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Fire_Marshall_Bill
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Combined 75 points with 3 minutes left...in the gayme
It's setting basketball back 80 years.
and p.c. BSPN has Doris Doright doing the fucking color. Jesus.
It's setting basketball back 80 years.
and p.c. BSPN has Doris Doright doing the fucking color. Jesus.
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Great offensive basketball will always beat great defensive basketball.
I still respect someone who's gone and done something with less, than nothing with more.
The margin for error that Virginia has over 5 games (assuming that they will get a good enough seed to be able to suffocate their 1st game more often than not - although they've found themselves in some battles before) in March is so so slim ... to me it lends them to being upset too often.
What I will give is that because of the defense that they play they are good enough to be able to catch anybody on their best day and knock them off ... but until they become better offensively, they won't consistently win those upper end games.
To me, it's part of the reason why Wisconsin has in general struggled over the years except for the 2-3 years where their offensive production significantly improved with the NBA talent on their roster.
Would rather be UVA with their problems than UW with ours?
1) There's less competition for local recruits ... Cougs aren't a factor ... Gonzaga goes after different kids ... you have to beat out Oregon, UCLA, and Arizona primarily ... UCLA recruits mostly California whereas Oregon and Arizona tend to be a little wider in scope.
2) I do agree with you that there's the potential for guys to spread out more nationally, but the question I have is why. Fultz went to UW because he was going to get the exposure necessary to be a Top 3 pick. The narrative that he was coming to play with Murray and Chriss is a load of BS. He could have been a difference maker for a program like Virginia if he was willing to put in the work ...
3) Virginia is in an interesting place to me just because of the local competition. There's a lot of great schools in the area and a lot of high end high school players within probably a 3-4 hour radius. But EVERYBODY is recruiting there. So then it comes down to how do you differentiate yourself. The way Virginia does is through hard working defense and backward offense. That's likely not going to appeal too much to a lot of the kids in that radius.
2) Fultz would make an impact at any good school. There is a reason he's at worst a top 3 pick. There isn't a freshman in the country that would make UW a good team. You could make a subjective argument if Ball would make the team better than Fultz, but UW would still suck.
3) Virginia wins. They probably will never kill it in recruiting, but they have put a couple of guys in the NBA. Their players tend to stay four years and develop.
Virginia is a tournament team under Bennett and that isn't changing. They have made it five of the last six years. UW hasn't been in six years. I would rather be Virginia as would 95-99% of anyone who follows college b-ball at all.
My point on Fultz was trying to figure out what some of these guys that just are making a pit stop in college because they are going pro after one year no matter what.
I do think that there are some advantages at UW that the right coach can exploit.
But he's better than Romar!!!1!
Porter(s) make sense because his father is making 400k a year.
#Isupportcoachromar