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One thing that will help is if Evans can get back to playing like he did before last week, he seems to play better as a small 5 in a small ball lineup, but we need him to play as the 4 who can be versatile. Like I said before we were due a game like this where everything goes sideways, I think we matchup better against Utah, so we'll see how we do.

It's still cursed, that one win was a fluke, Oregon goes there and automatically become just a lackluster team, the reverse is we usually put Colorado in its place when they play in Eugene. If we can win in Salt Lake, then the road trip is fine, lose that now, and it becomes a big opportunity to get a good road win lost. We need these games to get into the tourney.

Yeah, best freshman out there right now is Williams and it isn't even close, bad game by Shelsted, whole team has not been good. It's okay, we were due a game like this. We looked tired the whole game other than that spurt at the start of the second half, not just physically tired, mentally tired. Dante is completely out of shape, just isn't ready for more than about 15-20 minutes a game.

Williams for Colorado is the best freshman on the court, really like his game. Some stupid fouls by both Diawara and Dante have really hampered Oregon, KJ not having his best game.

Good start to the second half, have to keep it going and not have lapses in concentration.

No hustle, just laziness out there, horrible foul shooting, settling on offense, Dana must be furious.

I'll just have to call them and see what I need to pay to get it added. I already get SEC, ACC, Pac-12, CBS Sports, Tennis, pretty much everything except B1G. Thanks everyone.

All of the I-5 corridor is like that, Portland, Tacoma, Eugene, Salem, we're all basically helpless when it comes to being snowed or iced in. Ice is of course worse since you can't do much about it, at least with snow you can get a little traction, ice is just the worse since you have to have major studs or chains, even then we only deal with it every 2-3 years, so not that many people have the experience to drive on it, and we have hilly areas in all the towns other than Salem, Seattle I imagine is the worst though.

I thought I had the right package, I guess I'll just have to call them and find out. Are you in Eugene?

Very good player, probably got away with holding/PI more than any other DB in the country, hopefully he'll get the same favorable call if goes to the Ducks.

You would think it would be available by the start of the season next year, then again look at the Pac-12 network, we could have the reverse scenario happen where satellite has access but cable doesn't

I don't know if anybody has heard or not, but it seems like B1G network is not available in Eugene on Xfinity, does anybody know if it's going to become available on cable?

Anybody else completely forget we actually won in Boulder in 2022, man I don't remember that at all, I thought Dana was winless there. Huge game (they're all huge it seems like), nobody should worry about the rankings, it makes sense we wouldn't be ranked, we haven't beaten anyone good, the Pac-12 is crap this year (like most years), we'll get our due if we just keep winning, the committee will also take note of our injury troubles, I wouldn't be surprised if we keep winning if we get a better seed than many of the expects expect. Need to keep Colorado off balance with our defensive sets, get into our flow, and play our style, seems like usually we end up getting out of our rhythm and get knocked into playing the way Colorado wants to play.

I think we'll see Washington get a few guys to come back, it usually happens where a few guys dip their toes into the portal or flirt with the NFL, then they meet the new coach and decide to come back.

When I think about it, the game was actually kind of perfect for the situation, they got complacent against bad team, they got down by a ton, didn't panic, worked their way back, got Dante in against a good opposite center who will can shoot outside which we will see in this upcoming road trip, and in the end they were taught to expect a dog fight in every game during the league season. Overall I've loved all of Altman's teams except for the last two years, so this is such a joy to see a team playing with the same spirit we've come to expect from Dana's teams.

Yeah, no worries, it looks like he edited his tweet, so it's easy to see how you would have interpreted it that way.

I think it's important to again point out that Crepea was talking about Women's basketball, he wasn't talking about football, the women's basketball is not a good team, they beat Arizona solely because Arizona basically play like mad women on defense but they aren't talented enough so they foul a ton.

I would say it's tOSU, Oregon, Michigan, Penn St, and Wiscy in that order. USC will be all over the place I think, UW might be up there if they get Fafita and TMac to come, but they lose so much I think it will be too much to replace, after that it's gets pretty dicey in terms of underdog contenders. UCLA no, Iowa no, Nebraska don't make me laugh, and then it becomes the dregs of the league where they might win a game they shouldn't but nothing more than that.

He wasn't being nice though, he was saying that Oregon doesn't play defense with intensity or grit, they try to say they do, but they don't. Really I think Crepea has been pretty fair to the Ducks overall from his time covering the team. Canzano is constantly trying to either find human interest stories that he thinks will make you shed a tear, bigging up some coach that is projected as an underdog, or tries to stir the pot by putting Oregon down. Next year I'm sure we'll all have to hear from him how hard luck the Beavs are, and how the big bad Oregon/Washington are big baddies who don't care about their states, and how OSU is a pure example of how college football should be along with WSU.

I think Crepea is okay, I've seen him give us our praise, but I've also seen him not sugarcoat it. That tweet was actually about women's basketball, I just saw the exact tweet that add WBB to it. I doubt he meant the football team.

I doubt it, he's perfect as an instant offense type of player off the bench, I don't think he has the defensive chops to be a starter or get starter minutes. I love Peyton but he has his role pretty set, also 42% is not that great, it's ok for a 6'2 guard. Derrick White is the only player that he would supplant and he's shooting 47% (41% on 3s), and he's 6'4 with the ability to guard 1 ands 2s. Peyton isn't that.

I don't think there is really any good way to have that meeting, DeBoer's was 8 minutes long and it sounds like it was even worse. Either way you are leaving and whatever you say isn't going to stop the feeling of betrayal that comes with leaving so suddenly. In all of these cases it's more the fact that a coach is leaving after such a short time at the school, it's one thing when you leave for a better job after 7 or so years, at least then you seen an entire recruiting class through to their senior year, with these guys it's a short hello and goodbye, can't even see much of a journey.

Very impressed with the come back, but you can't let that happen against the teams they have coming up or else they'll be toast I think. Biggest thing that stood out today was the depth this team has. Evans has played really well recently but he had only 9 minutes, I hope there wasn't a injury I missed, it says something about the team when they can miss a guy like that and still come back from that deficit. You look at the bench and by the time they get Bittle back they'll be able to go 11 deep. Diawara probably is the guy that gets a significant reduction in minutes, but having an experienced 7 footer to fall back on would be sweet! I feel good with Tracey, Oquendo, Barthelemy, or even Cook on the floor, incredibly versatile. Last year we were starting Soares who couldn't shoot a lick, and now we have multiple wings who are straight up better than him. Dana has upgraded every position on the court either through guys getting healthy (Couisnard and Rigsby) or through additions, it's such a great thing to see that he's got his mojo back.

Significant? No, but it is a lot more familiar to Smith, coached there, Northwest guy, it makes a lot more sense for him than MSU. He already has recruiting connections on the west coast, he probably could convince a lot of those guys to return to UW, I think he's more likely to stay at UW than most guys. He would lose some credibility leaving a school after only around a month and a half. At MSU you are always going to be second fiddle to UM, at UW at least you are the big team in your own state.

Great response, get down by 18 the last couple years and Oregon would have folded, this year you can see they believe, started playing harder on D, made Cal take some contested shots, on offense they got a couple baskets inside, then went inside out with some open threes in rhythm, and all of a sudden it's now a 4 point game. It's going to take some time to get Dante into the flow of things, we have to play with the same ball movement and rhythm that they've had in this nice stretch, they can't get bogged down by dumping into the big man every time, they need to feed him, but not at the expense of movement.