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Jay Bilas thinks Maryland is tougher than us (LOL)

SubbaBub said:
Sanogo is stealing some of Martin's stats. When Polley was starting at the 3, Martin was playing inside and outside. Now he's not seeing the ball as much, nor should he with the emergence of Cole and Sanogo.

Hurley should run some of Polleys looks for Martin who can also hit open 3's.
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Dear lord no. Martin can see some 3’s in game flow, fine. But running plays to free him for threes with our lineup would be coaching malpractice.
 
bendm said:
i certainly do! two 12 v 5 upsets are you kidding! just because creighton lost to a hotter than the sun gtown team doesnt mean theyre shaky. ive got them in the sweet 16.
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there is basically a 12 v 5 upset every year, so i wouldn't be surprised if it is just laziness on the part of bilas picking both big east teams to go down. lots of people will be making those picks.
 
SlicinNDyson11 said:
Considering we gave up 17 offensive rebounds (which is the main reason we lost on Friday) and were outrebounded by 17 against Creighton, I wouldn't say that's an unreasonable take by Bilas. Maryland is going to be a tough game that will force us to execute in the half court, they won't be afraid to put defenders in driving lanes daring us to shoot from 3.. wouldn't be surprised to see them double Sanogo on post touches either they communicate extremely well defensively.
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Not an unreasonable take at all, but if our toughness quotient is based simply off the Creighton game...yeah it's pretty low. If you base it off the 2 Gtown games and the SH game it looks pretty good. Creighton out toughed us but then got out toughed by GTown who we out toughed twice. Let's not base too much off the small sample size of one most recent game. If people want to say we haven't consistently shown the mental toughness over the whole season to win and close out tight games, that might be more fair. Getting outrebounded once doesn't prove much. The shoe has been on the other foot plenty of times this year.
 
WestCoastHusky said:
Don't have a problem that he picked against us. For us, it will be depending on which team that will show up. If we play tough D and hit some 3s, we can beat anyone. We can also lose to anyone if we can't make 3s.
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The also missed open non-3's. The reason for the rebound differential was directly related to Sanogo's inability to stay on the court due to foul trouble. Creighton had no answer for him.
 
tzznandrew said:
But even if you trust them more than I do, Santa Barbara is a good team that can compete with—and beat—Creighton at a neutral site.
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even without gillespie you see nova losing to winthrop? theyre like #100 in kenpom
 
tzznandrew said:
But even if you trust them more than I do, Santa Barbara is a good team that can compete with—and beat—Creighton at a neutral site.
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They've got a guard named Jaquori McLaughlin who's definitely got a shot at an NBA career. The kid is fun to watch.
 
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UCfor3 said:
Not an unreasonable take at all, but if our toughness quotient is based simply off the Creighton game...yeah it's pretty low. If you base it off the 2 Gtown games and the SH game it looks pretty good. Creighton out toughed us but then got out toughed by GTown who we out toughed twice. Let's not base too much off the small sample size of one most recent game. If people want to say we haven't consistently shown the mental toughness over the whole season to win and close out tight games, that might be more fair. Getting outrebounded once doesn't prove much. The shoe has been on the other foot plenty of times this year.
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Did you watch the nova game? They won that game simply because they were tougher. That wasn’t a classic nova win, they didn’t shoot well tgat game, what they did do was push us around in isolations and win every 50 50 ball. And were mentally tough enough to stay disciplined in winning time.

St. John’s was tougher than us too. It ain’t just 1 bad rebounding game against creighton.
 
elmcityboy said:
there is basically a 12 v 5 upset every year, so i wouldn't be surprised if it is just laziness on the part of bilas picking both big east teams to go down. lots of people will be making those picks.
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agreed but it's not a coincidence he didn't pick gtown and oregon state as the upsets when they both just won their conference tourneys. instead he picked against both higher seeded BE teams...
 
bendm said:
even without gillespie you see nova losing to winthrop? theyre like #100 in kenpom
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I mean, every year you see multiple teams lose more inexplicable games than this would be. On the eve of their match, Virginia was KenPom 1 and UMBC was KenPom 189.

Providence just beat Villanova and is only 15 spots ahead of Winthrop.

I'm not saying it will happen, but both this and the Creighton pick are perfectly reasonable.
 
bendm said:
agreed but it's not a coincidence he didn't pick gtown and oregon state as the upsets when they both just won their conference tourneys. instead he picked against both higher seeded BE teams...
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Why does there have to be an agenda? Why the need for conspiracy thinking here?

Isn't it more likely that he just thinks a team that got smacked by a 12 seed on Saturday might lose to a 12 seed this week, and that Winthrop might be able to take out a rattled Villanova team? They really haven't had time to fully adjust and have lost the only two full games they've played since the injury.
 
tzznandrew said:
Why does there have to be an agenda? Why the need for conspiracy thinking here?

Isn't it more likely that he just thinks a team that got smacked by a 12 seed on Saturday might lose to a 12 seed this week, and that Winthrop might be able to take out a rattled Villanova team? They really haven't had time to fully adjust and have lost the only two full games they've played since the injury.
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I mean it’s just a bracket pick. Why do we care? He’ll either look like a genius or an idiot. Just like everyone else throwing darts at the bracket board.
 
tzznandrew said:
Why does there have to be an agenda? Why the need for conspiracy thinking here?

Isn't it more likely that he just thinks a team that got smacked by a 12 seed on Saturday might lose to a 12 seed this week, and that Winthrop might be able to take out a rattled Villanova team? They really haven't had time to fully adjust and have lost the only two full games they've played since the injury.
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and uconn is going to lose and gtown...yeah if he's just throwing darts what are the odds
 
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August_West said:
Did you watch the nova game? They won that game simply because they were tougher. That wasn’t a classic nova win, they didn’t shoot well tgat game, what they did do was push us around in isolations and win every 50 50 ball. And were mentally tough enough to stay disciplined in winning time.

St. John’s was tougher than us too. It ain’t just 1 bad rebounding game against creighton.
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Pretty much what I said
 
August_West said:
Did you watch the nova game? They won that game simply because they were tougher. That wasn’t a classic nova win, they didn’t shoot well tgat game, what they did do was push us around in isolations and win every 50 50 ball. And were mentally tough enough to stay disciplined in winning time.

St. John’s was tougher than us too. It ain’t just 1 bad rebounding game against creighton.
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It seems you only want to count the losses when ranking our toughness. People lose games for a lot of reasons. Toughness is one of them. So is execution, experience, matchups, foul trouble, injuries, coaching, shooting, turnovers, foul shooting, etc...If you want to throw all those under the "catch all" of toughness then you would have to do the same for our wins.
 
bendm said:
and uconn is going to lose and gtown...yeah if he's just throwing darts what are the odds
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I don't think in evaluating four separate games—each with its unique matchups—you necessarily have to see each of these games as a coin flip and therefore try to calculate some odds.

But further, none of the individual takes is unreasonable or surprising. Every single one of those picks is fair, even if they don't happen. I doubt he's thinking much about some deep personal bias against the Big East when he's picking 67 games.

Really, I think the issue is that the BE has three games along the 5/12 line. Experts always like to pick 1 or 2—but never more than 2—of those 12 seeds. Picking high performing regular season mid-majors over lower-performing high majors who got hot makes a lot of sense. So in that sense really the only game off that line is 7/10 matchups, and that's always a coinflip (10s win about 40% of the time).
 
UCfor3 said:
It seems you only want to count the losses when ranking our toughness. People lose games for a lot of reasons. Toughness is one of them. So is execution, experience, matchups, foul trouble, injuries, coaching, shooting, turnovers, foul shooting, etc...If you want to throw all those under the "catch all" of toughness then you would have to do the same for our wins.
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I do. It’s just a component.

We’ve been out toughed and won , and we’ve been tougher and lost, it happens. Providence didn’t out tough us when they beat us. The games I mentioned were specifically tied to physical and mental toughness. Cant be debated if you watch the games.
 
UCfor3 said:
Not an unreasonable take at all, but if our toughness quotient is based simply off the Creighton game...yeah it's pretty low. If you base it off the 2 Gtown games and the SH game it looks pretty good. Creighton out toughed us but then got out toughed by GTown who we out toughed twice. Let's not base too much off the small sample size of one most recent game. If people want to say we haven't consistently shown the mental toughness over the whole season to win and close out tight games, that might be more fair. Getting outrebounded once doesn't prove much. The shoe has been on the other foot plenty of times this year.
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'if our toughness quotient is based simply off the Creighton game...yeah it's pretty low.'
no dis, but sorry bud. being a current or recent player, one would immediately notice the epic display of toughness exhibited in that game, one of the best in my recent memory. we came up short, for a variety of reasons, but as a fan and a player, and after the first few settling in minutes - completely riveting.
a classic as well as a valuable education for both. after the game, i quipped to my viewmates that 'i'd be surprised if either team could even lift their arm to brush their teeth manana.' ergo, creighton got blown out by gtown. i actually bet that with a pal. free cash, as i rarely bet on sports.
we saw that, as the game came to it's crescendo, there was actual blood on the court. totally expected. great game. twerps gonna get clocked in the teeth, served up with a lesson from junkyard dogs who can chew thru a fence, or a leg. one bite!
 
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Used to respect Bilas. Don’t watch ESPN anymore so I haven’t heard any of his takes for some time. But on the website, i see

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Who do these ESPN talking heads think they are? Just lol wtf is he wearing
 
HuskyHawk said:
No mention of anybody but Bouk. He might as well admit that he knows nothing about our team. Anybody who doesn’t mention Sanogo, Whaley, Cole and even Martin can be dismissed as ignorant. Jay, in this case, is ignorant.
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I mean, he mentions Whaley and Polley.

You're only going to give so much space to a team you're picking against, right?
 
UCfor3 said:
Not an unreasonable take at all, but if our toughness quotient is based simply off the Creighton game...yeah it's pretty low. If you base it off the 2 Gtown games and the SH game it looks pretty good. Creighton out toughed us but then got out toughed by GTown who we out toughed twice. Let's not base too much off the small sample size of one most recent game. If people want to say we haven't consistently shown the mental toughness over the whole season to win and close out tight games, that might be more fair. Getting outrebounded once doesn't prove much. The shoe has been on the other foot plenty of times this year.
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The concern here is this is a team that hasn't exactly played in any high tension March tournament games prior to last week, it takes a certain level of execution and toughness (physical and mental) to win these style of games, it's a different type of basketball. Against an experienced team like Creighton that knows what it takes to win these games, their experience was a factor that won them the game and our lack there of in these games was a reason why we lost. I certainly agree we've shown toughness numerous times throughout the season, but against experienced and tougher competition (Creighton, Villanova) an underlying theme for us has been lack of execution and physical and mental toughness. Sometimes it'll develop with experience in those types of situations, we are certainly building towards that I'm just not sure we are fully there yet.
 
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McLovin said:
Our point guard got body slammed to the floor (with no call) with 5 minutes left and was back on the bench, concussed with a stitched up face by the end of the game. James Bouknight had elbow surgery and was back in less than 6 weeks (and was asking to get back sooner). We are tough motherduckers, as Jim Calhoun would say. The results on the floor are not always pretty, but we are always going to have warriors with Hurley at the helm.

I think if you asked Hurley one criticism of his team (any team he has ever coached) that would really piss him off, it would be a criticism of their toughness.
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I love our team, but Cole pretty much put himself in an awkward, off balance position. He was far from being body slammed.
 
He must've just watched the BE semi game where we got dominated inside by Creighton and Bouk was knocked around. Using that small sample, you could draw that conclusion, but it's a lazy approach.
 
Rocktheworld said:
Used to respect Bilas. Don’t watch ESPN anymore so I haven’t heard any of his takes for some time. But on the website, i see

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Who do these ESPN talking heads think they are? Just lol is he wearing
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lessee here, plaid striped jacket, striped shirt, brown striped tie ... hmmm, hmmm, now who dresses like that? hmmm, ... oh, right, right, right. these guys!


sartorial splendor. not. too bad bilas didn't wear the hat that the guy behind him has on. it would greatly enhance his 'buy my book!' pitch.
 
SlicinNDyson11 said:
The concern here is this is a team that hasn't exactly played in any high tension March tournament games prior to last week, it takes a certain level of execution and toughness (physical and mental) to win these style of games, it's a different type of basketball. Against an experienced team like Creighton that knows what it takes to win these games, their experience was a factor that won them the game and our lack there of in these games was a reason why we lost. I certainly agree we've shown toughness numerous times throughout the season, but against experienced and tougher competition (Creighton, Villanova) an underlying theme for us has been lack of execution and physical and mental toughness. Sometimes it'll develop with experience in those types of situations, we are certainly building towards that I'm just not sure we are fully there yet.
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Boom.

you just hit on my biggest fear. Through no fault of our own through pauses and lost OOC and BE games and injuries we simply have not got a chance to build any experience in being successful in big moment “winning times “ (which I define as plus or minus 5 points with 6 minutes or so to go.) the precious few times we were in those positions we failed across the board. And that can kind of snowball on itself when you don’t have the confidence in maintaining composure down the stretch of tight games against good teams.

We aren’t good game closers..... yet. Does anyone here feel we are lock with a 10 point lead with 4 minutes left? I don’t. With one minute left I feel a lot better.

there were teams I’d feel had it locked up 10 with 7 minutes left than I do this team up 10 with 90 seconds. Even games we won like
Xavier game we blew a 16 point or so lead under 4 minutes.

We won’t get blown out in this tournament. I believe we play too hard and are good enough defensively tgat we can keep ourselves in games. But I can’t hang my hat on much if we get to the 4 minute timeout in a tie game.

again , not really anyone’s fault, we simply haven’t had that experience yet, and it does take time to build.
 
McLovin said:
Not saying any of the Big East teams can't lose their opening games, but to not pick a single big east team while also claiming Maryland is tougher than us (why? because they tried to fight Michigan?) is just a joke. It makes me think he hasn't watched a single minute of Big East basketball all year.

Edit: Bill Raftery who calls both Big 10 and Big East basketball was raving about our team's toughness during the DePaul game. Bilas should watch a few minutes of our game tape before making ridiculous claims.
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You have to realize that ESPN plugs the ACC and Big Ten non stop. They have that product and they are trying to protect their own jobs.
 
UCTitleTown said:
He must've just watched the BE semi game where we got dominated inside by Creighton and Bouk was knocked around. Using that small sample, you could draw that conclusion, but it's a lazy approach.
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Or, and hear me out here, he could have seen a similar sample as you did and may just disagree with you. We haven't played many very good teams, and those we did play against we didn't look all that tough against.
 
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