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Hey lang (can I call you lang
), What happened w/ J.R Giddens? I know he transfered to Arizona or New Mexico, but what was the word on campus?
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JR is at New Mexico. Doing well down there from what I have heard. He had a few rough patches early on but as of late he has been playing real well. He was agood dude but he could have never stayed in Lawrence after the night club incident.
Damn Atchley....I had a feeling either him, AJ or James was just gonna go off.
Damn Atchley....I had a feeling either him, AJ or James was just gonna go off.
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^ I think he told us in another thread he got ran out of town?
Any truth to this?
Any truth to this?
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fUCLA going down again this Sunday @ Galen
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I don't blame the guy. I don't think I would have stayed either.
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That's what Jay Wright was saying and he is one of the most fair coaches there is in college ball. I can't believe he didn't even argue more. I woulda gone ballistic. That's Jay Wright for you though...classy even when he shouldn't be.
"Wright ran at the students, pointing, and yelling and had to be restrained by several people while his players sort of stood there andstared."
that's class huh?
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Justin Mason gettin busy
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Curtis Shaw is awful
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Nizzastay!
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My biggest fear is coming true...the role players for Texas are coming up huge.
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Says "Mr. show up when the dust has cleared"... any UNC fan feeling good about the state of the program right now is either a psychotic or brain dead... or both. Quit living in denial (and showing up after the game is over to talk smack back)
State of the program???,
My goodness, this isn't '01-'02, we aren't on our way to losing 20 #*%*+%# games. It'll take a year like that for me to worry about thestate of our program.
On another note, this Texas/KU game is very entertaining.
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Oh my God. I'm about to lose it!
This is not good for my heart
This is not good for my heart
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WOW texas almost gave that one away
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Hook 'em
Horns have to close that game out better, though. They got sloppy in the last minute or so...
Horns have to close that game out better, though. They got sloppy in the last minute or so...
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wowwwwwwwww
great game
great game
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If in college basketball you played 1 half we would have won....
BUT
We flat out got out hustled in the second half. It seems that when we play a team that has just as much athletes as we have we seem to get out hustled. Samething happened against K-State.
BUT
We flat out got out hustled in the second half. It seems that when we play a team that has just as much athletes as we have we seem to get out hustled. Samething happened against K-State.
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Originally Posted by Nowitness41Dirk
Hook 'em
Horns have to close that game out better, though. They got sloppy in the last minute or so...
Absolutely. I thought we might roll over and die this game, but again I was proved wrong
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"Wright ran at the students, pointing, and yelling and had to be restrained by several people while his players sort of stood there and stared."
that's class huh?
If you don't think Jay Wright has class, you don't know what you are talking about. When a man goes down on the other team off a rebound, insteadof letting his team get an easy bucket with a 5 on 4, he just calls a TO. I've seen him do that 2 or 3 times. That's just one example of his class. Whywouldn't he point and yell? The refs just caused his team to lose a game they needed SO bad to put them back on the bubble. He only started yelling for afew seconds and then he calmed down quick. He shouldn't have calmed down though. That was awful. Huggins and a lot of other coaches woulda gone CRAZY.That's a game that could end up being the difference between them being in the tourney and in the NIT.
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Absolutely. I thought we might roll over and die this game, but again I was proved wrong. Now I can sleep well.
I'll see you in Kansas City for Pt. 2. . .
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I'll see you in Kansas City for Pt. 2. . .Originally Posted by langfor5
Absolutely. I thought we might roll over and die this game, but again I was proved wrong. Now I can sleep well.
Looking forward to it.
I'm about to fire Augustin if he doesnt get his %!!@ together
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UCLA, Purdue, Louisville and Hendrix
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The Gasaway Theory of Pac-10 Travel
This weekend in the Pac-10 the headline-grabber was, of course, Washington's 71-61 victory over UCLA yesterday in Seattle. The game deserved to grabheadlines: the Huskies entered the contest 3-7 in conference play while the Bruins, well, they're the Bruins. Still, let's not overlook another datapoint that came to us via Pullman, Washington, where on Saturday the previously struggling Washington State Cougars laid a vigorous 74-50 thrashing onpreviously surging USC. Two teams from Southern California each lose the second of their two-game sets up in the state of Washington. Hmm. I wonderâ¦.
In the admirably symmetrical Pac-10, teams play their road games in geographically appropriate pairs, customarily on a Thursday-Saturday schedule. If youplay at Oregon on Thursday, for example, you'll play at Oregon State the following Saturday (or Sunday). Or you'll play Cal and then Stanford, Arizonaand then Arizona State, etc. That's all nice and tidy. However, for our current purposes the salient point is that the Seattle-to-Pullman trip (or viceversa) is, at 286 miles, far and away the longest game-to-game commute in the conference. Travel alone can't explain UCLA's lethargy, of course. Thedefense that UW's Artem Wallace played against Kevin Love doubtless had a good deal more to do with yesterday's end result. Nevertheless, playing atthese two venues on a Thursday-Saturday schedule, as did USC, is a tough gig, to say the very least.
(Kudos to the Huskies' Tim Morris, by the way, for virtually ensuring that the Rules Committee will make at least one change in the offseason: it willno longer be permissible for a player to avoid a five-second call on an inbounds pass by simply throwing the ball, hard, off the defender's face. Thisshall be called The Morris Rule. It didn't come soon enough for Alfred Aboya.)
Purdue. Wave of the Future. Discuss.
With this year's freshman class, Matt Painter hit a recruiting sweet spot that 340 other D-I coaches would love to find. His class is good, really good.Witness the Boilermakers' 72-67 victory over Wisconsin in Madison on Saturday night. On the other hand, unlike Ohio State's crop of first-year playerslast year, this freshman class isn't so good that any of them are about to leave for the NBA anytime soon. Ladies and gents, your pre-preseason favoritefor the 2009 Big Ten title: the Purdue Boilermakers. Actually, at 10-1, they're looking pretty good for 2008, too.
Purdue might represent the wave of the future in another sense, as well. This spread-the-floor-with-quickness thing is spreading like a YouTube link,isn't it? True, the Boilers don't employ the Memphis variety, preferring to use their small big men for high screens instead of using them forweak-side offensive board opportunities. Still, with a point guard and four wings on the floor, this is officially no longer Gene Keady's Boilermakers. Oneway to read a coach's true beliefs is to watch their play calls coming out of timeouts. In Madison, Painter called more than one clear-out for RobbieHummel to take Brian Butch to the hole. The play worked beautifully. (Eventually Bo Ryan had to pull Butch out of the game--there was simply no one on thefloor he could guard.) Much like Duke, this Purdue offense waits to see who's being guarded by the opponent's slowest player and then isolates thatmatch-up. For opponents, the simplest answer is, of course, to play zone: the Boilers managed just 0.93 points per trip against Ohio State's 2-3 in WestLafayette on January 12 (but won anyway because the Buckeyes scored just 0.84 points per possession). I'll be very surprised if Kelvin Sampson doesn'troll out a 2-3, at least off made baskets, when Indiana hosts Purdue next Tuesday.
I Am So Mad at Louisville Right Now
You see, until Saturday I had them all to myself. I knew they were the best team in the Big East, even before they beat Georgetown 59-51 at Freedom HallSaturday night. Repeat: before they beat Georgetownâ¦.
Through games of February 7, conference games only
Pace: possessions per 40 minutes
PPP: points per possession
Opp. PPP: opponent points per possession
EM: efficiency margin (PPP - Opp. PPP)
Those were the numbers going into the weekend. (Tune in tomorrow for the updated reality on all the power conferences.) Yet the Cardinals weren't evenin the top 25. Unbelievable.
Last week the NCAA held its mock bracket selection exercise for members of the media in Indianapolis. I briefed one of the participants in advance with thefollowing nugget: "No team in the nation shows a greater discrepancy between capability and current ranking than Louisville." So true. The Cardinalsare playing some of the best defense in the country right now. Now everyone knows it and I'm just another voice in the chorus. (It's all about me.) Whycouldn't the Cards have lost that game by three? O, the injustice!
Richard Hendrix Is the (pre-2004) Kevin Garnett of College Hoops
Gather 'round, youngsters, and let me regale you. Did you know there was a time when the words "Kevin Garnett" were synonymous with: "aninsanely great player burdened with a mediocre team that never does anything in the postseason"? It's true! Or it was true for years untilGarnett's team, the Minnesota Timberwolves, made the Western Conference Finals in 2004.
Today we have another such player in college hoops. Meet Richard Hendrix. His team, Alabama, is just 2-7 in the SEC. But just look at this guyâ¦.
Hendrix is a mensch laboring in sub-.500 obscurity in a conference and a region where hoops is but the dark side of the football moon. Salute.
John Gasaway is an author of Basketball Prospectus. You can contact John by clicking here or click here to see John's other articles.
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This weekend in the Pac-10 the headline-grabber was, of course, Washington's 71-61 victory over UCLA yesterday in Seattle. The game deserved to grabheadlines: the Huskies entered the contest 3-7 in conference play while the Bruins, well, they're the Bruins. Still, let's not overlook another datapoint that came to us via Pullman, Washington, where on Saturday the previously struggling Washington State Cougars laid a vigorous 74-50 thrashing onpreviously surging USC. Two teams from Southern California each lose the second of their two-game sets up in the state of Washington. Hmm. I wonderâ¦.
In the admirably symmetrical Pac-10, teams play their road games in geographically appropriate pairs, customarily on a Thursday-Saturday schedule. If youplay at Oregon on Thursday, for example, you'll play at Oregon State the following Saturday (or Sunday). Or you'll play Cal and then Stanford, Arizonaand then Arizona State, etc. That's all nice and tidy. However, for our current purposes the salient point is that the Seattle-to-Pullman trip (or viceversa) is, at 286 miles, far and away the longest game-to-game commute in the conference. Travel alone can't explain UCLA's lethargy, of course. Thedefense that UW's Artem Wallace played against Kevin Love doubtless had a good deal more to do with yesterday's end result. Nevertheless, playing atthese two venues on a Thursday-Saturday schedule, as did USC, is a tough gig, to say the very least.
(Kudos to the Huskies' Tim Morris, by the way, for virtually ensuring that the Rules Committee will make at least one change in the offseason: it willno longer be permissible for a player to avoid a five-second call on an inbounds pass by simply throwing the ball, hard, off the defender's face. Thisshall be called The Morris Rule. It didn't come soon enough for Alfred Aboya.)
Purdue. Wave of the Future. Discuss.
With this year's freshman class, Matt Painter hit a recruiting sweet spot that 340 other D-I coaches would love to find. His class is good, really good.Witness the Boilermakers' 72-67 victory over Wisconsin in Madison on Saturday night. On the other hand, unlike Ohio State's crop of first-year playerslast year, this freshman class isn't so good that any of them are about to leave for the NBA anytime soon. Ladies and gents, your pre-preseason favoritefor the 2009 Big Ten title: the Purdue Boilermakers. Actually, at 10-1, they're looking pretty good for 2008, too.
Purdue might represent the wave of the future in another sense, as well. This spread-the-floor-with-quickness thing is spreading like a YouTube link,isn't it? True, the Boilers don't employ the Memphis variety, preferring to use their small big men for high screens instead of using them forweak-side offensive board opportunities. Still, with a point guard and four wings on the floor, this is officially no longer Gene Keady's Boilermakers. Oneway to read a coach's true beliefs is to watch their play calls coming out of timeouts. In Madison, Painter called more than one clear-out for RobbieHummel to take Brian Butch to the hole. The play worked beautifully. (Eventually Bo Ryan had to pull Butch out of the game--there was simply no one on thefloor he could guard.) Much like Duke, this Purdue offense waits to see who's being guarded by the opponent's slowest player and then isolates thatmatch-up. For opponents, the simplest answer is, of course, to play zone: the Boilers managed just 0.93 points per trip against Ohio State's 2-3 in WestLafayette on January 12 (but won anyway because the Buckeyes scored just 0.84 points per possession). I'll be very surprised if Kelvin Sampson doesn'troll out a 2-3, at least off made baskets, when Indiana hosts Purdue next Tuesday.
I Am So Mad at Louisville Right Now
You see, until Saturday I had them all to myself. I knew they were the best team in the Big East, even before they beat Georgetown 59-51 at Freedom HallSaturday night. Repeat: before they beat Georgetownâ¦.
Through games of February 7, conference games only
Pace: possessions per 40 minutes
PPP: points per possession
Opp. PPP: opponent points per possession
EM: efficiency margin (PPP - Opp. PPP)
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Big East Opp. Pace PPP PPP EM1. Louisville 66.7 1.06 0.89 +0.172. Georgetown 62.9 1.07 0.92 +0.153. Pitt 63.9 1.06 0.98 +0.084. Notre Dame 73.7 1.07 1.01 +0.065. Connecticut 69.1 1.08 1.03 +0.056. West Virginia 62.9 1.02 0.97 +0.057. Marquette 68.2 1.04 1.00 +0.048. Syracuse 69.4 1.02 0.99 +0.03Last week the NCAA held its mock bracket selection exercise for members of the media in Indianapolis. I briefed one of the participants in advance with thefollowing nugget: "No team in the nation shows a greater discrepancy between capability and current ranking than Louisville." So true. The Cardinalsare playing some of the best defense in the country right now. Now everyone knows it and I'm just another voice in the chorus. (It's all about me.) Whycouldn't the Cards have lost that game by three? O, the injustice!
Richard Hendrix Is the (pre-2004) Kevin Garnett of College Hoops
Gather 'round, youngsters, and let me regale you. Did you know there was a time when the words "Kevin Garnett" were synonymous with: "aninsanely great player burdened with a mediocre team that never does anything in the postseason"? It's true! Or it was true for years untilGarnett's team, the Minnesota Timberwolves, made the Western Conference Finals in 2004.
Today we have another such player in college hoops. Meet Richard Hendrix. His team, Alabama, is just 2-7 in the SEC. But just look at this guyâ¦.
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Big Men, 2008 Off. Def. Block Rtng. eFG pct. Reb. Pct. Pct. Tyler Hansbrough, North Carolina 128.1 54.0 20.2 0.7Kevin Love, UCLA 132.2 64.2 30.8 2.9Roy Hibbert, Georgetown 118.9 60.4 18.8 8.6D.J. White, Indiana 119.8 62.1 26.3 5.9Richard Hendrix, Alabama 121.0 64.2 24.5 7.7John Gasaway is an author of Basketball Prospectus. You can contact John by clicking here or click here to see John's other articles.
