jeff
Freshman
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Post by jeff on Dec 5, 2021 22:00:08 GMT -8
Who’s making excuses. They’ve played poorly in a lot of aspects in every game so far this year. They’ve earned their record. Just because some people discuss the team and don’t s%#t on every part of it isn’t making excuses. We get it you don’t like Tinkle and everything about the team sucks. I guess I don’t understand why you even follow the team at this point. I follow the team BECAUSE I WANT OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY TO SUCCEED. Sitting back, watching, and shutting up and more or less accepting what's happening is in my opinion not the way to make necessary change. By the way I think Tinkle is probably a great guy but he isn't getting the job done.
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Post by osubeaver2018 on Dec 5, 2021 22:00:45 GMT -8
I agree with what some others have said, there were actually some good things in this game. We came out and punched them in the mouth early, but credit to UA, they came and punched right back as soon as we starting rotating some other guys in. Tinkle saw that after the 14-0 run and put the starting 5 back in and we steadied the ship for the rest of the half. The officiating seemed a little biased today (usually happens when we play UA, don't understand the flop warning on Lucas when their guy did the same thing at the end of the half and there was no call... Lucas also got tackled on a 3Pt attempt and no foul was called), but in the end UA was just the better team and it showed.
I was frustrated that it took so long for us to get out of zone defense when Mathurin torched us for 29 points in the zone cause no one could pick him up. When we switched to man halfway through the 2nd half he didn't score again. Rebounding improved some after that too. The real disappointing part about this team for me this year has been the turnovers offensively, especially with how many points it's leading to for our opponents. We went from being the best in the conference at taking care of the ball last season (10 TO/game) to who even knows what this year. Turn the ball over 22 times and you aren't gonna win many games.
Lucas and Alatishe did what we needed them to offensively today sans Jarod's 7!!! turnovers. But it was the best he has shot the ball all year long hitting 5 of 8 from deep. He's about the only one I want shooting from outside at this point other than maybe Calloo. Davis with 8 assists today was a pleasant sight to see as well, he was distributing well for the most part, but did also have 4 turnovers. I still want to see Taylor and Johnson get more minutes too. They're the youngest guys on the roster and I think both have shown some potential, especially Taylor.
I do NOT think this was any sort of moral victory today, but I did at least see some signs that things are starting to improve as far as overall team play goes. I would expect to see us close out non-conference play with at least a few wins and hopefully build some momentum the rest of the way. Hopefully we can beat Sac State and UC Davis and then maybe see where we're at again in the A&M game.
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Post by avidbeaver on Dec 5, 2021 22:42:27 GMT -8
22 turnovers is a pretty ugly stat.
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Post by beaverinohio on Dec 6, 2021 6:52:24 GMT -8
Just saw that 1-8 start is worst in history. Not ideal. Guess it is time to see if this team has any backbone at all.
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Post by irimi on Dec 6, 2021 7:20:00 GMT -8
Just saw that 1-8 start is worst in history. Not ideal. Guess it is time to see if this team has any backbone at all. 1-8 is more likely going to fillet that backbone right out of them.
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Post by beaverinohio on Dec 6, 2021 7:40:43 GMT -8
Just saw that 1-8 start is worst in history. Not ideal. Guess it is time to see if this team has any backbone at all. 1-8 is more likely going to fillet that backbone right out of them. Well they have two games that under normal circumstances they would win. If they can’t get those two wins, no need to fillet the backbone out cuz they’ll have shown it is already gone.
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