2018 NCAA Tournament Games

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26 minutes ago, KingPG21 said:

I'm actually the exact same. I think college basketball for the most part is of pretty poor quality when it comes to actual basketball talent. The NBA is the most entertaining sports league to watch for me, the guys at the top of the sport are so insanely skilled it is a marvel to watch every night. 

 

My only two exceptions are the conference tourneys and NCAA tournament. Otherwise I don't really watch outside of IU playing

Yeah the tournaments are always fun. The different rivalries between schools are cool too. I always see people say that they "don't play defense" in the NBA, but if you actually watch you see that they do. The stars are just so good at offense that they're almost impossible to stop. 

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16 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

The Cavs are 10th in the league in assists, ahead of three of the four teams you said "share the ball". 

That's great. LeBron goes 1 on 1 or 1 on 2 and he either shoots it at the end of the clock or Smith, Korver, or Love hoist up a 3 late in the clock. That's the extent of their "passing". 

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2 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Yeah the tournaments are always fun. The different rivalries between schools are cool too. I always see people say that they "don't play defense" in the NBA, but if you actually watch you see that they do. The stars are just so good at offense that they're almost impossible to stop. 

Yes the defense is good in the NBA, for the most part. The bottom of the NBA is really bad though, comparatively. 

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10 minutes ago, btownqb said:

That's great. LeBron goes 1 on 1 or 1 on 2 and he either shoots it at the end of the clock or Smith, Korver, or Love hoist up a 3 late in the clock. That's the extent of their "passing". Lol

It works for the most part. Different preferences for different people. I like watching players iso and try scoring on their guy more than I like the team style. 

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Just now, Hoosierfan2017 said:

It works for the most part. Different preferences for different people. I like watching players iso and try scoring on their guy more than I like the team style. 

Guess agree to disagree. I also can't stand LBJ. 

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22 minutes ago, btownqb said:

The NBA game itself isn't good. I get that the 24 second shot clock makes for a lot of one on one. But watching the Cavs is just awful entertainment. Pacers, Spurs, Warriors, Rockets.. those teams share the ball. Cavs, Thunder, horrible, horrible basketball. 

Neat. 

To each their own I guess. I could make an argument that college basketball is garbage given, 90% of the guys playing it aren't actually that good at basketball. 

9 minutes ago, btownqb said:

That's great. LeBron goes 1 on 1 or 1 on 2 and he either shoots it at the end of the clock or Smith, Korver, or Love hoist up a 3 late in the clock. That's the extent of their "passing". 

No it isn't. I don't even like the Cavs, but the moves they made were to get guys who are good at playing team ball. They're dominated by LeBron, but the guy is the best in the sport when he takes over. The difference from their ball movement before the moves and now is night and day. Helps when you get rid of your cancerous pieces (IT)

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3 minutes ago, KingPG21 said:

Neat. 

To each their own I guess. I could make an argument that college basketball is garbage given, 90% of the guys playing it aren't actually that good at basketball. 

No it isn't. I don't even like the Cavs, but the moves they made were to get guys who are good at playing team ball. They're dominated by LeBron, but the guy is the best in the sport when he takes over. The difference from their ball movement before the moves and now is night and day. Helps when you get rid of your cancerous pieces (IT)

Brad Stevens has to be a magician or something to have made IT look as good as he did last year. 

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1 minute ago, KingPG21 said:

Neat. 

To each their own I guess. I could make an argument that college basketball is garbage given, 90% of the guys playing it aren't actually that good at basketball. 

No it isn't. I don't even like the Cavs, but the moves they made were to get guys who are good at playing team ball. They're dominated by LeBron, but the guy is the best in the sport when he takes over. The difference from their ball movement before the moves and now is night and day. Helps when you get rid of your cancerous pieces (IT)

I am not going to take that seriously. Aren't even that good.. Lol you ever played pick up against somebody who went D1? Eeesh. Honestly just an incredibly silly statement. 

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Just now, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Brad Stevens has to be a magician or something to have made IT look as good as he did last year. 

I mean he looks fine with the Lakers....... but the Lakers kind of suck and are taking advantage of not tanking while playing a bunch of tanking teams. So basically what he was with Sacramento and Phoenix, a good guy on a bad team. 

 

I'm still surprised at the personal crusade he took to kill any good will he had worked up in Boston with his off the court stuff

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2 minutes ago, btownqb said:

I am not going to take that seriously. Aren't even that good.. Lol you ever played pick up against somebody who went D1? Eeesh. Honestly just an incredibly silly statement. 

I'm 5'6 and 135ish pounds. If we're basing D1 players against me, then they're all first, second, or third team NBA players. That isn't even an argument worth arguing against because of how illogical it is. And yeah, most college players aren't actually that good at basketball. Hanner Perea had a scholarship to a major 5 school and he couldn't catch a basketball, Hollowell looked like he was reading some ancient language when he had the ball in his hands. But yeah, sure they're good at basketball....

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Just now, KingPG21 said:

I'm 5'6 and 135ish pounds. If we're basing D1 players against me, then they're all first, second, or third team NBA players. That isn't even an argument worth arguing against because of how illogical it is. And yeah, most college players aren't actually that good at basketball. Hanner Perea had a scholarship to a major 5 school and he couldn't catch a basketball, Hollowell looked like he was reading some ancient language when he had the ball in his hands. But yeah, sure they're good at basketball....

Lol wow

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2 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

I played against a few my senior year of high school. They were good, of course, but I never would've guessed they were going D1 if I hadn't known beforehand. I think it makes a difference whether we're talking high major or mid to low major. 

This belongs in the eye rolling statements hall of fame. 

I went to high school with a guy who was a bench player for Cornell   He was pretty unstoppable against non division talent. 

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Using specific D1 college players to prove a point about most D1 college players is incredibly ignorant. 90% of players in D1 aren’t good? Lol that’s just a laughable statement. 

D1 players are probably in the top 1-2% of players in the world.

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30 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Cool? One of the D1 players I played against when we were seniors scored a half dozen points and lost to us by 29 points. We were a 1A school. Roll your eyes if you'd like, and maybe he had an off game, but I was expecting much more from a D1 player. There was nothing impressive about him that night. 

Where'd he go to college 

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Cool? One of the D1 players I played against when we were seniors scored a half dozen points and lost to us by 29 points. We were a 1A school. Roll your eyes if you'd like, and maybe he had an off game, but I was expecting much more from a D1 player. There was nothing impressive about him that night. 

You played in high school against Grant Gelon?




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2 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

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Would’ve never guessed K’s record in the Elite 8 was that good

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4 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

 

You played in high school against Grant Gelon?




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He went to crown point lol