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Post by bmartin on Feb 20, 2012 17:50:13 GMT -5
There are a lot of guards that put up good numbers at low/mid majors who are deemed too small for shooting guard and not quick/athletic enough to play point. Lin was good at Harvard but nothing that suggested he could do this.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 19, 2012 16:48:31 GMT -5
Saw that Beilein and a Michigan assistant flew down to Mississippi to watch Booker's playoff game Tuesday. Moss Point lost to defending 5A state champs Wayne County so Booker's season is finished.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 17, 2012 10:15:44 GMT -5
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Post by bmartin on Feb 17, 2012 10:05:59 GMT -5
I noticed that Ben Hansbrough is no longer on Bayern Munich after Jon Wallace took his minutes. Looking for an explanation I found this from November: germanhoops.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-hansbrough/Excerpts: But let’s hear it straight from the horse’s mouth, here are a few quotes by FC Bayern’s head coach, Dirk Bauermann, from a recent SPOX article on Hansbrough[1]: “I was a big fan of Ben’s when he was playing for Notre Dame. But you know how it often is in life: It’s not until you see him in practice every day that you realize how far behind he is in the areas he was able to camouflage in college.” “Ben is excellent with the ball. The problem is: As a playmaker in college, he had a lot of options from the pick-and-roll that are simply not available in European basketball.” “And one thing he wasn’t taught in college – at all – is how to move without the ball. European basketball, however, revolves around playing off the ball. If he were playing for a different team, he might already be one of the most noticeable player’s in the league, because he would have the ball in his hands more often. But when it comes to more complex things, there’s a lot he still needs to learn.” “I assumed that because of his toughness and his quick feet, Ben would be a good man-to-man defender, even though Notre Dame played a lot of zone. But he has a hard time understanding and implementing defensive concepts. That’s why a lot of things are still rudimentary and at an early stage.” ...And then there’s former Georgetown guard Jonathan Wallace, who was instrumental in helping FC Bayern gain promotion to the BBL from Germany’s second-highest division ProA last year. He was the team’s topscorer in the ProA, but his defense tends to be patchy and he’s not exactly a model of consistency, sometimes following up a great shooting game with a real clunker. When FC Bayern signed Foster and Hansbrough in the off-season, Wallace was told by Coach Bauermann that his role would be extremely limited. He decided to stick with the team and fight for his minutes. And fight he did: Over FC Bayern’s first four games, Wallace averaged 14 points on 51% three-point shooting – which moved him past Hansbrough in the rotation. However, Wallace’s production has slowed down significantly since then.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 14, 2012 13:41:59 GMT -5
Pomeroy's similarity scores list these freshmen as the most similar to Otto Porter's freshman year to date:
'06 Luc Richard Mbah a Moute (UCLA) '10 Jake Koch (Northern Iowa), '09 Devin Ebanks (WVU), '07 Earl Clark (Louisiville), '09 Kevin Jones (WVU)
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Post by bmartin on Feb 14, 2012 10:09:21 GMT -5
5 football games on NBC Sports Network (Versus) & 13 football games on Comcast Sports regional channels.
12 basketball games on NBC Sports Network & 39 basketball games on Comcast regionals. A few of the latter will be women's games.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 14, 2012 8:51:09 GMT -5
How many people will watch a CAA football game on a Saturday afternoon with a bunch of SEC, B10, B12 games on at the same time? That is why the Big East football couldn't get a better football TV contract and why the ACC needed to try to poach new markets. Saturdays are full of good games without needing weak conferences. Is the CAA going to play on Tuesday and Wednesday nights to get an audience?
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Post by bmartin on Feb 13, 2012 10:01:25 GMT -5
Maybe students have been reading HoyaTalk and the Hoya and figured why waste an afternoon watching underachieving players play for an underachieving coach when the team wins only because all the other teams in the Big East are so bad.
These students have not been given the Final Four experiences that they are entitled to.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 12, 2012 21:24:58 GMT -5
The key point is that a player who transfers or leaves early for a pro career does not hurt the APR if he finishes the semester in good standing. The players that leave school as soon as the season ends and forfeit the spring semester are the ones that kill a school's APR.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 10, 2012 8:57:31 GMT -5
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Post by bmartin on Feb 9, 2012 8:52:13 GMT -5
Memphis will drop into the middle of the pack and be an NIT team in the Big East. They never won the Conference USA title when Louisville, Cincinnati, and Marquette were in the league.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 8, 2012 21:42:26 GMT -5
Another blatant ref job was the running start over the back knock the Hoya off the court offensive rebound that wasn't called when Cuse tied the game. Generally every time Georgetown had a chance to take a two possession lead Syracuse was bailed out by the refs.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 8, 2012 21:34:54 GMT -5
If they call the blocking foul on Melo instead of the bull charge, Hollis would have shot two free throws up two. If he gives us a two possession lead the last two minutes are completely different.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 8, 2012 21:29:20 GMT -5
Is there any reasonable explanation as to why Hollis couldn't check in? Honestly. I have never seen that called ever. Refs routinely let subs report after the horn.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 7, 2012 21:10:32 GMT -5
The Hornets may resign DaJuan to a 10 day contract after he clears waivers. If he was on the roster at close of business today he would have been guaranteed for the season. He was in a suit on the bench last night after having his knee drained.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 6, 2012 13:16:02 GMT -5
They watch basketball games and make judgements about how good teams are. They look at bad losses and good wins. They look at how good conferences are and how well teams competed in good conferences.
Why did VCU get in with an RPI of 51 over Harvard (35) and St. Mary's (44) last year? Because the selection committee recognized that VCU was a better team.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 6, 2012 11:33:05 GMT -5
Go back and compare RPI to brackets. RPI is not used either for selections or for seeding. Teams in the 20s in RPI have not made the field and teams in the 40s have been seeded ahead of teams in the 20s. The selection committee is not stupid enough to base anything on RPI which is not a legitimate measurement of anything. That makes no sense. You could say the same thing about the number of wins that a team has. Teams with 24 wins have not made the field, while teams with 17 wins have been seeded ahead of teams with, say, 22 wins. Look at last season's field. In the Southeast bracket, 22-10 Kansas State got a 5 seed while 30-3 Utah State and 30-4 Belmont were seeded 12 and 13, respectively. You aren't that grumpy old scout from Moneyball, are you? Can you read? I'm saying RPI is not used by the committee to rank teams for selection or for seeding. I have cited specific examples in the past. Forget about RPI. It isn't important. Of course the number of wins is not what seeding is based on. You create straw men instead of reading or responding to actual arguments.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 6, 2012 8:55:28 GMT -5
Go back and compare RPI to brackets. RPI is not used either for selections or for seeding. Teams in the 20s in RPI have not made the field and teams in the 40s have been seeded ahead of teams in the 20s. The selection committee is not stupid enough to base anything on RPI which is not a legitimate measurement of anything.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 6, 2012 8:50:01 GMT -5
In Big East play Georgetown has rebounded 33.6 percent of misses on the offensive end. That is above average nationally but only 10th in Big East because this is a great offensive rebounding league. Georgetown is allowing BE opponents to rebound only 31.6 percent of their misses which ranks #1 in defensive rebounding in league play.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 3, 2012 18:40:47 GMT -5
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