The CU game is not an indicator of future failure, just as the UT game is not an indicator of future success. But when looking at the last month, the CU game is much more of an anomaly than the UT, etc. games.
unfair to look at it in the context of the entire year? the issue(s) we saw in the cu game(s) are the same ones we saw on average once every three games this year - awful defense combined with, at times, inefficient offense. not that these two things aren't consistent themese in any team's loss, however specifically we have been terrible with on ball/dribble drive defense and when jake isn't shooting it well we struggle.
Not completely unfair, but I will say the current team really wasn't defined until late January; losing Judge/Asprilla, changing the offense, etc. But yes, some of those trends are consistent.
The most disappointing thing about the game, especially the 2nd half, wasn't just CU scoring and making shots. Higgins made a lot of hard shots and CU has shown to be capable of scoring against good defenses. Getting beat on the offensive glass, not getting to the FT line when we got them in foul trouble early, and not hitting multiple open shots was much more disappointing. Those are things we did consistently to win games the last month, and we failed to do that against CU. The game should've come down to the last possession at least, and we didn't make plays to allow that to happen. That was most disappointing to me and my concern going into next week, but I think it's more likely that we'll see play more like the we got used to in the last month, rather than what we saw against CU.
