carbonpoke
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Some sports writers(but not many), and the entire fanbase over at the mountain west forum site... are predicting csu to have a better conference record than the pokes.
I know we are homers. and I know that deep down inside everyone of us expect us to sweep csu every year. We just hate losing to them that much...
but i watched csu play cu. and i know that it was played in boulder, but there were a ton of csu fans at that game. I also realize that csu had a poor shooting night.
However, I see us pounding them. Their big... coulter( or conrade, or something with a c) is a liability. he moves like shawn bradley without the extra inches. We have had bigs like him before. a guy that was recruited for size but not ability.
Its frustrating when sports writers and fanbases make predictions about wyoming without have seen any game tape. Larry, Leonard, Ryan are very capable of great post defense.
The thing about wyoming, we have a low rebounding output... but i would be interested to see a stat about how many rebounds we get in comparison to how many actual rebounding opportunities develop over the course of our game. meaning our style of offense and defense produce less rebounding opportunities because wyoming puts up fewer bad shots and holds the opposition to fewer shots taken. How are we rebounding on average over the amount of shots taken per game?
I see a misnomer on that stat. I think this is one of the hidden reasons we are undefeated.
another reason, and it hit me today like a ton of bricks. we have a coach that truely understands coaching at elevation. with McClain, his idea was to run and shoot... fast break the hell out of the opponent. but this honestly is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing. When we have the ball, if we run the court and take a shot in the first 10 seconds of shot clock, all we did was force the opponent to defend for 10 seconds... then they have the ball and can rest with their possession.
but with a grinding movement offense that moves the ball for 20 seconds per possession, you are forcing them to defend twice as long.
then once the second half starts, they start to break down, then we start applying more fast break points and going on runs, building our lead... demorilizing the opponent.
Absolutely I think the AA is going to return to dominance. shyatt is using terrain to his advantage. dominate defensively, make the opponent work for everything, make them defend for the max amount of time, and wait for their legs to quiver.
I think we can handle almost anybody at home as long as we stick to the game plan.
I know we are homers. and I know that deep down inside everyone of us expect us to sweep csu every year. We just hate losing to them that much...
but i watched csu play cu. and i know that it was played in boulder, but there were a ton of csu fans at that game. I also realize that csu had a poor shooting night.
However, I see us pounding them. Their big... coulter( or conrade, or something with a c) is a liability. he moves like shawn bradley without the extra inches. We have had bigs like him before. a guy that was recruited for size but not ability.
Its frustrating when sports writers and fanbases make predictions about wyoming without have seen any game tape. Larry, Leonard, Ryan are very capable of great post defense.
The thing about wyoming, we have a low rebounding output... but i would be interested to see a stat about how many rebounds we get in comparison to how many actual rebounding opportunities develop over the course of our game. meaning our style of offense and defense produce less rebounding opportunities because wyoming puts up fewer bad shots and holds the opposition to fewer shots taken. How are we rebounding on average over the amount of shots taken per game?
I see a misnomer on that stat. I think this is one of the hidden reasons we are undefeated.
another reason, and it hit me today like a ton of bricks. we have a coach that truely understands coaching at elevation. with McClain, his idea was to run and shoot... fast break the hell out of the opponent. but this honestly is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing. When we have the ball, if we run the court and take a shot in the first 10 seconds of shot clock, all we did was force the opponent to defend for 10 seconds... then they have the ball and can rest with their possession.
but with a grinding movement offense that moves the ball for 20 seconds per possession, you are forcing them to defend twice as long.
then once the second half starts, they start to break down, then we start applying more fast break points and going on runs, building our lead... demorilizing the opponent.
Absolutely I think the AA is going to return to dominance. shyatt is using terrain to his advantage. dominate defensively, make the opponent work for everything, make them defend for the max amount of time, and wait for their legs to quiver.
I think we can handle almost anybody at home as long as we stick to the game plan.
