RE: FW: Huggins thinks UC can make Sweet 16

[Darryl Gilliam]

They have tried to adjust but they have yet to acknowledge the need for a more uptempo flow to the game.  The slowed down pace benefitted us in the past because of our previous front line's.  Now our front line is the weakest link.  Our strength is our perimeter players.  If we look at the games that we won we pushed the ball up the court because our opponents pushed the ball up the court. 
As strong as Barker is I think that it is time for Moore to get playing time.  We have some terrific perimeter players who are limited because of our willingness to walk the ball up the court.  Stokes is a fabulous player when he has the lanes to penetrate.  They will not be there with a non-existent post player or a penetrating guard.  We need one or the other. 
 Keith Wedinger <address@hidden> wrote: Actually, I think the team has tried to adjust. But, when UC's outside
shooting is a inconsistent as it has been this season and CBC is not
scoring, there isn't much else to try. You simply cannot shoot under 35%
and expect to win.

J. Keith Wedinger 
Senior Software Developer 
Sterling Commerce 



-----Original Message-----
From: Darryl Gilliam [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:41 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: FW: [UC Basketball] Huggins thinks UC can make Sweet 16


He is not crazy at all. The bottom line is that we are not playing to our
strengths right now. We are still playing offense and defense as if Danny
Fortson or Kenyon Martin is still wearing the red and black. 
The more I watch this team play the more I realize that our lack of sucess
has less to do with effort and more to do with the fact that we have not
acknowledged are weaknesses and made adjustments accordingly. 
Rob Anderson wrote:Given this teams' ability
to play in big games against highly ranked teams, maybe Huggins isn't that
crazy. IF we happen to make the tourney, and get an 8-10 seed, we could fair
pretty well against a 1 or 2 seed. However, if they play like they played
Saturday, they could lose the 8/9 game.

Rob

> > > address@hidden 03/03/03 02:09PM >>>
Theoretically, our best shot at a Sweet 16 perch would be to enter the
tournament as an 11, 12, or 13 seed. But since at-large bubble teams rarely
get a seed lower than an 11, I will follow this line of thinking. We would
then play a number #6 seed in the first round. This gets us to the #3 seed
in the second round. A victory would give us the right of playing either #2
or an upset winner. A 10 -8 seed, would match us against a #2 or #1 in the
second round and I couldn't see us getting anything lower than an 8 seed. An
8 or 9 gives us a match with a #1 in the second round.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richmond, Dean [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 1:08 PM
To: address@hidden 
Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] Huggins thinks UC can make Sweet 16


I will stick with the prediction that 18 wins will get us in. Either win the
last two regular season games (highly unlikely) or split the last two and
win one in the tourney. 17 wins would put us (IMHO) squarely on the bottom
of the bubble. Our fate is still in our hands.

Dean Richmond



-----Original Message-----
From: Wedinger, Keith [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 8:26 AM
To: address@hidden 
Subject: [UC Basketball] Huggins thinks UC can make Sweet 16


There is an article in today's Cincy Enquirer where Huggins states that this
team can make the Sweet 16. He concedes that UC still needs to win a couple
more games to secure the NCAA tourney bid (I agree) and that if the
match-ups are favorable AND if UC makes shots (that's a HUGE if), UC can
advance.



Personally, I think the UAB game is absolutely critical because I don't
think UC is going to beat Marquette on Saturday. I loss to UAB would put a
dagger into UC's NCAA tourney hopes.

J. Keith Wedinger 
Senior Software Developer 
Sterling Commerce 








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