Why exactly do we suck anyway?

[TravelingPanther]

Re: Why exactly do we suck anyway?

Do you guys think we r as talented as the teams we face?

yes

[jman2004]

Re: Why exactly do we suck anyway?

I believe he said "open shots" not "last second desperation shots". You kinda changed his words there.

No he didn't. He said "last second shots". He even put quotes around it. I knew what he was implying.

[joecooll6]

Re: Why exactly do we suck anyway?

No he didn't. He said "last second shots". He even put quotes around it. I knew what he was implying.

The last two years we have not had a shooter that has been consistently able to make shots. Therefore, the offense looks worse than it is. We make 50% of our open shots against UIC, its a whole different ball-game.

This is exactly what you quoted in your post.

[jman2004]

Re: Why exactly do we suck anyway?

No it's not. This is the quote I was referring to.

The difference is the first two tourney teams Benny J was not being hounded heavily and Erik Crawford was healthy so those 'last second shots' were made with more frequency.

Thanks though, for reading my posts so carefully.

[jman2004]

Re: Why exactly do we suck anyway?

I went and reread all that joe. I get what you mean now. I was referring to more of his original post than the snippet I actually quoted.

[Purple Blood]

Re: Why exactly do we suck anyway?

A combination of things but most notably lack of a true point guard, guards that simply are not as quick as our opponents, & we do not shoot the three very well ! Those combinations make it very difficult to get the ball to our big's & that is the strength of our team !

[UNIChippewa]

Re: Why exactly do we suck anyway?

And to answer the title of this thread: This team does not suck and it's embarrassing that any fan would make such a statement. Question, complain, sure. But to say we suck, that's going too far

Sorry Khan, didn't mean to p!ss you off with the post title. "Sucking" is a relative term. Sure, we're playing badly right now, but compared to some of the teams under Sam Weaver and some of mediocre teams under Eldon Miller when I went to school at UNI in the mid-90's, we're actually not too bad.

That being said, I'm sure I'm far from the only one who has described this recent stretch of play as being pretty "sucky".

As for the CBI, I don't have a link to it, but in a mock bracket of what last season's tournament would have looked like that they put up when they first announced it, we were actually in with a record of 18-13, hypothetically playing Iowa in Iowa City in the first round. Now if we keep losing we certainly won't make it, but if we can turn it around and get at least 18-19 wins, we might have a good shot, based on the mock bracket I saw from last season.