Can't believe the game was won on foul 90 feet away from their basket
Just terrible decision making on their part for the final minute. Attempting a deep 3 far beyond the college regulation line when they had time on their side, fouling so far away from the opponents basket, and then finally, the last possession, inbounding the ball to the farthest player from the basket with 5 seconds left. Inexperience by UCI all around, UCI had the height advantage the entire game and they didn't use it in the final minute.
Man our team is huge. Our bigs are a bunch of lead footed giants lol.
The 2nd tallest player on the team is 7 ft 2 in....geez...
How tall is that huge African dude we're force feeding? I swear he looks 12 feet tall it's awesome haha.
7'6"
He just slapped the floor with both hands and you could hear it clearly on the mics lol.
Some NBA team will pick him up...sure he's not the most athletic guy, but I can see him picking a spot on the rotation on some team trying to get some easy buckets.
Even though his stats don't show it, he has improved a lot since last year. If he keep improving at this rate, he could be a serviceable big in the NBA in a few years.
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Aeneas Hunter wrote:
leor_77 wrote:
Question, is SMU just not that great of a basketball team during Larry Brown's coaching reign? He seems to get hyped quite a bit, and he obviously has an NBA championship, but it seems like SMU hasn't done much with him.
It's SMU, man. This is the first time the Mustangs have been relevant in basketball since the Jon Koncak era. One year, the Mustangs had some guard to complement Koncak, and they beat UNC in North Carolina. It seems like they were ranked in the top five at one point, before fading at the end of the season. They might have made the NCAA tournament again since then, but they've never been anything special.
SMU is a smallish school in football country that plays in a lousy conference full of schools that are too ambitious to play in a mid-major conference but too small to get invited to a major conference. In that context, Larry Brown has worked wonders.
The color commentator for the St John's v SDSU game sounds like he's getting tased in the face by the cops every time he gets excited about a good play. It's annoying that he has chosen to do that as "his thing."
The color commentator for the St John's v SDSU game sounds like he's getting tased in the face by the cops every time he gets excited about a good play. It's annoying that he has chosen to do that as "his thing."
I'm not sure what was up with that guy. It was sort of a dull game between two mediocre teams fighting for the right to lose to Duke in the second round. The color guy made it dull and annoying. Thankfully, there were three other games available on cable.
Other impressions:
The Dayton-Providence game was the collision of a stoppable force with a moveable object. These were at-large picks for the NCAA tournament? Wow. If I were a Murray State fan, I'd be pissed.
The Wisconsin-Coastal Carolina game was surprisingly entertaining. Frank the Tank is fun to watch. I don't know why anyone would think that the Badgers are a threat to Kentucky, though.
Gonzaga-NDSU was sort of fun, too, but the quality of play was uneven. I know that a lot of people have worked themselves up into believing that the Zags are a great team, but I just don't see it. They look like pretenders, just like they did in the Adam Morrison era.
Gonzaga-NDSU was sort of fun, too, but the quality of play was uneven. I know that a lot of people have worked themselves up into believing that the Zags are a great team, but I just don't see it. They look like pretenders, just like they did in the Adam Morrison era.
You think Witchita State has the same vibe as Gonzaga? I'd like to see a school like that or George Mason or Valpo, etc win an NCAA title instead of Kentucky, UConn, NC, Kansas, or Duke winning all the time, but they looked not that much better than Indiana. They have a roster with an interesting cast of characters that kind of resemble an NBA team, even Baker with his Dirklike hair and shooting, but then you consider that they're with Witchita State because Kansas didn't want em. Maybe even Kansas State. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL SEDALE TRIBUTE EDDIE DONX!
Birmingham. They lost their football team even. Makes you conjure up notions of the kind of university in Waterboy. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL SEDALE TRIBUTE EDDIE DONX!
Question, is SMU just not that great of a basketball team during Larry Brown's coaching reign? He seems to get hyped quite a bit, and he obviously has an NBA championship, but it seems like SMU hasn't done much with him.
It's SMU, man. This is the first time the Mustangs have been relevant in basketball since the Jon Koncak era. One year, the Mustangs had some guard to complement Koncak, and they beat UNC in North Carolina. It seems like they were ranked in the top five at one point, before fading at the end of the season. They might have made the NCAA tournament again since then, but they've never been anything special.
SMU is a smallish school in football country that plays in a lousy conference full of schools that are too ambitious to play in a mid-major conference but too small to get invited to a major conference. In that context, Larry Brown has worked wonders.
And like everything else Larry Brown touches, there's controversy.
Three reasons I'm glad SMU lost:
1) They're Southern.
2) They're Methodist.
3) Larry Brown. Fun to see him grumble and insinuate that they got screwed like he has always done.
They didn't play the right way, I guess. Pff. Where'd that meme go, Larry? We had to listen to that BS all the time in 01 and 04. Surprised the refs made that call, but rules is rules. The only semi-legit gripe you really have is that you'd expect the refs not to decide the game on a shot that was on its way past the rim, but once they made it, you can't dispute the rule itself. You can't even say it's a bad rule, because if the shot was dead on and the guy tipped it as it was dead center over the cylinder, then it's a good call. You can't just decide which goaltending situation is worthy of a whistle and which is not just because you don't think it's fair.
In that 1993 BOS/CHAR series where Zo hit the winning shot and they all piled on him, Dee Brown tried to drop in a shot in the remaining half second that was on its downward arch and had a good chance to go in, but the refs swallowed the whistle. Proving "chance to go in", the ball still bounced off the rim after it had been touched twice by different Hornets. Had that shot been taken at any time in the first 46 or so minutes, they probably would've called goaltending. Series decided, Charlotte Hornets.
UCLA on the way to the sweet 16....not bad for a team that wasn't supposed to be in the tournament, let along a team that got demolished by Kentucky early in the season.
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