Re: College Basketball 2008-2009

[gflore34]

Gun to my head I say we wind up as an 11 seed. Our tourney hopes probably rely on Legion being able to step in and be productive.

 

good news is we can shoot and we can score inside. bad news is that our interior defense sucks.

 

if we can't stop anyone, we might have to pull simpson off the bench.

na dont burn him. he will be more important in the coming years when we are good. legion will be enough to get us in the tourny this year, which is all we could hope for.

 

Can Legion create off the dribble? If so, he'll add something the Illini were missing last night, with someone able to create his own shot I say they win last night.

Edited December 3, 2008 by gflore34

[CubInOK]

POY candidate Blake Griffin

[imb]

POY candidate Blake Griffin

 

ahahah what the hell

[CubbieBum]

POY candidate Blake Griffin

 

I'm literally speechless.

[illiniguy]

Gun to my head I say we wind up as an 11 seed. Our tourney hopes probably rely on Legion being able to step in and be productive.

 

good news is we can shoot and we can score inside. bad news is that our interior defense sucks.

 

if we can't stop anyone, we might have to pull simpson off the bench.

na dont burn him. he will be more important in the coming years when we are good. legion will be enough to get us in the tourny this year, which is all we could hope for.

 

I don't think he'd make that much of a difference on interior defense anyway. Obviously different circumstances, but it's not like Pruitt was able to step in during the title game and slow down May. Big men are slow to adapt, and defense is probably the last thing they pick up. You want a body in there to take up space, give CJ 10 minutes a game.

I thought that Semrau handled his own pretty well last night. I wish he was given a little more freedom to shoot the jumper. One of his strengths is his ability to knock down a 17 footer.

 

And as for the poster asking about Legion. He could in high school when he played for Oak Hill. I know that was high school, but odds are he will be able to create his own a little bit at this level as well. He was a top 30 recruit, most of them are able to get a good look off of the bounce.

[Vanilla Ice]

Do black guys hate Duke, or the other way around?

its not our fault greg monroe and patrick patterson didnt want to play for us.

 

black guys hate us i think.

 

The real truth of the reason is Duke does not change their academic standards for anyone athletes or not and they have some of the highest standards in the country. That makes it hard to get the inner city kids that tend to be the really great basketball players and are more often black. This is why Duke will never ever be good at football. You can't find 20 great players who are smart enough to get in let alone the 30-40 you need to compete in football. You can find 7-10 very good basketball players who are smart enough. I applaud Duke for not lowering its standards and its just unfortunate that right now the inner city is predominantly black and that's where most of the great basketball players come from.

Duke lowers their academic standards for a fair amount of basketball players.

 

Hell, they are recruiting John Wall.

 

Sean Dockery got like a 17 on his act.

hes the first one to come to mind

[Mark_R]

I just saw the Jimmy V speech on ESPN for the first time and I almost cried.

[imb]

I just saw the Jimmy V speech on ESPN for the first time and I almost cried.

 

and the green bay packers

[manbearcub]

I just saw the Jimmy V speech on ESPN for the first time and I almost cried.

did you just turn 1 year old

[Derwood]

time for PSU basketball

 

ETA: not in HD....weak, ESPN

[imb]

is indiana a real team? they look like high schoolers, complete with the requisite fat white post player

 

wait, is the whole team white? this is amazing

[Derwood]

Penn State is going to give some teams problems this year. They're fast, active on defense, and can shoot the 3. They'll have big problems with any teams with size on the front line, though

[imb]

oh my god some white kid in constrictor shorts just got raped

[SouthSideRyan]

is indiana a real team? they look like high schoolers, complete with the requisite fat white post player

 

wait, is the whole team white? this is amazing

 

Tom Crean likes guys who play as a team.

[Mark_R]

I just saw the Jimmy V speech on ESPN for the first time and I almost cried.

did you just turn 1 year old

 

I haven't had cable for the last 12 years.

[TruffleShuffle]

penn state's leading scorer supposedly beat off in a library last year.

[CubInOK]

is indiana a real team? they look like high schoolers, complete with the requisite fat white post player

 

wait, is the whole team white? this is amazing

I thought it was like a buncha guys at a pickup game against a decent ACC team.

 

I'm starting to think I have enough talent to play at Indiana this season, and I don't have much talent.

[manbearcub]

If Penn State holds on that Illinois loss is gonna kill.

[SouthSideRyan]

Look, I like watching IU suffer as much as the next guy, but why the f wouldn't you switch away from that to UM/MD today, after switching away from an actual close Ilinois game yesterday to watch the refs in the Iowa game look at a replay for a half hour?

[TruffleShuffle]

i'm 6'4" and white, maybe i can play for indiana? or did my college swimming use up my ncaa eligibility?

[hawkeyecub]

Gah Michigan had chances. Missed two layups on one possession in the final minute.

 

Between Iowa, Illinois and Michigan, this coulda been the year. Now we need a miracle from MSU and Northwestern to get FSU.

[apete6]

penn state's leading scorer supposedly beat off in a library last year.

 

Yes, his last name is Pringle. I believe there was a plethora of "Once you Pop, you Can't Stop" jokes. Good stuff.

[TruffleShuffle]

penn state's leading scorer supposedly beat off in a library last year.

 

Yes, his last name is Pringle. I believe there was a plethora of "Once you Pop, you Can't Stop" jokes. Good stuff.

 

our trivia name one week was "these pringles taste too salty"

 

penn state wins despite their best efforts... shocking to see them actually win a good non-conference game.

[Derwood]

wow, Penn State almost lost this game at the stripe.

[hawkeyecub]

WTF Penn State? With 30 seconds left they have a breakaway, uncontested dunk but pulled it out to kill 5 seconds. He then misses the front of a one and one.

 

Then at the end they inbound the ball to Cornley who is a 56% free throw shooter. He misses both and GT had a chance to win with a 3.