NCAA Hoops 2018-2019

hes like larry johnson with vince carter hops

yeah I was thinkin LJ for a comparison too. Partly cause Zion just gives off 90s vibes, maybe it's just the haircut.

what if he dropped like 50 lbs would he be able to dunk from the 3 point line or...

ha. He carries his weight so well, reminds me of LeBron in that regard. Looks so light on his feet.

true. i mean look at this sequence from 2:24-2:35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_uqYRwjEc8

dat pass tho

dude should be in the nba f this having to watch him waste his talents on coach duKe

just wanna put this somewhere

Least % of Points Returning From 2017-18
1) 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%

cant believe zion, ambidextrious lefty alien

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/

Zion 27/16/6 blks/4 asst

he's p good. he should be in the nba right now making nba money. instead he is helping duke, which is bad.

better than helping carolina

carolina is two whole states tho

both are bad

i dunno, petey pablo is from north carolina.

imagined a duked themed version of raise up and repulsed myself

imagined coach k sitting on a chair and repulsed myself

imagined coach k saying "leadership" in the most nasally voice possible and took to the hills

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

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.

Unless Tenaglia was race-baiting Platt, I can't imagine what else would come close to justifying that hit.

yikes villanova

pic.twitter.com/txtlCivMZQ

— Mark Strotman (@markstrot) November 15, 2018

If coach k can just get this scrappy bunch to buy in

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?

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, 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

he's now 32-for-39 from the field in three games ffs

I just did the math and turns out that's really good

pic.twitter.com/txtlCivMZQ

— Mark Strotman (@markstrot) November 15, 2018

wtf is this reaaaaal

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, 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., Wednesday, November 14, 2018 9:30 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

simmons cant get to the rim zion is a fn genius at it

his touch around the basket creativity etc is mega elite

I mean simmons could get to the rack in college

simmons was being compared to lebron man he had the creativity stuff going too

pll are still doing that its called not watching the plays or something

hes also not tall and simmons is very tall

zion only 5-for-11 today

learn some shot selection already

Got lots of rest for tomorrow.

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".

(my two posts at top of thread didn't age well.)

RJ really shit the bed on the last three Duke possessions last night.

will be cool if the top three players in the draft are all from duke, cool as in a scifi futuristic dystopia

It will definitely be cool if they squander the talent in March

true ^

also true, re: RJ shitting the bed ^^^

idk, i could be wrong, maybe Zion's better. but RJ looks smoothly unstoppable most of the time. (except not at the end of the Gonzaga game.)

small sample size, but 41% shooting on 21 shots a game on an insanely stacked team is not great. idk, i haven't watched enough to have a real opinion on his game.

https://www.theringer.com/college-basketball/2018/11/29/18116769/rj-barrett-duke-zion-williamson

All of this.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/zion-williamson-is-the-best-college-basketball-player-in-at-least-a-decade

Better than AD? We will see.

https://twitter.com/KentSterling/status/1074077806273929216/photo/1

i grew up in the heart of acc country and have a deep seeded hatred for both unc and duke but coby white is so much more fun than zion or any other freshman i've seen this year. i'm glad this freshman class is so stack so that he can just do his thing without receiving the tray young treatment from espn

lol college basketball is regressive

Zion fouls out late in the 2nd half on this drive to the basket. pic.twitter.com/iVNIXoptIm

— ESPN (@espn) December 21, 2018

always a good call to make coach k's face do that

good night to the steve alford era

oh no. Michael Jordan is running out of draft picks.

lmao every team has one

baylor is serious

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

suggs gonna need to fully take this game over

i support it

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)

also, every basketball team ever needs a Mark Vital

yeah physically this isn't even close

rip

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

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

one word "backcuts"

the worse rebounding team

matt armstrong has entered the chat

thought exercise: put present-day andre drummond on the zags

they should have some college games where one of the teams gets to have one nba guy

gonzaga would win this game if they had bam

would pretty much solve all their problems, something to consider

xp and it should be completely random across the 450 or whatever nba players

meanwhile it seems suggs could step right into the NBA playoffs

big man named Flo Thamba, matt armstrong just inventing players at this point

in related news, i am so tired of listening to Raftery say "this kid..." after every other play.

this kid, so tough
this kid, so smart
this kid, what a player he is, huh

welp

Oh so this is how you defend against drive n kick offense. Baylor closeouts are ridic.

boring outcome, the mitchell dude on baylor looks legit tho

man baylor plays hard

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.

also baylor made all their threes

they are a weird mix of things old grumpy sports columnists love with 3 point ball which they hate