Tuesday’s Elite 8 Games

[kobe]

Wide open 3 with no one in sight and air ball...

yup. mick switches coasts and gets every break possible. if he was still here wagner drills that shot.

 

[aceboon]

Tough asking for kids to think on the fly but probably would have been better to dribble up to halfcourt and then call the TO

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Howard just had a TO. Michigan should have had a play ready to go off the rebound. Now UCLA's defense can set up.

 

[aceboon]

Smith had a great look there

 

[UCfor3]

Too good a look. That was baaaaad D.

 

[CTBasketball]

Too good a look. That was baaaaad D.

El Tigre was thinking drive to the bucket.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Wagner really struggled tonight.

 

[Jaker]

Little Mick in the final 4

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Too good a look. That was baaaaad D.

Nah. Coming full speed up the court, stopping and pulling up for a contested 3 is not a good look. He should have passed it.

 

[navery12]

Why would you have Dickinson inbounding the ball there?

 

[metsfan2323]

LA is Mick's Magic Kingdom

 

[uconngb]

What an awful game.....worst of the tournament.

 

[UCfor3]

Nah. Coming full speed up the court, stopping and pulling up for a contested 3 is not a good look. He should have passed it.

Contested? What were u watching? Tyger was in the spin cycle thinking drive. He was literally backing up.

 

[superjohn]

How is Wagner like #10 on mock drafts and Juzang isn't even a second rounder?

 

[kobe]

basketball is a stupid game and i hate it

 

[CTBasketball]

basketball is a stupid game and i hate it

Mick coached really well down the stretch.

 

[metsfan2323]

How is Wagner like #10 on mock drafts and Juzang isn't even a second rounder?

Juzang is in the first round now. Maybe top 20.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Contested? What were u watching? Tyger was in the spin cycle thinking drive. He was literally backing up.

First, a pullup 3 has a 5-10 point lower shooting percentage than a catch and shoot. Second, with the clock running down and a defender right there, the shot is going to be rushed. It's a harder shot than it looks.

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

An AAC team and Mick Cronin are in the final four.

Lol

 

[metsfan2323]

basketball is a stupid game and i hate it

but Mick isn't stupid. He knew when to upgrade.

 

[UCfor3]

First, a pullup 3 has a 5-10 point lower shooting percentage than a catch and shoot. Second, with the clock running down and a defender right there, the shot is going to be rushed. It's a harder shot than it looks.

It wasn't contested. The defender was nowhere near him. He was backing up. I never commented on the difficulty of a pullup. Some people will argue anything.

 

[polycom]

How is Wagner like #10 on mock drafts and Juzang isn't even a second rounder?

Something something size matters....

 

[gsmooth]

Wide open 3 with no one in sight and air ball...

He was nervous when he shot. That is why he short-armed instead of shooting it with a confident follow through

 

[Ricker]

Bye bye Big 10 - you hate to see such an omnipotent league come up short. Clearly, with 2 #1 seeds and 2 #2 seeds, and a #4 seed, the only explanation must be that the tough battles in the league night in night out, took it out of the teams before they got to the big dance. We had a lot of posts with evidence that they were over rated, but, there is no possibility that could have been true. We know they were great because the talking heads said so.

 

[uconngb]

How is Wagner like #10 on mock drafts and Juzang isn't even a second rounder?

Wagner was abysmal this game. He almost literally did nothing.