The talking heads were very harsh on Davis after the game, to a degree you rarely see.
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His post game presser didn't help. Just denial on his part. The kids were gassed.
PSU had better work fast and lock up Rhoades with an extension.
Correct, good analysis, good athletes but not great without Caleb.
Inbounds play was stupido. Also toss in the lack of execution on the missed free throw (that's coaching, have to hit the rim and you work on that in practice or maybe they don't in UNC's case)
Kind of off topic, but still interesting. https://awfulannouncing.com/podcasts/mark-titus-rips-ohio-state-basketball-fans.html
Nobody was going to blow the whistle but that layup was a walk, most definitely.
Fun fact about me: I was a lonely kid who would spend hours on the basketball courts, twenty minutes walk from my home and back every day. I could shoot the lights out from distance, I really had both consistency and range. Long story short, I tried out for Neshaminy’s Gym Night and couldn't make a layup.
I’m a very content guy, very cognizant about how lucky I’ve been in life. But, boy, my high school years were a cluster **** for everyone involved. And somehow it all worked out! F me, charmed life.
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My son was a really good hitter in baseball. In sixth grade he tried out for the middle school team and couldn’t hit anything during his tryout and didn’t make the team. The following year he was one of two seventh graders who started and he batted third in the lineup. Sometimes a tryout is not indicative of how someone can play.
14:00 left, thereabouts. A really really fine game, very high-level play by both teams.
Interesting that I think of Kentucky as having all this talent yet it seems their only standout is Oweh. The number of stars in the NBA who went to Kentucky is ridiculous. Not sure how or when they fell off from being one of the elites.
Like I've often said, every program in most sports has down periods. I often cite OSU football, which seems right now to be unstoppable in almost every way. However, you can count on it that they will have a down period sooner or later.
I always thought that they cut off their nose to spite their face when they patrted ways with him. All he does is win and has taken a lot of teams to the Final Four. Just look at what he's done with Arkansas. Considering that he's from Western PA and was an assistant at Pitt for many seasons, I wonder how the PSU program could've been transformed if they had made a bold hire like him back in the day.
We’ll never know for sure but imo Calipari at PSU would have been no different than Calipari at UMass. He would have moved on, ended up at Kentucky either way.
He probably would've moved on, but what if he had been able to build PSU into a Wisconsin type of program or better and stayed for upwards of a decade? Also, even if he had moved on, he could've laid the framework for a consistent winning program that would've been attractive to other coaches and NBA caliber players, and he might have been able to turn PSU into a program that self-perpetuates itself.
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He lost sight of what his goal should have been at Kentucky and that was to win championships. His goal became seeing how many players he could get into the NBA. He even said in an interview his job was to develop players to get them ready for the NBA, never said anything about winning championships and that rubbed a lot of Kentucky fans and boosters the wrong way.
I actually listen to the UK post game show after a lot of their games on a Louisville radio station when I go to bed (it's a station that I can get on my bedroom radio that has a national talk show on late in the evening that I like), and the host of that show basically was adamant that UK should've moved on from Calipari after their flop in the Tournament two seasons ago, which actually was played in Pittsburgh. Now they have Pope, who never will be confused with Pitino, Tubby Smith or Calipari.
Patrick Ewing was one of those college athletes who loved being a student. I’ve read that Ewing did not once miss a class he was expected to be at, not once in four years. So he wants to come back for his senior year and Thompson basically has to force him to sit and listen to what kind of $$$ he was going to be passing up on by not going pro.
I understand where Calipari is coming from.
There’s some of that, but you also need to care about winning which it seemed Cal was caring less and less about. He kind of got a re-boost by going to Arkansas.
Oh, you always pull the trigger when offered a chance like that to improve. Always.
My favorite two days of the year in the books. After 25 hours of drinking over the two days, my body looks forward to 363 days of recovery. The Kentucky finish was one of the greats...the bar was going crazy for it. Incredibly chalky day yesterday with all 16 favorites winning (both of the 9 seeds that won were favored). Caught up with lots of old friends, had some sons of friends join us for the first time...such a great two days.
Only downside was leaving the bar at 12:56am last night, walking the block to Jim's Steaks and finding the door locked at 12:58am. The new "Winter Hours" meant a 1am close...South St was a ghost town at 1am on a Friday night (didn't used to be like that). A slice of Lorenzo's wasn't a bad consolation prize.
Only downside was leaving the bar at 12:56am last night, walking the block to Jim's Steaks and finding the door locked at 12:58am. The new "Winter Hours" meant a 1am close...South St was a ghost town at 1am on a Friday night (didn't used to be like that). A slice of Lorenzo's wasn't a bad consolation prize.
An observation from watching a lot of March Madness hoops the last couple of days. Many teams have difficulty grabbing defensive rebounds off the 3 pt shot. I realize when they miss they can be long rebounds or awkward bounces but even with that it still seems to me that teams are especially inept at this skill. It inevitably leads to a 2nd chance hoop as the defense is then out of position at that point.
One team has rebounded 51% of their missed three point shots over the course of the year. Can’t remember which team.
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