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Title: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: renocat on November 19, 2017, 05:44:36 PM
Should be good preparation.  From Topeka Journal:
"“Our four guys have been through all our drills and understand our system,” Weber said. “Now, for the rest of them, how do they continue to improve? Habits, technique, desire, understanding, being in the right place. If they can continue to improve and see it, that’s going to help us as we move forward.”

Northern Arizona is 0-3, coming off a 97-62 loss Friday to Arizona State, which is the Wildcats’ opponent Thursday in Las Vegas. The Lumberjacks also have losses to Arizona (101-67) and Embry-Riddle (82-70).

The Wildcats’ strong start has been fueled by defense, which produced 21 points off 17 UC Irvine turnovers in the 71-49 victory. Northern Arizona had 24 turnovers against Arizona State, leading to 24 points for the Sun Devils.

“Their scores have been a little lop-sided,” Weber said of the Lumberjacks, “but as I said, this is about us getting ready, executing and doing the things we need to do.?
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: kso_FAN on November 19, 2017, 06:03:27 PM
This is the worst team we will play this year. They lost to a team called Embry Riddle last week by 12. Seriously.

But still, this one still has some importance to me as revenge for taking Adam Lopez from us.
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: That_Guy on November 19, 2017, 07:02:53 PM
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Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: GregKSU1027 on November 19, 2017, 09:22:03 PM
Lets whoop up on Northern AZ, we don't suck they do!
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: pvegs on November 20, 2017, 01:53:26 AM
This is the worst team we will play this year. They lost to a team called Embry Riddle last week by 12. Seriously.

But still, this one still has some importance to me as revenge for taking Adam Lopez from us.

of note: nau lost to ASU 97-62. ASU also beat UC Irvine 99-78. So, weirdly, by the time we play ASU this week, we will already have played two common opponents. i know transitive property doesn't apply and all, but at least that gives us some sense of where we stand before we play the odious sun devils (my undergrad is ua, so i'm allowed to hate them, ha). best guess for 11/23 is a dog fight and a lot of points.
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: renocat on November 20, 2017, 07:40:19 AM
This is the worst team we will play this year. They lost to a team called Embry Riddle last week by 12. Seriously.

But still, this one still has some importance to me as revenge for taking Adam Lopez from us.

of note: nau lost to ASU 97-62. ASU also beat UC Irvine 99-78. So, weirdly, by the time we play ASU this week, we will already have played two common opponents. i know transitive property doesn't apply and all, but at least that gives us some sense of where we stand before we play the odious sun devils (my undergrad is ua, so i'm allowed to hate them, ha). best guess for 11/23 is a dog fight and a lot of points.
I saw this too.  Irvine has been on the road a lot.  I hope the means AAU doesn’t play good defense. I am not sure how we can keep up with a high flying offense.  I think it would be good to let our guys play faster this game.
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: cat97 on November 20, 2017, 08:04:26 AM
You can't tell much by comparing scores but I don't know how UCIrvine scored 78 points against anybody. 
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: kso_FAN on November 20, 2017, 08:12:18 AM
FYI, Irvine and Northern Arizona are part of the same Vegas tournament that we are in with Arizona State. Xavier and George Washington are the other side along with Rider and Hampton. The bigger schools play the smaller schools on their home court. Then in Vegas us, Arizona State, Xavier, and George Washington play in one bracket and the small schools play in another bracket.

Currently teams are allowed to schedule 27 games (OOC + conference schedule) and then can choose to play in one "exempt" tournament (like this one), which will add up to 4 games. Or you can decline to play an exempt tournament and schedule 29 games.
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: kso_FAN on November 20, 2017, 08:14:18 AM
You can't tell much by comparing scores but I don't know how UCIrvine scored 78 points against anybody. 

Arizona State plays at a much higher pace than we do and they don't play nearly as well on defense.

kenpom says we should win by 7 and gives us a 72% chance currently to win the game.
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: dal9 on November 20, 2017, 07:16:53 PM
possible reason for NAU suckage this year
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/11/20/die-at-your-next-fire-ariz-professor-accused-of-stalking-firefighters-and-student/
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: pvegs on November 20, 2017, 08:16:10 PM
FYI, Irvine and Northern Arizona are part of the same Vegas tournament that we are in with Arizona State. Xavier and George Washington are the other side along with Rider and Hampton. The bigger schools play the smaller schools on their home court. Then in Vegas us, Arizona State, Xavier, and George Washington play in one bracket and the small schools play in another bracket.

Currently teams are allowed to schedule 27 games (OOC + conference schedule) and then can choose to play in one "exempt" tournament (like this one), which will add up to 4 games. Or you can decline to play an exempt tournament and schedule 29 games.

roger that. i had no idea.
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: kso_FAN on November 20, 2017, 09:18:00 PM
Northern Arizona was so bad its hard to take much away from this. Cats forced turnovers on over 40% of NAU possessions and played just hard enough to win by 20.
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: renocat on November 20, 2017, 09:38:51 PM
Northern Arizona was so bad its hard to take much away from this. Cats forced turnovers on over 40% of NAU possessions and played just hard enough to win by 20.
Fan your last sentence concerns me.  I was expecting better.  I guess Lumberjacks ineptness affected the flow of the game.  Sounded like a good crowd listening on the radio.  Romello White for ASU may eat Wade's turnips.
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: Lucas Scoopsalot on November 20, 2017, 09:59:35 PM
Northern Arizona was so bad its hard to take much away from this. Cats forced turnovers on over 40% of NAU possessions and played just hard enough to win by 20.
Fan your last sentence concerns me.  I was expecting better.  I guess Lumberjacks ineptness affected the flow of the game.  Sounded like a good crowd listening on the radio.  Romello White for ASU may eat Wade's turnips.
I can tell you it wasn't a good crowd. Barely any students.
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: pissclams on November 20, 2017, 10:51:55 PM
ya looked on tv like there was about 3 people there tonight

playing shitty teams in the non con, like we have all season, isn’t fun or entertaining and does very little for our team other that to help prop up a bullshit facade that the team belongs in an end of season tournament which they have zero chance of competing in
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Post by: michigancat on November 20, 2017, 11:19:20 PM
did this game happen?
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: bones129 on November 20, 2017, 11:22:57 PM
did this game happen?

More or less.
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: cfbandyman on November 21, 2017, 10:57:11 AM
We look sloppy on offense but it honestly looked like we were too jacked up from getting NAU to practically turn the ball over at will.

NAU is yes, easily the worst team we'll play, it's shocking they could hold onto the ball as much as they did, we had several chances for other steals that we tipped out of bounds/couldn't fully keep a handle on.

We just seemed to keep pressing the issue too much on offense, my  :th_twocents:
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on November 21, 2017, 11:35:14 AM
19 steals  :sdeek:
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: pissclams on November 21, 2017, 12:44:15 PM
19 steals  :sdeek:

actually it was more like 4 steals and 15 “hey guy do you want this ball?”s
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: cfbandyman on November 21, 2017, 12:58:59 PM
19 steals  :sdeek:

actually it was more like 4 steals and 15 “hey guy do you want this ball?”s

That's not an inaccurate statement
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: EMAWzifried on November 21, 2017, 07:23:14 PM
Bringing that sad sack team to Manhattan should be enough in itself to get Oscar fired.
Title: Re: Lumber Jackers of North AZ. Cats should beat em raw.
Post by: GregKSU1027 on November 21, 2017, 08:38:34 PM
Northern Arizona was so bad its hard to take much away from this. Cats forced turnovers on over 40% of NAU possessions and played just hard enough to win by 20.
Fan your last sentence concerns me.  I was expecting better.  I guess Lumberjacks ineptness affected the flow of the game.  Sounded like a good crowd listening on the radio.  Romello White for ASU may eat Wade's turnips.
I can tell you it wasn't a good crowd. Barely any students.
We are on Thanksgiving break guys sheesh

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