November General CBB Discussion Thread (Non-BE)

[KingAG]

Texas doesn’t have enough shooting

 

[Mr. French]

Khamenia has some hair cut - I think he's got NIL with Flowbee.

 

[B1GEast]

dook getting all the calls. Whenever Texas drives to the basket, no calls at all.

Terrible refs.

 

[Gurleyman]

Boozer had a little discussion with the officials at the end of the first half - probably explaining the way things work around here. They listened. Fouls are like 10-2 this half.

 

[HW611]

Lolz, freshmen college basketball players existed before 2005.

That’s just when the rule came into play that guys had to go to college.

Even though there was a time period before I was born where they always went. But there was also a time where they couldn’t play varsity. Lol

But I’m open to hearing of other freshman classes that played as good as that 08 class did in their freshman year.

I assume the Fab 5 was so popular though because people weren’t used to seeing freshmen playing that well, ever. Could be wrong though.

 

[Orc]

Darius Adams had 16/2/2 with 2 steals against Coppin State. Played 24 minutes. Shot 0-5 from 3 (went 3-4 from 2), but 10-12 from the free throw line. 2nd leading scorer for Maryland

We could’ve used him against New Haven

 

[HW611]

Darius Adams had 16/2/2 with 2 steals against Coppin State. Played 24 minutes. Shot 0-5 from 3 (went 3-4 from 2), but 10-12 from the free throw line. 2nd leading scorer for Maryland

Fwiw, Darius was my favorite player from the class. He was also the worst fit here for this year.

It was best for both parties for him to go elsewhere to be able to play his game.

 

[superjohn]

That’s just when the rule came into play that guys had to go to college.

Even though there was a time period before I was born where they always went. But there was also a time where they couldn’t play varsity. Lol

But I’m open to hearing of other freshman classes that played as good as that 08 class did in their freshman year.

I assume the Fab 5 was so popular though because people weren’t used to seeing freshmen playing that well, ever. Could be wrong though.

I already named a class that had much better players than the 2008 class or the current class.

Diaper Dandy is a made up name for freshmen Dick Vitale thinks are great. There was always great freshmen before 2005 and they actually used to stay in college for several seasons.

Fab 5 was popular for a lot of reasons. They were 5 freshmen 3 of which were stars and they started most games and they were the only team to start 5 freshmen in the national championship game. They were brash, they all wore baggy shorts and black socks. They were seen as cultural icons.

 

[HW611]

I already named a class that had much better players than the 2008 class or the current class.

Diaper Dandy is a made up name for freshmen Dick Vitale thinks are great. There was always great freshmen before 2005 and they actually used to stay in college for several seasons.

Fab 5 was popular for a lot of reasons. They were 5 freshmen 3 of which were stars and they started most games and they were the only team to start 5 freshmen in the national championship game. They were brash, they all wore baggy shorts and black socks. They were seen as cultural icons.

Again, were they good as that 2008 class as freshmen?

That class had Greg Oden, OJ Mayo, Eric Gordon, Kevin Love, and Derrick Rose to name a few.

Only Greg Oden and Kevin Love made All American teams despite OJ and Eric being 20 PPG scorers and Derrick Rose leading one of the best teams in the country (which again makes you think how great college basketball was when those guys were snubbed).

I checked Patrick Ewing numbers and he was not freshman year Greg Oden.

Damn all this and I forgot to mention Michael freaking Beasley.

Edit: take out Greg Oden and replace him with 26 and 12 player Michael Beasley.