didnt see very many positive plays other than he seemed to be able to make an open 3 when it came up. His D, espec…[Read more]

Turnovers I’ll grant you but 50% from floor and 27% from 3 is not bad, with over 5pts per game on the season in 23 min a game. Not trying to make myself into a Hunter apologist but just dont think he is being evaluated objectively. He’s a serviceable backup PG and I dont think Exacte is going to be a step up.

I’ll also say that many of his turno…[Read more]

As I posted above, I don’t understand the Hunter hate. He’s not a huge answer, but objectively I think he’s better than Exacte was last year. Maybe he’s getting more scrutiny because he is getting more minutes. The only place exacte was clearly better was 3pt % and its not a huge diff and not what we want out of a backup PG.

I’m not a huge Hunter fan boy, but I believe myself to be a very objective fan when it comes to bball players, and IMO Exacte lacks something. I figured he was just not playing because Erickson was providing more to the team than he would. If he does come back, and replace Erickson, I can almost promise you this. Their turnovers will be almost…[Read more]

Hmmm, I guess I hadn’t thought about that. Well just because they are in the portal, doesn’t mean they’ll go. Regardless, I’ve never been sold on Larry as a coach. Far too many persistent problems such as turnovers, poor rebounding, lost final possessions, etc to make me think that he is really the detail oriented teacher that you need. I like…[Read more]

Why did their team want to keep their season going more than our team? I wouldn’t gloss this point over too easily as it could be a red flag.

This, big time. YOUHGG RED FLAG

Not sure what is going through Krystko’s mind with comments like that. When I read Kuz saying “Honestly, I don’t really want to hear the leadership thing,” to me that says that he knows/feels that his coach is throwing him under the bus. It smacks of alienating your best player. That is just not smart and not productive. Very dis…[Read more]

I swore off this site due to politics combined with lack of bball discussion, but I couldn’t resist coming to see what folks were saying today after witnessing that abortion of a game last night. To you point, I think that Larry might be too demanding and negative. I think if a coach gives his players a lot of positive energy, they inspire the…[Read more]

Reply All: All of you are speaking like a bunch of Pac12 haters. [edit: No… you are thinking like a MWC member]

 Folks are talking about the Big10 being a 7 bid league.  Well, that would include two currently 9-7 teams in a league with only two teams in the top 25, #16 Purdue & #22 Wisconsin.  Michigan’s best win is against then #2 UCLA and…[Read more]

You are correct, he took 0 three pointers, shot 5-8 from the field and got a lot of rebounds and some put backs. So yes, my criticism is for that dumb pic not for Kyle, he did exactly what we need him to do Saturday and the results speak for themselves.

I worry about that too, because a coach can do that to a team. I’ve seen what might be a pattern, where the team starts a little ragged, hits their stride looking like world beaters, then all of a sudden they seem broken. I saw this with my son’s high school team, because the coach is so demanding and critical, that by 2/3 into the season, they…[Read more]

It’s not over, but it’s going to be difficult if not impossible to make the NCAA now. We really needed to not lose to any of the teams at the bottom. Since we did, now it takes a miracle win at Oregon, or a deep run in the PAC tourney. I’m not sure this team is built for that.