Recent content by Mots010

Nuggets were never going to win this game, but Gordon has 8 points 9 rebounds on a grade 2.

Aaron Gordon's hamstring is going to be a huge question mark. Denver won because Strawther actually hit some shots in the 3rd/4th quarter, which allowed Jokic to rest for the first 4 minutes of the 4th quarter.. Daigneault leaving SGA in to get his 4th foul in the first half also helped change...

OKC gets real tight in close games. They look like a superior team for 70% of the game then just fold up in crunch time.

They're a half game away from the 8 seed, which is a very possible destination for them with Murray out.

Prior to 2023, we won all of our championships with small lead guards. Heck, el Amin was 5-10!

If Houston has guys open all over the court, your inbounds defense probably sucks. I saw a comment on a Purdue board that something similar happened to them earlier this season with smith under the basket, so Houston may have seen this in the film room. Purdues coverage got completely blown up…...

Purdue left the entire paint open on an inbounds play with 3 seconds left. Smith starting by guarding the inbounder then running off was truly bizarre.

I mean, the game was not really in doubt in the last 2 min. Robert Morris lost to bama by 9 points. I don’t think that’s indicative of the quality of team Alabama is, or the quality of the SEC. These tourney games can be toss ups.

Memphis was also missing their point guard, no? Plus another starter was nowhere near 100% with an ankle injury. Memphis was on fumes and CSU was favored in the game.

The small lineup killed them in Omaha, if I recall. We let him rest under the basket instead of forcing him to run around a bit.

Karaban had more fouls called on him in the first 3.5 min of the second half than Creighton had called on them for the entire game to the that point. Those two out of bounds calls were momentum killers. I have never in my life seen a shot blocking center have so few fouls called as Kalk. We’ve...

We were something like top 15 offense in Kenpom and damn near leading the country in assists when McNeeley sprained his ankle. Hass now looks like an old man out there and he was the engine for our team.

While I agree that team had largely proven itself in the early season, I do think the mechanism of our issues in January 2023 are similar. During that swoon, seemingly out of nowhere, we lost our ability to stop teams from getting to the rim. Our defensive rotations completely fell apart, and...

He got quick hooked in the second after missing two threes. I thought he needed more run in the second half. He calmed things down in the first half.

Mahaney ain’t it. He struggled against the cupcakes in addition to Maui. We need to run Nowell and get him up to speed. Nowell whiffed on a few threes, but otherwise the offense looked better with him in compared to Mahaney…and Nowell seemed to compete on on d. His upside is higher.