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Five players in Double digits. Love it.
Boom. Beau Gamble.
Boom. Beau Gamble.
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2012 Colorado Buffaloes vs Northern Arizona Basketball game thread
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Deleted member 807
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D'oh - 2 shy of the century.
BehindEnemyLines
beware the habu
hope to watch the next game in person.
Very happy about tonight's performance.
Committed to setting up teammates - 24 assists.
Ski got his mojo back and set the tone early.
Mayor had a ridiculous stat line for 16 minutes of game time. iirc, 15 pts, 5 asts, 6 rebs, 4 stls.
XJ found his shot with 17 pts off the bench.
This was exactly what we needed.
Committed to setting up teammates - 24 assists.
Ski got his mojo back and set the tone early.
Mayor had a ridiculous stat line for 16 minutes of game time. iirc, 15 pts, 5 asts, 6 rebs, 4 stls.
XJ found his shot with 17 pts off the bench.
This was exactly what we needed.
Hoping we see more of the same in the next game for our final tune up. Would be nice to go in there and be able to battle Zona in tucson.
CVilleBuff
Well-Known Member
Love the performance, but it is what it is. Certainly great to see Ski back in form. XJ showing what he's going to start doing consistently, great other bench production with Adams chipping in 8, etc. However, it was a Big Sky team playing their 3rd game in 5 nights versus our well rested and prepared Buffs. This is how it should be. It was the slaughter on the boards we thought it would be. 42-21 edge for the Buffs.
HOWEVER, yet again, we shot free throws like absolute ****. 7/15. 46.7%. We're heading full steam ahead into conference play and it's going to cost us big time. A potential 13-5 record may very well turn into 10-8 because of this. I really don't think this is something we just continue to shrug off and say "oh, it'll work itself out". It obviously isn't just "working itself out".
HOWEVER, yet again, we shot free throws like absolute ****. 7/15. 46.7%. We're heading full steam ahead into conference play and it's going to cost us big time. A potential 13-5 record may very well turn into 10-8 because of this. I really don't think this is something we just continue to shrug off and say "oh, it'll work itself out". It obviously isn't just "working itself out".
FT shooting has been awful this year, but when you look at the numbers individually, Roberson and XJ are really dragging the team percentage down. XJ actually looked better at the line to me tonight, but I've resigned myself to the fact that Dre is just an awful FT shooter. He looks like he's throwing a chest pass up there, with both hands turning out, and he finishes at his chest. It's ugly.
The one player I've been really disappointed with at the line this year, though, is Ski. He went from a 76% shooter last year to 62% this year. That's unacceptable and seems to be a focus issue to me. He really needs to get his **** together, because he'll have the ball in his hands a lot at the end of games.
The one player I've been really disappointed with at the line this year, though, is Ski. He went from a 76% shooter last year to 62% this year. That's unacceptable and seems to be a focus issue to me. He really needs to get his **** together, because he'll have the ball in his hands a lot at the end of games.
Just to expand on the FT issue, if you take Dre, Booker, and Ski out of the equation, the rest of the team is shooting 123/163, or 75.5%, from the line. Unfortunately, those three are a combined 59 of 111 (53%) from the line. When they're #3-5 on the team in FTA, an improvement from even one of them will significantly impact the team percentage.
CVilleBuff
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Yep, extremely impressive. Our fans deserve far more credit than we get (for both sports). The vast majority of our conference can't draw 6k for a game like this.
if ben mills could hold onto the ****ing ball we would have hahah
To be fair, neither could we three years ago.
jcatcher
Club Member
No way there were that many people there. The student section was 1/3 full and I'd guess the rest of the arena was 70% of capacity. Still, good for a game when the students are gone and a few days before Christmas against a bad team.
There was a time in the first half when our shooting percentage from the floor was around 75% and from the free throw line was 0% on at least five attempts.
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CVilleBuff
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Point taken, I spent many a lonely night in the Keg. However, the point that we've got one of the best fan bases in the Pac-12 still stands (and we weren't in this conference 3 years ago). The momentum is simply there for basketball at CU. It will never revert back to what it was 5 years ago, even in relative down years in the future, as we've created a lasting interest/fan base over the past few seasons.
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My brain is not working properly, I can't think of who you meant to add instead of listing booker twice. Was it XJ?
OUBuff
American
I guess Ski is doubly bad at the line
Yes, XJ, sorry. That trio has been awful this year, while the rest of the team has actually been fairly solid overall, led by Scott and The Mayor.
This year, he is!