This team has terrible fundamentals. Bad passing. Bad help-defense. So loose with the ball.
I agree 100%. There’s no reason why Utah should lose a game like this. You’re playing at home on senior night against a decent but hardly great opponent—one that has been up and down like your team. But awful ball-handling, terrible shot selection, and crappy defense loses you the game. Utes wrap up at BYU. I hate to say it, but that game will likely get very ugly.
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The pass from Mike S. to Mason Madsen when he was not looking for it and it sailed out of bounds crystallized the last four years.
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Wasn’t that Wahlin to Madsen? I may have missed it.
I could be misremembering it. Might have been Wahlen.
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No big. The entire team likes throwing the ball away with their cute passing attempts. Ausar likes to go into double and triple teams to get the ball stolen.
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God bless this mess.
Help us, Alex Jensen. You’re our only hope.
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As noted it was Wahlin to M. Madsen, and it may be the first time in my 67 years I’ve seen a TO where a good chunk of it was due to an assistant coach distracting a player.
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Josh Grant was at the game sitting a few rows behind me. I know him a little from some stuff I did with the engineering college, and I almost went to talk to him but he wasn’t looking too thrilled so I left him alone. He left with somewhere between four and two minutes to go. It’s just got to be killing guys like him, and must contribute to things like only having nine guys from the past show up to the alumni recognition game like last Saturday.
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Wow, I hadn’t heard this but that is very telling about the state of the program and how big a hole it is to try to dig out of.
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It backs up what Josh was alluding to in his ESPN700 interview. Good people with past connections to Utah’s successful days offered help to Craig Smith, and he ignored them. That’s a big time blunder. I doubt UNC doesn’t return Michael Jordan’s calls when he offers to talk to a recruit or come to practices.
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One other part of that game sticks out - Ausar’s teammate at Eastern Carolina, Javon Small, put the game away with some big time shots, late.
Ausar and Small left ECU for NIL. I like Ezra’s game, especially his potential, but if we can’t get players like Javon Small via NIL, we’re going to seriously struggle.
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Small looked fantastic. To me, given his athleticism and abilities, he did not force any plays. He created for himself when he had to and also found teammates.
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If we play like we did last night, Saturday’s roadie to TDS is going to see us getting beaten badly.
Can we just skip the Conference tourney and start the off-season Saturday after the game?
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The first time we played them there was some chatter about him being a POY candidate for the conference. Players who are a level above make things look easy. Smooth. Under control.
Small did that last night. It really stood out.
If WVU can get somebody like Javon Small to Morgantown, with the right support we can find talent that help us elevate.
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