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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #25 on: August 24, 2016, 11:42:27 PM »
Nobody's gonna remember in February that the earthquake in Italy happened after the 'cats left, right?  Because you can't fault anyone for a last place conference finish after going through something like that.

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #26 on: August 25, 2016, 07:48:26 AM »


Nobody's gonna remember in February that the earthquake in Italy happened after the 'cats left, right?  Because you can't fault anyone for a last place conference finish after going through something like that.

Well played

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #27 on: August 25, 2016, 08:46:21 AM »
residue of adversity

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #28 on: August 25, 2016, 11:15:00 AM »
Well, I was in Montreal when his '07-'08 team took McGill to overtime.

Also, can someone fact-check this?

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"I’ve been very fortunate to make 10, 11, 12 trips in my long journey through coaching, and I would bet in 75 percent or more we maybe won the league or definitely had a successful season,” Weber said.

And I was at Conseco Fieldhouse a few months later, when they lost their 19th game, still the record in Illini history.

I didn't go to Italy in the summer of 2011, but I was back in Indy for his one-and-done at the big 10 Tourney, the final game of his Illinois tenure, and he knew it. I remember asking Myron Medcalf after the final locker room availability "was he crying?"

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #29 on: August 25, 2016, 11:17:27 AM »
Bruscuses are getting way too predictable.  It's boring now.

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #30 on: August 25, 2016, 07:34:58 PM »


Nobody's gonna remember in February that the earthquake in Italy happened after the 'cats left, right?  Because you can't fault anyone for a last place conference finish after going through something like that.

Well played


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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #31 on: August 30, 2016, 08:27:27 AM »
He will definitely use the Delta outage as an excuse.  I'd say the odds are 10/1 that he will use the earthquake

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #32 on: August 30, 2016, 09:42:49 AM »
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TODAY'S SPORTS EXTRA
Wildcats Reflect on Benefits from International Tour

August 30, 2016
By Corbin McGuire


K-State men’s head basketball coach oscar Weber expected his team to face adversity during its trip to Italy and Switzerland earlier this month. Little did he know that it would hit before the team even left the United States.


When Delta’s worldwide computer network crashed Monday, August 8, K-State’s flight was among the hundreds cancelled. After scrambling to stay the night in Atlanta, K-State was able to get on a plane the next day and resume its trip, albeit 24 hours behind the initial plan.


“You want to deal with problems and situations,” Weber said last week in the Ice Family Basketball Facility while recapping the team’s five-game journey that ended with a 3-2 record.


With a day’s less rest than planned and not long after touring the Colosseum in Rome, K-State opened with an 82-75 loss to LCC University, a product of the circumstances more so than the Wildcats’ play, Weber said.


“Their bodies wanted to do it and they had some energy early, but it faded quickly. You could see on the video, they hit a wall,” said Weber, whose team went on to beat BC Silute (97-80), the Italian Select (90-55) and BBC Lausanne (68-47).


The adversity Weber was looking for took place throughout the program’s second international trip in the last five years — the most allowed by the NCAA in that span, reinforcing K-State Athletics’ first goal, to provide a World-Class Student-Athlete Experience.


Players had to adjust to FIBA rules and regulations, namely a shorter shot clock and a deeper 3-point line. The style of basketball was different than the Wildcats were accustomed to, as was the way referees called the game.


The atmospheres were nowhere near what K-State normally encounters in the Big 12; some gymnasiums didn’t even have air conditioning.


“It’s not always the easiest circumstances to deal with, which is good,” Weber said. “It’s all part of it.”


K-State also faced professional teams without any semblance of a scouting report, forcing players to adjust quickly and overcome an automatic disadvantage to win. Weber brought up K-State’s 11-point loss to the Kosovo National Team, which was prepping to qualify for the European Championships, as a game that would be a teaching point going forward.


“They had a really good system in and moved the basketball. I hope our guys learned from it,” said Weber, who commended the overall competition his team faced. “I’ve been on trips where we have three or four bad opponents and it doesn’t do you any good. It’s much better to play against teams that are organized, are trying to win and that know what’s going on. It’s going to help you come back more realistic of where you’re at.”

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #33 on: August 30, 2016, 11:22:57 AM »

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #34 on: August 30, 2016, 11:25:19 AM »
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K-State also faced professional teams without any semblance of a scouting report, forcing players to adjust quickly and overcome an automatic disadvantage to win.

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #35 on: August 30, 2016, 04:36:22 PM »
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K-State also faced professional teams without any semblance of a scouting report, forcing players to adjust quickly and overcome an automatic disadvantage to win. Weber brought up K-State’s 11-point loss to the Kosovo National Team, which was prepping to qualify for the European Championships, as a game that would be a teaching point going forward.



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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #36 on: August 30, 2016, 04:38:27 PM »
Seems like they'd have a scouting report if the coaches weren't so lazy.

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #37 on: August 30, 2016, 04:59:05 PM »
What sort of semblance of a scouting report did the euros have on KSU?

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #38 on: August 30, 2016, 06:58:03 PM »
Seems like they'd have a scouting report if the coaches weren't so lazy.

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #39 on: August 31, 2016, 12:59:09 AM »
oscar is setting up the adversity excuse perfectly. Probably has already sold it to ADJC. Extension being drafted.

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #40 on: August 31, 2016, 11:46:58 AM »
He is an excuse artist.  He paints in them the way Davinci did in oil

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #41 on: September 01, 2016, 02:59:02 PM »
Westicles canceled out the big 12 schedulemakers as an excuse/adversity option, indicating upon seeing the schedule that he was ready to EAT.



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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #42 on: September 01, 2016, 06:31:28 PM »
He forgot we play everyone twice and thought we had a bunch of great home games.
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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #44 on: November 01, 2016, 11:11:08 PM »
https://twitter.com/KenCorbitt/status/793533301143244800
Trim how many players have sidelined for a long period with a foot injury during the Oscar Odessy?  Does the list include JackCrap?  Any speculation about why this adversity is happening.

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #45 on: November 02, 2016, 04:27:36 AM »
That's four by my count; Love, DJamer, Bolden, and Karapetyan although I'm not sure he should count because I think he had foot issues in high school. Feet issues in basketball players are so tough you recover from, it really makes what DJamer did amazing.

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #46 on: November 02, 2016, 09:15:42 AM »
Trim how many players have sidelined for a long period with a foot injury during the Oscar Odessy?  Does the list include JackCrap?  Any speculation about why this adversity is happening.

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #47 on: March 27, 2017, 08:19:27 PM »
Mumps.

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #48 on: March 27, 2017, 08:31:09 PM »
Mods, please update title to 2017-18.

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Re: 2016-17 Adversity thread
« Reply #49 on: March 27, 2017, 08:45:16 PM »
"if not for mumps, we'd still be playing."