Fans need to not freak out because it will happen

We won last night despite having a poor shooting effort.
Which was possible due to our Nasty D.

 

IMO so far, this looks like the best D for UF ever. These guys are tenacious.

 

Not that you want to be comfortable accepting losses but my mind had been made up after watching the first half that a loss would not be indicative of some sort of problem with the team. Ups and downs will happen but the team has moxie that had been missing from years prior.

 

The 2001 team was pretty incredible defensively, 10 guys deep running the press. Kenyan Weeks, Brent Wright, Major Parker, Justin Hamilton, UD, Miller, Brett Nelson..etc they wore teams out and took over in the late stages of the game. The 2014 team played incredible team defense.

 

And against a quite strong team, IMO

 

Billy D used to call it "grinding." When the shots aren't falling from the field or the free throw line, find another way to impact the game. Against tOSU, the other ways were turnovers, steals, and winning the rebound battle. On the final two scoring plays, Caselton found a way to greatly impact the game yet he got zero credit on the stat sheet.

UF, barring injuries, is going to win a lot of games this season when the offense is on and when the offense is off like against tOSU. I was not expecting this team to be this good.

 

Hell, we probably would have lost that game if OSU hit that wide open 3 very late. We got another stop, and then made the big time play to win it, but OSU had a chance to just about ice the game with that 3 which would have put them up 4. Sometimes luck is a bit of factor too. Of course there is that saying that you make your own luck, there probably an underlying truth there that really good/aggressive teams get more chances at turning the outcome vs. teams that give up.

 

Mature take, my partying friend. Agree on all accounts. More importantly, what's on the whiskey menu today? I've graduated from highland scotch to a Michter's sazerac. Tempted to crack a bottle of Weller or Blanton's, but might hold out.

 

The Nasty Boyz!

 

Let's see how it plays out for OSU and FSU. At the moment, OSU is kenpom #24 and FSU #29 (Gators #14). These might end up being mildly strong wins or they might be in that quadrant one. We play five teams in the SEC currently ranked better than OSU (some of them twice). OSU ain't nothing to sneeze at, for sure. I just don't know how strong they or FSU are at this point.

 

I think both the fsu and osu wins will be quite significant come selection time.

 

I'd say OSU was getting some lucky and timely baskets that kept them ahead. Lidell's three was like come on man lucky.

 

Duke will play at Ohio State next week so that will give us a really good indication of how good OSU is. While I don’t think this FSU team is as good as the past few tournament teams, they beat Missouri in Jacksonville by 23 the other night. Have a young team and should get better as season progresses.

 

I think OSU had something to do with our outside shooting and the easy misses under the basket. If we had been making some of the shots and tips around the basket that we missed the outside shots would not have mattered much. Florida took 60 shots to their 47 and had a better 3 point percentage than OSU did. The physical game may well have had something to do with the outside shots not falling from both sides.

 

There were times that CC looked tired last night but he seemed to catch his 2nd wind later in the game. That could be a result of OSU starting to flag down the stretch.

 

Wait, are you saying we may lose a game this year? Get real.

 

Like the term you used Moxie and agree team has lots of it.

 

Both are good teams. Liddell, Young, and their other big guy are legit. OSU is a tourney team. FSU is solid also and will be a tourney team also.

 

did they get t-shirts made yet?