NCAA Hoops 2007-2008

[primushead]

I do think Bill Self is a good coach from what little I know of him.

He is a good coach for sure, he just hasn't proven himself as someone who can take a team to the Final Four...I think this could be his year though.  

Good luck against NW tonight.

[bowl of soup]

A Len Bias movie is coming for those interested:

http://www.len-bias.com/trailer.html

One of the saddest moments of my life.  I'm hopeful for this one; when he died everyone was desperate to assign blame and his death has about the same amount of conspiracy and mystery as Jim Morrison.  How about this:  Great basketball player gets drafted, has a party with a bunch of friends, does way too much coke, and dies.

[aMD]

A Len Bias movie is coming for those interested:

http://www.len-bias.com/trailer.html

One of the saddest moments of my life.  I'm hopeful for this one; when he died everyone was desperate to assign blame and his death has about the same amount of conspiracy and mystery as Jim Morrison.  How about this:  Great basketball player gets drafted, has a party with a bunch of friends, does way too much coke, and dies.

The tragedy was compounded when the feds used len bias' death as a way to make crack cocaine 20 times more severely punished under the law than regular cocaine, an obvious way to further morph the "war on drugs" into the "war on poor people" or some would say the "war on blacks".  I hope the movie stays true to reality.

[bowl of soup]

A Len Bias movie is coming for those interested:

http://www.len-bias.com/trailer.html

One of the saddest moments of my life.  I'm hopeful for this one; when he died everyone was desperate to assign blame and his death has about the same amount of conspiracy and mystery as Jim Morrison.  How about this:  Great basketball player gets drafted, has a party with a bunch of friends, does way too much coke, and dies.

The tragedy was compounded when the feds used len bias' death as a way to make crack cocaine 20 times more severely punished under the law than regular cocaine, an obvious way to further morph the "war on drugs" into the "war on poor people" or some would say the "war on blacks".  I hope the movie stays true to reality.

amen.

[tower]

Looks like that pesky 1-3-1 zone of Northwestern wasn't very effective. Neitzel bombed them from 3 land last night (6 of 10, team was 11 of 18) and Chris Allen finally showed that he's the shooter he's supposed to be, 4 of 5 from 3 land.  

Granted Northwestern sucks but at least we scored more than the 36 we did at Iowa!

Did anyone see the 3 pointer that the kid from Northwestern threw up at the end of the shot clock over in front of his bench?  Didn't even look like a shot, more like he was saving it from out of bounds or something.  Anyway, it got him started and he hit 3 threes in a row...ridiculous.  

Can't wait to HAMMER scUM (Michigan) this Sunday (please baby jesus).

I turned off the Duke game, got tired of seeing them get ridiculous calls, the one charge call they drew in the first half against the long haired kid was silly.

[aMD]

Looks like that pesky 1-3-1 zone of Northwestern wasn't very effective. Neitzel bombed them from 3 land last night (6 of 10, team was 11 of 18) and Chris Allen finally showed that he's the shooter he's supposed to be, 4 of 5 from 3 land.  

Granted Northwestern sucks but at least we scored more than the 36 we did at Iowa!

Did anyone see the 3 pointer that the kid from Northwestern threw up at the end of the shot clock over in front of his bench?  Didn't even look like a shot, more like he was saving it from out of bounds or something.  Anyway, it got him started and he hit 3 threes in a row...ridiculous.  

Can't wait to HAMMER scUM (Michigan) this Sunday (please baby jesus).

I turned off the Duke game, got tired of seeing them get ridiculous calls, the one charge call they drew in the first half against the long haired kid was silly.

Yeah, but that Washington kid should have been kicked out of the game.  it seemed like his only intention in the game was to hurt Duke players.  I know some people on this board may support that, but that's just bad sportsmanship.

[tower]

Yea, he seemed like kind of a punk from the little bit I saw.

[aMD]

Yea, he seemed like kind of a punk from the little bit I saw.

He intentionally undercut a duke player, which is one of the most dangerous things you can do on a basketball court and then intentionally stuck out his foot and tripped a duke player running full speed on a fast break.  There were about four other "hard fouls" that should have gotten him an early shower, but he got away with having one intentional foul before fouling out with five personals.  Missing a few calls is one thing, allowing a player to intentionally try to injure the other team is another.

end rant.

[tower]

true dat!  I agree with you on the undercutting thing, I hate when people try to do that when I'm playing pickup games. It's not even close to worth it for me, if I think someone is going to do that I go into self-preservation mode immediately.

[aMD]

true dat!  I agree with you on the undercutting thing, I hate when people try to do that when I'm playing pickup games. It's not even close to worth it for me, if I think someone is going to do that I go into self-preservation mode immediately.

Ya, my step-dad played varsity bball for his high school until someone undercut him and he still feels pain from it to this day.

where do you play pick up?

[tower]

Out here in Shebbyville.

[ycartrob]

soup, let's talk about your boy's chances against the dookies tonight. I'll be pulling hard for them, got my turtle head out and everything.

[bowl of soup]

soup, let's talk about your boy's chances against the dookies tonight. I'll be pulling hard for them, got my turtle head out and everything.

Well, that sucked.  Back to back UNC/Duke wins would've changed our season; now its time to start shining our NIT dancing shoes (if they'll have us).  Guard play kills us again - you just can't question the effort of our bigs.  The fact that we were up 9 at the half makes it even worse.  Teams with size and a shooter will give Duke fits and I see Duke making another surprise early exit in the tourney this year.

[ycartrob]

soup, let's talk about your boy's chances against the dookies tonight. I'll be pulling hard for them, got my turtle head out and everything.

Well, that sucked.  Back to back UNC/Duke wins would've changed our season; now its time to start shining our NIT dancing shoes (if they'll have us).  Guard play kills us again - you just can't question the effort of our bigs.  The fact that we were up 9 at the half makes it even worse.  Teams with size and a shooter will give Duke fits and I see Duke making another surprise early exit in the tourney this year.

Maryland seemed like a player or 2 short to get it done. Duke got some fortunate bounces on the offensive rebound side at the end, but at times it seemed the dookies wanted it more and out hustled the Terps. Maybe the NC win took some wind out of the sails.

[bowl of soup]

soup, let's talk about your boy's chances against the dookies tonight. I'll be pulling hard for them, got my turtle head out and everything.

Well, that sucked.  Back to back UNC/Duke wins would've changed our season; now its time to start shining our NIT dancing shoes (if they'll have us).  Guard play kills us again - you just can't question the effort of our bigs.  The fact that we were up 9 at the half makes it even worse.  Teams with size and a shooter will give Duke fits and I see Duke making another surprise early exit in the tourney this year.

Maryland seemed like a player or 2 short to get it done. Duke got some fortunate bounces on the offensive rebound side at the end, but at times it seemed the dookies wanted it more and out hustled the Terps. Maybe the NC win took some wind out of the sails.

Yep.  I'm usually bitching about the refs after a game with Dook, but I have no real complaints.  We missed 3 front-ends at the end of the game - can't do that.  Coach K going 4-corners at the end of the game almost let us rally, but we just have no real shooter and it kills us.  If Gist keeps playing at this level, he may find employment in the Association next year.

[ycartrob]

pretty good info as the season gets cranked up:

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news?slug=be-bigboard-ncaab&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

[primushead]

...and Kansas goes down!!

[EAZYE]

That was pretty suprising, but then again K-State has never had anyone like Beasley either ;)  Your boys in the powder blue are looking good against BC right now

[Murph]

any Uconn fans in here, i think they can be real trouble in the Big East

[Penny Lane]

any buckeye fans here?