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After Two More Embarrassing Loses, Beavers Travel to #8 WSU Today

1-17-2008 - The Beavers once again looked good at times but when all was said and done they once again failed to shoot well and played with a lack of overall effort in losing 2 more PAC-10 games at home vs Stanford and Cal. I had the misfortune of being able to use my season tickets for the Saturday game vs Cal. For most of the game it was a boring affair. The beavers did make a couple good runs but in the long run they just did not do enough to beat Cal and lost 59-69. Thursdays game vs Stanford was a route with the Beavers losing by 20, 46-66.

This week the Beavers travel to #8 WSU and then to Washington. Washington my be the only team they can beat in the PAC-10 this season as they actually have similar stats to the Huskies. At WSU on Thursday they will probably lose to WSU by 40 points as the Cougars are coming off their first loss of the season to UCLA.

We can only hope that the players have not given up and that an end to this will come sooner then later.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Same comment for the third week in a row and I will most likely keep using it until the team and coaches can show me something different. The way they are playing it is a wonder they can win any statistical category let alone the 3 or 4 they do happen to come out ahead on each week. But when you cannot shoot you have a tendency to get a lot of offensive rebounds. I hold no ill will toward Jay John. I coach as well and I know how it feels when a season does not go as planned and all the fans turn against you. But that is a single season, coach John has had 6 years to make something happen and he has not.

My prediction for this weekend is the Beavers go 0-2 and lose by at least 10 in both games. But I will be cheering my team on every game and hopefully something will change soon to bring back the glory days of Beaver Basketball.

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Previous 2 Weeks Comment

The Beavers need a new coach. Jay John has had 5 years and has not gotten the job done. He has a solid group of players who just will not play in a manner that will win games and that is the coaches fault. This is not youth summer ball. We are not playing over our heads. We are a PAC-10 conference team with talented young men on the roster who are not getting the job done.

It will be a miracle if the Beavers win a game this weekend. But I will watch just the same and probably turn the game off sometime in the second half when they are shooting 50% from the line 35% from the field and have just gone 7 minutes without scoring.

Good Luck Beavs, you'll need it.

GO BEAVERS!

Key	STATISTIC	OSU	WSU	UW
L	Scoring Offense	60.7(10th)	69.2	73.6
.	Scoring Defense	63.1	52.1 (1st)	68.8
L	Scoring Margin	-2.4(10th)	+17.1	+4.8
.	Free Throw %	.638	.763(1st)	.590(10th)
L	Field Goal %	.388(10th)	.501	.463
.	Field Goal % Defense	.436	.395	.462(10th)
L	3-Point Field Goal %	.288	.385(1st)	.384(2nd)
.	3-Point Field Goal % Defense	.336	.336	.375
.	Rebounding Offense - RPG	36.8	30.6(10th)	38.0
.	Rebounding Defense	34.8	27.1	29.8
.	Rebounding Margin	+1.9	+3.6	+8.2
.	Blocked Shots	3.12	3.44	2.06
L	Assists	11.47	14.38	15.00
.	Steals	5.53	6.44	6.71
.	Turnover Margin	+.53	+3.0	+.82
.	Assist/Turnover Ratio	.85	1.31(1st)	.99
.	Offensive Rebounds	14.24(2nd)	7.69(10th)	15.35(1st)
.	Defensive Rebounds	22.53(10th)	22.94	22.65
.	3-Point Field Goals Made	5.29	6.31	6.24

 

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