Impact of SD Loss

[byucougar1]

The Pepperdine, Gonzaga and St. Mary's losses were understandable given their talent level and play of recent. USD was the worst offensive team, best defensive team in the conference. Yet, Johnny Dee drops 18 and their bigs dominate the paint in second half. The BYU team, without big men, Fisher and Winder contributions, is a shell of the former team and will be lucky to win another road game if this type of erratic, inconsistent play continues. NIT bound is now in jeopardy unless they right the ship and play with more tenacity.

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[BroncoBot]

"oh well".

Sincerely

bandwagon basketball fans.

[Wolverine]

The Pepperdine, Gonzaga and St. Mary's losses were understandable given their talent level and play of recent. USD was the worst offensive team, best defensive team in the conference. Yet, Johnny Dee drops 18 and their bigs dominate the paint in second half. The BYU team, without big men, Fisher and Winder contributions, is a shell of the former team and will be lucky to win another road game if this type of erratic, inconsistent play continues. NIT bound is now in jeopardy unless they right the ship and play with more tenacity.

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I think this is a fair assessment of where this team is right now, and I don't see anything in your post that indicates you have given up hope (if indeed the bandwagon reference above is to you and your post). I do think this team is capable of going on a run down the stretch. We shall see.

[BroncoBot]

(if indeed the bandwagon reference above is to you and your post).

It was not.

[SenorCougar]

Is it time to hibernate yet?

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[Wolverine]

Is it time to hibernate yet?

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No such thing. Hang in there. Before you know it spring football will begin.

[byucougar1]

Hearing that Collinsworth is suffering from a quad contusion and Winder's knee is still not 100 percent. Still have hope that when Austin and Aytes return, and the others return to health, that they can put together a good string of wins. Fisher's disappearing act (8 points and 0-3 from 3 pt land) didn't help nor did the team's overall 3/15 from 3 pt land. Interestingly enough we got 8 points from Nixon and contributions from Kafusi and Worthington. A win in the Marriot center would be a good start to re-group. Pomeroy ranking shows BYU still in hunt. Pepperdine lost last night so there is still 3rd place, St. Mary's and Gonzaga are class of the league and likely invites to big dance.

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[BroncoBot]

Hearing that Collinsworth is suffering from a quad contusion and Winder's knee is still not 100 percent. Still have hope that when Austin and Aytes return, and the others return to health, that they can put together a good string of wins. Fisher's disappearing act (8 points and 0-3 from 3 pt land) didn't help nor did the team's overall 3/15 from 3 pt land. Interestingly enough we got 8 points from Nixon and contributions from Kafusi and Worthington. A win in the Marriot center would be a good start to re-group. Pomeroy ranking shows BYU still in hunt. Pepperdine lost last night so there is still 3rd place, St. Mary's and Gonzaga are class of the league and likely invites to big dance.

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SMC - bulletproof SYSTEM with strong ties to foreign players. I'm always surprised they are in the hunt year after year. It's all about the system at SMC.
Gonzaga - becoming a scary sort of freight train that no one is going to be able to tackle for years to come...
BYU - hardly relevent in the WCC this year unless you are counting gym size, number of fans nationwide and availability of jumbotron and pregame theatrics.

Sad year for BYU (men's) sports.

[BYUBALLIN]

Not having Nate, Jamal, Anson missing games really hurt BYU the post is killing us.

[ABYUFAN]

Hearing that Collinsworth is suffering from a quad contusion and Winder's knee is still not 100 percent. Still have hope that when Austin and Aytes return, and the others return to health, that they can put together a good string of wins. Fisher's disappearing act (8 points and 0-3 from 3 pt land) didn't help nor did the team's overall 3/15 from 3 pt land. Interestingly enough we got 8 points from Nixon and contributions from Kafusi and Worthington. A win in the Marriot center would be a good start to re-group. Pomeroy ranking shows BYU still in hunt. Pepperdine lost last night so there is still 3rd place, St. Mary's and Gonzaga are class of the league and likely invites to big dance.

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SMC - bulletproof SYSTEM with strong ties to foreign players. I'm always surprised they are in the hunt year after year. It's all about the system at SMC.
Gonzaga - becoming a scary sort of freight train that no one is going to be able to tackle for years to come...
BYU - hardly relevent in the WCC this year unless you are counting gym size, number of fans nationwide and availability of jumbotron and pregame theatrics.

Sad year for BYU (men's) sports.

This is a bit of an overstatement... We have a number of the WCC's best wins this year. We've been fighting the injury bug. We can still make some noise, but this was a bad loss, it could be our only bad loss of the season. I get that it's fun to be depressed when we suffer a bad loss, but lets not overdo this...