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Pitt vs UF thread

Turned this on at halftime and haven't read the comments yet, but...

My God, is the difference is conditioning between these two teams absolutely drastic.
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Who said Hinson lost weight? Looks like he's since found it. He continues to giveth and taketh like no one else.
This is exactly what I thought ... maybe he looks svelte but there seems to be some conditioning issues this game.

We are getting dominated in the paint at both ends. Burton was a presence in the paint as a guard. Our guards this year aren't that type of player.
 
Florida has only missed 16 2 point shots. Their 2 freshmen twin white bigs are good. This is an excellent team.
 
I’m not sure this game is much of an indictment against Pitt to be honest. Yeah they aren’t really playing well and Bub and Hinson can’t really get any rhythm but Florida looks pretty darn good to me.
There is very little structure to what we do at either end of the floor. They don’t do anything to try to work the ball for an layup or high percentage shot. Seems that every player has the permanent green light to shoot or go one on one offensively, and defensively guys are getting drawn to the ball and away from their spot or man constantly.

Is anyone seeing something different than this?
 
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Will be intersting to see if Florida gets the same calls against Baylor. Theyve gotten away with playing football
 
Pitt wasn't gonna win 40 straight. My hope was they would be a competitive, likeable group who'd compete for a bid. This game doesn't change that hope.

It's a bummer after the hot start. But Bub was cold and made a lot of freshman decisions. Hinson was ice cold. We're gonna lose on those nights.
There's a difference between "cold" and well defended by the other team. It's been much more of the latter.
 
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Pitt wasn't gonna win 40 straight. My hope was they would be a competitive, likeable group who'd compete for a bid. This game doesn't change that hope.

It's a bummer after the hot start. But Bub was cold and made a lot of freshman decisions. Hinson was ice cold. We're gonna lose on those nights.
Bub can get a pass. Lowe should have played more. No excuse for senior Hinson making so many bad decisions.
 
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There is very little structure to what we do at either end of the floor. They don’t do anything to try to work the ball for an layup or high percentage shot. Seems that every player has the permanent green light to shoot or go one on one offensively, and defensively guys are getting drawn to the ball and away from their spot or man constantly.

Is anyone seeing something different than this?

Certainly appears that most of our possessions come down to a guy either winning or losing a one-on-one matchup with a defender.

I said this a lot last year against a lot of the better teams on our schedule (in spite of us overcoming it multiples times), but the degree of difficulty on our shots seems to be a lot higher than the degree of difficulty on theirs. But part of that is the Hinson Effect.
 
There's a difference between "cold" and well defended by the other team. It's been much more of the latter.
Glad someone else said it. He has been forced to his weak left and physically bodied up and kept away from the rim. This ain’t Binghamton we’re playing. And it’s not 1990 UNLV like some of these hyperbole-prone posters want to believe.

As I said before, let’s see where we’re at 2-3 weeks into conference play.
 
There's a difference between "cold" and well defended by the other team. It's been much more of the latter.
Florida has been good I won't take anything away from them. But they weren't defending Blake when he was at the free throw line.
 
They are very good. Will they make the Elite 8? Probably not. But this is a 3-4 seed type of team.
Disagree. One guy got hot because we let him open. Their inside game is nice,but, they looked good because we are woefully weak inside. We made Tyrese Samuel look like Joel Embiid. Games like this take the wind out of the fans sails, at least mine. Seeing how we faired against a real team with real men, is sobering. We can get better, but, if we don't shoot lights out in these types of games we just can't win because we just have no inside game.
 
Ish has been a bit out of control today too

No one really played all that well. Hopefully this is a game they learn from
 
Need more out of Zack Austin. If he can get his three point shot going that will make a huge difference
WTH you fouling and ruining our net by two more points Hinson…also left so many at the line. It is a wake up call. Beat OSU and hope UF beats Baylor.
 
WTH you fouling and ruining our net by two more points Hinson…also left so many at the line. It is a wake up call. Beat OSU and hope UF beats Baylor.
If the refs allow UF to play as physical as they did today they have a chance. If not they’ll get blown out
 
This is still preferable to some of the early season results last season. But we also won some games last year where it felt like we hit a law of averages-defying amount of improbable shots more than we asserted ourself as the better team, so I guess we'll see how it plays out.
 
Disagree. One guy got hot because we let him open. Their inside game is nice,but, they looked good because we are woefully weak inside. We made Tyrese Samuel look like Joel Embiid. Games like this take the wind out of the fans sails, at least mine. Seeing how we faired against a real team with real men, is sobering. We can get better, but, if we don't shoot lights out in these types of games we just can't win because we just have no inside game.

I mean this just proves to me that we arent Sweet 16 caliber. This is an NCAAT team and that's all we can ask for.
 
Need more out of Zack Austin. If he can get his three point shot going that will make a huge difference


He was at least a decent three point shooter at High Point, but he's only 2-16 so far this year. Hopefully he at least gets back to his career average. Soon.
 
This is still preferable to some of the early season results last season. But we also won some games last year where it felt like we hit some improbable shots more than we asserted ourself as the better team, so I guess we'll see how it plays out.

Unfortunately, the 15 point loss doesn't look a ton better to NET than our 31 point loss to Michigan. Really disappointed we couldn't lose by less than 10. Florida isnt 15 points better.
 
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Unfortunately, the 15 point loss doesn't look a ton better to NET than our 31 point loss to Michigan. Really disappointed we couldn't lose by less than 10. Florida isnt 15 points better.
They were tonight though. Bad combo of Hinson missing a lot of FT, and UF having minimal turnovers (8). They had 20 against FSU and 16 against UVA. Their earlier competitive games likely helped. Pitt should rebound Friday.

The positive was rebounding. As I posted, it is a known law of basketball when Pitt is outshot by 3, they most likely lose. It happened again tonight (33 to 29). Outshoot by 3 and out rebound, you will win most games.

I also want to know if Hinson bet the over on that foul he committed to hit the over of 156.5.
 
Unfortunately, the 15 point loss doesn't look a ton better to NET than our 31 point loss to Michigan. Really disappointed we couldn't lose by less than 10. Florida isnt 15 points better.

Yeah, but this one felt like we could have only lost by 8. Can't say the same for WVU and Michigan last season.
 
WTH you fouling and ruining our net by two more points Hinson…also left so many at the line. It is a wake up call. Beat OSU and hope UF beats Baylor.
I didn't watch Baylor, but, if they have a few inside players that are quicker and stronger than what we have, they will beat Florida. I was not impressed by Florida, except for their defense. I don't think they will have Baylor taking a bunch of bad shots like we did. Plus the refs will likely call the championship game a bit tighter, which won't help Florida.
 
Joe needs a lady time out, he sees red.
Their is always one that has to say hey , he can't have that much fun.
My life is terrible, i have to make his the same.
 
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