TV games thissfternoon

[Forego]

So. Cal vs Ole Miss on ESPN now. Louisville vs UCLA on ESPN 2 at 2:30. The LSU bus got lost looking for pastries in Paris.

 

[donalddoowop]

SC and Michigan tonight. JuJu is as bad as Chennedy Carter in hogging the ball. She is an elite talent but there is too much other talent on the team for her to hog the ball like she does. If Paige shot as often, she would average over 30 points. USC does not look like a number two ranked team.

 

[visitingcock]

U$c wins with two kk free throws w 8 second remaining

 

[donalddoowop]

U$c wins with two kk free throws w 8 second remaining

Mississippi gave the game away in the last 10 seconds. A D1 player should be able to make an unguarded inbounds pass successfully.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Mississippi gave the game away in the last 10 seconds.

It's only fair, USC tried continuously to give the game away w/ 26 TOs, many unforced.

 

[oldude]

Sloppy early season game between Ole Miss and USC. Watkins with 9 turnovers.

 

[ucbart]

Two games on ESPN, along with 4 hours of recruiting for Dawn Staley. The slob fest ESPN has with her is comedic.

 

[donalddoowop]

Sloppy early season game between Ole Miss and USC. Watkins with 9 turnovers.

I wonder how much complaining, if any, is being done on the USC message board. The BY would be going crazy.

 

[Bigboote]

I wasn’t drinking the U$C KoolAid, and that game doesn’t change my opinion.

 

[The deacon]

So. Cal vs Ole Miss on ESPN now. Louisville vs UCLA on ESPN 2 at 2:30. The LSU bus got lost looking for pastries in Paris.

That bus driver must be blind... there are pastry shops everywhere one looks in Paris.

 

[The deacon]

SC and Michigan tonight. JuJu is as bad as Chennedy Carter in hogging the ball. She is an elite talent but there is too much other talent on the team for her to hog the ball like she does. If Paige shot as often, she would average over 30 points. USC does not look like a number two ranked team.

It'll be interesting to see how Gottlieb legislates JuJu's volume shooting. From all that I've seen of Kiki Iriafen, if she's not utilized as much as her immense talent level should dictate, Gottlieb will have failed her team.

I look forward to seeing her play Dec. 21 at the XL Center as much as seeing JuJu.

 

[donalddoowop]

I watched them all and also saw some on ESPN+. SC will have trouble with a tall team. After UConn and ND get the rest of their team back, I believe they will be the two best teams in the country. Also, most of the good teams I watched today had no problem feeding the post. In time, UConn will get good at that.

 

[DefenseBB]

Yesterday's games made me feel better about the Sunday exhibition game as all the teams were having issues. Wow, 9 turnovers by Juju is a problem. On the other hand, she did have 5 blocks, 10 rebounds and 3 steals so she is showing more to her game which is good. She took 19 shots and Iriafen took 15 which is ok for the two AA candidates. The real issue is the 26 turnovers limited their field goal attempts to 55 while Ole Miss had 74. Yikes.

I know the effort to "grow the game" is first and foremost but maybe better venue location would be wiser. Paris only had 3,472 for an elite double header (SoCal-Ole Miss, UCLA-Louisville) and then the TNT televised Vegas game of SC-Mich which had 6,397 attending. Better for this game but still the question of putting games where people will go is not being served. Vegas has always been a curious choice for me as the PAC12 Tournament was held there for years with middling success (always 6th among the P5 + Big East Tournaments). To me, there's simply too much to do for the usual visitors of Vegas and for the WCBB afficionado, going to Vegas is not ideal.

Did anyone else notice that the mighty SEC had 4 teams lose yesterday? Ole Miss (which was to be expected) but Arkansas to Fairfield, Missouri to Vermont and Texas A&M to Texas A&M Corpus Cristi were not supposed to happen.

We know the phrase "Dead man walking" applies to Robin Pingeton who got a reprieve last year solely due to the AD leaving in Feb. Mike Neighbors has to now feel the heat as his team has seen a rash of departures, and I am not so sure the A&M Board of Trustees is loving the $1.5 mil per year contract they gave Joni with so little to show for it.