3/28-3/29 Games Thread
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CrazedUIFan
UI Fan in QC Land
Is it really the last play that did them in? As a coach, you allowed the comeback. He has a history of losing big leads in the tourney.
Sarr made the pass because he's under the basket and there's a clear path to make a pass. Boozer tried a jump pass over two players. That's the difference.
Meant basket. I've understandably got bracket on the brain right now.
I actually wonder why this doesn't happen more often. It's a no brainer. Heaving it straight up takes at least 3 or 4 seconds off the clock. By the time it lands and someone gets control it's too late.He’d have been better off just throwing the ball straight up in the air as high as he could
This aged horribly (at 6:53pm)
(guy has a fairly watched podcast)
(guy has a fairly watched podcast)
You know Grant was stinging inside being a Duke Alumni...Well them's the breaks..
Illini in Italy
- Illini HQ, Florida Panhandle
Yeah, my Apple Watch was alarming every minute or so "High Heart Rate" the entire second half of our game . . .
I’m still cackling at the Duke play by play guy complaining about wanting a Techincal on the UConn manager coming off the bench.
Literally a perfect encapsulation of everything Duke.
Literally a perfect encapsulation of everything Duke.
Your reasoning showcases a classic logical fallacy know as "bad outcome implies bad decision." It comes from a game in the World Series where a live ball is hit into the outfield, George Brett has a full head of steam and is waved around third. The outfielder throws a perfect strike and Brett is tagged out at home. It was still the right call to send Brett, because 99.9% of the time, he scores easily. More recently, Russell Wilson's pass that was intercepted and cost the Seahawks a championship comes to mind. Why didn't they run the ball? Because the Patriots were expecting a run...
More importantly, this outcome showcases something else *much* more important: the universe hates Duke more than we do. If Scheyer had joined Weber's crew in Champaign, this never would have happened!
Watching the play over and over, I think a big problem was that Boozer was left on an island. Instead of two guys in the front court, there should be one, with the fifth guy cross-court from Boozer. Once Scheyer saw the formation, he should have called timeout and setup a different play.
Ultimately, the odds of a bad pass outweigh the odds of a held ball.
It's just a schematic failure and it's something I think Scheyer learns from. The real failure was letting UConn back into it to begin with.
Ultimately, the odds of a bad pass outweigh the odds of a held ball.
It's just a schematic failure and it's something I think Scheyer learns from. The real failure was letting UConn back into it to begin with.
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
By the strict, absolute, 100% letter of the law, that is a technical.
However, no good official is ever going to call that unless something happens to impact the subsequent play.
Officials get to this level partially by understanding what needs to be called and what doesn’t. And a spontaneous response that doesn’t impact play will NEVER be called a technical foul in that circumstance.
MDchicago
- Lake Norman NC
For your amusement and to save you the trouble, a sampling of verbiage seen during my rubbernecking visit to The Devil's Den (Duke 247 site).
- It does seem the new frontier in the Duke-UNC rivalry is who can choke the hardest in the NCAA tourny.
- Gonna be fun to watch that Mullins shot every year paired with the Laettner shot.
- Scheyer built the team, so that's on him. He seems to be turning into Calipari: overseer of a one-and-done factory that doesn't win championships.
- Scheyer gets the best talent with the best support system in the game, yet his teams repeatedly fail to execute the most basic tasks when the tournament is on the line. ... How many more times do we have to watch a historic, humiliating collapse before it's okay to question the coaching?
- I am really ******** sick and tired of all this ********* from the refs. How many championships have we lost to the opposite of DGAC now? *************.
- It would be unbelievable if it wasn't so ******** typical of how refs have done us for years now.
- sure zona/mich should beat uconn's **** off, but as we saw tonight anything can happen in 1 game.
- I don't think they [UConn] can beat Arizona or Michigan.
- Just let Illinois win it all
- It does seem the new frontier in the Duke-UNC rivalry is who can choke the hardest in the NCAA tourny.
- Gonna be fun to watch that Mullins shot every year paired with the Laettner shot.
- Scheyer built the team, so that's on him. He seems to be turning into Calipari: overseer of a one-and-done factory that doesn't win championships.
- Scheyer gets the best talent with the best support system in the game, yet his teams repeatedly fail to execute the most basic tasks when the tournament is on the line. ... How many more times do we have to watch a historic, humiliating collapse before it's okay to question the coaching?
- I am really ******** sick and tired of all this ********* from the refs. How many championships have we lost to the opposite of DGAC now? *************.
- It would be unbelievable if it wasn't so ******** typical of how refs have done us for years now.
- sure zona/mich should beat uconn's **** off, but as we saw tonight anything can happen in 1 game.
- I don't think they [UConn] can beat Arizona or Michigan.
- Just let Illinois win it all
Didn’t read the whole thread and doesn’t pertain th the Big Dance, but just saw that Parkland win the NJCAA Division II championship. Seems like a good omen to me.
I think someone else said something similar, but being on either end of that game - I’d be dead. Heart attack from winning or jumping off a tall building from losing
pruman91
- interviewing new NL's daily....I really really am
puke has had so many years of benefitting from questionable refs calls that really it's just karma coming back at them and they are unable to handle it.........puke puked up an enormous lead , AGAIN , and they got what they deserved.......a swift dagger right to the heart.....too bad it came from the most belligerent and annoying arsehat in college basketball ............it really really is..........
too bad
so sad
I'm glad
snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.............do Bulls fans really want Scheyer as their coach ??.......lol , puke really crapped the bed big time in prime time...........they really really did...................
too bad
so sad
I'm glad
snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.............do Bulls fans really want Scheyer as their coach ??.......lol , puke really crapped the bed big time in prime time...........they really really did...................
I don't mid laughing at Duke, but little Boozer? Naw...that is a hard place to be.
It's nice that they're backhandedly pulling for us, but that is some seriously entitled BS right there. They dealt with some serious injuries to important players and still won both their conference regular season and tournament titles not to mention being a Coach-K-nose-length away from a final four appearance. That's a nice season any measure. The Devils Denners should take a laxative, relax and count their blessing given that their program is in the position its in.
I think the bigger thing was Hurley basically headbutting one of the officials. Did not see that til this AM and holy cow. There’s no way the celebration is ever called. This though?
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