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A couple things caught my eye and ear that I thought deserved further discussion
Big Ten goes 4-2 and wins the Challenge 8-4
Indiana beat NC State in an entertaining game 86-75
Tom Crean clearly shows he is going to play just 6-7 guys the whole way..
One of his guys IS Remy Abell who played some KEY minutes in the heart of the game and he played VERY WELL.
Remy drained a key 3-pointers and had 5 pts in his 8 minutes, the BEST per-minute production of anyone in the ENTIRE GAME!!!
Remy also had a steal and played PG fine while in there.
All the rest of the players on Indiana's roster have to see that their chance of playing much is limited --
Guys like Matt Roth and Austin Etherington had better watch for blisters on their bottoms...as a whole crop of 5-star kids start coming in next year as well.
Penn St. edges BC 62-54
Nebraska flubbed a chance and lost to Wake 55-53
UNC edges Wisconsin 60-57
Then finally two stories that go beyond the scores...
Michigan State beat Florida State 65-49 but this game featured ex-Saluki & grad student Brandon Wood playing well - like Sammy Maniscalco did last night - prompting lots of talk about the best MIDMAJOR players being "RECRUITED" off their mid-major roster to play for a BCS team if they can declare as grad students. Watch it happen all the more -- as one of the announcers flatly stated..
"Mid-majors aren't going to like this rule"...duh....
Then Minnesota beat Virginia Tech 58-55 but Bobby Knight did this game and again showed he's definitely past his prime....either that or he's revealing that he really just doesn't know as much as people give him credit for.
Once before we discussed how silly his logic was to intentionally miss a FT when you are up 3 - since going up 4 would assure 100% that you win!
This time he said a lot of dumb things but the dumbest was right at the end of the game with Minny up one and shooting 2 FT's with just over 9 seconds left.
Bobby declares the shooter should MISS the 2nd FT on purpose to make it harder for VT to get a shot off....also a seemingly a really bad move in most people's minds - so what is Bobby thinking?
Here's the ENORMOUS PROBLEM with that idea....that if you make the FT you at least assure that V-Tech won't make a shot to win..but if you miss, then NINE SECONDS is plenty of time to get the ball up and take a shot.
The Virginia Tech shooter (Green) was hotter than heck and was a REAL threat (hitting over 50%) to nail a THREE.
Missing that FT means even a 2-pointer takes away your win!
Then inexplicably - just as the Minnesota shooter makes the 2nd FT - Bobby completely reverses himself and then says making it was the right move (someone probably told him thru his earpiece how dumb his idea was).
He's becoming an embarrassment.
Big Ten goes 4-2 and wins the Challenge 8-4
Indiana beat NC State in an entertaining game 86-75
Tom Crean clearly shows he is going to play just 6-7 guys the whole way..
One of his guys IS Remy Abell who played some KEY minutes in the heart of the game and he played VERY WELL.
Remy drained a key 3-pointers and had 5 pts in his 8 minutes, the BEST per-minute production of anyone in the ENTIRE GAME!!!
Remy also had a steal and played PG fine while in there.
All the rest of the players on Indiana's roster have to see that their chance of playing much is limited --
Guys like Matt Roth and Austin Etherington had better watch for blisters on their bottoms...as a whole crop of 5-star kids start coming in next year as well.
Penn St. edges BC 62-54
Nebraska flubbed a chance and lost to Wake 55-53
UNC edges Wisconsin 60-57
Then finally two stories that go beyond the scores...
Michigan State beat Florida State 65-49 but this game featured ex-Saluki & grad student Brandon Wood playing well - like Sammy Maniscalco did last night - prompting lots of talk about the best MIDMAJOR players being "RECRUITED" off their mid-major roster to play for a BCS team if they can declare as grad students. Watch it happen all the more -- as one of the announcers flatly stated..
"Mid-majors aren't going to like this rule"...duh....
Then Minnesota beat Virginia Tech 58-55 but Bobby Knight did this game and again showed he's definitely past his prime....either that or he's revealing that he really just doesn't know as much as people give him credit for.
Once before we discussed how silly his logic was to intentionally miss a FT when you are up 3 - since going up 4 would assure 100% that you win!
This time he said a lot of dumb things but the dumbest was right at the end of the game with Minny up one and shooting 2 FT's with just over 9 seconds left.
Bobby declares the shooter should MISS the 2nd FT on purpose to make it harder for VT to get a shot off....also a seemingly a really bad move in most people's minds - so what is Bobby thinking?
Here's the ENORMOUS PROBLEM with that idea....that if you make the FT you at least assure that V-Tech won't make a shot to win..but if you miss, then NINE SECONDS is plenty of time to get the ball up and take a shot.
The Virginia Tech shooter (Green) was hotter than heck and was a REAL threat (hitting over 50%) to nail a THREE.
Missing that FT means even a 2-pointer takes away your win!
Then inexplicably - just as the Minnesota shooter makes the 2nd FT - Bobby completely reverses himself and then says making it was the right move (someone probably told him thru his earpiece how dumb his idea was).
He's becoming an embarrassment.
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