re: UA Basketball (16-15, 8-10)

I'm optimistic this team will win some big SEC games due to out hustling the other team.
I'm also aware that no matter whom their playing, when they build a huge lead, scoring drought is on the way, making for a tight finish, home team getting most of the calls last 10 minutes.
We were all hoping last night that this team with better coaching was gonna get that killer instinct, put their foot on the Gator's throat, keep the pressure going & have a statement win.
Much like D.Henry did in Foxborough last night. The beast was on the road, hostile territory, broke the Pat's will, wasn't gonna be denied victory.

To open Sec play with a win on the road would of been huge.

To me it felt like the team turned a corner the last few games. Then yesterday happened.

I'm anxious to see how the team responds.

Long term we're clearly on the right track with Oats.


Short term it was a disastrous choke job that ranks pretty high among the most agonizing losses I can recall.


Agree about our prospects at this point mainly coming down to Kira getting out of this funk or "sophomore slump" he's been in.

Judging by his mom’s twitter, I think he comes by that naturally

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If Forbes plays, I say we win that game.

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LOL why

What has he done in any game that would lead you to believe he’s the difference maker?

Don't think Forbes would have been the difference maker but certainly agree that he either had a nagging injury or Oats was teaching/sending him a message about something.



On another note, and this is a severe nitpick after all that went wrong in the last 4 minutes last night, but:


The next costly late game turnover I see from yet another lazy, lackadaisical perimeter pass to GALIN SMITH 40 FEET FROM THE BASKET to simply start the offensive set is when I join the broken TV club discussed a few pages back.

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I hate when Kira drives and then just lazily lobs it to our inside guy for no reason.

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Yeah, he lobs a lot of passes that I wouldn't accept in pre-game warmup much less a game.

The specific one that kills me is, I think, by design, where the pass to the center out on the perimeter is what begins a set play but Kira constantly just lobs that without even looking to see if it's covered. It gets intercepted 2 times every single game -- usually in crunch time.


You think it would be abundantly clear by now that Galin's not going to come up with many passes that aren't right into his hands much less out-quick defenders on the perimeter to careless lobs.

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I think we win the game because Forbes gives us another capable body out there. No, he wasn’t going to go off for 30 but we needed some more players in the rotation by the end. I think he could have given us enough quality minutes to allow us to win in regulation of OT #1

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Yeah, it's a fair point about Petty, Herb and Kira playing 45+ minutes.

Forbes has certainly given us solid minutes off the bench lately.

I’m not gonna be over it until the next game.