I mean it’s not wrong
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Ha… Alabama used the prescribed Jeremy Lin NBA strategy from the podcast I paraphrased below! The two folks who took the shots in the middle of the key should be benched!
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Thought this stat was interesting
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This is Arizona-centric, but an interesting article on home-court advantage without fans this season: https://tucson.com/sports/arizonawildcats/basketball/empty-arenas-arent-impacting-hoops-outcomes-experts-say-even-though-it-feels-that-way/article_7a78d222-85de-5201-8816-d4e47320b86e.html
The short version is that it’s slightly smaller than previous seasons, but only about 1 point-per-game of advantage smaller. And that the decrease is seen mostly in reduced foul disparities, so the fan effect is likely most felt on how the referees call the game.
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Lord… I am sure that there is a creepy episode of Westworld that could very well mimic your K-bot 5.0 scenario…
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Carolina refs gonna Carolina ref
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Georgia Tech took Clemson to the woodshed tonight.
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Kentucky loses at the buzzer at Georgia. LOL!
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Going to be an interesting match-up with GT and their guard heavy small ball lineup.
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Zach and I were talking about that earlier…very Kent State-ish
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Yeah… interesting If we started Morsell, Kihei, Reece, Hauser and Huff…I see us dropping a our bigs a lot and watching Reece and morsell dogging their guards… gonna be a tired group…
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I’ll be interested to see how we use Trey, Sam, and Jay. I expect you are right, Kihei, Casey and Reece are going to get their laps in. Tomas too, and his all around play against Clemson will be needed again.
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You know CTB, he’s not changing up the line up…doesnt mean it wont change 3mins in though 
Make Wright guard Huff down low. Murphy can guard Usher. Kihei on Alvardo, Reece/Casey on Devoe (this cover is the one that gives me the most heartburn) and yes…I’d have Sam guard 5’10 Bubba Parham, he’s quick but not a big 3pt threat so sag off him. That said I suspect Sam will be forced to guard Usher which we will have to be careful with. As mentioned we’ll see a lot of our 3 guard line ups, gonna need Casey to keep up his scoring if he’s gonna play heavy mins
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Parham can definitely shoot it. He’s not a primary option for Tech but he made like 10 3s at Rupp Arena when he was a sophomore at VMI, which is still a record for a visiting team at Kentucky, and he made 116 3-pointers and shot 40 percent from deep that season.
Sam will guard Usher is my guess, which I think is a pretty good matchup for him. Usher made 5 3s last night but had only made 8 all season coming into that game and nine all of last season.
The matchup that will dictate if we have to go really small will probably be Trey on Devoe. I think that’s how we’ll start the game anyway, with Jay on Moses, Sam on Usher, Trey on Devoe, Reece on Parham, and Kihei on Alvarado, although we could put Reece on Alvarado if we want to use a bigger, longer guy to try to bother him.
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NC State doing okay with using only one big vs UNC. Armando Bacot has half UNC’s points, but on the other end NC State’s guards are able to blow by big matchups for layups and they’ve gotten some open looks from 3
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Maybe the Clemson W wasn’t that big a deal
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Most likely this. We still have a lot to prove but we are absolutely pulling it together and becoming a better team game by game. Tonight worries me just because of how bad a match up 4 guard teams are for us.
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Was lotta fun but agree wasnt a huge deal. When we went nuts game 1 vs Towson I thought we were gonna be the UNLV of early 90s.
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Haha. Man, those UNLV teams were fun to watch with Tarkanian chewing on the towel.
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