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Kepnang is making Altman look foolish for not playing him earlier...A Rare Flub from Dana.

What also sucks is that I feel that we could win this game at minimum 5/10 times. Another cold spell in the first half doomed us.

bigsugarduck wrote:Kepnang is making Altman look foolish for not playing him earlier...A Rare Flub from Dana.

Lawson never passed the eye test. Sure hope his brother is much better or this will be awkward

ducks5ever wrote:

bigsugarduck wrote:Kepnang is making Altman look foolish for not playing him earlier...A Rare Flub from Dana.

Lawson never passed the eye test. Sure hope his brother is much better or this will be awkward

I really liked what Lawson did as a Frosh, but this year has been puzzling...

ducks5ever wrote:What also sucks is that I feel that we could win this game at minimum 5/10 times. Another cold spell in the first half doomed us.

Not when all but three guys no show.

OregonFan4Life wrote:

bigsugarduck wrote:USC cannot miss from 3....ugh. They just got the sauce against Oregon this year. I'll root for them, but I will be so indignant if they cool off against Gonzaga.

That’s an easy excuse for Oregon. Many teams have made a lot of 3’s against Oregon this season, that’s not by coincidence, the perimeter defense has been really bad. Good college players should be able to make wide open 3’s.

Might feel that way, but not really true. Opponents shot under 33% from 3 against them. They were nearly in top 20% in the nation in 3 pt. % against. Not elite, but solid. The plan was to make SC shoot from outside, because of the size disparity down low. Wilson getting hot was unexpected, and that’s what wins games. SC’s role guys just outplayed Oregon’s. Just a bad matchup for the Ducks.

droop10 wrote:

OregonFan4Life wrote:

bigsugarduck wrote:USC cannot miss from 3....ugh. They just got the sauce against Oregon this year. I'll root for them, but I will be so indignant if they cool off against Gonzaga.

That’s an easy excuse for Oregon. Many teams have made a lot of 3’s against Oregon this season, that’s not by coincidence, the perimeter defense has been really bad. Good college players should be able to make wide open 3’s.

Might feel that way, but not really true. Opponents shot under 33% from 3 against them. They were nearly in top 20% in the nation in 3 pt. % against. Not elite, but solid. The plan was to make SC shoot from outside, because of the size disparity down low. Wilson getting hot was unexpected, and that’s what wins games. SC’s role guys just outplayed Oregon’s. Just a bad matchup for the Ducks.

That’s a surprising stat, and to be honest I haven’t been able to watch Oregon as much this season (hard to get into college basketball as a CPA), but the PAC-12 tourney against OSU and tonight against USC, the perimeter defense was bad.

Guys, that sucked. But KEPNANG!
-100/100 effort
-100/100 attitude
-great footwork
-good touch close to the rim
-size (praise the lord)
-potential to be a great rebounder and shot blocker
-and again... that energy

Next year is going to be fun. I don’t think Altman has had a player quite like this in Eugene. Pair him with a stretch 4 (Bittle), and let’s go!


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bigsugarduck wrote:Kepnang is making Altman look foolish for not playing him earlier...A Rare Flub from Dana.

Eh. He did just as much bad as good. He brings energy and I’m excited about him going forward, but a lot of his work was in garbage time when SC had let up. Don’t think playing him earlier would have made much difference.

Bigwaved wrote:

ducks5ever wrote:What also sucks is that I feel that we could win this game at minimum 5/10 times. Another cold spell in the first half doomed us.

Not when all but three guys no show.

When a starters matches the amount of points he has with turnovers then you know it’s going to be hard for the team to win the game. Figueroa may have played his worst game as a duck tonight, and Richardson wasn’t much better.

Outside of Eugene and Duarte (And Kepnang late despite getting the facial) we didn't play very well.

USC again had their non shooters(#5 in particular) hit freaking everything, but they also did a nice job on us in that zone.

Richardson was probably the most disappointing, but it's just 1 game, it happens. Williams Jr. is going to have to get better finishing inside next season.

A shame we didn't get more than 1 year watching Eugene. What a great freakin' kid.

Bottom line with this team though, is once Dante went out, we had a ceiling talent wise, because we were so undersized. Still a really fun year.

Go Ducks!

GrantDuck wrote:Outside of Eugene and Duarte (And Kepnang late despite getting the facial) we didn't play very well.

USC again had their non shooters(#5 in particular) hit freaking everything, but they also did a nice job on us in that zone.

Richardson was probably the most disappointing, but it's just 1 game, it happens. Williams Jr. is going to have to get better finishing inside next season.

A shame we didn't get more than 1 year watching Eugene. What a great freakin' kid.

Bottom line with this team though, is once Dante went out, we had a ceiling talent wise, because we were so undersized. Still a really fun year.

Go Ducks!

Good take

USC had a lot to do with Oregon not playing well. Guarding 2 talented 7 footers with small forwards opens up the outside and USC took advantage and hit their shots. USC won’t be able to get away with that against Gonzaga.

I would add that Duarte is a special player that should make an NBA squad. Maybe one of the better all around guards to play here.

Good season and more size coming next year.

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Bummer performance. I thought this team was a Final 4 caliber team. It wasn't as good as 2017, but arguably a Top 3 team over the past 20 years. It was a nice second-half adjustment by Altman to put Duarte in the middle of the floor to pick apart that SC zone, but you have to wonder why it wasn't made earlier? The team also came out pretty tentative and passed up so many open shots. It's frustrating, because we played SC even in the second-half. It was a 5-7 minute stretch in the first-half that determined the game. Both teams are much better than their seeds but hopefully the PAC's performance this year earns the conference more respect moving forward. It would have been fun to finally get a chance at playing Gonzaga!

I was watching an interview with Coach Altman a few days ago and they asked him to compare this team with other great teams in the past, and his immediate response was that this team had no rim protection like a Jordan Bell or Chris Boucher. I thought that was pretty telling in terms of his expectations for this game. Next year looks to be better in that department, but then there will be veteran leadership and probably scoring missing. Oregon never gets everything at once, unfortunately.