it will even out. at least we are 1 and 1 in those 2 games.
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CU v Washington State - Game Thread
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CVilleBuff
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Our bench gave us 20/58 points tonight thanks to XJ's 14. Very encouraged by his game tonight. We're about to see the takeoff of XJ. It's close.
Buffs won the battle on the boards, 33-30. Motum was held to 13 points in 38 minutes. 5/16.
79.2% from the charity stripe tonight (19/24). I'll take it. Wazzu only shot 9 FTs (4/9). Quite a discrepancy on the road, but that's because Wazzu sucks.
Likely going to be seeing some coaching vacancies in the NW with Wazzu (1-4) and Oregon State (0-5). Sucks for Wazzu because Tony Bennett was absolutely beloved and worshipped in Pullman. He had them playing excellent basketball, making the Sweet 16 and the Second Round (the REAL Second Round, the one now called the "Third Round") in 2/3 seasons before he departed for Virginia. Bone technically hasn't had a losing season his first three seasons, but that includes a 16-15 his first year and a 19-18 last year. Pretty obvious they're going to fall deep under by the time they exit the Pac-12 Tournament this year.
Buffs won the battle on the boards, 33-30. Motum was held to 13 points in 38 minutes. 5/16.
79.2% from the charity stripe tonight (19/24). I'll take it. Wazzu only shot 9 FTs (4/9). Quite a discrepancy on the road, but that's because Wazzu sucks.
Likely going to be seeing some coaching vacancies in the NW with Wazzu (1-4) and Oregon State (0-5). Sucks for Wazzu because Tony Bennett was absolutely beloved and worshipped in Pullman. He had them playing excellent basketball, making the Sweet 16 and the Second Round (the REAL Second Round, the one now called the "Third Round") in 2/3 seasons before he departed for Virginia. Bone technically hasn't had a losing season his first three seasons, but that includes a 16-15 his first year and a 19-18 last year. Pretty obvious they're going to fall deep under by the time they exit the Pac-12 Tournament this year.
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I will take greater than 75% ft everynight of the week. Would prefer north of 85% but I feel as a CU fan we need to take what we can get right now. Absolutely right about XJ, you can see the light starting to come on. We may be about to see our second consecutive pair of impact freshman with him and scott. Would be huge for us to get that going as we roll into the easier portion of our conference slate.
CVilleBuff
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Nearly half our points from true freshmen tonight. (27/58). 14 from XJ, 11 from Scott, 2 from Stalzer.
If we can count on those 3 for 30pts a game then we may be on to something. I think Stalzer needs to see more action, and needs to be on the floor with Dinwiddie. Stalzer seems to be decent from the arc
CVilleBuff
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I'm optimistic about Stalzer too. Really think he's going to be very crucial to us when he's a JR and SR. He's averaging between 10-11 minutes per game this season, but only 3 in Pac-12 play. I'd like to see that rise.
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jcatcher
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Any coach would agree with you. Unfortunately, that is 3% points higher that the best season ever recorded (83-84 Harvard)
Dre was mostly a defensive specialist last night. He played a very good game.
Mick Ronson
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good win for us. we needed it, badly. 2-4 coming back home for 2 is a world apart (if i may paraphrase the rock band Saga)....from 1-5.
jgisland
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Even 2 years ago when Alec, Cory and Levi seemingly didn't miss a FT all year CU only shot 77.9% as a team. Average in the NCAA is 70.5% this year.
On average, NBA teams shoot 75% and NCAA teams shoot 69%.
Basically, any college team that shoots 70% or better is a pretty good free throw team. CU is at 67% after last night's game. We're not good, but we're not that bad either. We're basically giving away 2 points to the average out of every 100 FTs we take. It's been an issue in specific games. But last night our FT shooting kept us in the game all night until we could find the range on a few jumpers (finally) and pull away.
CVilleBuff
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The FT shooting was excellent. The problem is history shows they'll go out the next game and shoot 45%...
I agree with the comments above on XJ. He was absolutely the bright spot for me last night. He's the one guy we can count on to continue to attack the hoop and he knows how to finish. He was really active on the boards last night too. If he does nothing other than work on his right hand and FT shooting this summer, he's still going to make a major impact next year (and down the stretch this year, for that matter).
Mick Ronson
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Mick Ronson
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anyway, this is not a great shooting team in general. no surprise we struggle from the line and it costs us sometimes. no surprise the best CU teams in the last decade had Blair Wilson or Levi....even Andy Osborne. a guy who is tough from the 3 line opens up the O in a lot of ways. we just don't have that. every possession is a struggle for us in the halfcourt.
