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PacHoops: Colorado State of Mind (by Adam BUTTler hahahaha **** you!)

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The Devils have been dismissed and the Utes usurped. Consequently, everyone loves alliteration. Which leads us, literary devices aside, to Saturday’s Pac-12 basketball contest featuring the Colorado Buffaloes vs. the Arizona Wildcats. The Buffs have won five of their previous six and sit alone in third place in the conference. The Wildcats are the #4 team in the country and sit alone atop almost everything.

Defensively is where both teams find their success. Each rebounds well yet neither really forces turnovers. Arizona protects the rim (3[SUP]rd[/SUP] in % shots at rim allowed) and the arc (23[SUP]rd[/SUP] in % shots from three). Colorado protects the stripe (19[SUP]th[/SUP] in FTrate against) and clean the defensive glass (5[SUP]th[/SUP] in defensive OR%).

In trying to score against these defenses, the Wildcats will try to get the ball inside. They’ll miss shots (117[SUP]th[/SUP] in eFG%) but they’ll try their darndest to grab the rebound (13[SUP]th[/SUP] in OR%). The Buffaloes are going to try to run (24[SUP]th[/SUP] in % shots in transition) and draw fouls (19[SUP]th[/SUP] in FTrate).

Who gives a ****?

Because none of that matters if you’re not in the right ‘mindset.’ Are you in the right mindset? Do you see what I’m doing here? Get your mind right.- Sun Devils!

Get your mindset right.

And back to the Johnson from three, thing? He’s played 6.8% of his career games against Arizona and made 22% of his career three pointers against him. Seriously, 11 of his 51 career threes have come against the Wildcats. Somethings got to give. Chuck n’ luck ain’t sustainable. And speaking of chucking, this? Defending Askia Booker? I’ve defended the kid at length. But so too has Nick Johnson and the Arizona Wildcats. I present to you, jury, Exhibit: Career Numbers. In seven contests against Arizona Ski, as he goes by, is a 27.5% shooter. His average game against the red is 2.7-9.8. OK, I’ve begun. Dude’s 19-69 against Arizona. That’s 27.5% shooting in seven contests.

Get your mindset right.

Ok but this is fun so I might run down the whole roster or at least those I choose deserve my harping:


  • Josh Scott – Once scored one point against Washington State.
  • Jaron Hopkins – He’s from Arizona. You’re welcome.
  • Xavier Talton – Instead of team managers giving Arizona the ball rack pregame, they just send little X. Figure he’s going to give them the ball enough times as it is.
  • Ben Mills – Greatest contribution.
  • Eli Stalzer – Good thing you guys got out of the BXII. There can only be one Brady Heslip per conference.
  • The Boyles – Hey guys! Thanks for reading, PacHoops.

Get your mindset right.

But I don’t care about numbers (I really do though and it’s JG’s fault). I’ll be sitting there in my glistening red in your blackened keg and we’re going to watch the most glorious of sport transpire before us and the students will scream and the players will defend (there’s going to be no defense in this one). You’re going to shout and I’m going to shout and everyone will boo the refs. It’s basketball in the spring.

My mindset is right. And yours is, too. Come say hi because I’m really not that bad for a Wildcat fan.
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Weed does make more sense. I didn't want to accuse him of being such a tacky tourist though!
 
1. CU is farther in the process of adjusting to a major injury than UA is.
2. Buffs own the Cats in Boulder.

Expect a bad shooting night and a poor defensive night from Zona. At the end of a road trip, overconfident from the game in Tucson while CU was adjusting to being post-Spencer, and with the loud voice in their heads reminding them they can't win at the Keg... Zona comes out tighter than a 12-year old and folds under the Buffs pressure.

CU wins this one by double digits.
 
on forum.goazcats.com they are starting to sweat. You can feel it from the posters. All of them talking a big game. One said that the altitude won't be too much of a problem, since they will have been up here for 4 days. I would have to break it to them that, after 48 hours is when the symptoms hit the worst as your body enters the acclimation process for up to 2 weeks. They also seem to all forgot that little tournament championship game we beat them in. Weird.

Oh and that forum, has linked back to here.
 
Orr said:
I thought Adam was one of the good ones. Meth is bad.
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If meth is bad, there are no good Kitten fans...

Shldr2Shldr said:
on forum.goazcats.com they are starting to sweat. You can feel it from the posters. All of them talking a big game. One said that the altitude won't be too much of a problem, since they will have been up here for 4 days. I would have to break it to them that, after 48 hours is when the symptoms hit the worst as your body enters the acclimation process for up to 2 weeks. They also seem to all forgot that little tournament championship game we beat them in. Weird.

Oh and that forum, has linked back to here.
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Altitude won't matter. They're playing indoors...
 
Really liked the article! Too bad I feel like you won't seem as happy on Sunday...


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Buffnik said:
1. CU is farther in the process of adjusting to a major injury than UA is.
2. Buffs own the Cats in Boulder.

Expect a bad shooting night and a poor defensive night from Zona. At the end of a road trip, overconfident from the game in Tucson while CU was adjusting to being post-Spencer, and with the loud voice in their heads reminding them they can't win at the Keg... Zona comes out tighter than a 12-year old and folds under the Buffs pressure.

CU wins this one by double digits.
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Interesting metaphor. I'm considering using it in the Geotech lab report I'm currently writing. (Well not really currently, as I've been perusing AB)
 
Shldr2Shldr said:
on forum.goazcats.com they are starting to sweat. You can feel it from the posters. All of them talking a big game. One said that the altitude won't be too much of a problem, since they will have been up here for 4 days. I would have to break it to them that, after 48 hours is when the symptoms hit the worst as your body enters the acclimation process for up to 2 weeks. They also seem to all forgot that little tournament championship game we beat them in. Weird.
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Guess they don't like to do their research or they would have found what happened back in 2011 when a Top 10 Okie Light came into Boulder 5 days early to "acclimate."
 
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