Official 2015 BYU @ Colorado basketball Game thread

[Shldr2Shldr]

To me josh scott is a player that passes every test but the eye test. You see his numbers and production and you think there is no way he won't get drafted but then you see him in a game and you start to question his athleticism and how is translates in the NBA. Luckily for josh, there are tons of analytics guys in the league now and I would think someone would take a chance on him. Hopefully it is a good organization like the Spurs, Bulls, or thunder who really take pride in developing guysZ

Interesting. I personally see Josh as one of the most athletic big men in the game. He runs the court better than most. He can finish at the rim with either hand. He can back you down or turn and pull up from 15. He has a skill set that not many big men have.

He has had the misfortune of playing behind 1st rounder Andre Roberson, lottery pick until injured 2ND rounder Spencer Dinwiddie, and then last year, in his time to shine, he had a nagging back injury. Should he stay healthy this year, he will definitely play himself into first round consideration.

 

[Deleted member 807]

I don't think he was talking about BYU not being a good team. Seems like he was talking about squandering the 25 point lead we had in the second half to make it a close game.

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@Buffenuf wasted a perfectly good, yet not entirely original, "dog named Clue" rant on the wrong post, IYAM.

 

[Buffalo Brad]

Fantastic win with just lapse in the second where Tad admitted he waited too long on the time out. This team is well balanced and playing well inside out with good enough perimeter shooting to make teams respect us and keep from packing it in on Josh and Wes. BYU tried and be it GMFK or Bubbles or Fletch, or someone else, we are making the shots. Guard play is decent and getting better every game with Dom, Bubbles and AZ getting it done.

This is a top half of the Pac 12 team and could be a top third with the way they are playing and improving. Got to love what is forming with this squad. I am freaking excited to see the season play out.

 

[StormTrooper]

So a couple thoughts:

- there are some seats behind the visitor bench that are reserved for the visiting team so unless we want to take them away those will always be an issue. it is widely held courtesy that teams extend visiting families so i doubt you'll here or see that change. Perhaps we could move them a few rows so that the were farther from the students and in an area that gets picked up less on camea.

- seat color this really amplifies the fact they are empty.

- people do fill forward into better seats but perhaps you could build a program to make sure those seats are filled at least until the actual owners showed up. In years past i've run into athletes in my seats some who were cool about moving and one shane dillon who was shocked i wanted my seat i paid for. so there are risks.

- not enough people know abou the ticket transfer system

- marketing and the push to fill the stadium is frankly not as good as it should be.

- attendance in general has been sorry this year.

- students can complain about blue hairs when they start paying 2g's for seats and they fill thier own section

Yeah, if Coors had black seats this would be much less of a problem. Maybe someday. Thing is that the student section usually looks good on TV because it fills from the front back, so while I agree that it should be more full it's not as much of an issue on TV. It's just irksome to me to regularly see entire empty rows right near the front. Especially with the darker lighting now where you can really only see the first ten rows or so.

 

[Buffenuf]

The buffs had played great for about 20mins in most of the wins this year. Tad had been having them focus on playing all 40 with the same focus, effort and intensity.

Tonight I think he got about 35mins of the good buffs team. If they can find a way to play the full 40, CU is going to shock some people.

So many scoring options. So little selfishness. It's a great style of basketball to watch.

Addition by subtraction from last season. Funny, but to say "the bench" was responsible for letting the Cougs back in the game....that "bench" was comprised of a couple of guys who start on given nights and who collectively shot far more poorly than their season's average. Too, when 'the bench" was on the floor, the officiating got really weird: Yaz drove strongly and unexpectedly to the hoop and got hammered, turning the ball over on a "no-call", one among many "no-calls" that resulted in TOs to BYU's favor and huge ration of boos from the crowd. That plus that BYU non-factor frosh going All-World for a few minutes. (In calling a BYU player a "freshman", you're reeeeaaally stretching it. Those freshmen are often 20 yr. olds, having gone on missions! Seljaas was an exception, though he was UT Gatorade POY his Sr in HS.))