We need this guy lol
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Hill good post and this person is exactly why I stopped reading the ridiculous responses on this thread. I can just tell him that both teams were just exhausted from OT games the previous day but doubt it will have an impact. Rather than focus on the culture that found a way to beat a team when struggling to find our offensive rhythm some will treat it as a loss because we didn’t shoot 50% and win by 20.
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Everybody’s a HOF coach from their couch
Why not?
I mean we consider ourselves a basketball power and I think we are. So the expectations are high. Don’t get why everybody is ok with being really good. For once I would like to see a UH major sports program be great. Is that too much to ask?
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You’re just setting the bar too high. The best program of the last twenty years has been Kansas. They’ve made the tourney every year. They haven’t been seeded lower than a 4 seed in that time frame. They have 4 final fours in that span. And again that’s with being a top seed in 20 consecutive tournaments. I love UH but we’re not Kansas. So there’s no point in us having expectations that even they can’t meet.
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Kansas has two titles during that period and a third title game appearance (lost to Anthony Davis - led UK team).
KU also has 9 Elite 8 appearances during that period. They have 4 since CKS has been here.
EastCoastCoog
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So what excuse are yall making for CKS after the SDSU loss?
Yah they’ve also had 29 McDonald AAs in that time frame. They’re a consensus blue blood, with one of the richest traditions in the sport. James Naismith, who invented basketball, coached there. Stop comparing us to them. It’s true that they have four E8s since Sampson got hired at UH but guess what? We hadn’t won a NCAAT game in 30 years when Sampson was hired. Now we’ve been to 5 straight S16s, with 2 E8s, and a F4 in the span. What Sampson has done at UH is miraculous. Hes outperformed what any reasonable person would’ve thought was possible in 2014.
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It’s November. The 2017-18 team lost to f***** Drexel and still made the tourney. I’m not going to get that bent out of shape about an OT loss to a good team. I trust Sampson to get the guys back in the gym and get the most out of them.
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We are just waiting for you to tell us who we should hire to replace Sampson
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I thought I told you to get lost and give up your season tix, t(non)coog. Nobody needs your negative energy taking up space. You offer no insight whatsoever. Go back to reliving your glory days on the rec league circuit!
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Me showing up to the next basketball game!
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…as I was saying, no insight whatsoever
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since we all want the team to do great it’s more of an acknowledgement that having a team consistently good enough to get a top 3/4 seed is just half of the battle
there isn’t really an excuse, just gotta ride the week out and hope this identity crisis gets figured out before we dig ourselves a hole too big
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There’s really no hole, though. It’s just a tougher November schedule than what they usually play. All of these losses (two to teams that are easily title contenders) could have gone either way. Two five-point losses, a three-point loss and two OT losses is not a sign of needing to go back to the drawing board. That’s a bounce of the ball here and there, a foul here and there, a FOOT ON THE LINE here and there. Do they need to do a better job of closing games out? Sure, but that’s more about execution rather than having holes. This is basically the same team as last year. Granted, we are missing Shead, but let’s keep it real. Shead didn’t do everything by himself last year…they also didn’t have Tugler and Arceneaux for much, if not all, of the last part of the year, either. I trust Sampson will have this team right back or close to where we’ve always been going into March. But the bottom line is, they’ve played a tougher schedule, and this early in the season, you’re never going to be as good as you’re going to be. This is what practice is for. It happens to the best of them. No time to sound the fire alarm. I still love this team based on what history has shown us.
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Doesn’t need to be any excuses or will you feel the impulse to ask this question after every loss. We lost to a talented team down the stretch. A game we could have won so learn and move on.