2023 NCAA Tournament - Second Round

[PittsburghTiger 6192]

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

I’m still confused on how a Pittsburgh/auburn bro is on a Texas message board when we really never play either team

 

I explained it to you a couple years ago. You dismissed my explanation. I don’t really care. I wasn’t aware that you were The Gatekeeper.

[Biff Tannen 45696]

holy shit they have twins

[TexArcher 37995]

Xavier looks good.

And Dylan Disu gives zero shits.

 

[Make em eat Taco Bell 1549]

TCU +4.5 vs. Gonzaga looks really good.  Are we going to root for the Zags? I don't have a reason to hate TCU basketball, go Frogs! 

[Rickylovesweed 14534]

I'm now seeing why Pitt is #108 in adjD. They don't play a lick of defense. 

[The Ace of Aces 5193]

2 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

I'm now seeing why Pitt is #108 in adjD. They don't play a lick of defense. 

I’ll forever question what happened to Iowa State. Pitt is - not very good.

Edited March 19, 2023 by The Ace of Aces

[Rickylovesweed 14534]

1 minute ago, The Ace of Aces said:

I’ll forever question what happened to Iowa State. Pitt is - not very good.

Yeah, they're #62 in kenpom and pretty terrible defensively for a power conference team. Just a bad day for Iowa State I guess. 

[conVINCEd 21469]

1 minute ago, The Ace of Aces said:

I’ll forever question what happened to Iowa State. Pitt is - not very good.

They shot like 23% from the field.   

[PittsburghTiger 6192]

12 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:

I like Capel, a lot.

But don't count on X shooting 22% for the game.

He has really done a fantastic job. I’m sure most people don’t realize just how bad it had gotten at the end of Jamie’s tenure and then into the Stallings Disaster.

Capel has had to clean up a massive mess. There were players sleeping with the girlfriends of teammates. Fights in the locker room. Transfers, Carr, X. Johnson, Champaigne left for NBA, etc etc. Then, our big fella inside got in trouble his freshman year. This year our top recruit got in trouble so, the off the court issues have been numerous.

He’s done a good job of giving them the back of his hand, as well as a hand up. I commend him for that.

About midway through the season all the guys I sit with at the games came to the conclusion that everything after that point was gravy. This has been a very successful season, no matter what happens today.

Yeah, I want us to win but, I won’t be crushed if we don’t.

Funny, the pass here, to Rome, was from Sean.

[Rickylovesweed 14534]

I think sometimes there's an advantage to playing those play in games. You get your feet wet in the tournament while the other team comes in cold. 

[The Ace of Aces 5193]

This already feels over. 

[Rickylovesweed 14534]

Pitt is done. No resistance on the defensive end but that's not surprising  if you looked at how their season went. 

[PittsburghTiger 6192]

This pace is not good for us.

[TexArcher 37995]

10 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

TCU +4.5 vs. Gonzaga looks really good.  Are we going to root for the Zags? I don't have a reason to hate TCU basketball, go Frogs! 

Fuck TCU.  But, I have them winning that game.  Also, fuck TCU.

[Rickylovesweed 14534]

People mocking the Big 10 but the ACC is even worse. 

Duke, Virginia, and now Pitt all going down. How the hell did this Pitt team finish at the top of the conference? 

[Tailgate 3022]

Damn….Xavier wants to play ball. Their big man is good.

[Wulaw Horn 19144]

Hey @Underdog I know last night you promised to go to church.  Be glad you didn’t go with me. The last clip before the preacher talked was Duke and that shot against y’all. Topic of what to do when everything feels hopeless. That would be a tough beat for you. 

[LonghornSean 4013]

Pittsburgh stinks

[Paul Wesley 3287]

Pitt is playing (no) defense like it's an NBA all-star game.

Every Xavier shot has token resistance at best.

[Js1 85454]

Xavier is going to be a challenge 

[shadow_operative 15932]

lol, xavier has more points with 4:20 left in the 1H than ISU scored the entire game against pitt.

[Rickylovesweed 14534]

1 minute ago, Paul Wesley said:

Pitt is playing (no) defense like it's an NBA all-star game.

Every Xavier shot has token resistance at best.

Yeah, it's now very clear why they're #109 in adjusted defense. Xavier is hitting shots but this is just awful defense. Not a single shot contested. 

[Horn80 6131]

Is Pittsburgh using rope-a-dope defense allowing Xavier to score themselves into exhaustion?

[Rickylovesweed 14534]

Pitt's defensive strategy is simply we will leave you wide open and hope you miss from the perimeter. 

[Wally Pryor 5261]

3 minutes ago, LonghornSean said:

Pittsburgh stinks

It got way too much credit from that vaginal effort by Iowa State. Vaginal is being kind. 

[Rickylovesweed 14534]

I didn't watch the Iowa State game but guessing Pitt used the same strategy of just leaving guys wide open on the perimeter and pray Iowa State misses. 

Am I wrong? 

[The Ace of Aces 5193]

Texas v Xavier is an interesting matchup. They’ve never seen a D like Texas, and Texas has perhaps not seen an offense this year as efficient as theirs. 

They’ll likely rotate doubles on Disu inside and force perimeter offense. 

[Wally Pryor 5261]

7 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Xavier is going to be a challenge 

Texas defense will be a challenge for it. 

[Rickylovesweed 14534]

1 minute ago, The Ace of Aces said:

Texas v Xavier is an interesting matchup. They’ve never seen a D like Texas, and Texas has perhaps not seen an offense this year as efficient as theirs. 

They’ll likely rotate doubles on Disu inside and force perimeter offense. 

Texas is going put Carr and Disu in pick and roll all night against Nunge. He's not mobile on the perimeter. Kennesaw State was terrorizing Nunge all night running the same action. 

[Wally Pryor 5261]

3 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

I didn't watch the Iowa State game but guessing Pitt used the same strategy of just leaving guys wide open on the perimeter and pray Iowa State misses. 

Am I wrong? 

They didn't have to do much of any praying. 

1 minute ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Texas is going put Carr and Disu in pick and roll all night against Nunge. He's not mobile on the perimeter. Kennesaw State was terrorizing Nunge all night running the same action. 

Correct.

[Rickylovesweed 14534]

PItt playing a zone most of the 1st half against a team like Xavier is certainly a choice but I guess they have no choice with how bad they are defensively. 

[The Ace of Aces 5193]

1 minute ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Texas is going put Carr and Disu in pick and roll all night against Nunge. He's not mobile on the perimeter. Kennesaw State was terrorizing Nunge all night running the same action. 

I didn’t get to watch that first round game - good insight. Xavier is red hot today, let’s let them get that out of the system. 

[Horn80 6131]

3 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

Texas defense will be a challenge for it. 

Snort

[Underdog 28759]

11 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Hey @Underdog I know last night you promised to go to church.  Be glad you didn’t go with me. The last clip before the preacher talked was Duke and that shot against y’all. Topic of what to do when everything feels hopeless. That would be a tough beat for you. 

Fuck him then. 
 

#25 for Pitt has to jump around in the shower just to get wet. 

[Rickylovesweed 14534]

I really don't get why Pitt stayed in the zone. You can't just let a team keep shooting wide open 3s when they're making them. 

[shadow_operative 15932]

17 assists in one half, good lord. 

[Rickylovesweed 14534]

The interesting part of the Xavier match up will be if we want to run with them or make it a half court game. 

 

[Vic Mackey 47095]

The white guy who is 5/5 for 3 is keeping them way out in front. Rest of the team has been poor from 3. 

[dcar00 14319]

Bring on Xavier...We owe these dudes.

[Js1 85454]

Kunkel is going to get Funked against us 

[Rickylovesweed 14534]

It’s frankly kind of impressive Pitt made it this far in the season with a defense like this. I don’t see how it’s possible.

 

[Pancho 44895]

54 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

I think sometimes there's an advantage to playing those play in games. You get your feet wet in the tournament while the other team comes in cold. 

There was a pretty crazy state about first four teams winning the next game in the round of 64 over the last 5 years or so (maybe beyond that)

[Reese Bennett 3615]

Pitt has a mini-Chet but he hasn't done anything that I've seen.

[Horn80 6131]

22 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

Bring on Xavier...We owe these dudes.

[Reese Bennett 3615]

2 minutes ago, Reese Bennett said:

Pitt has a mini-Chet but he hasn't done anything that I've seen.

Wait, they have two of them? (I just woke up on the west coast.)

[PittsburghTiger 6192]

Not having Federiko for this game hasn’t helped at all but, he wouldn’t have done anything to stop Xavier’s torrid shooting from outside, 8/19 from 3 and 50% overall.

[Newdoc 3448]

IDK how you can assess Xavier’s offensive potential against Texas based on this game. Even with the mental lapses on D last night, Texas was so “doomed” against the two powerhouse offenses they just played. Then the announcers were dumbfounded about how Texas was able to disrupt these offenses. Xavier will be a challenge but I like Texas’ chances if they play D like the B12 tournament.

[PittsburghTiger 6192]

1 minute ago, Reese Bennett said:

Wait, they have two of them? (I just woke up on the west coast.)

Freshmen twins.

[Horn80 6131]

Just now, Reese Bennett said:

Wait, they have two of them? (I just woke up on the west coast.)

Either that or very fast at swapping shoes.

[Rickylovesweed 14534]

1 minute ago, Newdoc said:

IDK how you can assess Xavier’s offensive potential against Texas based on this game. Even with the mental lapses on D last night, Texas was so “doomed” against the two powerhouse offenses they just played. Then the announcers were dumbfounded about how Texas was able to disrupt these offenses. Xavier will be a challenge but I like Texas’ chances if they play D like the B12 tournament.

You can't. Texas is going to be a 100 spots better in adjD than Pitt after this game. It's comparing apples to oranges.