2021 NCAA Tournament - Meta thread

[Constant 6722]

2 minutes ago, Fletch said:

Very insightful. Have you thought about getting into sports journalism?

I’ve watched a lot of tape. They do a good job scoring a bunch of points and not letting opponents do the same. 

[El Diablo 4232]

19 pt lead? Why stop there. BEAT THE COCK GOBBLERS!!

[Cairn Horn88 8181]

Hope Lincoln Riley is watching.......

[UpperWestside 6136]

4 minutes ago, Fletch said:

Very insightful. Have you thought about getting into sports journalism?

I think this is finally the group that gets Coach Few a title. It’s hard for teams to score at the pace the Zags can over 40 minutes. They play such a fun brand of basketball.

[Fletch 5799]

2 minutes ago, Constant said:

I’ve watched a lot of tape. They do a good job scoring a bunch of points and not letting opponents do the same. 

Can you tell they have that “it” factor? That’s when you know you’re elite at scouting basketball 

[BradInATX 9208]

I'm going to write the NCAA a sternly worded letter. Friday through Monday sucks ass and the timing of the games sucks ass. Today is anticlimactic and lame. After a weekend of 48 games back to back to back, the entirety of today has been watching Oregon destroy Iowa and Gonzaga destroy Oklahoma. That's all that's happened since 11am tipoff. 

They killed Thursday March Madness for this terrible shit. 

[Dr. Teeth 5832]

Gonzaga are just better visualizers of cutting down the nets. 

[Machinator 32097]

Gonzaga has elite togetherness.

[Beau Vine 54003]

3 minutes ago, Fletch said:

Can you tell they have that “it” factor? That’s when you know you’re elite at scouting basketball 

Can they "score the basketball?"  That's also key.  Some teams are good at scoring the clipboard or scoring the Powerade bottle, but the best teams are the ones that score the basketball.

[Pancho 44480]

4 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

I'm going to write the NCAA a sternly worded letter. Friday through Monday sucks ass and the timing of the games sucks ass. Today is anticlimactic and lame. After a weekend of 48 games back to back to back, the entirety of today has been watching Oregon destroy Iowa and Gonzaga destroy Oklahoma. That's all that's happened since 11am tipoff. 

They killed Thursday March Madness for this terrible shit. 

Today's schedule is no different from the old format though.

[El Diablo 4232]

Wendy's gal has some big ol' nets. 

[Beau Vine 54003]

4 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

I'm going to write the NCAA a sternly worded letter. Friday through Monday sucks ass and the timing of the games sucks ass. Today is anticlimactic and lame. After a weekend of 48 games back to back to back, the entirety of today has been watching Oregon destroy Iowa and Gonzaga destroy Oklahoma. That's all that's happened since 11am tipoff. 

They killed Thursday March Madness for this terrible shit. 

This really is terrible -- it's so terrible that I have actually gotten some work done.

[pops 6974]

1 minute ago, Beau Vine said:

Can they "score the basketball?"  That's also key.  Some teams are good at scoring the clipboard or scoring the Powerade bottle, but the best teams are the ones that score the basketball.

They also do the little things. 

[Js1 85110]

3 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Today's schedule is no different from the old format though.

Pretty much yeah 

[Beau Vine 54003]

So in CBB, you can draw a charge by sliding in underneath a guy sailing to the bucket, but if you jump straight up and the guy with the ball elbows you in the face with his off arm while going to the basket, it's not a charge?

Is that correct?

[Dr. Teeth 5832]

Harkless has been dirty all year. 

[Jive Turkey 12568]

Gonzaga gonna cover because of OU's stupidity.  i'm seeing the line at around 14 or 14.5.  Zags were up 11, but then OU shit the bed.  lead is 16 with 36 seconds.

[Machinator 32097]

 

[CurlyDumps 4439]

lol @ OU pussies crying like they actually had a shot in this game and should feel disappointed.

[aggie08 21434]

Just now, Machinator said:

 

BUT ThEY ALWaYS UNDERPErFORM IN THE ToURNAMENT!!!

[Machinator 32097]

Just now, aggie08 said:

BUT ThEY ALWaYS UNDERPErFORM IN THE ToURNAMENT!!!

People still think it's 2006 and Adam Morrison just graduated.

[aggie08 21434]

3 minutes ago, Machinator said:

People still think it's 2006 and Adam Morrison just graduated.

Even going back that far, they pretty much always play to their seed. The only times they've really been "upset" are when they ran into a team that was Final Four bound (a good team peaking) or a team that had Steph Curry on it.

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

I'm still so fucking angry right now. The idea that the star player for ACU scored a whopping....checks notes......... 11 points...... to win it for his team to get to the second round would be fucking laughable if it didn't come at the expense of my happiness. 

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

UCLA is gonna run this team and their herpes infected coach right out of the gym, just like any competently coached squad would do against this offense and talent challenged team. 

[Dr. Teeth 5832]

They are allowed a lot of contact and hand checking with ACU. 

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

1 minute ago, Dr. Teeth said:

They are allowed a lot of contact and hand checking with ACU. 

Yep. I specifically remember Steve Smith talking about the intense defense they play while a replay was rolling underneath his analysis and the ACU player was literally hand-fighting Ramey as he dribbled up the court. 

[Dr. Teeth 5832]

Why does UCLA keep going into the paint and exploiting ACU’s size advantage? Have they tried dribbling around and throwing it away more. 

[CurlyDumps 4439]

Took UCLA all of about five minutes to solve this clown team. I guess it helps to have a coach with at least a room temperature basketball IQ.

[Surly Bevo 24696]

Hold the ball, don't fire up the quick three, make them play defense long into possessions tiring them out, hit mid range jumpers and get it down low.  Tough concepts.  Their legs are already going out and you see it on offensive end and will eventually show up on defense.

[Pancho 44480]

me right now watching UCLA doing what I yelled at the tv for us to do on Saturday:

[Wally Pryor 5244]

UCLA has successfully attacked the ACU defense more in 8 minutes than Texas did the entire game. 

[Dr. Teeth 5832]

Missing FTs is keeping this close. 

Edited March 22, 2021 by Dr. Teeth

[Surly Bevo 24696]

We lost to a team that makes middle school level traveling mistakes.

[tantric superman 4667]

Y'all surly.

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

We lost to a team with an actual midget playing PG for them. 

Edited March 22, 2021 by Catdaddyhorn

[clapclapclap 9000]

I'm starting to think Abigail Christian won't win this.

[Js1 85110]

Weird how now everything isn’t banking off the glass for ACU 🙄🙄

[Wally Pryor 5244]

Fucking travesty.

[Pancho 44480]

We lost to a team whose coach has the herp and gimmmicky defense that UCLA figured out in 5 minutes. 

[Surly Bevo 24696]

1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Weird how now everything isn’t banking off the glass for ACU 🙄🙄

They missed 71% of their shots in our game and scored 53 points.  They are doing the exact same fucking thing here.  Difference this coach isn't a stupid ass with no plan or idea how to adjust on the offensive side to deal with their gimmicky bullshit.  Fuck Shaka

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

5 minutes ago, Pancho said:

We lost to a team whose coach has the herp and gimmmicky defense that UCLA figured out in 5 minutes. 

And by "figured it out" you mean they employed the innovation of a backdoor cut every now and then or even something really high level like an off ball screen. 

Edited March 22, 2021 by Catdaddyhorn

[Js1 85110]

1 minute ago, Surly Bevo said:

They missed 71% of their shots in our game and scored 53 points.  They are doing the exact same fucking thing here.  Difference this coach isn't a stupid ass with no plan or idea how to adjust on the offensive side to deal with their gimmicky bullshit.  Fuck Shaka

No disagreement. But damn they threw up some shit that banked in that’s hitting the rim and bouncing off this time. 

[LonghornSean 3942]

ACU hasn't scored in over 8 minutes.  What do ya know

[dcar00 14035]

UCLA would have torched Shaka.

[Pancho 44480]

ACU might not score again this half.

[Sbbruin 21737]

What is Abilene Christian even doing in this tournament?

[Wally Pryor 5244]

The really shitty thing is Smart is still trying to figure ACU out almost 2 days later.  

[VirginiaLonghorn 4750]

“Arrogance will get you beat.”

Sounds about right ...

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

2 minutes ago, LonghornSean said:

ACU hasn't scored in over 8 minutes.  What do ya know

Shit, they had several stretches of not scoring during our game too. 

[Pancho 44480]

2 minutes ago, Pancho said:

ACU might not score again this half.

Such a shitty poster