UTAH vs. Stanford New Year's Day 2016

[LA Ute]

The Stanford fans who showed up for this game must be much bigger hoops fan than football fans. (The Rose Bowl game just ended a few minutes ago.)

Anyway, here's a thread. So far our three-point defense has been decent, but we're only 9 minutes in.

[Mormon Red Death]

Itd be nice if Brandon Taylor could make a shot

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[DrumNFeather]

Itd be nice if Brandon Taylor could make a shot

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8 points in the first 5 minutes of the second half.

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[Scorcho]

Itd be nice if Brandon Taylor could make a shot

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he heard you :)

[DrumNFeather]

Jakob at 4 fouls with 9 min to go.

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[justaute]

Our perimeter-players are not good. Many of them still don't understand the game. Horrible passing angle. Bad defensive positions. Still can't shoot.

[LA Ute]

Too bad Reyes is so bad under the basket.

I wish Adrian would learn to pronounce LK's name.

[LA Ute]

Thank heavens for Kuz.

[U-Ute]

Man Kuz is athletic

[U-Ute]

I wish Adrian would learn to pronounce LK's name.

That has been bugging me as well.

[U-Ute]

That 2-3 zone had really bugged Utah this second half.

[U-Ute]

Great find by Kuz

[LA Ute]

We're going to need our best FT shooters in at the end.

[U-Ute]

Sheffield is on fire

[justaute]

Loveridge the magician.

[LA Ute]

Sadly, this game has been one of Jordan's disappearances.

[U-Ute]

Candy from a baby

[chrisrenrut]

Sadly, this game has been one of Jordan's disappearances.

Offensively, yes. He is our leading rebounder so far this game.

[U-Ute]

You can't coach height.

[U-Ute]

Time for Poeltl to finish this game

[U-Ute]

I love how aggressive Poeltl was on that. He grabbed the ball and went up.

[justaute]

BS call on JP.

[U-Ute]

Well. Time for Kuzma or Taylor to step up

[justaute]

What a horrible defense by Chapman.

[DrumNFeather]

Someone should hand Chapman his jock back after that one.

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[U-Ute]

Or for Chapman to fall down. Ouch

[LA Ute]

Shades of the Duke game.

[U-Ute]

17 turnovers. That had kept Stanford in it.

[DrumNFeather]

17 turnovers. That had kept Stanford in it.
Really need to learn how to finish.

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[U-Ute]

Wow. Come on. Help yourselves a bit guys.

[Mormon Red Death]

Seriously brandon? Seriously!???

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[justaute]

haha

[LA Ute]

Wow. 2 TOs and 2 missed FTs by our best FT shooter to let Stanford tie. Then Taylor misses. Unbelievable.

[DrumNFeather]

0-4 in crunch time.

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[U-Ute]

I have always noticed that bad FT shooting seems contagious. Not good.

[justaute]

Hard to watch this team.

[U-Ute]

Who will step up? Bonham? Taylor? Loveridge?

Someone needs to

[Solon]

Who will step up? Bonham? Taylor? Loveridge?

Someone needs to

Good grief.

[justaute]

Let's just hope and pray with Loveridge from the 3.

Good job, Reyes.

[U-Ute]

Ugh. Kuzma by himself under the rim and nobody notices.

[LA Ute]

Our two seniors may be blowing this game for us.

[justaute]

Low BB IQ. Utah deserves to lose.

[U-Ute]

Reyes under the hoop by himself and nobody cares. Lol

[LA Ute]

Our 18th turnover committed in crunch time by our senior leader after he misses another couple of crucial free throws. This is awful to watch.

[DrumNFeather]

Kuzma and Bonam have the aggressive gene. Nobody else comes close.

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[Mormon Red Death]

Our two seniors may be blowing this game for us.
Missing 4 straight free throws that would have won the game is not "may". If Utah loses its 100% on them.

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[justaute]

Horrible shot choice by Taylor.

[U-Ute]

No movement and Tucker open in the corner. That was a bad shot by Taylor.

[DrumNFeather]

Dawkins might be smart to foul Taylor or Loveridge...

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[U-Ute]

Standard's best play may be to foul Loveridge or Taylor. Lol

[justaute]

Just pack it in and let Utah shoot.

[LA Ute]

Been a while since I've seen a Utah team choke like this. In fact, I don't recall when I've seen it this bad.

[DrumNFeather]

What a terrible loss.

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[U-Ute]

Well. That was a lame play called by K. "Hey drive it into the corner and fall over"

[justaute]

Utah players kept saying about learning from bad losses -- not sure they have learned. If they did, well, I guess the learning capacity isn't high.

We definitely earned the loss.

[U-Ute]

Been a while since I've seen a Utah team choke like this. In fact, I don't recall when I've seen it this bad.

Not a very common quality of a Krystkoviak team. Thankfully.

[U-Ute]

This game will never end. Sheesh.

[DrumNFeather]

Burned by a guy named Rosco.

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[mUUser]

Duke, LV Bowl, now this. My heart can't take this crap anymore.

[LA Ute]

Utah players kept saying about learning from bad losses -- not sure they have learned. If they did, well, I guess the learning capacity isn't high.

We definitely earned the loss.

We flat-out got outplayed.

The lack of mental toughness and focus in crunch time goes back a few years. I thought this group had gotten past that last season. We'll just have to see how/whether they progress.

[DrumNFeather]

Injury to insult...my 7 year old daughter just threw up all over the place...which reminded me of the last minute of regulation all over again.

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[#1 Utefan]

We flat-out got outplayed.

The lack of mental toughness and focus in crunch time goes back a few years. I thought this group had gotten past that last season. We'll just have to see how/whether they progress.

Loveridge's troubles reminded of a question I've been asking myself. This is not an angry question, because I'm not really angry about tonight, just a little amazed. Why does Loveridge get the minutes he gets? Seriously, what is it that he adds to the team that makes him so valuable? With the regular disappearing acts that most of us comment on, I am wondering why he is worth starting and getting all those minutes with that inconsistency. The play tonight that stands out to me is the Stanford dunk (by Roscoe Allen?) when Chapman lost his footing and Allen blew right past Loveridge, who put on a bit of classic matador defense. He just stood there flat-footed.

So what am I missing that Jordan gives us?

I don't agree that Utah got outplayed. Utah is the better team and just gave it away with poor FT shooting and some really bad TO's.

The officiating was pretty atrocious in its own right. That 5th foul on Poetl in particular was one of the worst I've ever seen, particularly considering it took him out of the game after he was singlehandedly dominating Stanford down the stretch.

[LA Ute]

I don't agree that Utah got outplayed. Utah is the better team and just gave it away with poor FT shooting and some really bad TO's.

I don't disagree. It's just a matter of how you define "outplayed." The team that makes the least mistakes usually wins, especially in close games. Stanford played smart, error-free basketball and we did not. To me that means we got outplayed. It doesn't matter what we call it, we absolutely deserved the loss.

[NorthwestUteFan]

We need a ~6'8" Goofball who can hit a Three or take it to the rack when nobody else can get it going.
We could have used Collette tonight.

[SoCalPat]

I'm overjoyed that I didn't watch this game. Reading the final 40 seconds of the play-by-play log makes me nauseous. Watching it would've led me to throw something at the TV.

[U-Ute]

I'm overjoyed that I didn't watch this game. Reading the final 40 seconds of the play-by-play log makes me nauseous. Watching it would've led me to throw something at the TV.

My guess is you would have experienced multiple episodes of Nolanesque responses. It really was that bad at the end. I don't know if I've seen a team collapse like that in a long time.