I think even more telling is the fact that you’ve joined us cynics. Welcome aboard. There’s trail mix in the back.

What happened to rebuilding, etc. etc.? Didn’t we know this team would be bad and then get better thorughout the year? Didnt we know that unfortunately for Sticks and Dyson, their senior year would be used to build a foundation? They’re in the thick of real competition now, with Harvard and everybody behind them. They’ll toughen up. It’s a Coach Cal team! Time.

Also, SOS for the UConn men’s college basketball team, coached by one James C. Calhoun, and consisting of several players for whom we have awesome nicknames: ONE. NUMBER 1. Have you guys heard of this thing, the Big East Conference? Where three bounces of a FT off a rim or a toss-up call by the refs is the difference between 3-0 and 0-3?

C’mon guys. College basketball doesnt work like baseball. The NCs come when the team is built. Let’s say everything broke right for UConn this year (instead of vice versa): Majok’s a monster, Kemba’s progress doesnt stall, Sticks is no longer inconsistent…they STILL wouldnt beat Kansas or Texas or an always-improving Kentucky team in March.

In summary, this pep talk has two main points: 1) The team will get better, it’s a Cal team with some veterans; 2) The team will look bad a lot, but they werent going to win it all anyway, and 2a) the BE is impossible this year, and UConn’s SOS is 1. They played ALL the teams they lost to close except Duke.

How about some less hysterical posts, Porter?

why the fuck does our dribbling/ball handling go to shit for in the last 60 seconds of games sweet fucking jesus stop turning the ball over.

I’ll take this opportunity to talk about next year’s team right quick.

So, from the looks of things we got Kemba Oriakhi Majok Roscoe and who the heck is our two guard? Are we going with Jeremy Lamb?

So we have the youngest of teams. Which is to say, this is rebuilding year one of two, and I think we’ll be better this year than next.

ON THE OTHER HAND,

Something is brewing in the point guard realm. Roscoe Smith chooses UConn, and another top pg adds uconn to his list? That’s 3: Brandon Knight, Corey Joseph, and Josh Selby. Which leads me to believe this whole having Kemba thing isn’t deterring anybody, and that coach Cal is telling all these people something that he isn’t telling us. So we get one of those three, and we have 3 top 100 players, and one of the better recruiting classes in the country.

So say Oriakhi doesn’t leave after two (NBADraft.net has him as 2011 lottery pick) and next year’s class doesn’t go either. 2011-2012 will be absurd: Oriakhi, Majok (Will he be eligible to play three years, you know, at age 25?), Roscoe, Lamb and some top-tier point guard or another. That’s a sqaudroon.

But more importantly, there’s this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36td_ejDRJ8, which, incidentally, my boy nandhish helped film.

the play that annoyed me the most was with about 5 minutes left. there was a loose ball and it seemed at one moment that uconn might actually catch a break by picking up one. with kemba and gavin both the closest to the ball, a pitt player dives for the ball to beat them both out (neither of them dove for the ball). it’s hustle plays like that that just kill me. if i were calhoun i would show this one play over and over and over again then turn to the team and say “guys, how in the f*** did he beat you?”