spartan2785

What are we doing! Lanning again losing the game with awful awful decisions

It was, it's games like this that make me wonder why Richardson can't play like this all the time, he was aggressive, showed leadership, distributed the basketball, he's such a mystery to me. Ware needs to work on his fitness, seemed to gas too early, but he was pretty great tonight, and the walk-ons played hard didn't lose the game for the team, a couple calls go their way and they could have won it.

I know it's impossible, but Walton shut up about Shoe dog! Who cares! This is a incredible performance, talk about bout the damn game.

If they win this game, it's one of the best wins of Altman's career, incredible

The Ducks have 4 legit post players, now on the floor they have none of them, amazing, simply amazing how much bad luck this team has had. Like I said before I can't fault the effort, they're putting their all into this, makes me wish Richardson played like this all the time, he's being aggressive (because he has to).

I'm going to give this team some major props, they're playing extremely hard, the walk-ons have been put in a impossible position, the schollie players are sometimes playing 3 on 5, and they're giving a quality opponent all they can get.

At this point I believe the team is cursed, I don't know what the team did to get this curse, but I don't think I've ever seen a team get this injured in a season.

This team might just have a losing season, it's that bad in terms of the guard play, I just don't get what Altman has been looking for in the guys he's recruited, there's no shooting in this team, even if you look at Barthelemy and Cousinard neither of them are good shooters, it's like Altman has gone away completely from what has work for him in the past. He used to recruit good shooters with guys at the wing positions who were athletic and could defend multiple positions. Now it's a plodding team of big men who while talented have nobody to pass to the outside, so teams can just collapse with no worry about the three ball. A lot of recruiting misses, Bittle is a disappointment, Soares has not made many strides, Guerrier is not anywhere near some of the 4s we've had in the past. Cousinard, Rigsby, and Butler better be huge upgrades on the players already playing or else this team isn't going to be anywhere near a borderline tourney team. The only player that seems to be fulfilling his potential is Dante, he's trying, but it's hard to carry the load when nobody else is capable of getting a bucket. Ware as well seems like he might have the talent to justify his high recruiting. Maybe I'm bad mouthing the players too much, but this is just hard to watch, and it's beginning to be what I expect from Oregon basketball (get embarrassed on national TV)

Should have won that game, our guards have to play with more discipline, we would get out to a good lead playing a composed half-court game, then when we tried to speed it up we would give up points in transition and let UNC back in it. That game is a game we lost not UNC winning it. We play with more composure we win. Had a clear advantage inside, yet we got away from that in the 4th quarter. Offense should have gone to Kyei and Van Slooten a lot more, instead Rodgers, PaoPao, and Hurst tried to do too much. I still think Graves doesn't coach with enough fire, I never see him demand better basketball from our players, just seems to be okay with obvious mistakes. All that said I like the look of this team immensely more than last season. I never though Prince played with much fire, and I already feel like Kyei is going to be a better player, maybe not as much of a scorer, but she fights a lot more trying to get rebounds and plays better defense. They'll get better, and in the end I think this will be a better team compared to last year.

It's going to be a really long season if this team can't hit any 3s, teams will just double Dante and not have to worry about the outside shooting.

The defense is legitimately good, the offense is an absolute mess, can't shoot, can't drive, can't make good decisions, only plus player on the offensive end is Dante from what I can see.

Here's my take, I think without Bo we have about a 20-25% chance of winning, this goes up to about a 30% chance if our O-line is relatively healthy enough that we simulate the rushing effort we have had this season. I have been of course been seriously concerned by Ty's play so far, but he would have the use of a much more diverse playbook along with better players in front of him than he has usually had this season. Dillingham has proven to have pretty good game plans this season, so I could see us having some success on offense. With all of that said, we'll need some breaks, some TOs, and to play a clean game while hoping Utah doesn't bring their A game. It's going to be tough!

100% on the coaches, just awful decisions throughout the game, really let their players down there, so many unnecessary risks, so many bad play calls in crucial situations, just awful awful coaching. Bad officiating at the end, should have been a late hit out of bounds, would have been at the 35. Seemed like the Huskies got every call.

Have to get some blitzes in, this passive defense is probably the worst thing to do against a guy like Penix, their receivers are too good, our LBs and DBs can't cover, have to get pressure.

If we can get one stop, we'll take away their confidence, they can not stop us if we don't play stupid football and keep it simple. Have to start to get a bit of a pass rush, Penix is too good to give him time.

Could be worse, have to pound the ball, have to play a smarter ball game. This first drive is going to be so important since if we can score a TD we'll gain some momentum. I get the feeling neither team is very happy right now.

Why! Why would you do that, just set up normally and do a QB sneak, instead we're rushing to get set again and snap the ball, horrible horrible decision.

Just like last year, this team can't shoot, awful offense. Completely embarrassing performance right now, just atrocious, getting blown out right now by Irvine!

I just want to see TCU have to play a starting QB for an entire game, they've been extremely fortunate to have played backup QBs in most of the big games against them. OU, Kansas, KSU, and now Texas Tech have all had to go to their backup because of injury. I mean how lucky can you get! Kansas and KSU win their games if the QB is healthy.

They'll be fine, it's just one of those times you don't play at your best. It wasn't pretty, but Wilcox usually plays us pretty tough, Cal has never been a place where we play well, even during our best years. They'll come back next week and dominate I think. One thing that has been proven is that we play really well at home, so I expect we'll be up and raring to go against UW and Utah.

They lost their starting QB, didn't have a good back up in place, lost some guys to the portal, and their defense hasn't been good for a while now. Kind of the perfect storm. Not the way they wanted to be treading before entering the SEC though for sure.

Probably one of the more underrated games in Ducks history not to mention Pac-12/college football history, that play from Adams at the end was amazing, one of the more incredible final plays of regulation in a long time, the scramble, throwing off his back foot essentially falling down, then two players colliding with each other at the end. Then you had Addison keeping his foot in by about a millimeter, and to top it all off a interception to end the ball game, amazing. It's such a shame we only got one year of Adams.

I'm confused, are you saying that nobody in the Pac has a chance to beat Ohio St. or are you saying teams have a bigger shot than 15%. That's a fairly low amount, and that's the highest percentage I would I would give with the game at a neutral location.

Down year for a lot of the second tier programs in the Big 10. Iowa, Wiscy, and MSU are all down this year it appears. Penn St. and Michigan haven't played anyone significant so far, like others said very top heavy this year. I would say that I wouldn't be surprised if multiple teams could beat those two in the Pac-12. Ohio St. though is a different beast, don't really believe anyone would have over a 15% chance or so of beating them.

I'm sorry but no team that loses a game 49-3 should get into the playoffs unless a lot of things happen, and they look absolutely dominate the rest of the way. Oregon would need to beat USC, Utah, UCLA, and UW by significant figures for them to begin to creep into the conversation for me. I get the argument you could make about how it was the coaching staff's first game, that it was on the road against the defending champs, but you just can't be dominated like that and deserve to go to the playofs imo. Winning the Pac-12 and going to the Rose Bowl is great goal for this team, if things happen and we find ourselves in the conversation, then great, but I wouldn't really think about it until we get into deep November.