Colorado Game thread 12/07/2016

[skyhops]

All my sources are unnamed of course. Didn't realize that Utah is too rebounding team in country. Our bigs will have to come to play. Big game

[oreobob]

Eating Skyline in South Carolina.

[Anti-Homer]

Agree with many of your points except for youth. Our PG is a third year soph, SG is a junio, SF is a junior, other SF is a senior as is our center. The bench is young, but Ed and Tre will most likely be gone tomorrow. The street ball comment was made by two of my sources.

You need a source to exclaim street ball?

an unnamed source to boot

Agreed. I hate his anonymous sources. I hate even more that virtually all turn out to be true.

[Anti-Homer]

Live and die with the 3. Inside is lacking.

It wasn't lacking during the Colo game. Gaston was 7 for 8, and X was ice cold from 3 point land (except for Tre), yet X ignored Gaston in the 2nd half, with very few sets run for him. Instead, X jacked up treys like it was a 3 point shooting contest. Colo obviously watched tape of the Baylor game.

Good news is that X will win comfortably today, b/c Utah blows. Hopefully, it will be accomplished more by running actual sets, rather than taking 25 footers early in the shot clock. Time to get back to Xavier Basketball.

[Anti-Homer]

We play poor second halves lately. In part tonight that could be the altitude. Boulder is over 5300 ft. My grandson is a kicker for New Mexico football and he says the altitude is definitely a factor. For him it also gives him five yards additional on his kicks.

Unfortunately for them, the altitude has not turned their football or basketball teams into consistenly successful programs.

[Anti-Homer]

Deja Vu get a lead by 9 Pts and give up easy baskets and then go dry for several minutes. Colorado certainly no powerhouse made big shots down the stretch. It looked to me that Gaston was fouled on the lay up after the steal but he would have had to make 2 FT's to cut it to 1. Good teams win games like this on the road. Creighton, Nova and Butler getting it done at home and on the road. the Hall also won tonite at Pearl Harbor. Hopefully they can figure it out before conference games right around the corner where in early Jan they have back to back road games with Nova & Butler. I think the over ranking was a curse for this team and they will fall out of the top 25 if they lose on Sat.

Js, I do believe Butler lost tonight to Indiana St. Soooooo, id say our loss to Colorado is not as bad at that. In reality, these two losses will not really effect us too much by the end of the year. Like I said, its not like we lost to Indian St.

Agreed. It is still early in the season, and all this does is affect their overall seed. X was a prohibitive pre-season top 10 ten team. They have the talent to regain that form. Coaches and players just need to learn from these last two games. Lehigh & Missouri was an early sign that that leadership and team play has been lacking across the board. I believe they'll get their mojo back.