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Zion will dominate Tacko

Listen. I hate duke and even tho they won , that was one of the best games I’ve seen in a while. High level. Zion Dawkins tacko RJ- that one game made up for all the blowouts this weekend. How nasty is Zion? God. He’s just so good.
 
Horatio said:
I’ve never seen a basketball player run over two people to make a basket and it wasn’t called. It’s highly unusual
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You can argue to the BJ Taylor play, but come on, the Fall one was an obvious foul on Fall. He should have just gotten out of the way. If he does that they win.
 
Devland said:
He'll be a good not elite NBA player. My big concern would be his knees holding up. 285 lbs. running on a hardwood floor is murder on the knees and most likely he will be around 320-325 a couple years in to his pro career. Only Ray Allens playing weight goes down during his NBA career.
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I bet they end up having him play at 270. I'll be surprised if he doesn't end up elite.
 
Devland said:
He'll be a good not elite NBA player. My big concern would be his knees holding up. 285 lbs. running on a hardwood floor is murder on the knees and most likely he will be around 320-325 a couple years in to his pro career. Only Ray Allens playing weight goes down during his NBA career.
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This is a really strange board.
 
tzznandrew said:
UCF played well. Refs make mistakes here and there. Anyone watching that game and thinking the refs are why UCF lost is just out of their minds. They were as good as they're going to be in college basketball.
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Four of them in a row.

The chances of missing 4 in a row like that is astronomical
 
Playing devils advocate there should have been a shot clock violation on the shot before that Fall dunk towards the end. Ball never touched rim.
 
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huskyrob1 said:
Nice call. Refs were Duke cheerleaders when it came down to game deciding calls. Is there a ref out there who has the guts to call a foul on Zion Williamson?
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He had 4 fouls, including on one of the previous possessions. Reddish had 4 as well...
 
tzznandrew said:
You can argue to the BJ Taylor play, but come on, the Fall one was an obvious foul on Fall. He should have just gotten out of the way. If he does that they win.
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No call. He’s walled up. Zion creates all the contact while he is properly walled up
 
BTW, when UCF got the shot clock basket, Tacko was in the lane for 22 seconds. Would rather the tickey tack stuff not get called, just gotta make the plays. You box out properly, that little push won’t impact you.
 
UcannUconn said:
Playing devils advocate there should have been a shot clock violation on the shot before that Fall dunk towards the end. Ball never touched rim.
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Probably, but that was an IMPOSSIBLE call irl. It looked like it hit rim as it happened.

And then trying to justify incontrovertible evidence after that....can you imagine the national uproar if they overturned that one?
 
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tzznandrew said:
You can argue to the BJ Taylor play, but come on, the Fall one was an obvious foul on Fall. He should have just gotten out of the way. If he does that they win.
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Ok so what happened was Zions team needed a basket and he said to himself “ I don’t care who’s in front of me , I’m going through them and making a basket”. And then the refs supported the situation. That’s not basketball. That’s football and yes, I could care less but I hate Duke.
 
Devland said:
He'll be a good not elite NBA player. My big concern would be his knees holding up. 285 lbs. running on a hardwood floor is murder on the knees and most likely he will be around 320-325 a couple years in to his pro career. Only Ray Allens playing weight goes down during his NBA career.
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He's huge and I suppose it's fair to wonder how his body will hold up with that much weight, but if you're an NBA GM and you don't draft him first overall your office should be packed before the draft is over. He'll be an elite NBA player next year.

I'm primarily disappointed that Hank doesn't have to get a cat.
 
superjohn said:
You think Barrett knows how to finish in the paint as well as Zion?
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Deep down inside reading most of your posts there’s a bit of a Duke love so I’ll back out. Think both guys are talented but doubt either are great.
 
Horatio said:
Ok so what happened was Zions team needed a basket and he said to himself “ I don’t care who’s in front of me , I’m going through them and making a basket”. And then the refs supported the situation. That’s not basketball. That’s football and yes, I could care less but I hate Duke.
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That was a foul, sure. But they don't call that often in that situation, Duke or not.

And Fall mugged Duke multiple times and wasn't called for fouls throughout the game.

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They didn't call a foul on Fall here. And that wouldn't be the only screenshot...
 
the Q said:
Tacko just stood there.

It was good d.

It was bad or biased officiating
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Anyone who thinks that was a foul after Zion batted the defender away is blind as hell. Too bad for UCF
 
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tzznandrew said:
That was a foul, sure. But they don't call that often in that situation, Duke or not.

And Fall mugged Duke multiple times and wasn't called for fouls throughout the game.

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They didn't call a foul on Fall here. And that wouldn't be the only screenshot...
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According to Q that's being walled up.
 
Hoophound said:
When you think back to how we won so many big games, it becomes obvious when watching UCF/Duke. We always ha-d role players that could come in and fill a need when called upon. Zion? We’d put Ed Saunders on him and contain him enough to win. Duke getting to the rim and creating open looks by penetrating? Put Boat on him.

We always had guys to solve a specific problem even if they weren’t stars game in and game out. The last few years, nobody could completely handle any assignment.
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I am thinking more Kevin Freeman on Zion. I think KFree was a really underappreciated. He was 6'7 235 and played much bigger than his size and could guard almost any position, really. But yeah, past UConn teams had personnel for every type of match up. Even with the space out and shooting 3 offenses of today, UConn was ahead of the times in being able to defend them (i.e. Gonzaga in 99 and Vandy and Vermont in 2004).
Alas, we are so far from any of the great, or hell even good UConn teams. No offense to Kobe, the Cincy fan on this site, but I would settle to be Cincy at this point with the first weekend flame outs.
 
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BigErnMcCracken said:
C'mon the kid's a freak of nature. He didn't even play that well tonight and he put up 32-11.
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That’s you let’s watch. Don’t doubt the freak of nature but different world next level At 6’5
 
Now a Libery team leading VT. Is that fat guy their PG? He makes Khalid look svelte.
 
How can people be claiming “Zion created all the contact, that’s a no call” and also “Taylor got hammered on the last shot?” Take off your UCF glasses
 
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