What Went Wrong For Oregon Basketball In Players Era Festival Tournament

Shot selection, shooting, turnovers, transitions, fouls, teamwork all went wrong. The team should get better, but I was giving them more credit than they have earned. My green-yellow glasses sometimes blur my vision.

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by Notalot

My review is we have another year where we improve enough to have 12+ losses and be a bubble team that might win in the round of 64.

Salty? Yep. But lobbing it into Ewing just doesn’t work anymore imo.

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by JabbaNoBargain

Basically the team is very very average at best, a lot of guys who haven't improved and nobody who has come into the program who can be a difference maker.

Our two best players can't play defense together on the pick and roll. Bittle isn't athletic enough to hedge out and Shelstad isn't big enough or quick enough to get around the screen. We really struggle to defend when those two are at the point of attack. Opposing guards killed us.

I miss Dante.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by spartan2785

Pathetic. Very disappointing.

At least the girls are playing ball!

I hate to say it, but someone needs to sell Altman on recruiting more one-and-dones. Getting Arenas next year is big, but we need more than one or two each year. Centers and shooting guards, especially.

48 minutes ago, 2002duck said:

I hate to say it, but someone needs to sell Altman on recruiting more one-and-dones. Getting Arenas next year is big, but we need more than one or two each year. Centers and shooting guards, especially.

The 5 stars never do well in their first year here. Walker, Ware, Bittle, Evans all major disappointments in their first year. Bol Bol is the only one that actually looked like a top 25 freshman in his first year.

Amazingly I think we miss Bamba, he was our best perimeter defender, he's tough, he can play bully ball, he took care of the basketball, Simpkins is a better scorer but a much much worse defender, he can't rebound and doesn't get to the rim well against these better teams.

Last year's team had a ton of flaws, but they were experienced, Angel, Bamba, Barthelemy, Cook all multiyear starters, we now have a bunch of guys who either haven't played at this level, haven't been starters, or they've never played D1 basketball.