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NCAA Tournament, Rd 3 - Thursday

If there are no punches thrown in the last 6.5 minutes of ARK/AZ, I'll be very surprised. Arkansas are bad losers it seems.
 
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The games in Houston goes to show everyone just because your team has home court advantage your team still had to do it's job like UConn did in the second weekend in 2014 in MSG and in 2024 in Boston and UNC and Duke have in the past.
 
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BugsyCT said:
This tourney's getting a little too Big 10 heavy.
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I don't like that UConn is going to have to face one tomorrow. Beating them feels out of the tune with the rest of the tournament.

Although UConn is often out of step. An all Big East East Regional final as a counter to the B1G has a nice appeal.
 
Unfortunately for Coach Cal, there aren't any banks open this late. But rest assured he'll be the first person in line tomorrow morning to cash that check.
 
DogMania said:
Better put, the Texas player let him do it and couldn't stand his ground. No ref is going to see that as a foul at that point in the game. You want to win? Hold your ground. Just playing soft.
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Good Point
 
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housekeys said:
Houston has not shot a free throw with 3+ left in the game! Ok, now that is crazy.
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If you go through their season, Houston is remarkably like us in the sense that they’ve endured the same kind of free throw deficit that we have.

Teams that never get to the line….Houston, Nebraska and us. Unlike us, Nebraska never sends anyone to the line either, so it’s kinda fine for them.
 
Fishy said:
If you go through their season, Houston is remarkably like us in the sense that they’ve endured the same kind of free throw deficit that we have.

Teams that never get to the line….Houston, Nebraska and us. Unlike us, Nebraska never sends anyone to the line either, so it’s kinda fine for them.
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The Creighton/Nebraska approach of purely position defense is interesting. It looks like these teams are not playing defense but really they are just sloughing way off and daring everyone to shoot 40% from 3.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
The Creighton/Nebraska approach of purely position defense is interesting. It looks like these teams are not playing defense but really they are just sloughing way off and daring everyone to shoot 40% from 3.
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Candy ass defense is required by statute in that state.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
The Creighton/Nebraska approach of purely position defense is interesting. It looks like these teams are not playing defense but really they are just sloughing way off and daring everyone to shoot 40% from 3.
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So....

Creighton took 520 free throws, allowed 493. Opponents took 642 threes.
Nebraska took 539, allowed 508. Opponents took 1,014 three. (My god - Nebraska took over 1,000 as well)
UConn took 637, allowed 787. Opponents took 704 threes.
Houston took 603, allowed 746. Opponents took 803 threes.

Basically, Nebraska takes no free throws and allows no free throws because no one ever bothers to get near the basket. Creighton is just freakishly good at playing defense without fouling...I think if you go back a few years, you'll see that they're typically at the top of this stat yearly. (It's so far out of whack that I thought maybe it was a function of just fewer possessions per game - they're around 200, but UConn and Houston are both 300+, so it's just that they do not foul.)

By comparison, UConn and Houston are playing Greco Roman defense.
 
superjohn said:
Peja! One of the sickest shooters to ever pick up a basketball.
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Damn good assist man too

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housekeys said:
Swain needed to jump. That's all. Simply jump. If he jumped, the slightest contact would have sent him flying and the ref and everyone watching would make the connection (that a push was the cause). IMHO.
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He couldn’t jump he was being held down by a strong man while he jumped to get the tip in. It’s a foul, bad miss by the stripes but allowed.
 
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Fishy said:
John Calipari's teams are remarkable - they appear to have never received any actual basketball training and yet somehow they're in the sweet 16.

How do people lose to them?
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I'm sure you've heard the saying "the whole is greater than the sum if the parts". That's not Arkansas. With them you get 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 3.5.

I'm convinced that at practice Calipari rolls the ball out and says "OK guys, work up a sweat".
 
dtrumpet said:
the only thing worse than watching purdue flop and flail is watching the refs buy what they're selling.
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Sad state of affairs. We're seeing a lot of this recently, players w/delayed reactions grabbing their heads, falling on the fall with every shot, fetal position perhaps taught in a Grad class?
 
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freshler40 said:
Sad state of affairs. We're seeing a lot of this recently, players w/delayed reactions grabbing their heads, falling on the fall with every shot, fetal position perhaps taught in a Grad class?
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The refs reward players for flopping, which is why they do it, but the flopping needs to stop. Mark from Texas got hurt flopping and that probably cost Texas the game.

Do people remember Da'Sean Butler from WVU? He was a sick player, and was projected to be a mid to late lottery pick for 2010. In the Final Four that year, some Duke fudge face flopped trying to draw a charge on WVU's point, who had dished to Butler on the baseline just before brushing the Duke flopper. Butler tripped over the Duke player on the ground, blew his MCL, and his NBA career was over before it started. I will never forget that play, because I hated the way the refs called charges before it, and really hate how they call charges since.

That event should have ended flopping. It has only gotten worse, much worse, because now both offensive and defensive players flop shamelessly. The NCAA and NBA need to crack down on it, because it is dangerous, and because kids copy what they see on TV. Worse, girls, with their greater susceptibility to knee injuries and concussions, are flopping all over the court in youth and high school games. Nothing good comes from a player deliberately flailing on the ground in a youth game.

Fixing this has to start at the top.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
The refs reward players for flopping, which is why they do it, but the flopping needs to stop. Mark from Texas got hurt flopping and that probably cost Texas the game.

Do people remember Da'Sean Butler from WVU? He was a sick player, and was projected to be a mid to late lottery pick for 2010. In the Final Four that year, some Duke fudge face flopped trying to draw a charge on WVU's point, who had dished to Butler on the baseline just before brushing the Duke flopper. Butler tripped over the Duke player on the ground, blew his MCL, and his NBA career was over before it started. I will never forget that play, because I hated the way the refs called charges before it, and really hate how they call charges since.

That event should have ended flopping. It has only gotten worse, much worse, because now both offensive and defensive players flop shamelessly. The NCAA and NBA need to crack down on it, because it is dangerous, and because kids copy what they see on TV. Worse, girls, with their greater susceptibility to knee injuries and concussions, are flopping all over the court in youth and high school games. Nothing good comes from a player deliberately flailing on the ground in a youth game.

Fixing this has to start at the top.
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The foot kick out on 3s needs to go, it's dangerous for the shooter. Solo does it this year, I don't think he did before? Could be part of his shooting problem, hunting for a foul instead of sinking it.

I didn't see the 2nd set of games last night but the first two were pretty good. Can't believe the amount of hooking going on in the TX game though, that was nuts. Purdue kept getting the calls somehow.

I'm sure the algorithm says these game times are most profitable but sheesh, there are a lot of people on the east coast.
 
DogMania said:
Cal continues to deploy an undisciplined and simple offense. He actually has the athletes, finishers and ferocious offensive rebounders to do a lot of damage at the rim. But he simply lets his players do whatever they want, that simply has the same outcome year after year, early exits, quick NBA defections, reload, repeat the cycle. It just doesn't work.

Still a lot of time left in this game, but they just don't have the discipline to play smart on the offensive end, nor the ability to defend on the other end of the floor against a Uber-talented offensive Zona team.
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As usual, he's exposed as not a coach, but a babysitter.....completely undisciplined team
 
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