86-74 UCF

Final

BTHO Montana!

dtk9119 said:

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So they just said UCFs entire roster is also completely new so anyone using that as an excuse for this garbage collapse so much for that

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We were also up 14 with 12 minutes left. It was a crap shoot and we capped out down the stretch. Once our guys begin to play with each other better and we get our stud playing I'd bet things would and will look a lot different.

Yikes. Surprising how bad this team looks on offense in transition. They actually played much better offensively in the half court sets.

Enjoy the non conference opponents that are borderline D1 schools, because that's all we're beating this year. This team will get smoked a lot this season due to their poor defense. We need a blend of Buzz defense and Bucky offense

Come on, folks. Let's give this whole thing a chance to gel.

People don't grasp the reality of the situation. It sucks but that's just how it is.

So far looks to be gelling like a certain substance in Cameron Diaz's hairdo

Might be a rough season, but it is just Bucky's first year

TheDecadeSapling said:

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What did yall really expect? Bucky himself said there'd be games where we were gonna look bad. I mean it's the reality of the situation.

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This team shouldn't be this bad. Even with a first year coach we are bad at the simplest things and thats on the coach. Missing that many layups for a D1 program is just bad but no defense

We have like 15 coaches sitting on the sideline, maybe too many cooks in the kitchen. 1-3 seem to be paid to watch the other team's huddle during breaks in play. Why do they watch? I don't know.

We did look short and even pretty unathletic when watching in person. It was a bit eye opening seeing everything live. Just a bad performance.


But having seen multiple A&M teams in recent years go through stretches of ineptitude only to look nearly unbeatable at other points in schedule, I know things can drastically change. So I definitely am not just assuming "this is who we are all season".

But man, it better be much improved at some point or it's a 4/5 win conference record.

I can definitely see us giving up tons of points in runs during our games, but the mirror image was that we only scored about 7 points after the midpoint of the second half. Offense went into a shell and that's just not going to work with the personnel we have. Until Pop is one hundred percent or we have more consistent ball handlers, it will probably be a struggle game-to-game or media TO to media TO...

Defense was decent, except for allowing the pass aheads during down court pressure and a few penetrations.
We disrupted lots of passes and forced lots of mistakes.
We hustled to the loose ball.
We couldn't handle their full court press. It took way too long to advance the ball.
It didn't seem like we were running any plays, just bouncing around until we ran out of clock.
We had near zero penetration.
We missed nearly all the fast break shots (the only times we made it to the rim).
We didn't defend the lane.

We somehow did not foul out Bol. He played with 4 fouls defending the rim and not being careful (and had huge impact), and instead of driving on him immediately we danced around.

I don't think I've ever seen so many subs. It felt like 1-2 players went out every time the clock stopped. It is hard to get a rhythm going when everyone changes every second.