Arizona Vs Asu 🏀 Game Preview/Discussion Thread 2/1/25 11am CBS

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McKale North

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[KansasCityCats]

With 6 of the top 16 BPI rankings, I'm not worried about the level of competition within the conference. Arizona just reverted back to their winning ways, after a 9-game struggle.

Great game. assu played tough and was efficient from the floor but our defense caused a lot of careless turnovers.

Also a bonus when we hit all of our FT's!

[KansasCityCats]

Also, Bobby Hurley is a bitch. Sending his entire bench to the locker room and not shaking hands while on his own home court?

The game had intensity but circumstances weren't nasty enough that the teams required separation. He's scare and I love it.

What would he do if Adam Miller earned his 5th foul with 28 seconds left?  Go find a scrub from the locker room?  That program is a joke. Good luck to them in the NIT (or CBI).

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Also, Bobby Hurley is a bitch. Sending his entire bench to the locker room and not shaking hands while on his own home court?

The game had intensity but circumstances weren't nasty enough that the teams required separation. He's scare and I love it.

What would he do if Adam Miller earned his 5th foul with 28 seconds left?  Go find a scrub from the locker room?  That program is a joke. Good luck to them in the NIT (or CBI).

And he had the gall to say we had 'no class'. 

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Also, Bobby Hurley is a bitch. Sending his entire bench to the locker room and not shaking hands while on his own home court?

The game had intensity but circumstances weren't nasty enough that the teams required separation. He's scare and I love it.

What would he do if Adam Miller earned his 5th foul with 28 seconds left?  Go find a scrub from the locker room?  That program is a joke. Good luck to them in the NIT (or CBI).

I honestly think he didn't trust his own team to refrain from doing something stupid. He prevented that by removing them from the equation altogether. I have no problem with it.

As far as not shaking hands with Tom, it's open to interpretation, but I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt that he just had to handle his own situation. He could have done both, but I don't think Tom is reading far enough into it to hold a grudge against Bob. They're cool with each other. I doubt we'll see a throwback to the Sean Miller "Poise" timeout vs Alford if the opportunity presents itself in the rematch.

If Adam Miller got a 5th foul, Bob would just tell the refs to finish out the clock with four players. Apart from being legal, nobody would care anyway.

[KansasCityCats]

http://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/43657987

I call BS. Not only is "jawing" commonplace in college basketball, I've seen Hurley personally do it to arizona.

"No class is defined by throwing your tie early in the game because your player received a ticky tack reach-in foul.

He could have absolutely shook Lloyd's hand but Hurley made a weak excuse that HE had to escort his players to the locker room.

I'd love to see another reenactment of the Miller "late substitution" at home, just to agitate him further in Tucson.

F*** assu.

[arxpert]

Hurley may suffer a cardiac event on the court one day. I have no idea why he tried to spin it. If ASU blew us out by 20 he would be coming out of the "curtain of distraction" which is already literally illegal and should be banned as it is unsportsmanlike. The university actually funds it which is crazy.

I don't care what our players said to those kids with all the goofy haircuts. You don't Headbutt someone. You don't get physical. Caleb Love was well within his rights to press charges if he wanted to. You can say just about anything you want to anyone and if they attack you they are going down for it. I think the BIG12 should suspend Hurley and the kid who performed the headbutt personally.

We nearly lost the game playing poorly on the road which is par for the course for Tommy Lloyd and this season, but we managed to stick to it enough and push through. ASU missed enough shots and we actually hit our FTs for a change. That was really the tale of the tape.

Tommy made 1 great move toward the middle of the game by putting in Conrad just to make a statement. Conrad made the most of his opportunity. ASU got all the calls in the first half. We got reffed out of the game big time but still managed to hang around. Then the refs turned on ASU in the 2nd half and we got all the calls. We capitalized intelligently early by getting those cheapies in shooting motions which racked up some extra FT attempts and then it was just a marching parade to the Charity Stripe for farting incorrectly in our favor.

We are lucky that the refs called it evenly and didn't just continue to call us with the cheapies all game. Well balanced poor reffing, and well played from a Coaching perspective by Tommy. Good work there, credit and praise when due.

I'm not overly invested in it, but this is my 1 comment.

[arxpert]

http://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/43657987

I call BS. Not only is "jawing" commonplace in college basketball, I've seen Hurley personally do it to arizona.

"No class is defined by throwing your tie early in the game because your player received a ticky tack reach-in foul.

He could have absolutely shook Lloyd's hand but Hurley made a weak excuse that HE had to escort his players to the locker room.

I'd love to see another reenactment of the Miller "late substitution" at home, just to agitate him further in Tucson.

F*** assu.

Only other comment really is I don't see a point in shaking hands. These are paid professional athletes. They shouldn't be forced to fake sportsmanship. There definitely would have been a punch thrown in that "hand shake line" and we would have been without some players. Hurley actually did the best thing for our team overall. Tommy didn't recognize what was going on at all. Poor awareness from a young Head Coach.

I wish they would do away with the handshake line and make it similar to the NFL where the Head Coaches can shake hands or Nod if they want to and leave the overly paid children out of it.

[KansasCityCats]

It's more of "forced sportsmanship", as opposed to "fake". I believe the handshake line truly teaches players that this is just a game. 40 minutes of aggression can be erased with a brief, cordial goodbye.

If NHL playoff teams can donut with class, college basketball players have no excuse.

Lloyd was aware of the situation because he was joking with Love on the sidelines during the review process. He just didn't overreact and cry about it, despite the fact that his player was unnecessarily tossed.