A lot harder to throw on the run too.
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Every time I think, āHey, self, maybe for my next phone Iāll get an iPhone.ā Then an Apple commercial comes on and Iām like, ālol, nope.ā
this game has a STENCH
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Grimes to the bench with two fouls. Syracuse needs to go on a run while heās out.
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Unless Syracuse can come back, weāre looking at three SWC teams in the Elite Eightā¦
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The SWC? I feel like theyāre known for something. Huh.
My back-of-the-envelope has Cuse with a sparkling .4 ppp at the Under 12. Houston, meanwhile, with 5 OREBs already.
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BTW really is a shame that Hinkle is getting all these tourney games, but mostly empty. How fun would it be to attend a neutral-site game there when itās packed?
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I was thinking that as long as they werenāt going to let fans in anyway, they should have had the Final Four at Hinkle. But then when they decided to allow limited fan seating, that probably made that impractical.
But, yes, Iād love to see the NCAA do more games in these on-campus venues. Jim Valvano ran around looking for somebody to hugā¦ at the Pit, in Albuquerque.
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Ban the zone
I have Arkansas dudes on reddit telling me it was a great strategy and āgreat defenseā to leave non-Obanor/Abmas ORU players wide open from 3 all game. Starting to hope that Baylor blows them out.
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Zone defense is all weāve ever played, and itās the only thing thatāll work this year. For anything else our boys are too small, but remember, we were 15 and 10 last year, and we got all our boys back but oneā¦
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The whole Syracuse concept is weird to me. I understand mastering the zone and becoming good at it. But as a coach you need to understand your matchups, and adapt based on it. Doing it regardless of who you are facing seems a bit lazy to me, and even cocky.
Also, as an AD, wouldnāt you have a conversation with your coach at some point about how many of the top recruits wonāt consider you because this prep is basically useless for the NBA. I really donāt understand. Is Boeheim just a legend and does what he wants, and is stubborn. Or is there something Iām not getting?
Did John Beilein leave the inbounder open on a shot in an important game and get second-guessed for weeks, or am I dreaming that?
Evan Turner and Ben Brust I believe, right?
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Death to backboards!
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Good call.
Isaiah Livers is a baseball player.
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Heās won a lot of games doing this. It makes his teams a pain to prepare for, because theyāre better at running zone than most teams and have a ton of length. It may be that running the same defenses as everyone else would cause him to lose his trump card. Keep in mind that heās recruiting to upstate NY where the high school talent probably isnāt that great. Itās like a football program running the triple option.
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Speaking of Sampson, I wonder if he showed his squad our 2017 demolition of the Syracuse zone to prep for this game. Seems like theyāre working their way around it pretty nicely.
Girard annoys me