🏀 NCAA Tournament 2025

I never pick Houston that far because my perception is that they don’t have the hoops skill to win past a certain round. Maybe the kid who got injured last year woulda been the exception?

I haven’t watched them much this year, but who’s that transcendent guy? Uzan? Cryer? It probably has to be Arcenaux…

I kinda feel similar about Auburn. If they win, it’ll be because Tahaad went off, no offense meant to Broome

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Its like some man to man zone. When every guy is 6-7 to 6-9 with wingspan in the back you can call it whatever you want

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Yeah, was gonna say, it has some zone characteristics (much like a prime TB pack line did). Teams end up taking a lot of threes against them after they get locked out of the paint, but they don’t hit as many as they would on an average team because they are hard threes. And they are masters at closing open windows for passes so quick, it lets them take more risks with their ball screen coverage.

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Closing open windows. Man we gotta trademark that. Awesome way to put it

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I think you’re right. I don’t think it will matter though. I think it’s more a case of pick your poison.

11pm Monday night. You know what that means. PRIME TIME THE CROWN with Georgetown and Washington St. I am one of maybe 20 people running in.

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Malik Mack is more than fine. He’s looked good in this game so far (8 pts, 1-2 from 3). A lot of is just bad coaching by Cooley with lazy and simple ball movement.

I’d be fine with him and Rowan Brumbaugh running the 1-2 for us.

Also Epps is out with “illness”

edit: what are these offensive sets? Has Cooley always been this cooked of a coach? At least Malik Mack having a good game makes this game somewhat palatable and Georgetown getting rolled will kill his will to stay with Cooley

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Malik Mack knows I’m watching. 20 first half points. heat check deep 3 is money

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New bracketology rule-of-thumb: never pick a team in the West to win it.

https://x.com/WTFstats/status/1906502739162800261

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Look at the possession at 9:29 in this video (last year’s team, but their ideas are the same):

TAMU gets the ball into the middle of the floor in what should be a 4-on-3 and they still can’t get anything good out of it.

Whole video is full of their dudes just flying around and making it so hard to process the whole floor accurately.

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https://x.com/coachalanbishop/status/1906492556604473566?s=61&t=4R39cCeuqt3Izkmu4hM4uw

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Great video. Thanks man. Looks like they practice 20 hours a day or some shit. Also no close outs hahah. They Fly By

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Clearly Mike Curtis is doing something wrong. Maybe have the guys actually pick up a weight

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Damnit Rowan Brumbaugh also balling out tulane can beat southern cal. Stupid CROWN tournament

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Can’t believe you missed an opportunity to talk about Dan Skillings going for 12 pts and 3 stls.

Or the ghost ship UCF team that started two players currently in the portal beating the ghost ship Oregon St team that lost their 3 top scorers to the portal.

Definitely some games that are technically basketball going on in the Crown.

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Skillings would be a good defensive wing for us.

Also the rest off tulane outside banks williams and rowan sucks

https://x.com/thehoopherald/status/1907262263083340174?s=61&t=4R39cCeuqt3Izkmu4hM4uw

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Houston practices:

tina turner auntie entity GIF

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Maybe its just that younger daughter got hurt again (freaking hurdles), but I see a daily extreme injury risk activity as being a bad idea for a team.

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It is questionable in that sense, but then again they’re in the final four

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