'21 - '22 Outside ACC Basketball Chat

https://twitter.com/Shane_DNRSports/status/1469833343189594118

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If Radford beats JMU which beat UVA which beat Radfordā€¦

We give ourselves a quality win!

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JMU won 79-70

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College hoops pundit pet peeve: the mid-December #1 team that isnā€™t that good:

Seth Davis, Jeff Goodman, and Gary Parrish all have Baylor as their #1, because Baylor beat a 2-loss team at home. I will admit Baylor looks better than I thought they would, but IMO, that means they might be a top 5-10ish team; not a #1 team.

Says something about the quality of college hoops punditry that they do okay with zero data (preseason), and fine with lots of data (March), but they go berserk with just a little dataā€¦ (Or maybe thatā€™s just human nature).

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Memphis ahead of Alabama at the half. That is a remarkably an on-and-off team.

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Yeah, thatā€™ll happen with talented but poorly coached teams. Crazy up and down.

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Itā€™s hard to believe this Alabama team beat the Zags. Swing of outcomes in college basketball is crazy

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We are due. Unless the Providence game was us being due lol

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If anyone is ever so inclined to engage in some legal sports gambling, you could do worse than just to bet Three Man Weaveā€™s November/December best bets. They are 49-41-2 for the season. That more than covers the vig, right?
https://twitter.com/3MW_CBB/status/1471205167588651009?s=20
I basically think that once KenPom catches up to this yearā€™s data (mid-Jan or so?), thereā€™s no advantage to be had.

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If you were betting 100.00 a game you would be 390.00 ahead. Some guys rank their bets and bet higher or lower accordingly. But just straight up betting 100.00 a game you would win 390.00

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Whoa whoa whoa am I being replaced as LRAā€™s No1 prognosticator?

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You didnā€™t show progress in wooing the gambling donors to pony up for nicer chips, a better sportsbook, etc, to really attract the gamblers of tomorrow. :wink:

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Thereā€™s nothing wrong with hanging at the Golden Nugget in Downtown Vegas, thatā€™s where it gets real.

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Iā€™ve thought this was the case for years. Bennett wants to try our hardest to win every game. Thatā€™s the competitor in him. He gets the most out of the team over the course of the season. He doesnā€™t give guys playing time to help develop them. He plays guys who will help us win, so you earn your playing time in practice.

By the postseason, we are who we are, thereā€™s no next gear. Sometimes weā€™ve worn ourselves down and we play below our normal level in the postseason. One time our regular season max performance was just enough to win March Madness.

Itā€™s a perfectly fine coaching philosophy. Itā€™s just different than what I perceive Kā€™s philosophy to be. Neither is better or worse than the other. Theyā€™re just different.

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Not to open too big of a can of worms but even that national title team hit their peak performance in January when Braxton was playing more. Obviously it worked out in the end but if that team played at their January level in the tournament there wouldā€™ve been way less drama involved.

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Winning a national title is hard and weā€™ve been healthy like three times going into the tournament haha

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Do you think thereā€™s any relationship between max effort regular seasons and late season/tournament injuries? Not the Hunter variety, but maybe the Salt/Wilkins injuries.

Yep go look at the 2nd half of both the UNC and Syracuse games in 2019 when Tony benched both Clark and Salt. Team was unstoppable.
No idea why he reverted again back to those guys when the evidence was clear that the top 6 in performance were Ty. Hunter, Guy, Diakite, Key and Huff. And it wasnā€™t particularly close.

Wilkins had an illness so no. Donā€™t really remember what happened to Salt. Anderson broke a finger and then had appendicitis. None of the injuries are overuse

The man loves his sides offense and there is no better screener than Salt. But I donā€™t disagree

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