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College Basketball 2009-2010
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How is UT not better? They lost nobody from last year. I mean they still have three of the five best players from a team that was ranked #1 two years ago and they added Hopson who should be the most talented player on the team.
Edit: I think my real question is how is possible for Tyler Smith and JP Prince to regress two straight years.
Edit: I think my real question is how is possible for Tyler Smith and JP Prince to regress two straight years.
I don't really think tyler smith regressed last year. This year though I don't know what's up with him. But from what I have heard it is a matter of work effort and laziness. Hopson apparently won't do anything in practice but work on his 3 pointer, JP thinks he is a lot better than he actually is, Chism is has absolutely no bball iq. Pearl is apparently ready for the seniors to leave.
Totally agree with you on Smith. I think he sees the writing on the wall now that he's not going to get much of a shot in the NBA. He's too much of a tweener, and I think he's just half-assing it knowing that.
JP is inconsistent as shit, and Wheezy is a space cadet. Hopson is another "supposed to be 1 & done" that was/is too lazy to put in the work to be great. I like Tatum, though he's pretty streaky as a shooter.
We'll should make the tourney this year, but we won't go deep unless Pearl works some magic and gets these guys to play like they give a shit.
JP is inconsistent as shit, and Wheezy is a space cadet. Hopson is another "supposed to be 1 & done" that was/is too lazy to put in the work to be great. I like Tatum, though he's pretty streaky as a shooter.
We'll should make the tourney this year, but we won't go deep unless Pearl works some magic and gets these guys to play like they give a shit.
CavemanLawyer
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Jumping on the "John Wall is a beast" bandwagon, saw this video linked to on Digg...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y_awwptf30&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y_awwptf30&feature=player_embedded
jjasper said:
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/jan/01/four-ut-basketball-players-face-drug-and-weapon-ch/
Just to explain what jjasper is talking about. It is moments like these that I'm happy our coach's evils involve recruiting the academically ineligible. Hah.
Well WVU lost yesterday and Syracuse has already lost today. Four Unbeatens Left.
Three play today. Texas has a bunny, but Kansas (at Temple) and Kentucky (vs Louisville) could have tough games and both should be competitive.
Other good games:
Villanova at Marquette - Must win for Marquette who needs a statement win to boost their tournament resume.
Michigan State at Northwestern - Michigan State needs to beat a good team. This would be the game. This isnt a live or die game for Northwestern but you always want to win your home games in conference.
Oklahoma State at Rhode Island - Big game for RI. This win would really help the argument that A10 might need 3-4 teams in.
Arizona State at USC - In a conference that might only get 3 bids, this looks like a matchup between two teams fighting to be the third best team.
Three play today. Texas has a bunny, but Kansas (at Temple) and Kentucky (vs Louisville) could have tough games and both should be competitive.
Other good games:
Villanova at Marquette - Must win for Marquette who needs a statement win to boost their tournament resume.
Michigan State at Northwestern - Michigan State needs to beat a good team. This would be the game. This isnt a live or die game for Northwestern but you always want to win your home games in conference.
Oklahoma State at Rhode Island - Big game for RI. This win would really help the argument that A10 might need 3-4 teams in.
Arizona State at USC - In a conference that might only get 3 bids, this looks like a matchup between two teams fighting to be the third best team.
Takeda Kenshi
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Awesome win by Pitt. Gibbs is an absolute beast. Taylor is coming along nicely too.
MightyHealthy
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One more hour until judgement day.
Buzz has been crazy...saw a spread at 8 points and I thought it was generous to us.
The team is clearly growing, but we still have a fair amount of flaws. Meanwhile, John Wall gets pulled before he could easily break an all-time assists record. If you've watched each team's games, it's not rocket science when it comes to figuring out the underdog here.
Still, both teams will bring their A-game, Pitino and Calipari battle again in an even bigger rivalry...this'll be a fun one to watch. I'm respectful of reality but I will no doubt root for my Cards to pull out a convincing win.
GO CARDS!!!
Buzz has been crazy...saw a spread at 8 points and I thought it was generous to us.
The team is clearly growing, but we still have a fair amount of flaws. Meanwhile, John Wall gets pulled before he could easily break an all-time assists record. If you've watched each team's games, it's not rocket science when it comes to figuring out the underdog here.
Still, both teams will bring their A-game, Pitino and Calipari battle again in an even bigger rivalry...this'll be a fun one to watch. I'm respectful of reality but I will no doubt root for my Cards to pull out a convincing win.
GO CARDS!!!
beelzebozo
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MightyHealthy said:
1996, umass-uk games (they played two that year if i recall correctly) were fantastic. i was twelve, and i thought tony delk and marcus camby were gods.
beelzebozo
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this shit just got real
lakesideflight
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Gonzaga beats Illinois in OT, that was a weak last shot by Illinois. Their coach looked pretty pissed too, he threw the whiteboard on the ground.
beelzebozo
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lakesideflight said:
maybe he saw a cockroach and was just trying to kill it
BakedPigeon
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No ejection? I guess if your pissed off at someone you could elbow them in the face from now on and just risk a technical
Seth C said:Yeah. Cousins really should be gone. Strike this game from the records and give a win to Louisville.
Hey, I didn't say that. It tends to happen that way where the retaliator gets the worse punishment. Outside of that early run by Kentucky this is a pretty low scoring half so far.
perfectchaos007
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Kentucky is passing the rivalry game test so far. But how does the Orange lose to Pitt?? I thought Syracuse looked like a top 3 team but they lose at home to Pitt?? Anything can happen on a given day I guess
BakedPigeon
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Ahhhhhh shiiiiiittt we gotta game on our hands.
beelzebozo
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WOW
beelzebozo
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Seth C said:
it just looked like he said, "excuse me guys, i need to go score some points," and they said, "ok!"
just waltzed right the fuck by them.
perfectchaos007
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That was the worst game I've seen Texas play in a long time. So much for winning every game by double digits...
perfectchaos007 said:
Yeah, I just got back.
Texas actually played pretty well. They just couldn't hit a fucking basket and A&M CC was burying 30 foot jump shots with a hand in their face.
Execution was good, defense was great. Rebounding was certainly off today.. shooting was abysmal.. and a lot of the shots we missed were within 5 feet of the basket. Can't do that against better competition.
Holy shit Oregon is up 14 with less than a minute to play on #16 Washington on the road. After winning 2 Pac 10 games last year, we've matched that on the first road trip of the season. Sure the Pac is down but fuck if this isn't surprising/awesome (especially after the Rose Bowl loss).
Cornballer
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Nice win for Oregon earlier today.
Cal's playing pretty well and up 20 on Stanford at HT. Only bad news is that first-off-the-bench Jorge Gutierrez went down with what looked like a pretty serious knee injury about 10 minutes in.
Cal's playing pretty well and up 20 on Stanford at HT. Only bad news is that first-off-the-bench Jorge Gutierrez went down with what looked like a pretty serious knee injury about 10 minutes in.
kkaabboomm
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I'm just going to hop in here and say I'm proud of my cats. The early fouls were an extension of some post national anthem tunnel jawing between the teams.
UK remains undefeated, and heads into conference play 15-0, and some real growth evident in its players.
UK remains undefeated, and heads into conference play 15-0, and some real growth evident in its players.
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