I agree 100%

@Bigdjk44 no they didn’t 🤦🏾‍♂️

@Bigdjk44 Salty fan

@Bigdjk44 about that

@Bigdjk44 hey so about buddy “buckets”

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Who’s here after they lost badly to Baylor

@@ethanw2630 me :( but hey Gonzaga did too.

@@ethanw2630 Everyone lost badly to Baylor

That's how we practiced at Pacific U. The aggression is good, but as u can see in the video, it encourages guys to foul in real games.

That’s Oregon basketball, whole starting lineup is 6’6-6’7 wings that are dogs

You're absolutely right. I've had that opinion since I saw LeBron play. Give me 4 versatile wings and maybe a taller versatile wings and I'll beat your team 9/10. Being able to switch, man or play any coverage with grit is gonna bethe worst matchup ever

interesting, thx

When you realize you’re actually in the video 🤣

Where? Who are you?

Where

should i do it...

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@QDOM clown ass ☠️

UH fan here. Here's to a great game. Both teams are physical so I'm hoping for no technicals.

Yeah let's hope it's fun

Since Rutgers has won a game in this tournament, they deserve to be respected and taken seriously. You can toss the seedings out the window at this point.

Rutgers put up one hell of a fight.

Look at who the majority of the top players are in the NBA. They're the guys with elite tools, elite feel, and able to do multiple things at a high level While the draft misses a lot of quality players every year, often due to different biases. They are usually rooted in ideas of trying to acquire the upside of a high level player. A star is worth so much more than a role player in the NBA (10th best player is worth 2 of the 25th best player) that it often leads to teams aiming for those tools more than feel. This is why so many quality players are missed all the time, that and that NCAA and NBA games are just so different it's hard to translate performance

Well don’t forget luck. It’s impossible to fully predict the future, and most pro athlete prospects in all sports fail to reach elite status. The biggest issue is bias based on how the players look - read “The Undoing Project” by Michael Lewis to learn more about that. Everybody looking at prospects compares them to other players they look like, especially their skin color, rather than how they play, whether they know it or not. Also the statistical connection between scoring and wins is not as clear in basketball as is in baseball, and there are some flaws in PER and other popular advanced stats that misevaluate how scoring contributes to wins. I think one dream is to be able to use advanced ball and player tracking to improve defensive and off-the-ball analysis of players - that might for example shed some light on why Zion Williamson for all his apparent natural ability and scoring efficiency can’t push his team above a losing record. But the gist is that everybody is trying to win the last war - and what that means now is everybody is trying to out-Warrior the Warriors from a few years ago, but without Steph Curry. It’s not the only way to approach the game.

NBA has become a souless league that tries to manufacture a playstyle that they feel will garner views.....its failing.

The reason the NCAA is rooted in defense and hustle is because of all the guys who go to the NBA early and all the guys who transfer. Coaches don't have players long enough to teach them all the fundamentals of the game. I once heard Calipari say exactly that.... that he only has players long enough to teach them to give effort and play defense.

@@TheMrSuge It's pretty much the same with the collegiate women. The top half-dozen are much stronger on defense than others.

NCAA is weird, honestly.

Houston's style of play isn't what I would call entertaining. I would label their games as hard-fought battles.

Lock down defense doesn't really work other than 3 or so teams. Those you listed? All of them lost in the first round, 3 were blowouts, and Loyola beat a GT team missing it's best player. Besides Houston, Virginia, and Villanova (maybe not this year for those last two) who else is remembered for lockdown defense in the big game? Sure, Liberty can play great defense and beat up on weaker teams, but only power 6 schools can seem to win with a defense-first mentality.

@@g.williams2047 Wait, so Loyal "lost"?

@@williamherman9065 No, they beat a GT team missing the ACC player of the year.

@@g.williams2047 So, there was a built in excuse as to why a halfway decent, not anywhere even CLOSE to *great* , GT team lost to what is quite LITERALLY the best Defensive Team in the Country? Right. Got it.

@@williamherman9065 I'm just saying that it likely would have been a much different game if Georgia Tech is at full strength.

Do you know who he is in that clip? I searched his name up and know his face ish but can't figure him out in that short slightly blurry clip. If you could describe where he is, that would be great. Thanks

That would be good. Their D is as a good as UH. Memphis is the only team to play UH close and it makes we wonder how they are not in the Dance. Yeah, I know, no Quad 1 wins, but still.

@@tomnunamaker9801 Memphis can’t make free throws if they did they’ll be in the tournament

Because they are so dominant on the boards, it forces teams to rush their offense from the get go. Cincy's HC said it's like starting the game with 12 fewer possessions. Even when UH is not making the 1st shot, they usually get another chance. But when they are hitting shots, it gets real bad for the other team real fast. In the AAC Championship game, Cincinnati was in "hoist mode" very early. At one point UH was scoring 1.3 points per possession. UH shot 56% overall, 48% from 3, and 86% from the line.

@@mbell985 I am a little confused how being so good on the boards leads to rushing the other team's offense. I understand their high pressure defense could rush some teams. I just don't see how dominating rebounding correlates to hurrying up offenses.

​@@aaronkapper5897 When a team like Houston dominates the defensive glass, it leads to their opponent only getting one shot per possession. Then if they dominate the offensive glass too, they create more shots per possession. Over the course of the game this can lead to a team taking about 10ish (picked arbitrarily) more shots than their opponents. It's hard for the opponent to make up all of these shots if they can't get offensive rebounds, so the next option is to shoot earlier in the possession more often. It's the shorter possessions in an effort to create more shots that leads to the rushed offense.

@@mbell985 I'm a UH alum and in all fairness, that's the best we've shot this year, not counting Our Lady of the Lake. But, since our last loss to Wichita State about a month ago, we are shooting 46-47% overall and 39% from 3. We shoot those numbers and we're a tough team to beat even without Jarreau (hip pointer). Go Coogs!!

@@aaronkapper5897 in the case of Cincy, they fell behind by a lot so quickly that they had no choice but to run and gun and hope someone got hot.

Absolutely. And now the FBI has evidence of coaches paying players and NOTHING HAPPENS to them. What a joke.

They’ll be back

Ankles shattered 😬

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