2023 NCAA Tournament - First Round

[JGrayDBU 369]

KSU has good inside looks, but nothing yet.  now a foul! Wow!

[PittsburghTiger 6320]

Big kid looks awkward shooting and finally makes a hoop for Kennesaw! Nice.

[Uncle Nate 2097]

9 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

I hate when teams change what they do best to try and run clock. Just play. If you go down, go down swinging. 

1992 5-A High School Basketball Championship game.  My alma mater, Victoria High, had a huge lead on Longview.  Huge.  So what does Coach Smith decide to do?  Decides to milk the extremely long clock playing 4-square (no shot clock then).  I watched as Longview stole pass after pass to whittle away at the lead and eventually take over the game and win it.

If VHS had just kept playing the way they had been, they would have had the title and hoisted the trophy.  But the coach turtled up like Mr. Coach Klein vs. Red Beaulieu.  Ironically, I think a shot clock would have given VHS a state title.

Edited March 17, 2023 by Uncle Nate

[Nicole44 22206]

Burden has a little Westbrook in him. Whether KSU wins or not they have some gamers and are very well coached and fun to watch so I hope they advance 

Edited March 17, 2023 by Nicole44

[Pancho 46066]

5 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

I hate when teams change what they do best to try and run clock. Just play. If you go down, go down swinging. 

 

4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I could not agree more.  I mean, there comes a point with maybe a minute or two left where it can make sense, but these wholesale shifts with 10+ minutes to go almost never work out for the less talented team.  Just play your game.

 

Yup.

Our basketball coach the year we went to the State Title game in high school was on Alford’s staff at Soufwest Missour State the year they went to the S16. He told us “we run our plays and our way until they stop us.” We were beating teams by 45-50 points and didn’t change a damn thing. 

 

I get it—they are trying to shorten the game, but damn, why not keep doing what you’re doing until it gets stopped.

[Underdog 29106]

Just like the Globetrotters drew up. 

[Surly Bevo 25660]

1 minute ago, Uncle Nate said:

1992 5-A High School Basketball Championship game.  My alma mater, Victoria High, had a huge lead on Longview.  Huge.  So what does Coach Smith decide to do?  Decides to milk the extremely long clock playing 4-square (no shot clock then).  I watched as Longview stole pass after pass to whittle away at the lead and eventually take over the game and win it.

If VHS had just kept playing the way they had been, they would have had the title and hoisted the trophy.  But the coach turtled up like Mr. Coach Klein vs. Red Beaulieu.

Still no shot clock in TX HS Basketball

[WBT 20886]

Kennesaw can go 2 for 1

[Surly Bevo 25660]

Blew the layup....damn

[Dahobbs 18193]

Just now, Surly Bevo said:

Blew the layup....damn

Both teams did. 

[MirrOlure 15196]

Is slapping the backboard not goal tending?

[PittsburghTiger 6320]

1 minute ago, Pancho said:

 

 

Yup.

Our basketball coach the year we went to the State Title game in high school was on Alford’s staff at Soufwest Missour State the year they went to the S16. He told us “we run our plays and our way until they stop us.” We were beating teams by 45-50 points and didn’t change a damn thing. 

 

I get it—they are trying to shorten the game, but damn, why not keep doing what you’re doing until it gets stopped.

Hell yes, it’s easier to completely shorten/end the game by blowing the doors off of a team.

Just play your game. Make them stop you, and if they can’t, they lose.

[Uncle Nate 2097]

1 minute ago, Surly Bevo said:

Still no shot clock in TX HS Basketball

Didn't know that...for some reason I thought they instituted one a few years ago.  Confession...I haven't been back to a high school basketball game since that trainwreck in 1992 at the FEC.

[Js1 86952]

1 minute ago, Surly Bevo said:

Blew the layup....damn

 

Just now, Dahobbs said:

Both teams did. 

If I wanted it watch blown layups in crunch time, I’d flip to ESPN and the women’s tournament 

[Surly Bevo 25660]

Just now, Uncle Nate said:

Didn't know that...for some reason I thought they instituted one a few years ago.  Confession...I haven't been back to a high school basketball game since that trainwreck in 1992 at the FEC.

UIL keeps rejecting it.  

[PittsburghTiger 6320]

Did he hit him on “the swing”?

[Skipper 6406]

Hate that call there.

[Dahobbs 18193]

Ugh, KSU, just go straight up. Don't bail him out flailing your arms like that. 

[JGrayDBU 369]

KSU blown opportunities to rebound... If they rebound, they have the ball and a tie.  Now they have last shot but behind.

[TexArcher 38816]

Full speed, I thought clear foul, but on replay maybe not?

[Surly Bevo 25660]

LET'S FUCKING GO

[Pancho 46066]

2 minutes ago, MirrOlure said:

Is slapping the backboard not goal tending?

Depends. In that situation, no.

[PittsburghTiger 6320]

1 minute ago, TexArcher said:

Full speed, I thought clear foul, but on replay maybe not?

Doesn’t matter now. They have a shot to win. That’s all you can ask for.

[Skipper 6406]

Just now, TexArcher said:

Full speed, I thought clear foul, but on replay maybe not?

If there was contact, I don't think it impacted the shot.  Swallow whistle there unless it's clear and impactful IMO

[PittsburghTiger 6320]

Fantastic block. Great play.

[Underdog 29106]

Wasted too much time.

[Surly Bevo 25660]

Damn...

[WBT 20886]

Dude had the rebound

[JGrayDBU 369]

That tall white dude can jump!  Congrats X. 

[Js1 86952]

[jimmyjazz 46984]

How was that not a foul on the drive?

[Skipper 6406]

Nice D there.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8964]

X needs to miss the second intentionally

[PittsburghTiger 6320]

There was a foul across the arm by Jones

[dcar00 14907]

KSU rebounder got fouled after the block.  shooter got fouled too.  swallowed whistles.

[Gut Wagon 8214]

Ichabod with the rejection. 

[Wulaw Horn 19561]

Great play by X big on defense. So close. 

[MNLonghornFUKM 8964]

I guess they can foul now

[Felix 613]

Two fouls on the rebound though.

[Surly Bevo 25660]

Steratore...."I didn't see shit"

[dcar00 14907]

steratore covering for the missed hack on the rebound.

[Underdog 29106]

Welp... 

[PittsburghTiger 6320]

What The Fuck Gene Sterratore? Nothing sticks out?

The guy didn’t maintain control because the Xavier guy hacked his arm. This use of the Rules Expert is fucking stupid.

Good time for a No Call, asshole.

[dcar00 14907]

Just now, Surly Bevo said:

Steratore...."I didn't see shit"

I'm convinced all this BS with the "rules guy" is just to cover for shitty officiating.

[Skipper 6406]

Welp.  Fun game

[Surly Bevo 25660]

Just now, PittsburghTiger said:

What The Fuck Gene Sterratore? Nothing sticks out?

The guy didn’t maintain control because the Xavier guy hacked his arm. This use of the Rules Expert is fucking stupid.

Good time for a No Call, asshole.

Right he has the ball in his gut, other guy who is BEHIND him reaches around and hacks him.  He hacks him BECAUSE he doesn't have position.  Two guys fighting for a ball my ass.

[Hermanator 7570]

Good effort 14 seed. 

[TexArcher 38816]

LOL at the Vermont kid channeling his inner Magic Johnson and no-looking it into the 7th row.

Edited March 17, 2023 by TexArcher

[dcar00 14907]

Just now, Surly Bevo said:

Right he has the ball in his gut, other guy who is BEHIND him reaches around and hacks him.  He hacks him BECAUSE he doesn't have position.  Two guys fighting for a ball my ass.

it was a foul and a missed call that changed the whole game.  CBB officials suck ass(junior high level BS)

[Laxtonto 13013]

KSU got jobbed a bit in the last minute. Then again they blew a 13+ point lead beforehand.