Memphis at Houston MBB game 2/19/23

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Who are we going for and why?


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Houston so we can knock off #1.

It’s like football now. Pull for all our opponents to win while we continue to go 1-0.
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The announcers for this game have some sort of love crush on Memphis as a tournament team.
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winwave wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 2:34 pm Houston so we can knock off #1.

It’s like football now. Pull for all our opponents to win while we continue to go 1-0.
Eh. Call me bitter but I root for our future conference mates over the Big12 four everytime this year.
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Ruski wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 5:25 pm
winwave wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 2:34 pm Houston so we can knock off #1.

It’s like football now. Pull for all our opponents to win while we continue to go 1-0.
Eh. Call me bitter but I root for our future conference mates over the Big12 four everytime this year.
I hear ya but right now it benefits us for them to win.
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Hunter played a pitiful non-conference schedule we aren’t passing Memphis for the possible 2nd bid.
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Houston is beatable, but we seem to have a mental block against them.
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greenie78 wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 6:30 pm Houston is beatable, but we seem to have a mental block against them.
This is based upon nothing but gut feeling: I think Sampson despises Hunter and gets his team fired up to play against him.
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greenie78 wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 6:30 pm Houston is beatable, but we seem to have a mental block against them.
Houston is "beatable" because they have already lost 2 games. One of them was to top-ranked Alabama and the other was a 1-point loss to Temple on a day they just shot horribly and scored 55 points.. it's like our loss to Tulsa that was just a perfect storm of bad things. Houston is very, very good team and it takes flawless performance and some luck to beat them.
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If they dont hit or take 3’s is the best chance against them. Today they only had 3… but if they are making the 3’s watch out.

Also need to prepare ourselves for the reach in fouls, refs are not calling them so need to keep good ball security… also you can probably reach in and get away with it!
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72-64 Houston over Memphis
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Feels like Wednesday night is a must win game for us.
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greenie78 wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:04 am Feels like Wednesday night is a must win game for us.
No question.
Just checked the NET and we slipped back to #86
A road win over Quad 1 Houston could jump us pretty good in the NET and a loss won’t drop us but we’ll have to win the AAC tournament outright to get a bid at that point.
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They are all must wins now. Hunter went on and on about beating Houston in his introductory press conference. It's time for him to walk the walk.
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Like what happened with Coach Fritz, Coach Hunter is still learning how to compete at this level. In a recent interview, Hunter said he has been used to being in a 1-bid conference and builds his team through the year to win the conference tournament, because that was the only team getting in. The AAC can be a 1-bid, but can be a 2-3 bid if you show you can beat quality non-conference teams. Hopefully a couple of quality teams are willing to do home and home agreements next year and we can move forward, because Hunter is ALL about lack of respect and I'm not sure he yields on that.
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I pointed that out about Hunter earlier this season. He is stuck on his past and unlike Willie he doesn't give in to change. As to scheduling we aren't going to get those type of home and homes. He needs to go on the road and win against good competition. He won't do that of his own volition. TD is going to have to step in.
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anEngineer wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:35 am Like what happened with Coach Fritz, Coach Hunter is still learning how to compete at this level. In a recent interview, Hunter said he has been used to being in a 1-bid conference and builds his team through the year to win the conference tournament, because that was the only team getting in. The AAC can be a 1-bid, but can be a 2-3 bid if you show you can beat quality non-conference teams. Hopefully a couple of quality teams are willing to do home and home agreements next year and we can move forward, because Hunter is ALL about lack of respect and I'm not sure he yields on that.
We’ll if that’s the case you schedule tough pre conference to better prepare for the league and tournament. Playing weak teams early does none of that. We don’t need a home and home in basketball that’s ridiculous. We don’t do that with teams we currently play at home. We should have played UCF’s pre conference schedule.
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tpstulane wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:52 am
anEngineer wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:35 am Like what happened with Coach Fritz, Coach Hunter is still learning how to compete at this level. In a recent interview, Hunter said he has been used to being in a 1-bid conference and builds his team through the year to win the conference tournament, because that was the only team getting in. The AAC can be a 1-bid, but can be a 2-3 bid if you show you can beat quality non-conference teams. Hopefully a couple of quality teams are willing to do home and home agreements next year and we can move forward, because Hunter is ALL about lack of respect and I'm not sure he yields on that.
We’ll if that’s the case you schedule tough pre conference to better prepare for the league and tournament. Playing weak teams early does none of that. We don’t need a home and home in basketball that’s ridiculous. We don’t do that with teams we currently play at home.
He means a home and home over 2 years, like with football.
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anEngineer wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:56 am
tpstulane wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:52 am
anEngineer wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:35 am Like what happened with Coach Fritz, Coach Hunter is still learning how to compete at this level. In a recent interview, Hunter said he has been used to being in a 1-bid conference and builds his team through the year to win the conference tournament, because that was the only team getting in. The AAC can be a 1-bid, but can be a 2-3 bid if you show you can beat quality non-conference teams. Hopefully a couple of quality teams are willing to do home and home agreements next year and we can move forward, because Hunter is ALL about lack of respect and I'm not sure he yields on that.
We’ll if that’s the case you schedule tough pre conference to better prepare for the league and tournament. Playing weak teams early does none of that. We don’t need a home and home in basketball that’s ridiculous. We don’t do that with teams we currently play at home.
He means a home and home over 2 years, like with football.
I know that. But it’s not going to happen. We need to schedule just like Memphis or UCF did this year.
Memphis played 5 SEC schools and built their NET doing so.
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tpstulane wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:57 am
anEngineer wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:56 am
tpstulane wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:52 am
We’ll if that’s the case you schedule tough pre conference to better prepare for the league and tournament. Playing weak teams early does none of that. We don’t need a home and home in basketball that’s ridiculous. We don’t do that with teams we currently play at home.
He means a home and home over 2 years, like with football.
I know that. But it’s not going to happen. We need to schedule just like Memphis or UCF did this year.
Memphis played 5 SEC schools and built their NET doing so.
That's my point about "learning", like Fritz admits to doing.
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anEngineer wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:01 am
tpstulane wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:57 am
anEngineer wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:56 am

He means a home and home over 2 years, like with football.
I know that. But it’s not going to happen. We need to schedule just like Memphis or UCF did this year.
Memphis played 5 SEC schools and built their NET doing so.
That's my point about "learning", like Fritz admits to doing.
If he hasn’t “learned” yet when will he? We have NCAA tournament talent finally and if we get left out we have only ourselves with our pre conference schedule to blame. Next year the conference will be one bid league so I guess it won’t matter at that point.
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Houston at Memphis on Ch 4 now. 65-63 UH up :28 seconds left Memphis ball.

Houston hit a buzzer beater won 67-65.
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