The College Basketball Post

[johnnyredstorm]

And for some Godforsaken reason Norm went on SNY last night and said he will be the coach at St. John's for a long time.

 

[true 3 blue]

Good game, I was borderline happy that they made a game out of it but then again they can never learn how to play like that for a full game.

Yancy went off tonight.

 

[shannonscrooks]

If your Jim Calhoun you have to be happy with yourself, your staff, and Thabeet for the way he has developed since stepping foot on campus. His freshman year,the kid spent more time on his back than he did standing up and now he is dominating games on the defensive end.

 

[rko2004]

Originally Posted by true 3 blue

Good game, I was borderline happy that they made a game out of it but then again they can never learn how to play like that for a full game.

Yancy went off tonight.

Indeed. I love the spot we're in now. Some big games coming up. One game at a time

.

 

[true 3 blue]

Originally Posted by JohnnyRedStorm

And for some Godforsaken reason Norm went on SNY last night and said he will be the coach at St. John's for a long time.

Son is delusional.

 

[allen3xis]

Originally Posted by JohnnyRedStorm

And for some Godforsaken reason Norm went on SNY last night and said he will be the coach at St. John's for a long time.

your guys situation reminds me more and more of G'Town 5 years ago daily.

definitely shannon, that kid has improved a ton.

 

[shuges]

 

[Arthur Shelby]

Ty Lawson

@ Duke

 

[usabasketball08]

Glad Oklahoma could get that win tonight v.s. Baylor..

at UNC

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

 

[shuges]

 

[blazinjkid]

My dude Ty FINALLY realizing he controls their destiny. When Ty is at his best, we are damn near unbeatable. Period.

This team is beginning to look like the same squad that beat MSU by 30+ in Detroit.


Juicy and co. better be tearing it up on Franklin.

 

[dacomeup]

Ty was great tonight.

When he plays like that UNC is the #1 team in the country. Putting up the 100 spot on Duke in Cameron and winning by 14

.

at Wiz saying Thabeet is a stiff. He's far from that. The biggest knock on Thabeet is that he is raw as hell, as most African players are when they comeover here. He hasn't been playing ball for a long time, and his offensive game is far behind. However, with the tremendous progress that he's made inthis short time it seems plausible to believe that the more training he receives the more progress we'll see on the offensive end.

UC

Yancy with a great offensive game tonight. Maybe Pitt overlooks us on Saturday before playing UCONN in a huge game on Monday? I like the way that wematch up with Pitt outside of Sam Young though.

I called that UD over XU game too. XU hasn't been playing well at all lately I figured that Dayton would beat them.

 

[jdcurt2]

Originally Posted by DaComeUP


UC

Yancy with a great offensive game tonight. Maybe Pitt overlooks us on Saturday before playing UCONN in a huge game on Monday? I like the way that we match up with Pitt outside of Sam Young though.

I called that UD over XU game too. XU hasn't been playing well at all lately I figured that Dayton would beat them.

Big game on Saturday for the Bearcats, I don't think Yancy is going to be able to keep up with Blair though, and to win Deonta will have toput up atleast 30 pts imo. And X

 

[juicy j 32]

Wow. We went up big and then Duke stormed back to take a big first half lead. But the second half was a different story.

Ty proved how important he is to this team as DG, Wayne, and Hansbroad didn't do anything tonight. Come March if this dude doesn't play 35 minutes agame I am going to flip out.

I think the Hansbroad alley was the play that changed the game. I couldn't be more proud of our D in the second half too. These dudes shooting above 60% inthe first half was just

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Thank god we stepped it up in the second half.

Franklin St. was crazy by the way. Mad people, chanting the fight song and random other stuff, and somehow a christmas tree made it there to be burned. I thinkI got in the background of like 2 or 3 interviews for the local ABC station (WRAL).

Anyways

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X 5

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X 3

Dropping over a hundo at Cameron Indoor is nuts! When was the last time that happened?


PS- I hope LOST was good tonight... If so, that would cap off a very sweet day.

 

[timcity2000]

So... the SEC Game of the Year (so far) occurred last night... and nobody saw it because it wasn't televised!

LSU and Mississippi State faced off for control of the SEC West. Final score: LSU 97 - MSU 94 in 2/OT.

State never was really a candidate for the NCAA tournament, but a win probably would've brought them into the conversation. Oh well.

 

[lnmymind]

Originally Posted by The Wizard

Originally Posted by cleansneaksonly21

Whats the knock on Thabeet as far as a pro level talent? Yeah he's not the most athletic amd such but dude effects the game in major ways..... im impressed

he's a stiff

Dude was in the dunk contest @ midnight madness his freshmen year @ UCONN and took off from a step inside the FT line...he's far from a stiff.

 

[doublejs07]

Some interesting stuff on UMD & Gary....talks about his horrible recruiting and how he didn't acknowledge guys like Josh Boone, Deron Williams, ScottyReynolds, Joe Alexander, etc etc....

I'll post part of the article, and the rest will be in the link

For 30 seconds on the first day of April in 2002, there was no better view in college basketball than through the eyes of Maryland Coach Gary Williams. As the final minute of the NCAA tournament final ticked down inside the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Williams's team held a double-digit lead over the Indiana Hoosiers.

The national championship capped the remarkable revival of a program decimated by scandal in the mid- to late 1980s, and Williams had done it his way: with players who hadn't been highly coveted coming out of high school and without resorting to the schemes that were becoming increasingly prevalent in recruiting.

Seven years later, the view through Williams's eyes isn't nearly as appealing. The adoring fans have been replaced by angry skeptics. The Terrapins have reached the round of 16 only once since winning the title and are in danger of missing the NCAA tournament altogether for the fourth time in five seasons.

A review of NCAA tournament records shows that no national champion in the past 18 seasons has regressed so quickly.

How did this happen? Interviews with more than 50 coaches, players and others knowledgeable about the program reveal many explanations, and Williams, 63, is central to each of them.

Some say his disdain for under-the-table recruiting tactics has left him out of touch with the influential summer league circuit; others say he has grown complacent, delegating most recruiting duties to an ever-changing group of assistants. Clearly, Maryland has been hurt by landing highly touted recruits whose potential was never fulfilled and by failing to identify less-heralded future stars, many of whom attended high schools within short drives of College Park.

Williams argues that his 412-223 record at the school, including 11 consecutive NCAA tournament appearances from 1994 to 2004, proves his coaching acumen. He says he is as involved in recruiting as any coach in the nation and that the occasional recruiting misstep is to be expected in such an ephemeral task. "Well, you miss kids," he said. "This is not a perfect science."

Regardless of cause, the effect on the court has been clear: A program located amid arguably the deepest pool of high school talent in the country is fading. And Williams, in his 20th season coaching at the school where he played point guard more than four decades ago, could face pressure to step down after the season. Williams has three years left on a contract that pays him about $2 million annually in salary and benefits, but with another March looming with limited postseason prospects, even he admits "because of the bar we set, [that] is probably unacceptable to a lot of people."

From a personnel standpoint, the future of the Maryland program appeared incandescent on the night it claimed the national championship. The incoming recruiting class consisted of a McDonald's all-American power forward, a two-time All-Met shooting guard, a point guard who had been named the Virginia AAA player of the year as a junior and a small forward who was Maine's Mr. Basketball.

No one knew then -- not Williams, not his staff, not Terrapins fans -- that the program would have been better off with some of the recruits it had rejected.

Deron Williams, a point guard prospect in the recruiting class of 2002 out of The Colony, Tex., led his team to the Class 5A state semifinals as a junior, and Maryland was the first school with which he arranged an official visit.

However, Deron Williams's mother, Denise Smith, said neither she nor her son ever spoke to Gary Williams. Smith found it odd that Gary Williams was not involved at all in Maryland's efforts to recruit her son, especially considering how hands-on head coaches such as Paul Hewitt at Georgia Tech, Bill Self at Illinois and Buzz Peterson at Tennessee were in courting Deron.



http://mobile.washingtonp...ey=350108&rc=sp&p=1&all=1

 

[seymore cake]

Originally Posted by dreClark

x infinity.

 

[scuse7]

Originally Posted by SHUGES

Originally Posted by RellNye

I have nothing to say.

x2

x3

Nothing to say. Just glad we stuck with it for a while. We just are missing a good center. AO is trash against any halfway decent center. Way too many guyswith low basketball iqs. Harris and Devo will make the program better by leaving. And I hate to say it. But we would be a LOT better with Grenne.As much aspeople hate him for leaving. So true.

We need the W Saturday.

 

[allen3xis]

I could potentially see ND pulling off the upset tonight at home.

 

[cadillacflow]

Originally Posted by allen3xis

I could potentially see ND pulling off the upset tonight at home.

It pains me to say this, and I hope I'm wrong.... but I agree.

No way they lose there 8th in a row (and while at home).

E5 has to wake up, stop trying to force stuff, and give 100%. I'm tired of people talking about his POTENTIAL. Dude needs to show something consistently.

 

[wildkycat]

Fortson suspended indefinitely

Coach John Pelphrey announced at his Thursday news conference that freshman guard Courtney Fortson was suspended indefinitely.

He was averaging 14.6 points, 6.5 assists and 5.3 rebounds per game.

Fortson, a freshman guard, has been the linchpin in Pelphrey's game plan. His dynamism helped lead the Hogs to victories over ranked opponents Texas and Oklahoma earlier in the season, but hasn't translated to success in the SEC.

we're at Arkansas saturday.

 

[ThaxbyChamblis]

Originally Posted by wildKYcat

Fortson suspended indefinitely

Coach John Pelphrey announced at his Thursday news conference that freshman guard Courtney Fortson was suspended indefinitely.

He was averaging 14.6 points, 6.5 assists and 5.3 rebounds per game.

Fortson, a freshman guard, has been the linchpin in Pelphrey's game plan. His dynamism helped lead the Hogs to victories over ranked opponents Texas and Oklahoma earlier in the season, but hasn't translated to success in the SEC.

we're at Arkansas saturday.

 

[craftsy21]

Allen - I didn't see you answer....

What do you know/think about this Sasha kid PSU just signed? Apparently he dropped like 33 and 13 on Oak Hill earlier this year... only been playing ball afew years though, but added like 20 pounds this offseason and climbed up some charts. You know anymore than that?