its also blatantly obvious if you watch UH basketball over the years. teams have terrible slow starts when they play us/ uncomfortable and then slowly adjust as the games goes on
stating their is an adjustment period when teams play us tghe 1st time isnt a hot take. or cope …and rather obvious even if a coach never said so
in large part because its hard to simulate us in practice
also when did we start discouting elite coaches like lloyd???
What would be cool is if the board had separate battle rooms where members could argue. And you could scroll through and drop-in on an argument. You could cast your vote on who’s winning.
Me.
no need to vote.
You can’t just claim victory in the arena of the gladiators. Only Law can do that.
Dumb question, but, if Gonzaga (or Georgia, I guess) prepared for UH from the jump, wouldn’t that be a good strategy for going into the tournament as a whole? Prepare for the toughest/best opponent? I’m worried about this matchup.
let iimagine that you are georgia… instead of putting all your focus on gonzaga, you dedicate some practice to prepping for houston too… and you came out 27-3 vs gonzaga …youd look foolish for looking ahead and not putting your full focus into the zags…
we had SIUE round 1 so i think we had the privilege to look ahead alittle, but for next week (if we advance)… i bet all our focus, as in player prep, will be on our sweet 16 opponent …and will only start working in things for the elite 8 in the day between
definitely need a vote. you are wrong
nah. no need to fully devote to McNeese
Gonzaga was held to a pace below 66 only six times this season with a record of 3-3. Point totals for each of those games were 58, 84, 62, 73, 67, and, 58.
The 84 points was against Long Beach St. who finished the season 7-25 and rank 265th or below in almost every major offensive and defensive category.
Houston has played 11 games where the pace exceeded 66 and hold a record of 10-1. Their only game they loss with a pace above 66 was against Bama (71.2) where Uzan played all of 12 minutes.
I predict the game will have a pace in the 63-64.5 range.
We lose due to a team beating us in 3 of the 4 categories and really good teams beating us in 2 and tying in another.
Fouls - we have fouled 20 or more times in 8 games this season. We carry a record of 4-4 in those games with two of wins being against UCF and at KU.
TOV% - we are 25-1 when we make a team turn the ball over 15% of the time. Bama, SDSU, and Tech were below that in those 3
3PT% - we’ve allowed teams to shoot above 36% from deep 12 times this year. Bama, Tech, and SDSU all shot above 36%.
Opponent Offensive Rebounds - we’ve given up 10 or more ORBs 9 games this year - SDSU, Tech, and Bama are on that list.
Anyways, TLDR. I hope that was tangible enough for you.
I’ve said this before, the only way we lose is if the refs call a tight game and we get in foul trouble or if the basketball gods smile on our opponents and they shoot lights out from the three.
What does any of that have to do with “watching them” not superceding each player’s PPG as in indicator of depth?
Who cares about over the years? Are any of those players gonna come out of that tunnel and play a single elimination game Saturday against Gonzaga?
So much reaching being done here.
And again, i never said tommy loyd isn’t elite or what he brings to the game doesn’t have value. I said in this instance…of a single elimination game, he could be wrong and he can be.
Idk why it’s so hard to understand that Gonzaga is a good team and the unpredictable nature of a game like this IS THE REASON we could lose.
Bet it is less than 4 tomorrow…
I bet it’s not lol they’re gonna get 20 FT attempts
Because PPG doesn’t matter when it comes to matchups and style of play.
Gonzaga averages 86.6 PPG and Houston gives up 57.9 PPG
Where the hell do you find anything meaningful in individual players PPG with a disparity 30 points apart?
Usually, the first seed faces a tough team with the winner of the 8/9 first round game. Does some folks on here think we should only get creampuffs all the way to the Final Four? We have played and beaten better teams than the Zags. If some of our posters were generals, they would surrender after first shot fired.
What should be the case is Few trying to figure out how to deal with us.
The topic was depth. If you want to throw out PPG which is the most important stat, then you have to throw out every minute stat you brought up earlier.
Again, the name of the game is put the ball in the basket. If depth is measured primarily by anything but that, then you don’t know ball.
i agree with most of your post …especially the nature of the tournament…its very possiblewe could lose and gonzaga is a good team…
at the same time it is still a big advantage for us when we are playing teams who have never played us before especially on the 2nd game of the weekned (1 day prep)…we do not run a typical defense and its not easy to replicate… there are some members of our own bench who havent masterd it
as far as FT…im i dont think it will be that big of a factor, unless its concentrated on 1 player… no one on the zags is prolific at drawing fouls (Battle the most likely)… ike and huff would rather take a long floater than be too physical… if there are fouls i could see it being for rebounding battles with ike who has some strength
Please directly quote these posters saying they’ll surrender. I’d like to see them.
You don’t seem to appreciate hyperbole.
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