Sun Devil Bye Week: Lets Talk Basketball, Intentional Foul Edition
My article on the collapse of the Arizona basketball dynasty was very timely. That very night, Arizona went on to lose in one of the most embarrassing ways I have ever seen.
Do you know what the wildest part about this video is? Horne is the first one to go to Fogg and try to drill into his head what he did wrong. When the stroke of luck occurs and UAB misses the front end of the one-and-one, I actually thought the horrible foul was going to work out for them. Boy, was I wrong.
After Horne intentionally fouled the UAB Blazer and essentially lost the game for Arizona, I found myself puzzled, amused, yet at the same time a little sad. How can this happen in Pac-10 college basketball? These kids are attending a college that, by all stats and measures, is a decent public school. How can they not put 2 and 2 together, and know that the game is tied? Forgivable once, yes. But TWICE? No.
Poor coaching, poor basketball smarts, poor everything. Arizona has two directions which it can go at this point: Straight into the toilet, or right to the top. If this moment can somehow bring the team together, and they can grow despite the adversity they face from the disgusted fanbase and the ever-growing odds, they could put on an improbable, Disney-style run into March Madness.
But really? No. This was the nail that sealed shut the coffin that holds the remnants of basketball glory in Tucson.
As for the Sun Devils, they weren't that great looking on Tuesday, either. But we pulled out a road win against a decent team, and now we are better equipped to deal with Pepperdine on Sunday.
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I think it is an incredibly smart idea to make predictions about a team after two games. I cannot even begin to explain how astute and rational you seem. Keep up the good work.
I am Cameron Wood and this is my son and business partner CW Culberson.
by camwoody on
Nov 20, 2008 8:53 PM MST
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Hmm
Perhaps, then, I should just write about the weather in Arizona? Sunny, yes. As for rationality, this piece is rational. If anything, it is too rational.
by C.W. on
Nov 20, 2008 10:28 PM MST
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Right I know
and Michigan is going to go undefeated. They should really stop playing the whole season and just play the first week. For that matter all teams should just read their own clippings and call it a day. Enjoy the season it should be full of only expected events and preplanned outcomes!
I am Cameron Wood and this is my son and business partner CW Culberson.
by camwoody on
Nov 21, 2008 12:14 AM MST
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Are you really saying this?
camwoody, is something wrong?
What else should he write about? And he said that UA could go “one of two ways”
Idiot
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by The VD Special on
Nov 21, 2008 1:32 PM MST
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"But really? No. This was the nail that sealed shut the coffin that holds the remnants of basketball glory in Tucson."
Right he was so diplomatic and reasonable in his assessment. I don’t know who is the bigger idiot; the guy who makes a judgment call about a team’s season after two games or a guy who defends that judgment call.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
I am Cameron Wood and this is my son and business partner CW Culberson.
by camwoody on
Nov 21, 2008 2:07 PM MST
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that was a beautiful passage, i am glad you enjoyed it. I certainly enjoyed writing it.
by C.W. on
Nov 21, 2008 6:29 PM MST
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I'm still laughing
that they’re HC is our former radio guy. That is classic.
I'm undefeated in fights. Have I been in any? No. Thats because people know my f'ing status. Don't mess with the elite. - Miles
by Dirk Diggler on
Nov 21, 2008 7:26 AM MST
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*their
damnit
I'm undefeated in fights. Have I been in any? No. Thats because people know my f'ing status. Don't mess with the elite. - Miles
by Dirk Diggler on
Nov 21, 2008 7:26 AM MST
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