Arizona Fan Thread

[statman32]

Just thought id start one like the illinois one even though there probably aint many arizona fans on here

heres to POINT GUARD U!!!!

we have a great chance to win a nc this year with, budinger,williams,mccellen and radneovic and shakur leading the way

Chase has a chance to be the best freshman u of a has ever had and thats saying alot...he seems to do everything to help us to win

Marcus is a unbelieable talent...he can score at will

Radnenovic is outstanding...he has been playing at a high level since he got here...one of the most underrated players in the nation

Shakur has unbelieveable talent...with his passing improving if he can improve and lead the way we can win it all

Jawwann has had injuries screw his career but a healthy jawann can play in the nba one day

dillions d is sick
wise is a widcat for life
hill has shown promise i never would have thought from him
bret is a hustle player
fendi is huge and has lots of promise
prince and tangera have yet to show their promise but i hope they can develop
walters hopefully will be redshirted and can come back next year to help

we got BAYLESS, HORNE and zane johnson coing in next year...we keep on stacking this program

hopefully we can survive when lute retires which hopefully wont be for another 7 or so years

p.s heres a weird piece of info, we have no players from az on our roster...so much for homegrown talent

so all other arizona fans lets unite

[statman32]

yah to all the uofa fans on here

they are now 8th in nation with a big game with memphis coming up

also they have actually started to play some d...WOW

[Jailblazers7]

I love how Chase Budinger plays he is just a joy to watch

[i seen hippos]

Zona's my "other" team so i gotta keep this thread alive...along with the other 2 people.

Chase is amazing. gonna be a great NBA player....but i think people have forgotten about marcus williams of late. He's been crazy the last two games. i think he'll be quite good in the NBA too.

[statman32]

Zona's my "other" team so i gotta keep this thread alive...along with the other 2 people.

Chase is amazing. gonna be a great NBA player....but i think people have forgotten about marcus williams of late. He's been crazy the last two games. i think he'll be quite good in the NBA too.
yah marcus has been hitting the boards crazy lately...the whole team is actually getting rebounds

[IlliniFan]

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2005/basketball/ncaa/specials/ncaa_tourney/2005/03/27/closer.look.illinois/tx_deron_shot_all.jpg

[REECE]

I agree 100% with this

[TheGame414]

That was the picture on my computer desktop for nearly a year, until the White Sox won the World Series.

[i seen hippos]

that game was a sham.

[TheGame414]

How so?

[statman32]

wow the refs in the uofa memphis game are just bad...im glad uofa is still in the game considering they have had nothing going for them so far...how did uofa luck out with 3 conference usa refs

[i seen hippos]

another sham. i bet the arizona/illinois games was reffed by big 10 officials.

that's why it was a sham. lol

[i seen hippos]

Another nice win.

I can't see this team not making the elite 8. unless they get upset by one of those UAB type teams that play gay ball and catch you when things aren't going well.

[UCLAlegend32]

arizona will make the pac10 proud being its second best team in the tourney. gonna keep an eye on them this year wanna see how close they come to my bruins.
:bowdown: UCLA

[statman32]

2nd best team in the pac 10...right now maybe but we will see once jan 20 comes around


arizona has the number 1 rpi and the hardest schedule so far

[i seen hippos]

this is their best team in a while.

better than walton/midget and frye/salim/adams.

Radenovic/Budinger/Williams/Shakur is mad skilled.

[TheGame414]

I don't think this Arizona team is as good as the '05 or the '03 team. Very talented, but I'm not sold on them being a top-flight national title contender yet.


another sham. i bet the arizona/illinois games was reffed by big 10 officials.

that's why it was a sham. lolAs far as I know, I don't believe that Randy McCall, Robert Donato or Doug Shows typically work Big Ten games. And here's two other newsflashes:

1. We were called for 18 fouls to their 10. Not complaining about that number, I think it was about right, but it's hard to whine about the refs when you had the edge in the calls.

2. There's no such thing as a "Big Ten ref."

[ThaKing]

^


I agree. They still have alot to prove, but so does every other team in the NCAA right now except maybe Wichita St. They can't do too much more than they've already done.

[i seen hippos]

i was kidding Game. i'm just a poor loser.

[TheGame414]

I agree. They still have alot to prove, but so does every other team in the NCAA right now except maybe Wichita St. They can't do too much more than they've already done.True, but there are already several teams that I think I can quite comfortably call title contenders/favorites: UCLA, Ohio State, Florida, North Carolina. Then there are teams that could very well be there by March, but have at least one major question to answer: Arizona, Kansas, Pitt, LSU, maybe Washington, maybe UConn.

[statman32]

i dont see how you can all ohio st for sure contenders right now...I know oden is great but the team is young and I think they will run into some trouble in the big 10

By the way Pitt doesnt impress me too much...they have a great coach but gray seems like a taller nick collison that cant shoot

[TheGame414]

They may be young, but so are a lot of other teams. I wasn't as high on OSU as others going into the year, but they're legit.

Three of their starters are experienced upperclassmen: junior Jamar Butler,
5th-year senior Ron Lewis, and senior Ivan Harris. And it doesn't matter a single bit that Oden's a freshman because he became the best player in the nation the second he stepped on the court.

So that leaves Conley, who's playing well beyond his years; Cook, who's their No. 2 wing scoring option, and Lighty, who's a role player.

I don't see how their youth is a problem. Not like KU's inconsistency, Arizona's aversion to guarding people, or the lack of firepower of Wisconsin or Pitt, for example.

Now, North Carolina, I could see their youth biting them come tourney time, because they really only have Rayshawn Terry in terms of big-time upperclassmen. Same with Kansas, with six freshmen and sophomores in the rotation, but not to the same extent as with UNC.

[statman32]

Arizona's aversion to guarding people

obviously you havent been watching their past games where they put the clamp down on san diego st,houston, and memphis all great offensive and three point teams

you cant just listen to the media...once a team has that reputation its hard to break it even playing good defense

[TheGame414]

Memphis, while explosive, is sloppy, and c'mon, you're gonna hang your hat stopping San Diego State and Houston? Arizona ranks 120th in raw defensive efficiency. That's bad. Even their ranking of No. 41 in adjusted defensive efficiency isn't great. No Final Four team in the last three years has been worse than No. 27 in adjusted effiency or No. 52 in raw efficiency, and the average adjusted ranking of the last 12 Final Four teams has been No. 9 nationally.

They may be improving, and what I saw of the game last night did look better, but they still have a long way to go on the defensive end. An Illinois team that was without Randle and Smith did whatever they wanted offensively, despite being on the road and facing a near 3-to-1 foul discrepancy, for about 32-35 minutes of that game.

If the media was saying anything negative about Arizona's defense in the 2006-2007 season, I wasn't aware. I'm going by what the numbers tell me and more importantly, what my eyes have told me.

[statman32]

Memphis, while explosive, is sloppy, and c'mon, you're gonna hang your hat stopping San Diego State and Houston? Arizona ranks 120th in raw defensive efficiency. That's bad. Even their ranking of No. 41 in adjusted defensive efficiency isn't great. No Final Four team in the last three years has been worse than No. 27 in adjusted effiency or No. 52 in raw efficiency, and the average adjusted ranking of the last 12 Final Four teams has been No. 9 nationally.

They may be improving, and what I saw of the game last night did look better, but they still have a long way to go on the defensive end. An Illinois team that was without Randle and Smith did whatever they wanted offensively, despite being on the road and facing a near 3-to-1 foul discrepancy, for about 32-35 minutes of that game.

If the media was saying anything negative about Arizona's defense in the 2006-2007 season, I wasn't aware. I'm going by what the numbers tell me and more importantly, what my eyes have told me.
Im just saying they are improving from the beggining and if they keep playing like they have been playing they will end uo being a excellent offensive team with a decent defense

[statman32]

Im just saying they are improving from the beggining and if they keep playing like they have been playing they will end uo being a excellent offensive team with a decent defense
by the way where do you get your stats from???

[TheGame414]

Sorry, I should've put up a link. It's from www.kenpom.com, one of my favorite basketball websites.

And I certainly think they could be a title contender. But while they may be improving defensively, they aren't close to being there yet, in terms of winning a national championship.

Obviously everyone needs to improve over the course of the year. But I don't think Arizona is on the short list of teams that has every facet of the game in place or close to it to be considered a title favorite right now. They're one of the teams on the next tier that still has a glaring hole to fix.

[i seen hippos]

Shakur with 8/9/9 in Arizona's conference opening win over Cal.

[statman32]

another great game by shakur and company in the victory over stanford...we got dominated in the paint but still pulled it out...we shot 80% from 3 and 61% overall

cant wait till next week with two big matchups against the washington schools

[i seen hippos]

Marcus has been crazy. Playing like I expected him to from the beginning.

[statman32]

heres a update on the mighty uofa team...we just had a great game aginst the huskies where it seemed like combined the teams missed 10 shots all 2nd half...arizona shot a whooping 65% during the game....there defense still sucked though

with a win aginst wash st 2nite hopefully they can move up to top 5 in the rankins...this team is number 1 in sos and rpi

[baseketball4life]

shakur is great and will be a steal in the NBA Draft... future Andre Miller type player

[Wicked_1]

ducks with the upset!:banana:

so what are the wildcats ranked now?

[OregonDuckFan]

Sorry, I should've put up a link. It's from www.kenpom.com, one of my favorite basketball websites.

Hah...

Rankings like these are such a joke...

I mean...C'mon...#3 Texas aTm(15-2) over #4 UCLA(15-1)?

#11 Memphis(13-3) over #19 Arizona(13-3)?

#16 Georgetown(11-5) over #26 Oregon(16-1)

#36 Gonzaga(12-6) over #43 Washington State(15-3)?

#54 Texas Tech(13-5) over #70 Stanford(11-4)?

#27 LSU(12-4) over #60 Washington(11-6)?

...And that's just the PAC-10 teams...

I'm sorry I can't take these rankings very serious...:rolleyes:...

How 'bout these rankings?... I'll just call 'em OregonDuckFan...or for short...ODF ratings:pimp:...

I'll throw in some skewed data and re-arrange things so they please my eyes:lol: ...

#1 :UCLA, OREGON, ARIZONA (tied)
#2 WASHINGTON STATE, USC (tied)
#2 STANFORD, CAL, WASHINGTON (tied)
#3, #4, #5 etc...: Every other team in-between those listed above and Oregon State and Arizona State...

Yeah that looks about right...
:roll:

[statman32]

ahhh 3 straight losses...we should have won the oregon game...the usc and ucla game i can live with

we are def. in a slump right now and the pac ten is very good this year

cant wait to play asu and get back on our winning ways

[TheGame414]

I'm sorry I can't take these rankings very seriousThe problem with the RPI or Kenpom's rankings or anything else like that isn't the ranking itself. It's the way stupid people interpret them. They aren't a ranking of who the most talented basketball teams are. It is strictly stastistical data. They imply nothing further. You incorrectly infer more than you should.

[statman32]

Finnaly a big pac10 win...Chase showed why he is a top 5 freshman this year

This team can be so good but at times sooo bad on defense..I do think bringing jordan hill into the starting lineup has helped the defense alot

This season reminds me of 97 :banana:

[statman32]

Arizona will make at least the elite eight...mark my words :cheers:

[statman32]

Arizona will make at least the elite eight...mark my words :cheers:
jk. This year I'll be less of a homer. I like the look of our team a lot better this year though. We should have a lot more teamwork with a couple "cancers" gone and our defense intensity should improve with the addition of Kevin Oneil to our coaching staff.

and yes I just quoted myself :)

[Hawker]

jk. This year I'll be less of a homer. I like the look of our team a lot better this year though. We should have a lot more teamwork with a couple "cancers" gone and our defense intensity should improve with the addition of Kevin Oneil to our coaching staff.

and yes I just quoted myself :)

statman do you go to arizona or arizona state b/c I know Texas A&M is playing Arizona this year.

[statman32]

statman do you go to arizona or arizona state b/c I know Texas A&M is playing Arizona this year.
Arizona St but I have been a huge fan of Arizona since Bibby went there. So rest assured Ill be talking a lot os **** when the Wildacts play A&M.

[Randy]

I used to be huge U of A fan. I went to the Lute Olson basketball camp three years in a row when I was younger.

My fandom has died out as of late though.

[mnsully15]

LOLOLOLO ROFLMAO, :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:
:roll: :roll: :roll:

What a loss

[ndPac]

Statman so you're a big AZ fan? thats good to see.. who are you saying is a cancer this year? Williams and Stafa were the worst players and cancers I've ever seen come through here that got so much hype. . .im liking Bayless and Horne alot, Budinger is way too passive and a defensive liability, im thinking his nba hype is gonna slowly lower jsut like Williams did.

But you need to check out Brandon Jennings, and everyone else who's an AZ fan check him out and join the facebook group i just created if you want to:

http://arizona.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6415441724&ref=mf

[statman32]

Good time to bump this old thread. :roll:

Arizona going into a tough environment (San Diego St), and doing a great job.

Gordon telling the national media, "What about me?"

[statman32]

Arizona 39
San Diego St 28

Halftime at one of the toughest places to play in the country.

Gordon with 12 pts and 3 steals, while missing most of the 1st half with foul trouble. Hollis-Jefferson and Nick Johnson also playing great.

[statman32]

2014 recruiting class looking good.

#3 Stanley Johnson
#28 Craig Victor
#57 Parker Jackson-Cartwright
along with top 10 Juco guard KaDeem Allen and potentially #9 Justice Winslow on his way.

BTFD

[drallafi]

Cant wait to play Drexel and then (hopefully) stomp Duke in MSG.

[christian1923]

Cant wait to play Drexel and then (hopefully) stomp Duke in MSG.
Are they going to beat Drexel by more than 10? I don't really know how good UofA is this year

[drallafi]

Are they going to beat Drexel by more than 10? I don't really know how good UofA is this year

Apparently, we're pretty damn good.

GO CATS!

[statman32]

#1

[Derrick]

#1
beardown :cheers:

[beer]

i'm so ****ing jelly :(

[Derrick]

:rockon: Almost lost that one. BEARDOWN