Davies doesn't matter as much as you think

[Viking]

Hartsock is indistinguishable from Davies, by the numbers. Except: he shoots 85% from the line.

We can run more with Abuou in the PF position, to boot. Remember in the SDSU game, we made a huge run after Davies had to sit with 4 fouls

[LiveCoug]

I'd agree if Chris Collinsworth weren't injured. Man we could use him.

[Maximus]

Something the numbers cant represent: How much better Davies is at low post scoring than hartsock. Hartsock is more of a jump shooter. Not nearly as athletic either.

[San Juan Sun]

Hartsock is indistinguishable from Davies, by the numbers. Except: he shoots 85% from the line.

We can run more with Abuou in the PF position, to boot. Remember in the SDSU game, we made a huge run after Davies had to sit with 4 fouls

I disagree. At the beginning of the season, Davies was struggling and was a non-factor. When he started to get it together, Jimmer started to really get going. I think Davies post presence really helped Jimmer, and Davies will be missed.

What really sucks is that when we eventually lose, instead of enjyoing a great ride, we'll wonder "what might have been with Davies".

In the words of Jake Taylor: "There's only one thing to do then... win the whole damn thing."

[smokymountainrain]

I don't think tonight's game proves Viking wrong, per se, but it certainly doesn't help his case.

[Donuthole]

We miss Davies' screens at the top of the key as much as anything.

[Viking]

I don't think tonight's game proves Viking wrong, per se, but it certainly doesn't help his case.

Ha!

I do think this might be more of a psych-out showing than anything else

[SeattleUte]

Tonight the problem isn't so much Davies gone as the chemistry is gone. This play shows you what the players think of the HC, how Davies was treated. They don't look inspired.

The problem with basketball chemistry is it's kind of mysterious how it comes and goes. When it goes, you can't always just summon it back. BYU has to get it back fast.

[Viking]

Tonight the problem isn't so much Davies gone as the chemistry is gone. This play shows you what the players think of the HC, how Davies was treated. They don't look inspired.

The problem with basketball chemistry is it's kind of mysterious how it comes and goes. When it goes, you can't always just summon it back. BYU has to get it back fast.

This is a team that looks like they've read their season is over and has started to believe it.

[KillerDog]

Tonight the problem isn't so much Davies gone as the chemistry is gone. This play shows you what the players think of the HC, how Davies was treated. They don't look inspired.

The problem with basketball chemistry is it's kind of mysterious how it comes and goes. When it goes, you can't always just summon it back. BYU has to get it back fast.

100% correct.

[SeattleUte]

100% correct.

I remember when Mourning and Matumbo were on the front line with a dynamite guardline at Georgetown one year they won the Big East regular season and tournament titles, winning big. They went into the tournament like a freight train, looking unstoppable, top seed overall, etc. They played Princeton, one of Pete Carrill's teams, in the first round, and won by one point, Princeton nearly beating them on last second shot. Georgetown looked terrible the rest of the tournament, struggling every game, and lost in the Elite 8 to Duke, which was I think a 3 seed (before Duke won any title). Basketball chemistry is like the force.

[Jacob]

Hartsock is indistinguishable from Davies, by the numbers. Except: he shoots 85% from the line.

We can run more with Abuou in the PF position, to boot. Remember in the SDSU game, we made a huge run after Davies had to sit with 4 fouls

RedSox can rest easy. We have a new standard for terrible BYU basketball analysis.

100% correct.

You didn't actually believe that SU watched the game, did you?

[SeattleUte]

You didn't actually believe that SU watched the game, did you?

I've seen so many basketball games it doesn't matter. It's like that old saying about there being only so many stories.

[Viking]

I think youbwill be proven wrong, in the end

[jay santos]

I think it's hard to overestimate Davies effect on this team. With him, we're #6-10 in the nation. Without him, we're #30.