After all, you do have UK and Duke playing on Tuesday night, so it is time.
Any predictions out there?
IU faithful seem to think the Hoosiers are going to be pretty good. Langford has a lot of hype around him, guy was named pre-season all-Big 10 by the sportswriters and he hasn't played a game yet.
― earlnash, Sunday, 4 November 2018 02:31 (five years ago) link
With grown man / Stanford grad transfer / two-time first-team all-Pac12 player Reid Travis joining a few returning sophomores and a gang of talented freshman on the roster, Kentucky looks like a cross between its 2012 and 2015 teams and will win its 9th national championship next April.
― alpine static, Sunday, 4 November 2018 11:37 (five years ago) link
and everyone else is scared
― alpine static, Monday, 5 November 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
Zion is an alien.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
His first game highlights are insane.
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 06:26 (five years ago) link
I hear some tall guy named bol bol is supposed to be playing for one of the local teams. Sounds interesting.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 06:30 (five years ago) link
Manute Bols son!
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 06:39 (five years ago) link
zion is the most charismatic college player since....... idk
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 06:59 (five years ago) link
Suns are gonna get him
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 07:06 (five years ago) link
lol poor zion
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 07:07 (five years ago) link
hi i just learned of zion my goodness what a treat he will be 2 watch
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
hes like larry johnson with vince carter hops
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
amazing touch feel creativity confidence and can jump high
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
really hope he figures out how to shoot
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
been watching his clips for a couple years and he played in a small time high school league just dunking on tiny children all day lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
*also played aau and all the elite camps so it was no question that he cld hang w the big boys
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 7, 2018 8:58 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
such a common theme
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
he's 30 pounds heavier than larry johnson was
also, holy shit
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
it doesnt make sense that someone built like him can jump that high
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
Please cast Zion in the Space Jam remake. He is an alien.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
i still wonder about zion size wise for the NBA but his athleticism and playmaking skill are reminiscent of ben simmons, but he's far more polished of a player
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 7 November 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
yeah I was thinkin LJ for a comparison too. Partly cause Zion just gives off 90s vibes, maybe it's just the haircut.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
what if he dropped like 50 lbs would he be able to dunk from the 3 point line or...
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
ha. He carries his weight so well, reminds me of LeBron in that regard. Looks so light on his feet.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
true. i mean look at this sequence from 2:24-2:35https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_uqYRwjEc8
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
dat pass tho
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
dude should be in the nba f this having to watch him waste his talents on coach duKe
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
just wanna put this somewhere
Least % of Points Returning From 2017-181) UT Arlington 3.2% (87 of 2,640)2) Mount St. Mary's 4.4%3) UNC Asheville 5.5%4) Idaho 6.9%5) Oakland 8.6%6) Middle Tennessee 10.2%7) Chattanooga 10.5%8) Wichita State 12.1%9) Duke 13.8%
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 10 November 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
cant believe zion, ambidextrious lefty alien
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 10 November 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
charlotte was down 24 early 2nd half & came back to beat ok st
https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/gametracker/recap/NCAAB_20181110_OKLAST@CHARLO/
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 11 November 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link
Zion 27/16/6 blks/4 asst
― Jeff, Sunday, 11 November 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
he's p good. he should be in the nba right now making nba money. instead he is helping duke, which is bad.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, 11 November 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
better than helping carolina
― mookieproof, Sunday, 11 November 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
carolina is two whole states tho
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, 11 November 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
both are bad
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 11 November 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
i dunno, petey pablo is from north carolina.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, 11 November 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
imagined a duked themed version of raise up and repulsed myself
― lag∞n, Sunday, 11 November 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
imagined coach k sitting on a chair and repulsed myself
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 11 November 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
imagined coach k saying "leadership" in the most nasally voice possible and took to the hills
― lag∞n, Sunday, 11 November 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
Late in a loss to Nichols College, Fitchburg State's Kewan Platt hit Nate Tenaglia with a right elbow. He has been suspended indefinitely and banned from campus. https://t.co/51qbaTl5oJ pic.twitter.com/BgUBu7Y4wP— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) November 14, 2018
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
I've never seen anything like that playing pickup, but def have been on receiving end of guys using the pretext of a basketball game to get away with assault.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
Unless Tenaglia was race-baiting Platt, I can't imagine what else would come close to justifying that hit.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
yikes villanova
― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 November 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/txtlCivMZQ— Mark Strotman (@markstrot) November 15, 2018
― Jeff, Thursday, 15 November 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link
If coach k can just get this scrappy bunch to buy in
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 November 2018 02:18 (five years ago) link
sure, they possess the raw ability -- they can jump over the backboard and make every shot. but are they willing to be molded, by careful application of polish discipline, into champions?
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 15 November 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, November 7, 2018 11:54 AM (one week ago)
yeah simmons is his best modern comp but style wise and even moreso attitude wise he's got a lot of barkley in him. insane
― k3vin k., Thursday, 15 November 2018 02:30 (five years ago) link
he's now 32-for-39 from the field in three games ffs
― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 November 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
I just did the math and turns out that's really good
― k3vin k., Thursday, 15 November 2018 02:51 (five years ago) link
wtf is this reaaaaal
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 November 2018 03:51 (five years ago) link
certainly my post about RJ vs. Zion looks pretty silly now, but in late November of 2018, it did not look nearly as silly. touche, though, i guess.
also, i didn't say Cade doesn't care, i said he looks like he doesn't care. which isn't fair; i don't know how much he cares. maybe instead i should've said i'd rather have an athletic, high-motor 6'4" guy who can play either guard position (i'm not worried about his jumper) than Cade. Cade's obviously very good and i could be way wrong.
admittedly, i am also a college basketball guy more than an NBA guy, and prob shouldn't be speculating about draft picks. i just like Suggs better as a player.
― alpine static, Sunday, 4 April 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
there’s a number of teams who are “tired of losing” and are super excited to make the playoffs this year despite having a zero percent chance of making it to the second round — hornets, knicks, bulls — and are passing up the best tanking opportunity in years
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 4 April 2021 20:03 (three years ago) link
good post as usual, j0rdan, Suggs surely benefits from being surrounded by those guys.
― alpine static, Sunday, 4 April 2021 20:03 (three years ago) link
ben simmons didn’t care at LSU and then got into the NBA and really cared, it can be a hard thing to judge when a guy is playing on a college team where he has to do 100% of the work for the team to be good
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 4 April 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
caring is a hard thing to judge, you certainly dont get to be one of the best 19 year old player in the world without caring, but will you have the superhuman level 24 year old caring required to be a great nba player, its very tough to judge, prob the thing that most makes the draft such a wildly chaotic science
the one exception is very tall guys can get pretty far without caring that much, tho very tall guys are pretty of out of style now, kind of funny the two best very tall guys in the nba both have seemingly non caring dispositions
― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 April 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
andrew wiggins also looked like he didn’t care haha
― voodoo chili, Sunday, 4 April 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 April 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
you never got lost in his eyes when he promised to be good at basketball
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 4 April 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
the degree of difficulty in that cade highlight video was insane, actually really good defense by #24 on OU for the majority of those looks
― k3vin k., Sunday, 4 April 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
the thing that really sold me on cade is his playmaking its not the most important thing for a 19 year old wing to be able to run the pick and roll but the fact that he can makes it obvious that hes a baller not just some long arm freak
― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 April 2021 21:23 (three years ago) link
my understanding is that cade is a tall PG a la lamelo and less a wing
― class project pat (m bison), Sunday, 4 April 2021 22:33 (three years ago) link
i think hes a wing but hes def got some pg skills
― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 April 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link
lamelo is in his own category
heartbreaker for arizona in the women's finals
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Monday, 5 April 2021 00:18 (three years ago) link
It should be a fun game tonight as long as there aren't dozens of fouls to gum up the flow. Seems like a toss-up in terms of the talent on the floor.
― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Monday, 5 April 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
yeah, clearly the best two teams ... now that this is the final, i'm glad their December game got canceled. reduces the noise before and after tonight.
i figure the Zags will find a way, but will not be shocked if Baylor pulls it out.
― alpine static, Monday, 5 April 2021 22:06 (three years ago) link
yeah same
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 April 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link
zags have a higher true talent level, with a starting five that'll all be drafted, but baylor is a truly relentless team on both ends. could definitely see them giving the zags similar problems that ucla did.
no real rooting interest (tho the overall grossness of baylor as an institution makes me favor gonzaga a little), im just hopin for good hoops
― voodoo chili, Monday, 5 April 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link
plus if gonzaga wins tonight, they go on to fight their true nemesis: king kong.
― voodoo chili, Monday, 5 April 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
every college basketball "goofy mustache man" sets himself up for the fall. baylor will win, and timme will sob on camera.
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 5 April 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
you must not be familiar with baylor's matthew mayer
― voodoo chili, Monday, 5 April 2021 22:48 (three years ago) link
oh no. Michael Jordan is running out of draft picks.
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 5 April 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
lmao every team has one
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 April 2021 22:50 (three years ago) link
baylor is serious
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:14 (three years ago) link
seems clear gonzaga just doesn’t have the athletes outside of suggs. timmie can’t play defense vs this team. i think gonzaga can still win tho if baylor goes cold from three... they might be the better team but are also shooting unsustainably
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:22 (three years ago) link
suggs gonna need to fully take this game over
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:38 (three years ago) link
i support it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:41 (three years ago) link
best tweet i saw on this game so far (from midway thru the first half):
Gonzaga: we have a high scoring offense Baylor: we lift with the football team— Mike Golic Jr (@mikegolicjr) April 6, 2021
agree Timme is a defensive problem for the Zags. and that if they're gonna come back, it's gonna have to be centered around Suggs (and free throws)
― alpine static, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:47 (three years ago) link
also, every basketball team ever needs a Mark Vital
― alpine static, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:49 (three years ago) link
yeah physically this isn't even close
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:49 (three years ago) link
rip
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:49 (three years ago) link
this game isn’t making a great case for corey kispert’s NBA future. an NBA team could prob get him some more open threes but he’s getting totally washed out by baylor’s athleticism
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:50 (three years ago) link
not a lot of ways to win in modern basketball when you’re the less athletic team, the worse three point shooting team, and the worse rebounding team
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:52 (three years ago) link
one word "backcuts"
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:54 (three years ago) link
the worse rebounding team
matt armstrong has entered the chat
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:55 (three years ago) link
thought exercise: put present-day andre drummond on the zags
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:59 (three years ago) link
they should have some college games where one of the teams gets to have one nba guy
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 03:00 (three years ago) link
gonzaga would win this game if they had bam
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 April 2021 03:01 (three years ago) link
would pretty much solve all their problems, something to consider
xp and it should be completely random across the 450 or whatever nba players
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 03:02 (three years ago) link
meanwhile it seems suggs could step right into the NBA playoffs
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 April 2021 03:03 (three years ago) link
big man named Flo Thamba, matt armstrong just inventing players at this point
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 April 2021 03:04 (three years ago) link
in related news, i am so tired of listening to Raftery say "this kid..." after every other play.
this kid, so toughthis kid, so smartthis kid, what a player he is, huh
― alpine static, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 03:07 (three years ago) link
welp
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 03:14 (three years ago) link
Oh so this is how you defend against drive n kick offense. Baylor closeouts are ridic.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 03:21 (three years ago) link
boring outcome, the mitchell dude on baylor looks legit tho
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 April 2021 03:29 (three years ago) link
man baylor plays hard
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 03:35 (three years ago) link
baylor came out loose and confident. gonzaga came out flat and were a bit tight and tentative all game. zags catch and shoot players caught, started their motion, saw pressure coming, brought the ball back down, and looked to pass, over and over. drives got smothered. baylor allowed the zags no rhythm at all. great defensive game by baylor.
― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 03:50 (three years ago) link
also baylor made all their threes
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 04:01 (three years ago) link
they are a weird mix of things old grumpy sports columnists love with 3 point ball which they hate
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 04:14 (three years ago) link