UUs on Saturday

[oldrunner]

The Utes have played one game, San Jose St, at home and won by 9 points. On paper, they are not any taller than us, but they do look a little beefier. They have a fair number of new players and a new coach, Alex Jensen. Alex will have them playing an 'in your face' type of defense. The Utes will be heavily favored, but you never really know what might happen in this sort of game. This game will be a good test to see where we are at in the rebuilding process.

 

[BigWaldO]

The Utes have played one game, San Jose St, at home and won by 9 points. On paper, they are not any taller than us, but they do look a little beefier. They have a fair number of new players and a new coach, Alex Jensen. Alex will have them playing an 'in your face' type of defense. The Utes will be heavily favored, but you never really know what might happen in this sort of game. This game will be a good test to see where we are at in the rebuilding process.

I’ve seen both teams play and practice. Utah has no consistent outside shooting threats but skill, IQ and athleticism are far and above better than us. They lost their best big man for the season but are still bigger than us but their three shortest guys are around 6’3” while ours are 6’0” on a good day. The team from a couple years ago with Dillon Jones would beat this Utah team but this year’s team no way. It would need to be a great shooting night for us to win this game. Our schemes haven’t been the same since Eric Daniels left and he’s on the other side too