I fully expect to get our shit rocked because we seem to in big moments but hoping the guys just play free.
I stupidly made date night plans a couple of weeks ago so I’ll only catch the second half if at all (damn you Dune 2)
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Game theory pod report - brief
- we r a tough hang- guilty
- Brice looking forward to Knecht Dunn
- Nique Clifford apparently a borderline draft prospect; scouts should be there to watch to Reece v Isiah and Clifford v Dunn
I think pundits mistaking “we r a tough hang” (true) for “no chance to advance past Texas” (untrue)
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Don’t let the glow of your phone annoy everyone around you in the movie theater. 
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Also hopefully Tony took a page out of dune and told the guys to play free: “fear is the mind killer”
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I really hope we have our guards cheat a bit further out of the lane and let Minor anchor the interior and Reece take Steven’s 1:1.
(Basically defend them how teams defend us…)
My fear is that Minor gets beat off a PnR early and we immediately counter with BB and defensive rotations get put in a spin cycle like VT second time around.
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If we see any of norfolk’s classic in-game optimism we’ll know he’s typing it out from the AMC bathroom lol
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Think we’ll know pretty early on where things are headed. Will be a long night if we start cold and they execute for good shots against our defense and build a cushion. I really hope we don’t try to force the ball inside like we did against BC in the first half. Felt like we had 5+ turnovers or bricked shots because of that
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The good (?) news is that they are more of an off-ball cutting team than a pick and roll team. Hoop Explorer has a breakdown of a team’s play types on offense, and perimeter cuts are a huge feature of their offense (15.8 out of 100 possessions), as well as perimeter drives to shoot (20.9%) and to pass for a jumper (17.0%). They also get out in transition a fair amount (18.7%), more than their overall pace would imply, which hopefully we can neutralize. The big only shoots of the pick and roll rarely (2.9%) and they post up even less (2.0%). It’s a very Princeton offense (Princeton themselves have a very similar play type distribution this season).
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CSU is 11-9 in their last 20 games. Not impressed. They’re about to be 11-10. FIGHT ME MEDIA!
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So you won’t be on the game thread for at least a half? Damn, that sucks for those of us who enjoy your uplifting posts about how we’ve had no shooters since 2019, a bad coach, no wrinkles…
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Yeah, but they played in that gauntlet that is the MWC. Apparently early 80’s ACC and mid 80’s Big East are the only eras comparable.
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I’ll miss you too bb
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Here’s my smack talk: Based on a little trip up there during a Denver vacation, Fort Collins is an awful food town, especially for college town standards. My best meal was at a regional-national breakfast chain and all the local places sucked. Cville runs laps around it.
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Funny enough, I was there last fall for a work trip. I ended up skipping the work dinner, but my boss said that his meal (at a purportedly fancy restaurant) was salty and horrible.
I did get a good burrito in Fort Collins, though.
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Line moved to -2.5 CSU
Bettors read my post above. Tough being an influencer, but it’s a cross I bear.
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JOY comes in the evening. Go Hoos!
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I thought I was being harsh! 
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