What's going on?
You know you've got to find a way to bring some understanding, yeah, ... - Marvin Gaye.
The Utes lost to the lowly CSU Rams, 69-61 in overtime on Wednesday, and I'm channeling Mr. Gaye, who asked the relevant question many years ago: What's going on?
A political song for a different time, Gaye probably doesn't have an answer to the Utes' effort issues.
Nobody, not even Utes coach Ray Giacoletti, seems to know how to prepare these young Utes so they're ready to play every time they step out on the court. And this much has become clear: It really is about whether or not the Utes want it.
When they play hard - when they rebound, hustle, box out, dive for the loose balls - good things happen (see: Utah 67, SDSU 65). And when they don't? Look no further than a pair of losses to CSU.
Ev'ry body thinks we're wrong. Baby who are they to judge us?
This week Giacoletti said you're never as good as people say you are and you're never as bad as people say you are.
Okay, fine. But these Utes still haven't shown us what kind of team they'd like to be when the Mountain West Conference tournament begins less than a month from today.
Would the real slim shady, er Utah, please stand up?
The Utes lost to the lowly CSU Rams, 69-61 in overtime on Wednesday, and I'm channeling Mr. Gaye, who asked the relevant question many years ago: What's going on?
A political song for a different time, Gaye probably doesn't have an answer to the Utes' effort issues.
Nobody, not even Utes coach Ray Giacoletti, seems to know how to prepare these young Utes so they're ready to play every time they step out on the court. And this much has become clear: It really is about whether or not the Utes want it.
When they play hard - when they rebound, hustle, box out, dive for the loose balls - good things happen (see: Utah 67, SDSU 65). And when they don't? Look no further than a pair of losses to CSU.
Ev'ry body thinks we're wrong. Baby who are they to judge us?
This week Giacoletti said you're never as good as people say you are and you're never as bad as people say you are.
Okay, fine. But these Utes still haven't shown us what kind of team they'd like to be when the Mountain West Conference tournament begins less than a month from today.
Would the real slim shady, er Utah, please stand up?
posted by www.sltrib.com @ 5:27 PM |
3 Comments:
Wow. An Eminem and Marvin Gaye reference in the same posting. How cultured you are, Ms. Gustus!
Marvin Gaye? Your father doesn't even quote Marvin Gaye. Glad to see I had some kind of influence on you..
The easy answer is; rats leave a sinking ship, some how they know early on that it will happen.. a whole bunch of rats (players) bailed out of the Ute gym following last season. Perhaps no one on the hill knows the real Giac ..... where's Majerus when the ship is sinking or is it stinking!
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