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The 2011 NCAA MBB Tournament - GAF Bracket Challenge
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ItWasMeantToBe19
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Ninja Scooter said:
Makes rebuilding of teams go much slower, also makes Juniors like Evan Turner look like superstars for beating up on Freshman, also can show if a guy will only play hard in a contract year by having to play multiple years in college. The NBA wants it. I don't want it, I want the Jazz to get Anthony Davis next year
lazybones18
Banned
VCU would have put up a better fight
Probably would have won too
Probably would have won too
ConfusingJazz
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Ninja Scooter said:
Everyone that has a vote would be in favor of it. Current players don't want the competition for their salaries, and the owners would like an extra year before they sign a big ass check to a kid.
Green Goblin
Banned
It really was one of the most physical games I've ever seen.Vire said:
The refs swallowed the whistles which I liked.
I remember one play where a UConn player was going for a rebound and a Butler player BLATANTLY PUSHED him like he was pass blocking in football.
No call. You could hear the UConn player SCREAM "WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUU" lol
Good stuff.
ConfusingJazz
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Either have Chuck talk, or play One Shining Moment. Everything else sucks.
Ninja Scooter
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ConfusingJazz said:
Not saying it won't happen, but I just don't agree with it, especially if one of the reasons is "save dumbass owners from themselves".
ConfusingJazz
Member
Ninja Scooter said:
I know you are a fan of the pro game, which is why you love USC so much.
Obvious, I know.
Outdoor Miner
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WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUU and 18%
All I'll remember from this year's game.
All I'll remember from this year's game.
Knux-Future
Banned
Hey Coach how does it feel to fail so hard?
I fucking hate these interviews
I fucking hate these interviews
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
uk would have panicked, shot even worse than uconn or butler, brandon knight would have driven to the hoop and thrown away the ball fifty times in a row, i would have ripped my hair out, firebombed an orphanage to alleviate my rage on the way to tudor's biscuit world.
Elfforkusu
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I'll remember Brad Stevens sliding back into Illinois' price range.Outdoor Miner said:
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I blame that dome.
No basketball game should ever be held in that venue again.
This was an awful Final Four from a shooting standpoint. The rims sucked, and the sight lines in that venue must have been god awful. This Final Four set basketball back to levels of pre- 3 point shot. Naismith's first team shooting granny shots could have given us as much excitement as what we saw on the court this weekend.
If the NCAA is going to have their Final Four in those huge fucking cavernous football stadiums, they need to start putting the big black drapes down behind the rims like I've seen them do in other domes. If they don't, then get ready for more Final Fours like this one.
No basketball game should ever be held in that venue again.
This was an awful Final Four from a shooting standpoint. The rims sucked, and the sight lines in that venue must have been god awful. This Final Four set basketball back to levels of pre- 3 point shot. Naismith's first team shooting granny shots could have given us as much excitement as what we saw on the court this weekend.
If the NCAA is going to have their Final Four in those huge fucking cavernous football stadiums, they need to start putting the big black drapes down behind the rims like I've seen them do in other domes. If they don't, then get ready for more Final Fours like this one.
Ninja Scooter
Member
ConfusingJazz said:
I like college sports too, I just think if guys are good enough (or more importantly, if teams want to sign/draft them) they should be allowed to go pro. It's hard to play the "high school players are bad for the league" card when all the major faces of the NBA are high schoolers or one and done players. The college game should have to adjust.
soundscream
Member
This song is ass
Elfforkusu
Member
There's something to be said for the sight line effect, or whatever it is that makes usually good shooting teams poo the bed in domes. It happens way too often to be coincidence.bill0527 said:
ErasureAcer
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Congrats Cooter!
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Azwethinkweiz
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chuckddd said:
Third place in the gaf league, first place in my work league. The work league was actually worth something so I'll take it!
Not all of them are, and for every LeBron, Amare or Kobe, you have 10 more Kwame Browns, Shaun Livingstons, etc. The talent in the league is dilluted and at least 60% of the teams are completely irrelevant. They need to kill 4 teams at least for the health of the league. The NBA is not the NFL, a lot of teams are losing money. Having a 2 year limit would probably improve the product, its certainly not going to hurt.Ninja Scooter said:
I'm not completely against you, phenoms, should go when they want. The problem is identifying them without meddling agents trying to cash in on the net big thing.
Shin Dynamo X
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I would rather make the Final 4 once than lose the National Championship twice.
For mid majors, I find this more embarrassing for Butler to lose than VCU. VCU would have won this game....and this make their loss to Butler even more painful.
All in all, people are going to see Bulters more like choke losers that can't get the job done instead of a great mid major team that got to the title game twice. Luckily, VCU isn't typecasted with that.
And yes, I really wanted Bulter to win.
For mid majors, I find this more embarrassing for Butler to lose than VCU. VCU would have won this game....and this make their loss to Butler even more painful.
All in all, people are going to see Bulters more like choke losers that can't get the job done instead of a great mid major team that got to the title game twice. Luckily, VCU isn't typecasted with that.
And yes, I really wanted Bulter to win.
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soundscream said:
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Ninja Scooter
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truly101 said:
and for every Tim Duncan or Shane Battier you have a bunch of 3 and 4 year college players that go to the league and suck. Take Kwame for example. Is he more of a failure for going pro, making $40 million and sucking? Or would a better career path for him have been to go to college, be exposed in 2 or 3 years and end up undrafted and playing in Europe? Most of the guys who get drafted make enough money that if they wanted to they could go back to school and pay for a college degree 10 times over.
IMO the league should just do something similar to what baseball does. Allow high school guys to get drafted, expand the D-league and make rookie contracts 2 years non-guaranteed.
bucknuticus
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Shin Dynamo X said:
No one will see Butler that way at all..........
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Ninja Scooter said:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=ford_chad&page=DraftWatch-080922
That is why the one-and-done rule is in. And the talent level in the NBA isn't watered-down at all, it's at the highest level it's ever been.
Ninja Scooter said:
This is true. I love watching both NCAA and NBA. But time to time I watch "Hoops Dreams" to remind myself what this crazy product is all about.
Bomani Jones had a great article on ESPN today about how the NCAA pushes this mirage of "student-athlete" during March Madness because its a great marketing ploy.Because if they showed what it really is, ie, a farm-league for the pros, no one would be interested.
Ninja Scooter
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ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
If we are just going to try and save dumb GMs/owners from their own stupidity, I'd rather just adjust the contract lengths/size for rookies than just outright ban players from going pro. And it's not like rookie contracts are killing teams anyway. Teams aren't going broke because of they have underachieving players on rookie deals, they are going broke because they give VETERAN players stupidass, gigantic contracts.
bucknuticus
Member
ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
GM's are dumb, BJ played high school right next to mine and I watched him play a lot. He was pretty bad then, only reason he was graded so high was he was a foot taller than everyone else. You could tell he was soft in every way and could not compete against same sized talent. Hell I dont know how they couldnt see it when he played here at OSU too.
Yea, sucks that we couldn't make it to the final.lazybones18 said:
On a side note, I saw Joey Rodriguez and Ed Nixon at the student commons at VCU today. Weird cause I usually never really saw them around campus much, but they were chillin at the commons for like two hours today, so I went up and told them great job this season.
Clemsontigers35
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WOO! GO HUSKIES!!!! I am just ecstatic right now!
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