Menu
What's new
By:
Filters
AllBuffs | Unofficial fan site for the University of Colorado at Boulder Athletics programs

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • Prime Time. Prime Time. Its a new era for Colorado football. Consider signing up for a club membership! For $20/year, you can get access to all the special features at Allbuffs, including club member only forums, dark mode, avatars and best of all no ads ! But seriously, please sign up so that we can pay the bills. No one earns money here, and we can use your $20 to keep this hellhole running. You can sign up for a club membership by navigating to your account in the upper right and clicking on "Account Upgrades". Make it happen!

This Week in BasketBuffs - 12/27/11

Goose

Goose

Hoops Moderator
Club Member
Junta Member
LAST WEEK

Monday, December 19th, 2011
38.gif

70
2934.gif

64

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
38.gif

56
2640.gif

51

First off, we have to give a shout-out to the women's team who won both games at the UTSA Classic to finish the non-conference portion of their schedule at 11-0. Coach Lappe and her team have been playing some great ball so far, so let's hope it continues into conference play.

As for the men's team... it wasn't the best week. The Buffs went 2-0, so we can't be too upset, but both games were a lot closer than they should have been. The CSU-B game was a dogfight when it didn't need to be one, and when I started to get my hopes up that the team had gotten on track against Texas Southern, they had one of their worst halves of the season that allowed a 20+ point lead to get cut to 3 points before holding on for the win.

So what's going on? Did the team get a little too comfortable after last season's great play? Do they just play to the level of their opponents? What's going on? While I'm hoping that they're just playing to the level of their opponents (as well as the disappointing games in which we played horribly against bad teams, we've also played pretty well against Georgia and Wichita State), I'm not sure that's how it's going to be. I've pointed out repeatedly that I'm hoping that the attitude of the freshmen take over this team, but it doesn't seem to be happening yet. The team still has enough time to make this a memorable season that will lead to post-season play, but it's quickly running out. They need to figure things out and now.

THIS WEEK

University of
New Orleans
Privateers​
38.gif

Wednesday, December 28th
7:00 PM
ROOT Rocky Mountain
Coors Event Center
Boulder, CO

38.gif

254.gif

Men:
Saturday, December 31st
4:00 PM
ROOT Rocky Mountain
Coors Event Center
Boulder, CO
Women:
Saturday, December 31st
2:00 PM
No TV
John M. Huntsman Center
Salt Lake City, UT

Tell me if this sounds familiar, but anything other than going 2-0 this week is not an option. And this might be the most confident I've felt this season that we'll go 2-0. New Orleans is a Division 2 team that, honestly, I know nothing about. They're 9-4 this season, but it appears that they have yet to beat a D1 team. Also, they will be playing at the University of North Texas tonight before flying into Boulder for tomorrow's game, so the team should be tired. This could be a good opportunity to really get the team on track before we head into conference play.

And the PAC-12 scheduling Gods decided to be nice to us and let us enter conference play gently. The Buffs get to host Utah for their first ever PAC-12 men's basketball game, and Utah might be the worst BCS conference team in the last decade. They are horrible, to the point where KenPom was starting to wonder if they were going to go 1-29 this season. However they won two of their last three games, beating Idaho State and Portland at home before getting blown out by Weber State on the road. Josh Watkins is easily the star player for Utah, averaging 16 points and 5 assists a game. He's actually leading the nation in assist rate and possession percentage, so he'll try to make things happen for the Utes. Hopefully, we won't let him. Stop him and the rest of the game should be a breeze.
Colorado
Offense
Colorado
Defense
UNO
Offense
UNO
Defense
D1
Average
eFG%
50.6%
49.3%
N/A
N/A
48.7%
Turnover %
21.1%
18.2%
N/A
N/A
21.1%
Off. Reb %
33.2%
30.3%
N/A
N/A
32.6%
FTA/FGA
48.8
32.1
N/A
N/A
36.7

Colorado
Offense
Colorado
Defense
Utah
Offense
Utah
Defense
D1
Average
eFG%
50.6%
49.3%
47.0%
56.0%
48.7%
Turnover %
21.1%
18.2%
21.4%
16.7%
21.1%
Off. Reb %
33.2%
30.3%
27.5%
34.6%
32.6%
FTA/FGA
48.8
32.1
39.1
31.6
36.7

SEASON NUMBERS TO FOLLOW
Offensive
Efficiency
Defensive
Efficiency
Pace
Colorado
103.2
101.9
66.5
D1 Average
100.0
100.0
67.3
 
At what point do we become worried about the pace this team is playing? CU has recruited and built to be a "run and gun" team, they are 217th in pace and 7th in the P12. The horrendous D they are playing (which is somehow still better than last year) wouldn't bother me so much if they were getting up and down the court at a higher pace.
 
jgisland said:
At what point do we become worried about the pace this team is playing? CU has recruited and built to be a "run and gun" team, they are 217th in pace and 7th in the P12. The horrendous D they are playing (which is somehow still better than last year) wouldn't bother me so much if they were getting up and down the court at a higher pace.
Click to expand...
And, even more worrisome, it isn't because teams have not been rebounding against us on the offensive glass. Didn't we get out rebounded in one of the games last week?
 
jgisland said:
At what point do we become worried about the pace this team is playing? CU has recruited and built to be a "run and gun" team, they are 217th in pace and 7th in the P12. The horrendous D they are playing (which is somehow still better than last year) wouldn't bother me so much if they were getting up and down the court at a higher pace.
Click to expand...

Not only that, but it's gone down almost every week. We're getting slower as the season goes on, not faster.

Darth Snow said:
And, even more worrisome, it isn't because teams have not been rebounding against us on the offensive glass. Didn't we get out rebounded in one of the games last week?
Click to expand...

Texas Southern.
 
Thorburn just tweeted that Ski will be back tomorrow, but Cain is still out with a concussion.
 
Goose said:
Thorburn just tweeted that Ski will be back tomorrow, but Cain is still out with a concussion.
Click to expand...
so much for working Cain in during the month of December. I bet he got less than 30 minutes of game time. Is he even practicing?
 
Goose said:
Tonight:

North Texas 78
New Orleans 47
Click to expand...

New Orleans was a div 1 team in the sun belt conference(as is North Texas) up until last year. Where do you guys get the pace stats? and your observation is correct, we clearly are not running nor gunning, especially in games where we don't even hit 30 pts in a half....
 
shang said:
New Orleans was a div 1 team in the sun belt conference(as is North Texas) up until last year. Where do you guys get the pace stats? and your observation is correct, we clearly are not running nor gunning, especially in games where we don't even hit 30 pts in a half....
Click to expand...

Kenpom.com and statsheet.com are your best bets for pace stats.
 
All of the stats I use in this are from KenPom.com. The breakdown by team is subscription only, but it's worth it IMO. I don't use Statsheet as much only because my company's IT department is still stuck in 2003 so the page doesn't load correctly half of the time for me.
 
UNO was a tournament team not too long ago. I think they dropped to D-II after Katrina, IIRC.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top