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Final BE OOC thread 25/26

I think Nova's going to blow this game.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I think Nova's going to blow this game.
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Looking that way, but it is amazing what a modestly competent coach can do with a good program like Villanova. How did Neptune get as much time as he got?
 
I have a very hard time watching how this game is called. They call fouls on Wisconsin, the ticky tack stuff on the perimeter that hardly even matters. Nova's guards are blowing by and aren't impeded by the very small contact at all. But down low, Wisconsin is hammering Nova hard, with no calls.

It is just crazy to me that hard hits don't get called while touch fouls 25 feet away are called.
 
Lewis may be my least favorite Big East player. He is so phenomenally selfish that I don't know how anyone plays with him without losing it. In the second half alone, there have been half a dozen times where Brennan screened for Lewis, then slipped to the hoop uncovered and Lewis didn't pass it. That drove me crazy as a player and when I was coaching.
 
Nova has the ball with under a minute left up 3, Lewis misses the front end of one and one. Nova up 2 doesn't squeeze the defensive rebound on the ft miss and then Matt Hodge throws it right to the Badgers player for the layup
 
Hodge committed the cardinal sin of saving it under his own basket right to the Wisconsin player. And before that Acaden blows the front end of the 1n1.

Come on Nova, don't blow this.
 
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What just happened in the last minute? Lewis should a 1-and-1 with no offensive rebounders, conceding the rebound to Wisconsin. Then Villanova just save the ball under their own net right to Wisconsin. You never save the ball blind back under your own net. either make sure you are passing to a teammate, or you throw it way up court.
 
This feels like so many Big East games this out of conference season, the Big East team loses in heartbreaking fashion at the end of the game.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Lewis may be my least favorite Big East player. He is so phenomenally selfish that I don't know how anyone plays with him without losing it. In the second half alone, there have been half a dozen times where Brennan screened for Lewis, then slipped to the hoop uncovered and Lewis didn't pass it. That drove me crazy as a player and when I was coaching.
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He was grossly selfish. Just hogged the ball the entire shot clock for the last shot. He also heaved two 3 pointers down the stretch, when he shoots a poor %, that were really uncalled for. Then he made a nice steal, misses the front end, then hacks his man on the other end as he's driving into a big. Not a great stretch run for him. Doesn't have what I would call PG first instincts.
 
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Disappointed Let Down GIF by Grind
Overtime
 
RuffRuff said:
He was grossly selfish. Just hogged the ball the entire shot clock for the last shot. He also heaved two 3 pointers down the stretch, when he shoots a poor %, that were really uncalled for. Then he made a nice steal, misses the front end, then hacks his man on the other end as he's driving into a big. Not a great stretch run for him. Doesn't have what I would call PG first instincts.
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I had a pickup rule that I would set 2 screens and slips, and if the guard didn't pass to me on the first two, he didn't get another screen, the rest of the day.
 
This Bryce Lindsay is a dead eye shooter. He is the player that kept Nova in the game against BYU.

Hopefully, Nova doesn't get called for flagrant.
 
The flopping by Wisconsin is out of control. There should have been multiple technicals. Flops are dangerous.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
I had a pickup rule that I would set 2 screens and slips, and if the guard didn't pass to me on the first two, he didn't get another screen, the rest of the day.
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Good to see they took him off the floor for OT.
 
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I like Wisconsin fouling early. More coaches should do that.
 
Respect to Willard for burying Lewis on the bench after his selfish play at the end of regulation. 80% of college coaches would have left their freshman star on the court to start OT in that situation.
 
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HooperScooper said:
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Is your mind blown that the Big East team didn't lose by 50 points? I checked, and it turns out the Big East teams have won some other non-conference games. How is that possible?
 
superjohn said:
Impressive response from Nova on the road after they blew it in regulation. They gathered themselves and dominated overtime. Nice hearing the Nova chants.

Duke Brennan is a nice big.
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He is, Linsey can stroke it. 3 players shooting over 40% from three is impressive. Not a bad team, better with Lewis off the floor, for now at least.
 
HooperScooper said:
I wonder if he would have been better at UConn if he had stayed. He probably wouldn't have played much his first 2 years but at least he would have been on 2 national championship teams rather than mired in mediocrity at PC.
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He doesn’t really do anything really well. A combo guard without any real outside shot or passing feel.
 
As of right now, it looks like the league has four tournament teams.
 
auror said:
The problem is that other conference bubble teams have way more opportunities to build a resume in-conference. Non con was more important for the big east teams. It's not a lost cause for the Villanova's of the world if they lose tonight, but their margin for error is a lot smaller.
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The Quad wins are tiebreakers at best. The overall NET/KenPom is decisive, and the Big East will be fine. The biggest risk for the league is a team that faceplanted in the non-conference playing well in conference play. This is also known as "Pulling a Rutgers", as the Big 10 has learned over the last 10 years. Providence and Creighton are both risks for winning 12 or 13 league games despite being repugnant in the non-conference.

Another weird thing to watch is that I think the ACC is about to go on a tear in Major vs. Major OOC games. It has about 32 OOC games left, with 8 against major conference opponents. I think the ACC is going to win 29 and 6 of those games.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Is your mind blown that the Big East team didn't lose by 50 points? I checked, and it turns out the Big East teams have won some other non-conference games. How is that possible?
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That's a weird take.

Yes, it was a very good win for Nova. Nice to see. How good is Wisconsin?
 
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