Glass half full: As good as they were, they could never bring the hammer down

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Apr 5, 2021
10:18:03am

gwalker Truly Addicted User

Glass half full: As good as they were, they could never bring the hammer down

and blow us out. We played against a team that was better than us during the tournament. They were better than a lot of teams. Took Gonzaga to the end of OT.

Sometimes you have to tip your hat and acknowledge the better team beat you. Then you work on getting better down the road.

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UCLA was good, but my beef with our game against them is that we were never even

Iman23

4/5/21 10:15am

We cut it to 4 with a nice run in the second half and had Harding not missed his

4/5/21 10:17am

Hah. Thanks for that. I guess that blows my whole thesis out of the water.

Iman23

4/5/21 10:19am

On balance, did anyone have tourney expectations going into the season?

BlackBart

4/5/21 10:23am

I did

icecougar

4/5/21 1:21pm

We got robbed in hindsight, but TBH, UCLA was seeded correctly

Indy Coug

4/5/21 10:30am

Were they seeded correctly?

dukestirr

4/5/21 1:17pm

yeah...some of that is pretty hinky, especially the fawning over the Big 10

icecougar

4/5/21 1:24pm

Yeah this doesn’t help at all

4/5/21 10:23am

Barcello played a great game! I feel like most of those shots were his

archie

4/5/21 10:31am

It was BYU who shot that well (mostly Barcello on those shots)

Indy Coug

4/5/21 10:31am

Haha. Yeah I kept telling my BIL I'd be happy to give them deep two's all game

coug16

4/5/21 10:41am

Couldn't handle UCLA's defensive pressure and it messed with offensive rhythm

Gibbcoug

4/5/21 10:58am

IIRC, we went on about a 10-0 run to cut it to 4, but then UCLA went on about an

CougarScrub

4/5/21 11:01am

Yeah, 43-39 with 14:22 left after a 10-0 BYU run

krindorr

4/5/21 11:06am

Glass half full: As good as they were, they could never bring the hammer down

gwalker

4/5/21 10:18am

I felt we played our worst 60 minutes of basketball in the last 1.5 games

1984coug

4/5/21 10:21am

Got it down to 4 in the 2nd half

stansburycoug

4/5/21 10:24am

True. Forgot about that. Still never felt like we were in it, but it was closer

Iman23

4/5/21 10:44am

They lost in the Final 4 to Gonzaga in OT. I’m not upset we lost at all

Alpi Gusto

4/5/21 10:28am

It's just a little frustrating.

CosmoK

4/5/21 11:09am

Compared to expected wins (based on seeding), we're ... not good

krindorr

4/5/21 10:50am

Which statistically speaking is a HUGE difference, i.e. 5 vs 8+

4/5/21 1:17pm

If you break that down to 2001-2009 and 2010-present, it shows a stark

cougarfan84

4/5/21 3:46pm

Slight correction

krindorr

4/5/21 3:55pm

UCLA was a top 4 team in the tourney. Like losing to Bama in football.

4/5/21 1:27pm

10 pt loss to a Final Four team that went to OT and lost on a Dellavedagger to..

icecougar

4/5/21 1:33pm

Worst team in the whole tourney? Ya...keep your takes to yourself.

BYUHgrad

4/5/21 1:58pm

Your issue should be less with BYU and more with the WCC.

4/5/21 2:21pm

1000x this point; the WCC has made so many concessions to Zaga and it hurts us

krindorr

4/5/21 2:35pm

If the seeding were reversed, I would have been ok with it.

panacablue

4/5/21 2:50pm

So, over the course of multiple decades,

Yergensen

4/5/21 4:14pm

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