illiniguy

This I don't necessarily agree with. I honestly think there have been quite a few college teams over the years that could beat this Cleveland team especially when they were without Sideshow Bob and Mo Williams. The college 3 point line neuters the one on one game a lot because everyone is so packed in. You put a team like the Fab 5 or a guy like a 21-22 year old Lebron or Durant on a decent college team against a bad NBA team using NBA rules and I think they could take them. 21-22 year old LeBron and Durant were already stars in the NBA averaging 30 ppg. LeBron went 31.4-7-6.6 at 21 while Durant went 30.1-7.6, so that's not exactly a fair comparison. Joey Graham went 18-6 as a senior at OKSt Leon Powe went 20-10 his second year at Cal Luke Harangody went 21-10 for three years at Notre Dame Daniel Gibson (14 ppg, 32 mpg at 18 and 19 at Texas) is known better for his nickname than anything he's done in the league Jawad Williams (13 ppg in four years at UNC) had to go to Europe for a couple years before playing in the NBA Manny Harris went 17 and 6 in three years at Michigan. Samardo Samuels went 13.5 and 6 at Louisville. Alonzo Gee averaged 14 and 6 at Alabama. Those guys were all at least good college players yet they've done virtually nothing in the NBA. And that's just on Cleveland, which is the worst team in the league. The only one of those guys in the top-7 in scoring this year for Cleveland is Gibson and the highest rebounder is Harris, who is eighth. If you go per game, it's Gibson at sixth in points and Samuels at fourth in rebounds. I think the worst NBA team of all time definitely could lose to the best college team, though it would probably be close (whether we're doing one game or a series) but in general, the good college teams are going to get waxed. Plus those guys are all a lot better now that than what they were in college simply from playing against better competition for years. And its the depth that would get the college kids. Sure LeBron would be able to compete when he was college age. But the white, senior point guard who is doing LeBron's taxes in two years wouldn't. I would guess in a real game that the pro team wins 99.9 times out of 100. Case and point, Dee Brown was an amazing college player on a great college team and he couldn't stick in the pros. Who in the hell could he guard if he had to play 48 minutes a game against a professional team? James Augustine was abused by the referees and Sean May, who is so fat he was out of the league in 4 years. The pro teams are too good and deep.

Barnes has gotten a lot better and Drew quitting helped them a lot.

Yeah you've been very good, but I can't get over you just winning 7 in a row. That shouldn't happen in a major conference. If KU had to stop playing basketball for a year, would they just give the top team second place to not shake things up? And in some conferences the year after your national title, you would have went .500 in conference. Think Big East.

They meant nerds and awesome basketball players.

That's crazy as well. I played against a girl that was 2nd team all american when I was finishing up school at Iowa. She couldn't physically compete with the guys that could play, we were too strong.

That's probably not true either. You think 5 random posters could average even 40% from the line? when i say 5 'random' i mean the most annoying type of person that tries hard in YMCA leagues and stuff, the overhyper white guy that thinks he's good at basketball type i.e. definitely not me It's way different shooting in a wide open arena with 20K in it compared to a YMCA, just saying.

Conspiracy theory? No. Star treatment? Yes. It happens in college sports. Don't deny it. I clearly said that I don't watch enough A&M games to comment on them. I guess that means I think they're on the up-and-up. That leaves ISU (of which I don't watch many games either). But, I do know that most of their games are over at half, home or away. There are going to be less fouls in general in the second half of games like that. As to why they have less on the road instead of home? I don't know. Anomaly? They are so far out of it on the road that they aren't fouling at the end of the game? I could also care less. I don't watch them get ridiculous amounts of bad calls go their way in close games. As for sleeping at night, I can assure you that kU/Mizzou basketball has not cost me one moment of sleep, ever. The Cubs and Packers are so much more important to me. I can sleep at night, but just putting out there I consider the Big 12 to be like the conference that Gonzaga is in. There is no way that one team should win it every freaking year. Kentucky, Duke, UNC, Michigan State, or UCLA don't do that in their conferences and most of them have been as good over the last 10 years as Kansas. actually, every one of those teams has had bad years over the last seven seasons. So they could have not won it all that one time. And when was Duke bad? If they were bad, weren't you then after your National title? Even in your rebuilding years you pimp smack the Big 12. Makes it hard for me to take that conference seriously.

I played high school basketball with Ryan Bowen and it was damn near impossible to get a shot off against him. He barely played much in his 10 plus year NBA career. I then went on to play in a small college. So yeah, I don't think you know what you are talking about.

Conspiracy theory? No. Star treatment? Yes. It happens in college sports. Don't deny it. I clearly said that I don't watch enough A&M games to comment on them. I guess that means I think they're on the up-and-up. That leaves ISU (of which I don't watch many games either). But, I do know that most of their games are over at half, home or away. There are going to be less fouls in general in the second half of games like that. As to why they have less on the road instead of home? I don't know. Anomaly? They are so far out of it on the road that they aren't fouling at the end of the game? I could also care less. I don't watch them get ridiculous amounts of bad calls go their way in close games. As for sleeping at night, I can assure you that kU/Mizzou basketball has not cost me one moment of sleep, ever. The Cubs and Packers are so much more important to me. I can sleep at night, but just putting out there I consider the Big 12 to be like the conference that Gonzaga is in. There is no way that one team should win it every freaking year. Kentucky, Duke, UNC, Michigan State, or UCLA don't do that in their conferences and most of them have been as good over the last 10 years as Kansas.

We do not get the same type of home court calls that most of the Big ten enjoys. Not sure why?

Man that would have been sweet had jereme made that reverse oop.

DJ's best attribute was his 3 pt shooting. It's gone now. Head provides better defense and more athleticism than DJ so he should be playing. Whatever happened to DJ being 'just as good of a shooter as Jamar Smith'? I need to stop going to the scout board. Yeah those people on the scout board are insane, they think D.J. is a lockdown defender. Most of the ogod posters have left there.

Someone tell me why we are playing D.J. Richardson over Crandall Head at this point? D.J. is horrendous.

It seems like every time I watch someone talk about him they always say something like "He's playing really well although it's for a team that doesn't win" like it's his fault. I think people need to just realize he's really good no matter what team he's on. I think people know he's good, but they fear that he could be putting up numbers like Shareef-Abdul Rahim and Al Jefferson did.

Geez, that has to suck. I'm pretty sure 5 random NSBB'ers could at least hang with the Cavs. Right, I am sure no one on here could get off a shot against any NBA player that was really attempting to play defense. And yes I know you were kidding, but that's so ridiculous.

"I'm in this for the long haul." then pats wig in back to make sure it isn't starting to come up. I was looking all over for that quote, but couldn't figure out how to search for it. Type in hair piece and sneaking out in the middle of the night. The good thing is that carousel worked out great for all three schools. I hate you.

"I'm in this for the long haul." then pats wig in back to make sure it isn't starting to come up. I was looking all over for that quote, but couldn't figure out how to search for it. Type in hair piece and sneaking out in the middle of the night.

"I'm in this for the long haul." then pats wig in back to make sure it isn't starting to come up.

Ready for this Saturday. Big game for Bubbles.

Reports are that the honor code violation that got Davies kicked off was that he had sexual relations with his girlfriend. Definitely a no-no at BYU. Their honor code is so restrictive that even drinking coffee or tea is a violation.Yea, I saw that. Pretty crazy rule, but they have been in place forever and the players know what the rules are and agree to follow them in order to attend school/be on scholarship/play sports. Wait, what? Wow that's pretty insane.

He was comparing him though to Weber and Crean. He's better than those two. Crean, my impression is that Painter and Weber are both way ahead of the game. Weber, I personally have a lot respect for and I wouldn't exactly say that Purdue has a "coaching advantage" there. What do you like about Weber?

He was comparing him though to Weber and Crean. He's better than those two.

If Hummel comes back close you will be ok next year. After that tho it could be rough a bit.

That was brutal. I am wondering how the hell Kansas missed on the good Releford though?

We haven't won two games in a row since january. Won't happen here. I knew this was going to happen. It's historically about time for the big Purdue let down. I'm sure we'll see plenty of Illini fans teeing off on the Purdue fans after this game. :banghead: why did you say this? Because Purdue was down 13 and all the momentum was with Illinois. Blue and orange jerseys were running circles around gold and black ones, the Illini were sinking every shot, and Purdue simply wasn't rebounding. It felt like a loss. I'm happy it wasn't. Please take Bruce Weber back. You had no reason to panic. We always play a style that let's teams right back into the game.