šŸ™„ No Holds Barred Thread - A Haney/DavetheWave Production

Men's Basketball
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Any of our soccer fans seen the Captains of the World documentary on Netflix?

Highly recommend it especially if you were super in to the 2022 Word Cup like I was

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2273

Have not. Thanks for the rec man

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2274

Hahaā€¦ LeBron is delusionalā€¦

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2275

Heā€™d definitely make an impact

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2276

Bronny has a younger brother Iā€™ve heard is a lot better

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2277

https://twitter.com/MisterHotBalls/status/1744210272930209879

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2278

The following guys are the top 5 of something, in this order. What is the ā€œsomethingā€ ?

  1. Kevin Braswell
  2. Tate Armstrong
  3. Calvin Natt
  4. Sam Perkins
  5. Mike Pegues (shoutout @AdventiveQuasar )

Answer: top 5 opponent scorers (single game) at UHall

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2279

Since 2011 every NCAA Champion has had at least 1 player drafted in the NBA the same year.
Only 2018 Villanova and 2012 Kentucky had more than 2019 Virginia.

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2280

https://twitter.com/STABHoops/status/1745224243447476690

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2281

Interesting thread about GG.

Seems like folks are really into ā€œgamingā€ the age/school issue right now. Jarin and GG going early. Lots of prospects staying back a year. Blame Malcolm Gladwell, I guess.

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2282

Tangentially related I guess, but watched GG score a career high 23 pts for the Grizzlies last night

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2283

Yeah, I think thatā€™s what inspired the tweets, specifically this interview:

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2284

Yeah, that was awesome! I was happy for him

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2285

I been happy for him ever since he chose South Carolina

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2286

https://twitter.com/GottliebShow/status/1747317483386888472/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1747317483386888472&currentTweetUser=GottliebShow&currentTweet=1747317483386888472&currentTweetUser=GottliebShow

Here for permanent

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2287

This stuff is absurd and inane and extremely dumb. Iā€™ve made friends with people I worked with and even former bosses. Others, Iā€™ve lost touch with.

Also, itā€™s always been a transactional relationship! These guys are just whinging and whining because now that transaction is taking place on a slightly more level playing field.

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2288

Also, WTF? ā€œWhere do they say they graduated from?ā€ Big brain Geno, if you think about this one for a hot minute, you might get this one yourselfā€¦ maybe ā€” just maybe ā€” itā€™s the school that gives them a degree.

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2289

One more, and Iā€™ll stop. Itā€™s the wacky mental image these guys have of themselves that gets to me. I always thought of Geno as a really awesome womenā€™s hoops coach who, every year, tried to get the best HS female players into his program and win as much as possible. And that was fun for the fans, and good for UConn, and good for the players who went there. Like, if they were rally super awesome, they could go to Russia and make serious bank playing for some Russian minerals oligarch. Everyone wins!

But it turns out Geno was really just in the relationship building business all this time, and it just happened that relationships with the best female hoops players is most rewarding, I guess.

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2290

Guess what the periods represent:

Period 1 = 1 / 12 / 1
Period 2 = 36 / 81 / 9

Period 1 = Torvik overall / offense / defense efficiency ranks- 13-14 season through 18-19 season (out of 350+)
Period 2 = Torvik overall / offense / defense efficiency - 19-20 season through Wake game (out of 350+)

My takeaway: the offense is broken (uncontroversial), and itā€™s been broken (perhaps not as widely held; feels to me like whatā€™s going on offensively this year isnā€™t seen as much in the longer context)

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2291

Itā€™s why I donā€™t lend as much credence to the ā€œitā€™s the personnelā€ argument. We had an abysmal offense in 2019-2020 with an entirely different set of personnel. And that personnel was very experienced

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