NCAA Hoops 2018-2019

Suggs got to live out every kid's dream right there

ucla mightve considered preventing him from walking into that shot

he’s by far the most athletic guy on either team and he was going at full speed, they weren’t gonna stop him without putting him on the line

yea idk why 4/5 ucla guys were running back to to their own basket m/l w 3 seconds left

wow someone should tell every basketball player about that incredible hack xp

kinda love watching timmie play he’s like the ideal college player

yeah he’s gross but was awesome in the game.

it’s tough for college kids to organize themselves like that with no time out, smart decision by few to go with the flow

if any ucla player just makes suggs take a different line this shot gets so much more difficult

The final sequence between Gonzaga and UCLA was wild. Such a fun game with an all-time great finish. pic.twitter.com/XnKX0WZDBW

— Gary Parrish (@GaryParrishCBS) April 4, 2021

welcome to college ball

where are they all running to!

class

maybe they are going to the beach

Gonzaga and UCLA combined to shoot 58.2%, the highest combined FG Pct in a Final Four game since the 1985 national title game (Villanova-Georgetown: 63.0%). pic.twitter.com/BQXkSxeWOd

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) April 4, 2021

nova shot 79% from the field in that game and won by 2

Jalen Suggs, Mr Minnesota in FOOTBALL. https://t.co/uw83r8eOUa

— Peter Schrager (@PSchrags) April 4, 2021

mr sports

amazing

future 'Suggs Knows..." campaign

he's a relative of terrell suggs

i remember video of christian laettner scrambling for a 60 yard touchdown as well

how is it not cade, srs question, i dont watch college hoops

― class project pat (m bison)

i explained this above, Suggs looks like he cares and Cade does not

this thread could use more people who actually watch / enjoy / don't look down on college basketball

produces deep insights

lol

lol this whole thread so far and not a mention yet of Duke's best player, R.J. Barrett

granted, Zion is much better than i realized. it's insane that if he were in the NBA today, he'd be the second heaviest-listed player (behind Boban) at 6'7".

― alpine static, Thursday, November 22, 2018 1:14 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

shots fired

lol i was just searching for the explanation of why to take suggs over cade, which is tbf a much more defensible position than barrett over zion

^ Seems like a big zing now, but even though everyone knew Zion was a shoo-in for first pick, but Barrett went pretty damned high, too, and that was well within the consensus about Barrett's NBA potential.

ok man

cade is gonna be the top pick bcuz he's a wing. i think suggs has a higher floor tho, there just aren't many guards who have his skillset. at the absolute worst he'd at least be avery bradley with better shooting if his offense just doesn't develop at all. cade will need his athleticism to show up more and i think there's some questions about how well he'll be able to score inside the arc, he's a very good shooter tho

i don't think it's true that cade doesn't care. i think the implication is that cade sometimes floats thru games, but it's more noticeable w/ him bcuz he isn't playing w/ anyone nearly as good as him. it's not really comparable to suggs who plays w/ a first team all american (kispert) and and a second team (timmie) and can have stretches of games where he has little impact but his team still kicks ass. i find it hard to watch cade put up 40 on the road vs OSU's rival ranked in the top 10 including taking like every shot in the final minute and blocking a shot and say he doesn't care

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liqpAnLcTT4

one of the things about college basketball culture is demonstrativeness and passion 4 tha game are completely conflated, when really a steady determined disposition like cades is prob more suited for nba success, tho obvs all sorts of personalities can work

i dont think cade over suggs is any sort of "slam dunk" but cade just is a prototypical 2021 nba player, and hes really good, suggs is also very well cut out for the nba but doesnt quite have the positional flexibility everyone is looking for, hes a guard where cades a wing, however suggs could easily turn out to be the better player, or someone else, one of the g-league ignite© guys i mean

seems like a good year for tanking, rly wish the spurs had committed to the tank sooner, tho they are off to a great run of Ls lately

great year to tank for sure, kinda funny the nbas anti tanking measures actually make it more profitable for teams who arent the absolute pits to tank, and if you are the pits might as well tank anyway right

There's no Timmy for the Spurs in this draft, but there is a Timme, eh?

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.

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

good post as usual, j0rdan, Suggs surely benefits from being surrounded by those guys.

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

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

andrew wiggins also looked like he didn’t care haha

lol

you never got lost in his eyes when he promised to be good at basketball

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

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

my understanding is that cade is a tall PG a la lamelo and less a wing

i think hes a wing but hes def got some pg skills

lamelo is in his own category

heartbreaker for arizona in the women's finals