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Lehigh just beat Duke. It makes me feel great but it also makes me realize a few things
1. there is more parity
2. Most importantly, hard work and effort and teamwork trump tradition and "talent"
we have seen alot of threads mentioning the old UConn style. The famous Donny Marshall runout after a made basket for the easy two as an example.
I'll take that first championship over all the other because it came from a team effort that included hard nose D full length of the court. And a superior offensive scheme with players that had little hype. I don't think Calhoun was a better coach then but I think he had players that cared more about effort. Calhoun's more recent teams are almost totally dependant on a star player's ability to take over games. Lacking that it just looks like a cluster F00k. I honestly don't see a system out there these days. Duke has a system it relys on threes. when it works they win. What the heck is our system? I pray the Daniels is better than he has shown because we need someone to step in. Anyone that thinks it's going to be next years freshman has not paid attention to the last ten years of shattered expectations for our incoming classses top recruits. Last year we had Kemba. I still have no clue how even with Kemba we went on that insane run. We sucked last year except for that end of the year run. But thats how strange the last few years have been. We have this razor fine edge betweeen goood and bad and it can go either way on any given day. I have no clue how JC deals with it. Long story short I Would take a Donny Marshall team any day. Quite frankly I would take Lehigh today. It's a pleasure to see a 40 minute effort.
Most importanlty I need another beer
1. there is more parity
2. Most importantly, hard work and effort and teamwork trump tradition and "talent"
we have seen alot of threads mentioning the old UConn style. The famous Donny Marshall runout after a made basket for the easy two as an example.
I'll take that first championship over all the other because it came from a team effort that included hard nose D full length of the court. And a superior offensive scheme with players that had little hype. I don't think Calhoun was a better coach then but I think he had players that cared more about effort. Calhoun's more recent teams are almost totally dependant on a star player's ability to take over games. Lacking that it just looks like a cluster F00k. I honestly don't see a system out there these days. Duke has a system it relys on threes. when it works they win. What the heck is our system? I pray the Daniels is better than he has shown because we need someone to step in. Anyone that thinks it's going to be next years freshman has not paid attention to the last ten years of shattered expectations for our incoming classses top recruits. Last year we had Kemba. I still have no clue how even with Kemba we went on that insane run. We sucked last year except for that end of the year run. But thats how strange the last few years have been. We have this razor fine edge betweeen goood and bad and it can go either way on any given day. I have no clue how JC deals with it. Long story short I Would take a Donny Marshall team any day. Quite frankly I would take Lehigh today. It's a pleasure to see a 40 minute effort.
Most importanlty I need another beer
