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Watching Duke Clemson. We hold the advantage at every position except Boozer, which will be a big mismatch. Pat is in the Silas camp of overfouling and their guards and wings do nothing for me. Give Kimani a week to prepare a Edey like game plan against Boozer and I’m not worried at all if we run into them in the east
 
RuffRuff said:
Looks like we have a challenge:

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Really going out on a limb picking the top two teams in Feb. He also perennially picks every #1 seed to make the Final Four. The bloom has been off his rose for quite some time now.

But not a shock you would latch on to him promoting your two favorite teams.
 
MJKI said:
Watching Duke Clemson. We hold the advantage at every position except Boozer, which will be a big mismatch. Pat is in the Silas camp of overfouling and their guards and wings do nothing for me. Give Kimani a week to prepare a Edey like game plan against Boozer and I’m not worried at all if we run into them in the east
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they're exceptionally inconsistent...it really rises and falls on whether the rest of the team is being effective. if they are hitting, it looks like good team ball driven by having to over-focus on boozer. If they aren't, it looks like boozer not being aggressive enough and a 1-dimensional team.

Duke's team rebounding is much better than uconn's. uconn's coaching is much better than duke's.

I honestly think the game plan is to let boozer get his and run sarr/evans/foster off the line. Very much like we did with edey.
 
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Cam Boozer shuffles his pivot foot and charges so often
 
This ISU & KU game is a defensive battle. Trying to determine if either of these teams are a contender.

This Toure kid on KSU can defend. He's in DP's jersey.
 
Checking in from the Dean Dome. First time here. Nice stadium.
 

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Iowa St smacking Kansas, their resume was becoming a bit too good so I'm cool with it
 
aceboon said:
Iowa St smacking Kansas, their resume was becoming a bit too good so I'm cool with it
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So, this is the game Peterson was waiting for, eh?

10 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast, 3 TO in 23 mins.
 
storrsroars said:
So, this is the game Peterson was waiting for, eh?

10 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast, 3 TO in 23 mins.
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aceboon said:
Iowa St smacking Kansas, their resume was becoming a bit too good so I'm cool with it
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Yeah, drab performance. I have this feeling all these games of top teams in the B12 will simply go to the home team.

UM runs over UCLA and makes it look easy. It feels like if all teams playing A game, Michigan is the team that has the highest ceiling.
 
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Ripper32 said:
Florida is on a dominant roll because of that frontcourt.
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They are rising up the food chain fast. All they needed was that back court to play well and they were going to flip back into a contender given a championship front court.

They’d be an interesting matchup with UM. Yaxel vs Haugh would be awesome.
 
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storrsroars said:
So, this is the game Peterson was waiting for, eh?

10 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast, 3 TO in 23 mins.
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Outside of the first half of the BYU game his play has been pretty mid as of late

 
aceboon said:
Outside of the first half of the BYU game his play has been pretty mid as of late

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The close of the Texas Tech game was special.

They need him out there more because they need to figure out how to work around him. When he's out there now it doesn't feel like a 5 man team, it feels like DP and 4 guys.

I didn't watch that game and see two teams that could win a title. ISU plays some very good defense, but they generally don't have a lot of horsepower on offense.

Up until KU figures out how to consisently play with DP, they are limited. ISU feels like an Elite 8 ceiling to me.
 
RuffRuff said:
The close of the Texas Tech game was special.

They need him out there more because they need to figure out how to work around him. When he's out there now it doesn't feel like a 5 man team, it feels like DP and 4 guys.

I didn't watch that game and see two teams that could win a title. ISU plays some very good defense, but they generally don't have a lot of horsepower on offense.

Up until KU figures out how to consisently play with DP, they are limited. ISU feels like an Elite 8 ceiling to me.
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I don't agree - I think ISU can win it all - they have a great PG and have a few snipers with good rebounding too.

I don't think they will, but they can.
 
Mr. French said:
That Florida win is aging beautifully.
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Rather than our wins aging beautiful, we as a team need to age beautifully at this point. We control our destiny, we don't need wins to age well at this point.
blkknight1 said:
Think Petersen suffers from what most of the guys on that 06 UConn Team suffered from, he just looking to the NBA college ball is just something to keep him occupied until June.
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Even the way he walks through the handshake line at the end of game is a little unusual. He feels a little different. It may be why he looks different, not sure how that blends in with the team.
 
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RuffRuff said:
Rather than our wins aging beautiful, we as a team need to age beautifully at this point. We control our destiny, we don't need wins to age well at this point.

Even the way he walks through the handshake line at the end of game is a little unusual. He feels a little different. It may be why he looks different, not sure how that blends in with the team.
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I guess...I think most teams need both. If KU and FL and Illinois suddenly were unranked, that wouldn't help us. They're all playing like title contenders (KU not today) and that helps our resume.
 
Mr. French said:
I don't agree - I think ISU can win it all - they have a great PG and have a few snipers with good rebounding too.

I don't think they will, but they can.
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Mr. French said:
I guess...I think most teams need both. If KU and FL and Illinois suddenly were unranked, that wouldn't help us. They're all playing like title contenders (KU not today) and that helps our resume.
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I think our OOC resume value isn't going to appreciate at such a level that it really swings how it mpacts our seeding. We have a path, as does Houston. It's 1a and 1b for the 1 seed. We should handle all games other than @Nova and StJ, as they should other than the 3 against ISU, Kansas & AZ. How each team does there will determine who gets that 1.

We go 0-2 and they go 1-2, they probably get it. We go 1-1, they go 2-1, they probably get it. We own it right now, but by the slimmest of margins is how I see it. We go 2-0, as we should, we control destiny. Let's win out.

As for ISU, they feel like they are one ingredient away from being a champion. Something about their system seems to break down in spots, ala losing at a bad Cinci, along with track record in the tourney. Their big 3 issolid, but nothing that jumps out at me.
 
blkknight1 said:
Think Petersen suffers from what most of the guys on that 06 UConn Team suffered from, he just looking to the NBA college ball is just something to keep him occupied until June.
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Bill Self has played it all wrong with him. The best thing he could've done is tell Peterson and his people to take a hike.
 
superjohn said:
Bill Self has played it all wrong with him. The best thing he could've done is tell Peterson and his people to take a hike.
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It's a real tough call - you don't want to be that coach that loses out on future recruits because you told a top kid to take a hike. Their hypothetical ceiling with him out there is much higher. That said, their chemistry with him definitely seems off.
 
RuffRuff said:
I think our OOC resume value isn't going to appreciate at such a level that it really swings how it mpacts our seeding. We have a path, as does Houston. It's 1a and 1b for the 1 seed. We should handle all games other than @Nova and StJ, as they should other than the 3 against ISU, Kansas & AZ. How each team does there will determine who gets that 1.

We go 0-2 and they go 1-2, they probably get it. We go 1-1, they go 2-1, they probably get it. We own it right now, but by the slimmest of margins is how I see it. We go 2-0, as we should, we control destiny. Let's win out.

As for ISU, they feel like they are one ingredient away from being a champion. Something about their system seems to break down in spots, ala losing at a bad Cinci, along with track record in the tourney. Their big 3 issolid, but nothing that jumps out at me.
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Yeah going forward I agree. I don't know what it is about my statement that you're arguing with. The W against FL is aging beautifully, if they were playing bad and out of the top 25 with 10 losses or something, it wouldn't.
 
Mr. French said:
Yeah going forward I agree. I don't know what it is about my statement that you're arguing with. The W against FL is aging beautifully, if they were playing bad and out of the top 25 with 10 losses or something, it wouldn't.
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Not arguing it isn’t aging well, it is, simply stating how it ages at this point doesn’t have impact on our seeding.
 
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