OFFICIAL [Official] UW vs Providence GAMETHREAD {Official} 630 PST ESPN2

This was the first game ive sat down and eatched this season. Defense definitely kept them in this one, offense was sloppy as hell. Thybulle was horiffic handling the ball, nowell seemed to gain some confidence as the game went on. Season will either be interesting or it wont.. let it play out.

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

It's going to take at least a year to get Romar's rat ball ethic out of this program.

That said, there is some talent if you go by star rankings. It's not a salvage job like Bender inherited. I'm hoping they can at least win 8 or 9 Pac 12 games and start building something.

This team is not winning 8-9 Pac12 games unless people are just blown away by the zone. They have scraped by two wins against garbage at home, and have had the doors blown off them by the only marginally good team they have played. In the pac12, there are only a couple teams I could see them winning against(and only at home). It's a rebuild and we all knew it when calling for Romars job. We'll have to see what Hop can put together with the roster makeup Romar had put together.

In reality it doesn't matter. They aren't going to win this year b/c the talent and any semblance of offensive gameplan isn't there. That being said, Hop needs to get rid of half this roster if he wants to change anything in 18', 19', 20'. Crisp is a horrid PG, timmins shouldn't even play for a WCC school, and boy was I wrong on thybulle. Noah has proven to be very good, and I like the aggression/fearlessness of Nowell.

A couple of stats to keep an eye on. Our Assist/TO ratio is 45/59. Not a positive when you're +14 in turnovers in basketball. Positively the offensive rebound stats have been good, but I don't know if that's due to so missed shot opportunities or just guys being in good places and being aggressive. I'll go for the latter just for shits.