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Posted on 3/25/24 at 12:02 pm to BigFolks6347
Posted on 3/25/24 at 12:02 pm to BigFolks6347
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I’m glad you heard me. Yes I was very animated last night because of the boneheaded mistakes. My emotions were be high last night. Anyways Roll Tide!!!!!!
But you chronically attack Estrada and seem to fail to realize he is doing what the coaches want him to do. They need him to relieve the pressure on Sears. Estrada's 3 point shot is bad right now, but he doesn't settle, he pushes the ball, plays as fast as he can and forces the defense to focus on another run attacker. Aside from Sears, he is what we have. He almost always leads the team in assists and often times rebounds as well. Does he make the occasional bad pass, sure.. but we ask a hell of a lot out of him and based on his lack of athleticism I think he delivers a hell of a lot even with those shortcomings.
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Posted on 3/25/24 at 12:09 pm to Diego Ricardo
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It is interesting how NIL and unlimited transfers are actively destroying football but is, honestly, making basketball a much more enjoyable sport for all tiers in D-1. More teams with veteran squads that know how to play basketball not just the run, jump, and shoot parts.
It shocks the hell out of me that it hasn't decimated the mid majors. They are straight up farm teams for big transfer payouts to power 5s now... Yet going by this tournament, they are still giving everybody hell
Posted on 3/25/24 at 12:10 pm to Diego Ricardo
Also, I think the major programs triangulating on a strategy in the new roster circumstances is part of the reason we have 12 out the top 16 seeds in the Sweet Sixteen. 2 of the 4 that got bounced (Baylor and Kentucky) were clearly due to younger teams getting out-worked down the stretch by more veteran teams. Kansas is probably an outlier because their top scorer was out of the tournament due to an injury. Auburn really just got got by the tale as old as the tournament: average guard play from a high-seed major gets exposed early in the tournament. Auburn was a great team but their guard by committee approach is a risk in the tournament. Alabama may have only split with them and didn't do shite in the conference tournament but I know who is running our offense in crunch time and I know he will play with tempo but under control.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 12:12 pm to GoodTalkRuss
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It shocks the hell out of me that it hasn't decimated the mid majors. They are straight up farm teams for big transfer payouts to power 5s now... Yet going by this tournament, they are still giving everybody hell
I think it is partly because the rosters for cbb are so much smaller. A school can only raid so much; a school can only be raided so much. If you have a good program built on development, you've probably got another guard or big man in the wings that you found as a diamond in the rough.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 12:21 pm to Diego Ricardo
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Auburn really just got got by the tale as old as the tournament: average guard play from a high-seed major gets exposed early in the tournament. Auburn was a great team but their guard by committee approach is a risk in the tournament. Alabama may have only split with them and didn't do shite in the conference tournament but I know who is running our offense in crunch time and I know he will play with tempo but under control.
The Sweat Hog is slowly turning into premium brand Frank Martin. In a decade on the job he has advanced past the first weekend one time. Definitely not saying they should make a change, because that would be totally insane, but they do not deserve the kind of hype they get every year.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 12:32 pm to Robot Santa
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The Sweat Hog is slowly turning into premium brand Frank Martin. In a decade on the job he has advanced past the first weekend one time. Definitely not saying they should make a change, because that would be totally insane, but they do not deserve the kind of hype they get every year.
The one year Pearl made a run at Auburn, they had that undersized little spark plug of a guard who really was the straw that stirred the drink so to speak.
He's a great coach but for whatever reason he rarely seems to have a point guard who you know is his guy to find baskets on his own or by getting his teammates open in crunch time. I think part of it is he's a big believer in generous rotations. Hard to develop your go-to point when you're just playing whoever has the hot hand all season and keeping the minutes/game in the mid 20s.
This post was edited on 3/25/24 at 12:33 pm
Posted on 3/25/24 at 12:33 pm to Diego Ricardo
Jeff Borzello (ESPN)
@jeffborzello
BREAKING: Vanderbilt is hiring James Madison’s Mark Byington as its next head coach, sources told me and
@PeteThamel. Byington just led the Dukes to a record-setting 32-4 season, highlighted by a win at Michigan State and an NCAA tournament victory over Wisconsin.
@jeffborzello
BREAKING: Vanderbilt is hiring James Madison’s Mark Byington as its next head coach, sources told me and
@PeteThamel. Byington just led the Dukes to a record-setting 32-4 season, highlighted by a win at Michigan State and an NCAA tournament victory over Wisconsin.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 12:37 pm to McGregor
quote:Add another high-tempo, free-flowing type team to the league.
BREAKING: Vanderbilt is hiring James Madison’s Mark Byington as its next head coach, sources told me and
@PeteThamel. Byington just led the Dukes to a record-setting 32-4 season, highlighted by a win at Michigan State and an NCAA tournament victory over Wisconsin.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 12:50 pm to tide06
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That was one of the worst officiated games I’ve ever seen at any level.
Not biased, bad.
I even went to Reddit, to see what unbiased fans were saying about the game. And everyone was laughing about how horrible the referee were, and how we were getting fricked by them. Midway through the game, everyone was cheering for us to win. That's how bad the referees were, and how much everyone hates Grand Canyon.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 12:51 pm to TideCPA
Saw this on X. Thought it was interesting not sure if true.
ETA: supposedly the operating expense for all teams. NIL not included.
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Budgets of all Sweet 16 Teams: San Diego State $7.2M
Clemson $8.0M
Purdue $8.8M
Houston $9.8M
NC St $10M
Creighton $10.2M
Alabama $10.9M
Arizona $12.2M
Illinois $13.2M
Tennessee $14.3M
North Carolina $14.4M
Iowa State $15.2M
Marquette $15.8M
Gonzaga $17M
UConn $24M
Duke $28M
ETA: supposedly the operating expense for all teams. NIL not included.
This post was edited on 3/25/24 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 3/25/24 at 12:52 pm to UASports23
Oats 18-4 now after getting a tech. Solid.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 12:56 pm to Diego Ricardo
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The one year Pearl made a run at Auburn, they had that undersized little spark plug of a guard who really was the straw that stirred the drink so to speak.
I think what hurts AU the most is their weak scheduling in the off-season. It doesn't really prepare them for the Tourney. The only thing it does is pad their wins column
Posted on 3/25/24 at 1:08 pm to GoodTalkRuss
Picture 1: Bench Scoring per Game
Picture 2: Points in the Paint
Picture 2: Points in the Paint
Posted on 3/25/24 at 1:21 pm to McGregor
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Oats 18-4 now after getting a tech. Solid.
I'm surprised they didn't eject him last night. GCU's garbage Kobe knock-off getting a Kobe whistle while our guys had to get knocked to the ground for a 50/50 shot at a whistle was fricking infuriating. Pringle destroyed the clipboard after watching that fricking goon #24 continue to play dirty with no whistle.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 1:43 pm to Robot Santa
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I'm surprised they didn't eject him last night. GCU's garbage Kobe knock-off getting a Kobe whistle while our guys had to get knocked to the ground for a 50/50 shot at a whistle was fricking infuriating. Pringle destroyed the clipboard after watching that fricking goon #24 continue to play dirty with no whistle.
The poor officiating in that game was about doing some Harrison Bergeron style limiters on a major team with more depth and a high tempo style of play. I thought GCU was in a lot of trouble when I saw that they only play 7 guys. I assumed that Alabama would wear them out early in the 2nd half.
Well, the disparity in the whistle allowed the game to be choppier and prevented Alabama from having any offensive flow. It kept some of our guys in foul trouble which artificially thinned our depth advantage a tad.
Similar shite happened last year versus SDSU. In the tourney, you're just going to run into activist officiating crews and you gotta hope your team is tough enough to overcome.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 1:48 pm to elposter
I completely agree. I’m the kinda person that appreciates how far our basketball program has came in the last 4 years and we don’t accomplish that without the players. We have a great coach who also recruits his arse off and the players who play hard for him. The shots aren’t always gonna fall and players are gonna make mistakes but to constantly shite on one player over and over again is ridiculous especially when that player has picked up slack in other areas when the shots aren’t falling.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 1:59 pm to Robot Santa
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I'm surprised they didn't eject him last night. GCU's garbage Kobe knock-off getting a Kobe whistle while our guys had to get knocked to the ground for a 50/50 shot at a whistle was fricking infuriating. Pringle destroyed the clipboard after watching that fricking goon #24 continue to play dirty with no whistle.
The commentating was just as bad as officiating. They only talked about GCU questionable calls when they were tripling us up at the FT line despite shooting mostly threes and mid-rangers at that point. Was the most poorly, one-sided officiating I've seen in the tournament in some time. Later in the 2nd half, when they got back into it, we were mostly just committing stupid fouls, but the officiating that took place for 3/4 of the game is what kept them in a position that allowed that to matter. It baffles me how influenced officiating is by even just a semi-hostile crowd.
I also think our reputation has completely screwed us in so many games this year. Usually officials worry about FT/foul disparity, but we've been on the wrong end of bad calls more this year than ever before. They simply expect us to foul if we get a stop, and never worry about the FT or foul count because of our reputation.
Posted on 3/25/24 at 2:15 pm to Diego Ricardo
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The one year Pearl made a run at Auburn
Everyone forgets that they very well should have lost the first round.
Guy for NM State shooting 3 free-throw s with 1 second left,, down 2 points, only makes 1 of 3 for the one point loss.
NM State even got off another shot yet missed for the win.
This post was edited on 3/25/24 at 2:19 pm
Posted on 3/25/24 at 2:17 pm to East Coast Band
I’m oddly confident about Thursday. More confident than I was the last 2 S16. We were suppose to win those and all the pressure was on us. Nobody is gonna give us a chance this time….us against the world
Posted on 3/25/24 at 2:21 pm to BigBird09
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The commentating was just as bad as officiating.
I lost it when their other goon, #30, blatantly jumped into Wrightsell on a closeout with an unnatural shooting motion and they immediately wrote it off as nothing to see and a clear foul. If someone had pulled that bush league horseshite on either one of you losers back when you were playing you'd have wanted to fricking swing on him.
This post was edited on 3/25/24 at 2:22 pm
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