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November General CBB Discussion Thread (Non-BE)

RuffRuff said:
Not disimilar to pro sports where high paid rosters don't motivate once they're paid. Applause to Hurley for avoiding this route and type of player at all costs. It's part of the art of recruitment in the current era. You may want the tall, leaping athlete, but that player may also not be made of the right DNA for the Uconn program.

Pope really felt defeated - it was a somber presser. He seems like a good guy, and him getting to the S16 last year was a great year one. I'm sure he'll figure it out.

On another note, Cal letting his OAD freshmen run the show at Arkansas, meanwhile had guys like Knox, Richmond and Brazille come back. They may be getting their points, but you wonder how that instills culture and motivates the older kids. They should have lost last night, at home, to Winthrop. There is a psychology in all this that guys like Hurley get.
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Cal teams throughout his career are usually dictated by how good his bigs are. His bigs have sucked for awhile now.
 
Inyatkin said:
Reading this after your drooling over those same kinds of players for the past several weeks is something else.

These guys are super athletes! They rule! Man, these super athletes are all head cases. Glad we avoided them
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Most of the frosh are really great competitors. It's often not about the kid as much as the coach, and which ones he selects, what he promises and how he uses them. If you commit to being the "featured" player as a OAD, it's not going to create a great ecosystem/locker room if you have 4-5 upperclassmen that are really good and earned their chance.

Take Cal last year - guy turned around his whole season when the frosh he made that promise to went down with injury.
 
HW611 said:
Everything I hear is that they have no chemistry. Just a bunch of guys getting that check and going.

And it sounds like Pope’s fault for not instilling a proper culture. Not necessarily a them getting too much NIL thing.
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I get the same feeling about Arkansas.
 
HW611 said:
Everything I hear is that they have no chemistry. Just a bunch of guys getting that check and going.

And it sounds like Pope’s fault for not instilling a proper culture. Not necessarily a them getting too much NIL thing.
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I posted this in the Champions Classic thread but seems appropriate for here as well.

Kentucky looked like a team of talented players who still didn't know each other's full names.

Does retention mean a lot in 2025 when it comes to having a shot to be really good?

"How about 100 frickin' percent?" Izzo said. "People playing for the front of their jersey. People that care about the place they're at and players they're with. ... Transfer portal recruitment is almost bigger than winning games. Not at Michigan State."

"Their loyalty to me has gotta be my loyalty to them and that still frickin' matters," Izzo said.


Reminds me of what Hurley said about retaining the players he wanted back.

www.cbssports.com

Kentucky gets rocked by Michigan State and now Mark Pope has a very expensive problem he must fix ASAP

Amid a bad start with two deflating losses, Mark Pope makes a promise to Kentucky's fan base: "We won't fail this season"
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com
 
Being back in the CBB thread
HooperScooper said:
I posted this in the Champions Classic thread but seems appropriate for here as well.

Kentucky looked like a team of talented players who still didn't know each other's full names.

Does retention mean a lot in 2025 when it comes to having a shot to be really good?

"How about 100 frickin' percent?" Izzo said. "People playing for the front of their jersey. People that care about the place they're at and players they're with. ... Transfer portal recruitment is almost bigger than winning games. Not at Michigan State."

"Their loyalty to me has gotta be my loyalty to them and that still frickin' matters," Izzo said.


Reminds me of what Hurley said about retaining the players he wanted back.

www.cbssports.com

Kentucky gets rocked by Michigan State and now Mark Pope has a very expensive problem he must fix ASAP

Amid a bad start with two deflating losses, Mark Pope makes a promise to Kentucky's fan base: "We won't fail this season"
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com
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Izzo is just on the money. It's cool to use the transfer portal to fill holes appropriately, but it's not a great way to build the core to a winning roster unless it's a multi year plan.

I could understand Kentucky using it so much at first because they had a lot of holes to fill with a new coach. But at some point you have to start getting a continuity plan going.
 
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Rooting for Illinois and Florida and Kansas to keep winning so we can beat em all and get back in the 1 seed line.
 
KingAG said:
Tonight didn’t take us off of the 1 seed line. It’s too early anyway
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It’s a figure of speech but I bet you Lunardi will replace us with Zona as a 1 seed next week. Not that i care what Lunardi thinks.
 
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Doesn't look like Tarris will be back for Illinois, good thing is Big Z is a finesse center. Our wings are gonna have their hands full with Stojakovic, he looks like a pro.
 
aceboon said:
Doesn't look like Tarris will be back for Illinois, good thing is Big Z is a finesse center. Our wings are gonna have their hands full with Stojakovic, he looks like a pro.
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He turned it over a lot last night (5). But very high intensity. Kid is a bucket getter.
 
aceboon said:
Doesn't look like Tarris will be back for Illinois, good thing is Big Z is a finesse center. Our wings are gonna have their hands full with Stojakovic, he looks like a pro.
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Sorry what’s this timeline based on?
 
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Memphis giving Purdue all they can ask for. Dug McDaniel playing lights out - kid is quick with the ball. Memphis has some long pogo sticks on their squad.
 
Purdue tied with Memphis. Memphis is so much more athletic than Purdue. Memphis though is kind of lazy on defense and doesn't like to jump out on the shooters. Memphis now up 2 under 9 minutes.
 
Game getting dirty. A big man for Memphis fell to the floor after getting bumped and then jumped back up and got in the Purdue big man's face who did it.
 
3rdbass said:
Game getting dirty. A big man for Memphis did a soccer foul fake and fell to the floor after getting bumped and then jumped back up and got in the Purdue big man's face who did it. LOL!
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That was more than just a bump - Cluff gave him a serious shove in the back, fairly blatant. I’ll be curious to what the refs call here.
 
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