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February General CBB Discussion Thread

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superjohn said:
I don't even like Ollie as a head coach or person but that's ridiculous. Ollie coached them up for two seasons and did a great job of it in those two seasons. He coached them to a national championship
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So how well do you know him?
 
GlastonTim said:
Calhoun could not have won with that team. Ollie deserves the credit for that Championship.
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I cannot think of any instance where a coach was more in tune or did a better job of having his finger on the pulse of his team than Ollie in the 2014 tournament.

Yes, there is quite a bit to criticize him for, but that title was a coaching masterpiece.
 
RuffRuff said:
Great post - sometimes when I bring up prickly subjects, it’s great to see a well thought out and intelligent post that are compelling vs some call out.
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It was a long post I give you that. Ollie was going through a divorce that had a significant impact on his performance. It’s over give it a rest
 
RuffRuff said:
Great post - sometimes when I bring up prickly subjects, it’s great to see a well thought out and intelligent post that are compelling vs some call out.
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Just because his well thought out response was good doesn't make the call outs of your posts any less good.

You say some out there things and they're usually extreme. You need to be called out, and if everyone had enough time to respond to every single extreme post of yours, no one would have a job or family.
 
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FfldCntyFan said:
I cannot think of any instance where a coach was more in tune or did a better job of having his finger on the pulse of his team than Ollie in the 2014 tournament.

Yes, there is quite a bit to criticize him for, but that title was a coaching masterpiece.
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I hate how it played out, but I have to admit I saw the vision back in 2012. Excuse the typo.

 
RuffRuff said:
We add nothing to the B12, unless Yormark was that enamored with NYC. I doubt a league that spans as far west at AZ cares about NYC. It's ACC or bust.
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Agree, very hard to imagine B12 would see value added from our football team which is 95% of the value in conference realignment
 
Syracuse has had nothing to play for for weeks now, maybe they could do something useful? Yeah probably not
 
Inyatkin said:
Syracuse has had nothing to play for for weeks now, maybe they could do something useful? Yeah probably not
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Ehh screw it, Duke would maybe move down 1 spot in the polls and don't put it past the committee to put in a 17-20 win Cuse team in if they were to win a single game over Duke. Duke already running away with it.
 
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Inyatkin said:
Syracuse has had nothing to play for for weeks now, maybe they could do something useful? Yeah probably not
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First time I’ve seen them play. Whoa. That’s an undisciplined team that looks like they couldn’t give two F’s.
 
Cuse down 30, looking good!

I've been reading syracusefan.com just for funzies, I don't have AS much vitriol for Cuse as some here but I don't like them, esp Boeheim. So it's nice to see them struggling after they were stepping on our necks during the 2010s.

EDIT: Almost 40!
 
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Duke for the most part destroys the teams they should. This Cuse team is right there with Providence in KP, and ahead of Butler and G’Town. Would love a few more of these big wins
 
CTBasketball said:
I think Houston and Iowa St would both give us fits.
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Houston on a 21-6 flame throwing run. Not sure what their weakness is other than being young at the 5. Houston has a high lotto pick who is playing at another level, a first round center, a dawg at the 4 and two returning starting guards from last years NC game team. They're not deep either I suppose.

Our only advantage over these types of teams is our system. We'd have to lull these teams into a stupor and make them execute on both ends.
 
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EnochRoot said:
There's probably more than a dozen teams that will give UConn fits. The beauty is the way the tournament works is you'll only ever have to play 6 of them, tops.
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Would also prefer to play teams that haven't seen us.

This is high level basketball we're watching.
 
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CTBasketball said:
I think Houston and Iowa St would both give us fits.
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Both are high energy teams on both ends of the floor.

I hope Hurley and his staff are watching this game. Both move the ball up court quickly and look for early offense before the D is set. If nothing is there they pull it out and run their sets. I've been asking for weeks now for UConn to play like this, but instead we see a lot of slow motion sets that are too often not creating good shots. I just want more balanced attack and for them to run their multi-action sets more quickly and precisely. Just not sure they have the BBIQ to do so this year. I hope they do.

Now ISU runs some nice half court offense. Lots of hard screens and quick rolls to the basket. And a lot of quick drives to the paint. While Houston doesn't really run much of a complex offense, but tonight has been streaky hot from beyond the arc. They attack and pass and attack some more. Their aggressive offense would be problematic for UConn. They're a team I'd rather not have to face in the tournament.

Defensively Houston does a lot of quick trapping in the half court. You have to be careful to take care of the ball and space well or be decisive with your offense to avoid the hard traps. When the ball is in the paint they swarm quickly to it.

Reed would likely draw a croud and would need to be more decisive or quickly find the open man, which could generate some open in rhythm 3s. He's been glacierly slow with the ball this season. Maybe it's my misremembering but didn't he look more decisive last season? Note he did pass out of the post well a couple games ago, but that looked like an anomaly, but he seems capable. I would like to see more of that. Either a decisive attack or kick out and shot or a reset. I don't like the stand there and slow move to the basket I'm too often seeing from him.

ISU plays some tough man D staying in front of their man. Solid D but not as aggressive as Houston's.

Both are talented solid physical teams that, as some have pointed out, would be tough matchups for UConn.

These refs are allowing a lot of contact as long as the offense player maintains the ball, but are calling the contract that results in a turnover or impacts shot. I wish our BE refs called the games this way.
 
DogMania said:
Both are high energy teams on both ends of the floor.

I hope Hurley and his staff are watching this game. Both move the ball up court quickly and look for early offense before the D is set. If nothing is there they pull it out and run their sets. I've been asking for weeks now for UConn to play like this, but instead we see a lot of slow motion sets that are too often not creating good shots. I just want more balanced attack and for them to run their multi-action sets more quickly and precisely. Just not sure they have the BBIQ to do so this year. I hope they do.

Now ISU runs some nice half court offense. Lots of hard screens and quick rolls to the basket. And a lot of quick drives to the paint. While Houston doesn't really run much of a complex offense, but tonight has been streaky hot from beyond the arc. They attack and pass and attack some more. Their aggressive offense would be problematic for UConn. They're a team I'd rather not have to face in the tournament.

Defensively Houston does a lot of quick trapping in the half court. You have to be careful to take care of the ball and space well or be decisive with your offense to avoid the hard traps. When the ball is in the paint they swarm quickly to it.

Reed would likely draw a croud and would need to be more decisive or quickly find the open man, which could generate some open in rhythm 3s. He's been glacierly slow with the ball this season. Maybe it's my misremembering but didn't he look more decisive last season? Note he did pass out of the post well a couple games ago, but that looked like an anomaly, but he seems capable. I would like to see more of that. Either a decisive attack or kick out and shot or a reset. I don't like the stand there and slow move to the basket I'm too often seeing from him.

ISU plays some tough man D staying in front of their man. Solid D but not as aggressive as Houston's.

Both are talented solid physical teams that, as some have pointed out, would be tough matchups for UConn.

These refs are allowing a lot of contact as long as the offense player maintains the ball, but are calling the contract that results in a turnover or impacts shot. I wish our BE refs called the games this way.
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I agree wholehearted with your last point. It's night and day different the way this game or other Big 12 games I have watched have been called v. Big East games. The amount of contact they allow makes the game so much more watchable. No way UConn would have the fouls called on them with these refs. They are letting you be handsy, play with physicality, and not calling these cheap touch fouls. So refreshing to watch. Forget UConn watching this game, Big East refs should be.
 
Noticed that ISU does some quick hard trapping in the half court, especially moreso in the second half, but not as frequently as Houston. They were playing some match up zone for a while, but I thought they got burnt on it too much and gave up offensive rebounds due to the nature of not having solid rebounding position out of zone.

Refs seem to be calling it more closely this half. Wish they'd stick to how they were calling the game.

Both teams love to drive it into the paint as much as they can, something that gives UConn fits on the defensive end and something we're just not that good at on our offensive end of the floor.
 
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