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Originally Posted by Buck
It gets tough when your starting PG and SG get injured and miss serious time.
Even so we'll probably make the dance, but a disappointing season for sure. Before conference play I would have guessed we were a top 10 team. I think we made it as high as 15 before the injury bug hit.
Luckily we're healthy now and I hope we make a run. A tourney win at this point would be a great accomplishment.
Also I dropped cable and nobody streams MWC games so I don't really see the games. I'll be heading to a bar for the MWC tourney so I can watch.
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I was at the game last night buck (my wife's alma matter)......
Here's my take on the Aztecs (from someone who's watched at least half their games this year:
Their offense drives me crazy. Fisher has never been a set-piece offense kind of guy - and it shows. Too many one-pass-then-shoot offensive possessions....too many one-on-one, I'll beat my man, type of possessions.
When they're patient on offense - they are a much better team.
They dont hit the boards as well as you might think they would - and they'll have big-time trouble against anyone long and athletic (like they ran into against Syracuse for example).
Air Force played zone all night against the aztecs - and they struggled finding seams - and they didnt flash to the middle to break the zone down enough at all.
Franklin is legit. Thames is a nice complementary player to Franklin. Rahon seems to have regressed a bit this year from last.
MWC is getting some pub this year, but when you look at the guts of their schedules and 'big wins'....most of the 'big wins' are coming within the conference (UNLV, New Mexico, SDSU)....rather than outside.
SDSU beat UCLA (should have beaten Arizona)
CSU beat nobody worthwhile outside of conference
UNLV's best non-conference win was probably Iowa STate at home
New Mexico won at UCONN and Cinci....but those arent looking as good now as they did earlier in the season.
I hope the aztecs can pull it together for a run in the MWC tourney....but they havent looked fluid lately.....and they really struggled last night against air force until late in the game