If Bohannon makes 3 three's...

[STILLBUSTER]

He could hang on offense. He did a great job there. But it was our defense, or lack thereof, that hurt us the most.

I get your point, however, defense has hurt the Hawks in nearly every game they've played against "peer" competition for several seasons. That wasn't going to be any different this game and is already built into the "outscore-'em" strategy with the intent of compensating for the renowned poor D.

So, given the strategical premise, the real key to this loss was the lack of 21.36 points that Jo-Bo, CJ and C-Mac should be relied upon to provide. Luka performed above and beyond his responsibility in achieving the strategic goal. The other 3 shit the bed and completely failed to do their strategic responsibility.

It really is that simple, especially when you consider that every additional point they should've provided, forces Oregon to D-up a bit more and, more importantly, slightly slows down the game to allow that extra second of recovery on the defensive end.

All this considered, the final should've been somewhere around I-88, O-84.

 

[PCHawk]

I get your point, however, defense has hurt the Hawks in nearly every game they've played against "peer" competition for several seasons. That wasn't going to be any different this game and is already built into the "outscore-'em" strategy with the intent of compensating for the renowned poor D.

So, given the strategical premise, the real key to this loss was the lack of 21.36 points that Jo-Bo, CJ and C-Mac should be relied upon to provide. Luka performed above and beyond his responsibility in achieving the strategic goal. The other 3 shit the bed and completely failed to do their strategic responsibility.

It really is that simple, especially when you consider that every additional point they should've provided, forces Oregon to D-up a bit more and, more importantly, slightly slows down the game to allow that extra second of recovery on the defensive end.

All this considered, the final should've been somewhere around I-88, O-84.

They can't score from the bench and that's where they were most of the game. And rightfully so.

 

[uihawk82]

We would have been in this game. Instead he went 0-4 and zero points.

We live and die by the three. I have said this the enitire year.

Not sure how you can say we live and die by the trey when we have National Player of the Year and he is a post player who gets most of his points at the basket and the free throw line.

Yes, I said this too , the difference was 3 starters going scoreless and if they had hit 4 treys throughout the game we would have only been down by a possession in the last 5 minutes. It would have been totally different.

But part of the reason they didnt hit treys and were not wide open is the Oregon defenders were tall, long, and quick and our shooters never got comfortable. CJ missed a couple of shots and it looked like he decided to shut it down when he needed to shoot a couple of more.

I like the way perkins can slash and if he uhlis and JT can hit their jumpers along with CJ, who will, next year then I think with the murrays and PMac we can hit a bunch of treys each game

My worry about next year is a real big man presence as I was looking forward to Nunge being a very decent 14 point 8 rebound type of guy. I hope he can get healthy

 

[ddiction]

I feel like I need to come out of my message board retirement to comment on how much I enjoyed this Bohannon thread's hard detour into the field of astrophysics.

 

[CP87]

That's not even factoring in how much more time would go by on earth compared to the amount of time on the ship. They would get back 40,000 years later, but it might be a million years later on earth.

I can't wrap my head around that relativity shit no matter how many times I hear it explained.

 

[okeefe4prez]

I can't wrap my head around that relativity shit no matter how many times I hear it explained.

The reason I think my son might have a higher IQ than me is that he wants me to read excerpts of Brief History of Time to him fairly regularly. One night we had a bunch of people over and he was explaining how the sun's gravity can impact our perception of where the star is because the sun's gravity is so strong that it actually bends distant light rays. So he's out there pointing at a star and then saying "that star could be over there" and then showing people some page from the book demonstrating the sun's gravitational pull on other light sources. He also likes to discuss the movement of the Milky Way toward the Andromeda galaxy and their inevitable collision.

 

[Fryowa]

I can't wrap my head around that relativity shit no matter how many times I hear it explained.

Simon Singh has a great book called "The Big Bang" that mainly focuses on the origins of the universe, but he also gives the best explanation of relativity I've ever read. Really, really great how he breaks it down.

Time dilation is what most people struggle with when it comes to relativity. That's the part where because the speed of light is fixed, two objects moving towards or away from each other interpret time differently relative to each other.

If I'm standing on the sidewalk and you're walking away from me, since light from you doesn't arrive at me instantaneously and takes time to get to me, you will appear to age slightly (VERY slightly) slower relative to my stationary surroundings. It's almost immeasurable when you're dealing with the scales of speed and distance we have on earth, but when you amplify that by cosmic distances and how "slow" the speed of light is, it's a huge difference.

I am not a physicist.

 

[PCHawk]

I can't wrap my head around that relativity shit no matter how many times I hear it explained.

It really puts a damper on space travel. Every time you come home, everyone you know would be dead for centuries and your spaceship would look like a '78 gremlin compared to the new shit they have.

 

[ssckelley]

Now I really am enjoying this thread!

 

[Fryowa]

It really puts a damper on space travel. Every time you come home, everyone you know would be dead for centuries and your spaceship would look like a '78 gremlin compared to the new shit they have.

There are some really cool time dilation calculators out there. I threw some numbers into one of them...

If you took off on a spaceship going 99.999% the speed of light for 10 years out and 10 years back (20 total), earth would have aged 2,194 years when you came back. That's not accounting for speeding up and slowing down.

I love the Star Wars series but this is the biggest out of the 2,397 things they get totally wrong. If Han and Chewy take off in the Falcon at close to light speed and go across a galaxy, kick some ass and go back to where they came from, Leia's gonna be way older or dead by the time they get back. The movie nerds have all kinds of after-the-fact explanations and they say it's because the ships enter "hyperspace" which is an alternate dimension.

 

[ddiction]

There are some really cool time dilation calculators out there. I threw some numbers into one of them...

If you took off on a spaceship going 99.999% the speed of light for 10 years out and 10 years back (20 total), earth would have aged 2,194 years when you came back. That's not accounting for speeding up and slowing down.

I love the Star Wars series but this is the biggest out of the 2,397 things they get totally wrong. If Han and Chewy take off in the Falcon at close to light speed and go across a galaxy, kick some ass and go back to where they came from, Leia's gonna be way older or dead by the time they get back. The movie nerds have all kinds of after-the-fact explanations and they say it's because the ships enter "hyperspace" which is an alternate dimension.

Also if the events in the movies happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, just think about how long ago they really must have happened if you factor how much we would have aged while we waited for them to transport the films to us from way over there. And some of them, like the Phantom Menace, totally weren't even worth waiting for.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

The reason I think my son might have a higher IQ than me is that he wants me to read excerpts of Brief History of Time to him fairly regularly. One night we had a bunch of people over and he was explaining how the sun's gravity can impact our perception of where the star is because the sun's gravity is so strong that it actually bends distant light rays. So he's out there pointing at a star and then saying "that star could be over there" and then showing people some page from the book demonstrating the sun's gravitational pull on other light sources. He also likes to discuss the movement of the Milky Way toward the Andromeda galaxy and their inevitable collision.

He is half Asian, isn't he?

 

[MelroseHawkins]

I really need to READ MORE!

 

[PCHawk]

Also if the events in the movies happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, just think about how long ago they really must have happened if you factor how much we would have aged while we waited for them to transport the films to us from way over there. And some of them, like the Phantom Menace, totally weren't even worth waiting for.

Would have been nice if that transmission crashed into an asteroid on the way here.

 

[Casualfan]

I have my fingers crossed that Bohannon comes back next year. His ball handling and mental toughness will be missed.

 

[PCHawk]

I have my fingers crossed that Bohannon comes back next year. His ball handling and mental toughness will be missed.

Can you please stay on topic?

 

[Northside Hawk]

How did this thread evolve into a rendition of Cosmic Wheels by Donovan?

 

[ddiction]

Would have been nice if that transmission crashed into an asteroid on the way here.

The asteroid did nothing to deserve that.