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Season Long College Basketball Thread

Miami beat the hell out of NCSU today. Defense on the P/R and dribble/drive was atrocious. We will see if this NCSU team is even worth thinking about next game at home against Vt.
 
daaberry said:
Florida St wins at Virginia. Wake should have little trouble winning there next Sunday.
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Bacon was on fire in the 2nd half. And someone blew an assignment on that last shot - they ended up with Wilkins half heartedly guarding him. This is a good FSU team. Hamilton's teams usually play strong D, and this team does. And they're not as offensively challenged as Hamilton's teams typically are. Mayes and Bacon are a darn good backcourt. They could be a tough out in the tourney. Fun game to watch yesterday.
 
So far even BC looks capable of defending their home floor. It's going to be a wild ACC season.
 
Cuse is a disaster. Down by 22 at BC.
 
Well, we've already surpassed the 8 wins from the year of our Lord Bzaster #1.
 
sportsnut said:
Yeah their AD is top rung when you consider he went and got a GOOD (notice I didn't say tall former player) basketball coach who is a winner and coaches like he means it.
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I doubt this is comparable. Williams wanted out of Marquette, VT was open, somebody hooked up VT with Williams. VT did not have to do a coaching search. VT was very, very lucky.

The question for a former player like DM, is can he even relate to a kid that is not as gifted as he was. The guy carried his team to the National Championship, I'm betting Larry Brown did not call a lot of time outs to coach up Manning. The question is does he even comprehend what a 3 star recruit needs from game to game. 5 stars can fall back on their athletic gifts, we don't have those players.
 
Based on that logic, Manning can relate to 5 star recruits so he needs to land them.
 
I'd be ok with that, then I wouldn't care if he saved his TO's.
 
Deac83 said:
I doubt this is comparable. Williams wanted out of Marquette, VT was open, somebody hooked up VT with Williams. VT did not have to do a coaching search. VT was very, very lucky.

The question for a former player like DM, is can he even relate to a kid that is not as gifted as he was. The guy carried his team to the National Championship, I'm betting Larry Brown did not call a lot of time outs to coach up Manning. The question is does he even comprehend what a 3 star recruit needs from game to game. 5 stars can fall back on their athletic gifts, we don't have those players.
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Whit Babcock and Buzz had a good relationship and were at the same school together some years back. Think it was Cincinnati. Babcock is proving to be a fantastic AD. Weaver just cared about football. Babcock has made great football and hoops hires and has been cleaning house in the non-revenue programs.
 
I'm curious to see what Marshall does this year under Dan D'Antoni, brother to Mike D'Antoni. He was a long-time NBA assistant, but is now in his 3rd year with the Thundering Herd, where he also played.

He is 2-0 in conference with close OOC losses to Cincinnati (#19, 91-93 OT) and Pitt (#56, 106-112). One bad loss to Eastern Kentucky (#263), don't know why they played them away. They have a highly-rated offense and take a lot of 3s. Their defense is poor.

He is apparently a big proponent of analytics. They have improved each year, but can he make the dance this year? Marshall's biggest in-conference test will be against Middle Tennessee (#63).
 
PaddyWF said:
I'm curious to see what Marshall does this year under Dan D'Antoni, brother to Mike D'Antoni. He was a long-time NBA assistant, but is now in his 3rd year with the Thundering Herd, where he also played.

He is 2-0 in conference with close OOC losses to Cincinnati (#19, 91-93 OT) and Pitt (#56, 106-112). One bad loss to Eastern Kentucky (#263), don't know why they played them away. They have a highly-rated offense and take a lot of 3s. Their defense is poor.

He is apparently a big proponent of analytics. They have improved each year, but can he make the dance this year? Marshall's biggest in-conference test will be against Middle Tennessee (#63).
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Yeah he went off on a reporter last week who asked him why he didn't get the ball in the post more.

THEY ALSO ADD RONDALE NEXT YEAR!
 
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