If you’re the more talented team, you want more possession because more possessions tend to mean that the better team will win out over the long run.
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BYU has played a terrible game. Lot of losing basketball plays.
I think if you’re going to get that hairdo, and wear #33, you need to be somewhat more than a bit player in the offense.
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Sure, I just think it’s a lot more complicated than that. They’ve built their identity on their play style. Might it be more statistically random with fewer possessions? Sure. But would Virginia be close to as good if they didn’t play the way they play? I don’t know. They probably wouldn’t have won the ACC five of the last eight years though. They won a title, which I think puts most of the conversation to rest in terms of the “Bennett’s style doesn’t work in NCAA tourneys” notion.
Haarms with an absolutely awful post up
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#33 for BYU just needs to grow a 1980s ‘stache to complete the Larry Legend look.
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He’s better than he was, but he still retains his essential Matt Haarmsyness.
He might have been fouled?
He’s had multiple awful defensive possessions. Haarms is weak sauce.
Switched back to the ACU/Texas game just in time for a Mo Bamba reference.
Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time… a long time.
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The problem with this style of play is if your offense don’t show up, 5 pt deficit would feel like 10 pt deficit to UVA. Their shot didn’t fall for them and they struggled to score points. It worked for them in the regular season but in a one and done tournament, it’s not as easy. Beside the national championship run, they had trouble getting out of the first weekend. UVA was able to get away with it because they usually have good shooters.
Wearing #33 is a lost art.
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I think we really want Texas to win here.
3-0 run for ACU!
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Again, I understand what you’re saying. There’s no argument from me that it’s statistically worse as a more talented team to have fewer possessions in a game. It’s just not a big enough deal to me to not, like, use that strategy when it clearly works for them as a program. Teams get nuked all the time in the tourney by less talented teams, it’s not just a Virginia thing. When Duke lost to Lehigh and Mercer in a 3 year stretch the conversation wasn’t about Duke’s style of play. I just think winning the title should have put down the idea that Virginia’s style is too flawed to work well in the NCAA tournament. I think for most people it did.
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Eh. Bama’s going down to the Fightin’ League Office Reporters anyway.
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Do you honestly believe that, though?
I mean, if Texas is good enough to beat Alabama, then I want them to lose. 
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Reminder: Shaka Smart hasn’t won an NCAA tournament game since … 2013
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ACU is just hitting prayer after prayer.
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If Abilene wins, then this will be their ceiling in the tourney. The NCAA title pales in comparison to winning the battle for “Best in Texas”
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