Arizona Vs Southern Utah 🏀 Game Preview/Discussion Thread 12/6/24 12pm CBSSN

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Arizona Vs Southern Utah 🏀 Game Preview/Discussion Thread 12/6/24 12pm CBSSN

The Arizona Wildcats will face off against the Southern Utah Thunderbirds at Mckale Center on Saturday afternoon.

The Southern Utah Thunderbirds took the court against Park and notched a win by a score of 90-55 in their last game. Southern Utah ended the game with a 44.3% field goal percentage (35 of 79) and made 7 of their 20 shots from beyond the perimeter. From the free throw line, the Thunderbirds converted 13 of their 20 shots for a rate of 65.0%. With respect to grabbing boards, they collected a total of 53 with 19 of them being on the offensive end. They also doled out 15 assists for the matchup as well as forcing the other team into 13 turnovers and having 9 steals. In the matter of defense, Southern Utah allowed 29.9% from the field on 23 out of 77 shooting. Park earned 12 assists and had 6 steals for this game. In addition, Park pulled down 39 rebounds (14 offensive, 25 defensive), but wasn't able to record a rejection. Park finished the game at 20.0% from the charity stripe by knocking down 1 of their 5 attempts. They converted 8 of 28 shots from 3-point range. With respect to fouls, the Thunderbirds ended up with 6 and Park accounted for 19 fouls.

JT Langston Jr. is a player who was a major contributor in the matchup. He finished the game shooting 50.0% from the floor but didn't record an assist. He was on the hardwood for 17 minutes played and snagged 7 rebounds. He finished with 14 points on 5 out of 10 shooting.

On defense, the Thunderbirds are forcing their opponents into 11.2 turnovers per contest while drawing 20.5 personal fouls. They are currently ranked 294th in D-1 in giving up assists to their opponents with 129 surrendered on the campaign. The Thunderbirds are giving up a field goal percentage of 39.8% (265 of 666) and they relinquish 35.8 rebounds per contest as a unit. They are giving up 30.3% on shots from downtown and they rank 128th in D-1 in opponents PPG (68.7).

The last time they took the court, the Arizona Wildcats took a loss by a final score of 83-76 when they played West Virginia. The Wildcats pulled down 27 defensive rebounds and 9 offensive rebounds for a total of 36 in the game. They gave up possession 14 times, while getting 4 steals in the game. West Virginia committed 10 fouls in this contest which took the Wildcats to the free throw line for 13 tries. They were able to knock down 11 of the free throws for a rate of 84.6%. In terms of three-point shots, Arizona made 7 of their 21 attempts (33.3%). Overall, the Wildcats finished shooting 29 for 64 from the field which gave them a percentage of 45.3%. The Wildcats allowed West Virginia to convert 27 out of their 68 attempts from the floor which left them shooting 39.7% in this game. They shot 35.3% from distance by going 12 of 34 and ended up going 17 of 22 at the charity stripe (77.3%). When discussing team rebounding, Arizona permitted West Virginia to collect 31 in total (11 on the offensive glass).

Caleb Love ended up being a factor for the Wildcats for this contest. He earned 24 points in his 40 mins of playing time and had 2 dimes in this matchup. He converted 9 of 20 in the matchup for a field goal rate of 45.0%, and had 6 rebounds.

Arizona has a win-loss record of 3-4 for the season. The Wildcats are responsible for committing 17.4 fouls per game and they go 71.7% from the charity stripe. Their rate of assisting teammates is at 15.0 times per game (131st in the country) and they are losing possession via turnover 12.0 times per contest. Arizona has 595 points this season (85.0 per game) and they grab 43.4 boards per game. As an offense, the Wildcats are connecting on 46.2% from the field, which ranks 137th in the country.

The Wildcats are ranked 247th in college basketball in points allowed per contest with 73.7. They are forcing their opponents into 14.3 TO's per game and allow teams to shoot 40.7% from the floor (96th in the country). The Arizona defense gives up 35.6% on shots from 3-point land (68 of 191) and opponents are knocking down 76.6% of their foul shots. They have relinquished 14.3 assists and 33.3 total rebounds per game, which has them ranked 270th and 124th in Division 1.

ARIZONA is favored at 23.5 points and the Over/Under is 156.5 points

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[WILD]

https://x.com/ArizonaMBB/status/1865108646826578306?t=w-d2XOjX_v671_qtXsUqgQ&s=19

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https://x.com/ArizonaMBB/status/1865443150799720599?t=GazCQNVw7QUlvjoSfIBtCg&s=19

[arxpert]

I learned zero about this team today that I didn't already know. However, if Tommy will allow Townsend and Carter to play together more, then we may have a chance to win a few more games this year than expected AND I believe Conrad should play PG for this team at least in the 20 minute range. It is a much different level offense with his ability to work the ball to anywhere he wants on the court.

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Zzzzz wake me up when Tom
loses the locker room again

[arxpert]

Zzzzz wake me up when Tom
loses the locker room again

If Tommy could get the locker room back, then manage to lose it again, that would be a special sort of failure

[KansasCityCats]

Giving a significant amount of Krivas' minutes to Veesaar was huge, in addition to benching Love when he struggled (again) from the field.

Our staff mixed up the lineup and were finally getting consistency from our upperclassmen.

Although SUU played horribly against ucla, they were 8-2 and we handled them. Good game.

[WILD]

Box score

[arxpert]

Box score

The interesting takeaway from the Box is Carter's 5-9 Free Throws. When he gets that spotlight at the stripe and you can see his actual athletic build, you can literally see how he is a beast. His FT shot needs some work. It isn't broken, it is just too strong. The glaring problem is only 2 shots from the Field. For a player who gets 9 FT attempts, you would think he was an active player in the game... which he was. He merits his minutes. Even if it is getting to the line from over the back fouls or taking the ball up court and getting fouled. I think we will see some games come up where we really need him to work his way to the rim, get some And-1's, maybe some Alley Oops if anyone is capable of an accurate pass. He is almost redundant to KJ Lewis, but he is much bigger.

I think ultimately our best roster is with Townsend and Carter out there together. Townsend is smaller, but he has pretty long arms. Long enough to close out. His primary job shouldn't be guarding the perimeter though.

Key takeaway there is just because you are a "3" on Offense, doesn't mean you need to be a "3" on defense. Tommy really should just challenge this team to be Deep and play a lot of press defenses. Mixing it up early and often. Not just when we get down by 10 points. This team we played today was finished as soon as Tommy activated the presses.

If Tommy wants to deploy 10 players he can. We don't need 7 guys scoring 10ppg+, but we need to choose a path either way. It would be a smart way to coach this roster if he wants to play Run and Gun because if he can force turnovers and extra possessions via the press featuring Carter, Caleb, KJ, and Bradley at times, then inevitably we will be able to cut off a good part of the "Run" portion and be able to land somewhere in the "Gun" portion. That is an outside the box way to get around our lack of athleticism with Bigs.

Getting creative is important now. These next few games are how we figure out our identity for at least the first 3 weeks of Big 12 play. 5 to 7 games worth. If it is working, then we just continue to build on it, polish it up. If it works vs the jobbers or slow UCLA, but not in Conference, then we have to adjust.

This is the time to really buckle down.

Onward and Up

Beardown.

[CatInFL]

I learned zero about this team today that I didn't already know. However, if Tommy will allow Townsend and Carter to play together more, then we may have a chance to win a few more games this year than expected AND I believe Conrad should play PG for this team at least in the 20 minute range. It is a much different level offense with his ability to work the ball to anywhere he wants on the court.

Unfortunately, I didn't get to see much of the game.  There was no way to learn much positive from this one, and fortunately we didn't learn more negative.  Thirty-six FTs and sixteen 3s. Sounds like we were moving inside, I like this. Forty-seven rebounds.  These are all good hustle numbers. Let's hope for more against UCLA.  What's up with this one game a week scheduling?