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Hawkins on TTech is playing like he is getting paid off by an Arkansas booster or something... 0-9 from the field, 0-6 from 3, 5 turnovers, and time and time again he kills any momentum his team is building by forcing shots that he isn't close on. He just had a 8 foot shot in the lane and short armed it to the point where it barely grazed the front side of the rim.

A rather pathetic effort... and yes, Arkansas' size at guard is obviously bothering him, as the commentators have been pointing out. But the way he is playing he should be on the bench and the ball should be funneled to Williams and Toppin.
 
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superjohn said:
I would be a bit surprised if they don't win it all. He's by far the best player in college and they're playing the best currently.
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CardiacAndre7 said:
To be fair there have been some pretty questionable foul calls against Duke in this half
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That's true. Especially the one on Flagg where the Zona guy dribbled it off of his foot.

Tech tied game with 3 against Arkansas with 9.7 sec left
 
Excellent second half to the night. This Tech game is awesome! Go down, Cal!
 
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The last 5 minutes and OT of that Arkansas-TTech game are exactly why most who understand basketball and are not Calipari sycophants say he is not a good in-game coach.

Sure, he is fine (usually) when his team has the overwhelming talent advantage. But put him and his teams in a situation like last night when they had a 95% chance of winning when they went up 13 with 4:43 left and there they are, finding a way to lose. His teams consistently lack discipline, and that is one of the qualities you must have and instill into your teams to close out games.

The commentators mentioned it several times during OT... During Tech's comeback Arkansas players threw up several "ill-advised 3-point shots" when all they needed was to work their offense to get higher-percentage shots AND work more time off the clock.

Watching Calipari's teams play offense in high pressure situations often reminds me of watching Jim Boeheim's best Syracuse teams. Both of them allowed their teams to play a more free-wheeling, less disciplined style and it often comes back to bite Calipari as it did Boeheim. It is the biggest reason why Syracuse used to lose some really head-scratching games, including to us in the 1980's where we were obviously the less talented team on paper. And Calipari has a similar problem.

Thankfully, neither one of them will ever be the coach of our Huskies. Sucks for Razorback fans though!
 
And people continue to laugh and say that UK fans ran him off. Well, maybe they did, but what you saw last night is nothing new for Calipari. Been going on for years, choking big games away. How do you not want him gone if you are UK?
 
B1GEast said:
I wonder how we would have fared against Maryland
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It would have been a real tough matchup for Karaban, but also vice versa. We'd probably have seen double bigs for the first time in a while.
 
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Hans Sprungfeld said:
I think I can get Houston, Michigan State, Duke, and maybe Purdue.

Seriously, it is kinda fun, and also illustrative as we move into a time of building next year's roster.
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BYU had you stumped, eh?

Noticed there are two ex-Ruttys in the field. If Pikiell gets canned, maybe we should bring him on board just for recruiting and not let him near the court.
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
I think I can get Houston, Michigan State, Duke, and maybe Purdue.

Seriously, it is kinda fun, and also illustrative as we move into a time of building next year's roster.
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There’s some teams I can get because of one player I can identify.

Like team next to Duke is Arizona I think (Caleb Love UNC). The team with Iona is Florida because of Walter Clayton. The team with Ohio as the PG is Bama because of Sears.

2nd at the top is Michigan because Yale = Wolf. Top at the end is Arkansas because UK and FAU = Wagner and Davis.

After that I’m tapped out lol
 
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HuskyWarrior611 said:
There’s some teams I can get because of one player I can identify.

Like team next to Duke is Arizona I think (Caleb Love UNC). The team with Iona is Florida because of Walter Clayton. The team with Ohio as the PG is Bama because of Sears.

2nd at the top is Michigan because Yale = Wolf. Top at the end is Arkansas because UK and FAU = Wagner and Davis.

After that I’m tapped out lol
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All of yours above occurred to me (plus imagining some stability in multiple BYU guys), before I decided not to wade in fully, and just set myself up for the Purdue 'joke.'
 
storrsroars said:
BYU had you stumped, eh?
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Just commented on that.
storrsroars said:
Noticed there are two ex-Ruttys in the field. If Pikiell gets canned, maybe we should bring him on board just for recruiting and not let him near the court.
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Yeah, when I saw the two RS, all I could think of was, "Last year, Cam, and then who else left besides Gavin Griffiths?"

And with all that, Harper & Bailey will be the O&DS as expected. It's been a while since anybody posted that we should have hired Pikiell.
 
Love this Mich St roster with all these guards that can play
 
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