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Post by ghostofdylan on Jul 15, 2020 10:35:09 GMT -6
So many great players. I'll go with Kojis, Lucas, Chones, Thompson and D-Wade. A lot of tough choices.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Jul 15, 2020 10:36:46 GMT -6
So, thoughts on the Elam ending. Would you like it in college basketball? I enjoy it. Game ends on a made basket. No foul contest in the final minutes that last forever. The Elam Ending would knock a half-hour off some games! I'm down. Put me down.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Jul 15, 2020 12:08:12 GMT -6
So, thoughts on the Elam ending. Would you like it in college basketball? I enjoy it. Game ends on a made basket. No foul contest in the final minutes that last forever. The Elam Ending would knock a half-hour off some games! I'm down. Put me down. Should the Elam ending be after the final official timeout at the 4 minute mark? Should it be 7 points, 8 points, 10 points?
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Post by Cactus Panther on Jul 15, 2020 12:35:53 GMT -6
I like the Elam ending for the TBT but am not sure about it in college basketball.
Yes, some games would end earlier, but they average less than two hours anyway. What is the hurry? It is not like a three and a half hour college football or MLB game. It is video reviews that are frustrating to wait through. I saw little of that in the TBT, which was good. With Elam endings, I would miss the late game strategy and occasional overtimes.
The TBT appeared very offensive oriented. In the games I watched, it did not take long to reach target scores. In a lot of college basketball games, it seems that scoring by field goals often dries up in clutch time. I could see two "defensive minded" HL teams, for example, take half an hour or more to get to an eight point target.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Jul 15, 2020 13:26:35 GMT -6
I will say I don't mind a college hoops game that could last 2 plus hours. Yet, are we watching basketball or a foul contest. The foul contest and video reviews are a killer for the college game.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Nov 21, 2020 18:59:51 GMT -6
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Post by Cactus Panther on Feb 14, 2021 21:06:01 GMT -6
Today's game story on JS from Ben Steele starts like this:
"For the third straight season, the Marquette men's basketball team has taken a late-season free fall."
Sound familiar, Milwaukee?
For all the money MU pumps into the program and Wojo's bank account, MU's performance is woeful. I don't pay much attention to it, but have to think the natives are very restless.
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Post by parkerj on Feb 14, 2021 22:01:33 GMT -6
Today's game story on JS from Ben Steele starts like this: "For the third straight season, the Marquette men's basketball team has taken a late-season free fall." Sound familiar, Milwaukee! For all the money MU pumps into the program and Wojo's bank account, MU's performance is woeful. I don't pay much attention to it, but have to think the natives are very restless. lol some MU fans aren't sure they'd be able to fire Wojo right now and pay a second coach. We might have something to offer that'd leave them...slightly ahead
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Post by Pantherholic on Feb 14, 2021 22:15:00 GMT -6
For all the money MU pumps into the program and Wojo's bank account, MU's performance is woeful. I don't pay much attention to it, but have to think the natives are very restless. I don't know of any who were happy he was extended.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Feb 15, 2021 8:55:02 GMT -6
I don't pay much attention to it, but have to think the natives are very restless. Yep, for about three years now. The message boards here and there are about the same.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Apr 15, 2021 13:25:36 GMT -6
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Post by PantherU on Apr 16, 2021 12:17:07 GMT -6
That is a weird group of players to match up together. I'm not saying they'll be bad, I am saying MU will be interesting to watch next season. It'll be interesting to see what Shaka does with them.
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Post by BBFran on Apr 16, 2021 13:20:41 GMT -6
Me too. Shaka's not a bad coach, obviously, but he made his reputation on his 2011 Final Four run at VCU with a lot of holdover players from Anthony Grant, and using that very high tempo defensive system. Predictably, it didn't translate well against a P5 league when he moved to Texas, and it won't in the BE either. Friends of mine in Texas tell me he pretty much dropped it by the end of his tenure there.
Shaka last won an NCAA tournament game in 2013. He's 0-5 since then. MU will give him immense resources, but they gave that to Wojo too. I actually think he'll do better than Wojo, but that's a pretty low bar for that program.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Apr 16, 2021 13:50:50 GMT -6
While the game is called different, so "havoc" does not work. At Texas' defensive efficiency rankings under Smart, per kenpom.com: 40th, 21st, 12th, 26th, 24th, 35th. Under Wojciechowski from 2014-21, MU finished: 69th, 88th, 165th, 182nd, 45th, 73rd, 79th.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Jul 11, 2022 13:13:10 GMT -6
Bernard Toone, a member of the 1977 National Championship team, dead at age 65.
This was the FIRST college team I ever followed. So I was pretty spoiled from the start.
Ugh! These are tough to take. In my mind, it feels like these guys are all in their 40s!
Could it really be 45 years since MU won its first and only title?!
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