All of this analysis, particular about not playing Mara and Perry, is off point. UCLA lost because they could not hit a free throw in the second half and had they hit even 50%, they would have won. Perry and Mara were playing terrible, hurting the team, when they were in and to speculate that in the second half they would become producti…
All of this analysis, particular about not playing Mara and Perry, is off point. UCLA lost because they could not hit a free throw in the second half and had they hit even 50%, they would have won. Perry and Mara were playing terrible, hurting the team, when they were in and to speculate that in the second half they would become productive is unrealistic speculation. Got to trust Cronin on that. This is not the first loss due to choking on crucial free throws and I would like to say Cronin has to work on that but I do not know how one changes chocking--hypnosis? Garcia who I think leads the Big10 in scoring went off in the second half just like Watkins did against our ladies and when somebody gets crazy hot like that, not much you can do about it--it happens.
I agree! Last time I looked up the sky is still there! It's not falling!
Every portal transfer guy came from losing to mediocre programs. Dailey looks like an NBA first round pick based on games against teams with Oregon written on their jerseys! I jest but, what happened to Sky, he only played 24 minutes and it wasn't due to foul trouble. If anything if Cronin has praised anyone with hardly ever saying anything negative it's Clark. I don't think he's that great defensively but the effort is there. But maybe he got that bug that Mara had. Maybe he wasn't 100%. His 3's the past several games were huge.
Dailey, Bilo, and even Dylan before his last 2 games have had huge big 3's to stop runs from teams getting back into the game.
Up 17, there's no excuse to lose. But college ball and the NBA are a game of runs and confidence. We had really good confidence during that 7 game streak. And confidence is huge especially with younger players. It's infectious! We just tightened up and this is the first game, and there's been a few where we almost collapsed, but we didn't and thats coaching! But to blame mick for this loss? Perry and Mara weren't on last night. Dailey came on in the second half but Mack is great and terrible on different possessions. But I like jim and Mick does praise him for effort attitude. Hey we lose games occasionally. 73-9 Warriors team lost the most important games that year. To the Cavs!
All of this analysis, particular about not playing Mara and Perry, is off point. UCLA lost because they could not hit a free throw in the second half and had they hit even 50%, they would have won. Perry and Mara were playing terrible, hurting the team, when they were in and to speculate that in the second half they would become productive is unrealistic speculation. Got to trust Cronin on that. This is not the first loss due to choking on crucial free throws and I would like to say Cronin has to work on that but I do not know how one changes chocking--hypnosis? Garcia who I think leads the Big10 in scoring went off in the second half just like Watkins did against our ladies and when somebody gets crazy hot like that, not much you can do about it--it happens.
I agree! Last time I looked up the sky is still there! It's not falling!
Every portal transfer guy came from losing to mediocre programs. Dailey looks like an NBA first round pick based on games against teams with Oregon written on their jerseys! I jest but, what happened to Sky, he only played 24 minutes and it wasn't due to foul trouble. If anything if Cronin has praised anyone with hardly ever saying anything negative it's Clark. I don't think he's that great defensively but the effort is there. But maybe he got that bug that Mara had. Maybe he wasn't 100%. His 3's the past several games were huge.
Dailey, Bilo, and even Dylan before his last 2 games have had huge big 3's to stop runs from teams getting back into the game.
Up 17, there's no excuse to lose. But college ball and the NBA are a game of runs and confidence. We had really good confidence during that 7 game streak. And confidence is huge especially with younger players. It's infectious! We just tightened up and this is the first game, and there's been a few where we almost collapsed, but we didn't and thats coaching! But to blame mick for this loss? Perry and Mara weren't on last night. Dailey came on in the second half but Mack is great and terrible on different possessions. But I like jim and Mick does praise him for effort attitude. Hey we lose games occasionally. 73-9 Warriors team lost the most important games that year. To the Cavs!