On Sat, 02 Apr, kstarheel@cox.net wrote:> Let the pain begin.> Picks.> I think UNC wins pretty easily; if you call 10 points easy. I think> they are focused and the shear amount of scoring talent they have will> be tough for MSU to overcome. And they do play defense. Raymond will> preside, Rashad will heat up and Sean will own the pain. 85-75.>
Louisville is tough to gage. At one point this year I picked them to> play UNC for the title then I got off that bandwagon after Memphis> hammered them at home. Streaky team that if they don't start well> today, Illinois might blow them out by 20. Of course both teams proved> they can comeback, but Illinois is better defensively than WVa is.> Illinois just has too many backcourt weapons and they are basically> playing a home game. Illinois wins> 74-68.>
Title game. I think the Illinois guards will come out too jacked up> against the Heels and the Heels will win the inside game. Marvin and> Sean will have big nights and Rashad will hit 4 key 3's. Raymond takes> over at the end..... UNC wins the title 82-73.>
No excuses if they lose because it's not like any of these teams are> 'unworthy' to be here. The beauty of this tournament is just because> you could beat a team 7 of 10 times, Monday night might be one of the> ones you lose. Almost Shakespearean in its tragic end...
I don't care who plays who at this point. I'm here, I got my tickets, and I'm gonna have a BLAST.
"Donnie Barnes" <djbSPAMSUCKS@donniebarnes.com> wrote in message news:slrnd4tfgb.4i4.djbSPAMSUCKS@localhost.localdomain...> On Sat, 02 Apr, kstarheel@cox.net wrote:
I don't care who plays who at this point. I'm here, I got my tickets, and> I'm gonna have a BLAST.
So what you're saying is that your TV room is free?
On Sat, 02 Apr, Erik T. Nomad wrote:> So what you're saying is that your TV room is free?
I'm sure the wife was in there with the kids for at least some of it.
Wow, what a set of games. It was hard sitting through the first game knowing what was looming. It was even harder watching that first half. Raymond was trying too hard, no bounces went our way, and we weren't shooting good. Combine that with good post defense by MSU and decent shooting by them, and we were in trouble. But that 26-11 run for the first seven and a half minutes of the second half sure put us in control. Things got shaky for a bit, but we kept control fairly well and finished the deal.
But if we play like that first half for more than a couple minutes against Illinois, we'll be out of the game before we get in it.
Honestly, I'm not anti-woofing here...I really don't think we can beat Illinois if they keep shooting threes at over 32% or so. 40% and they beat us easily. We can probably pound them down low, but trading twos for threes won't get it done. I just don't see us being able to defend the three point line well enough, though. Illinois will have to shoot worse than they have been or we have to play *great* defense, something we haven't done in two months.
The big plus is Jawad's return, though. If Raymond doesn't overcook it, Jawad stays strong, Marvin gets his head back in it (I think his toe may be hurting him again), and Rashad/Jackie/Noel/Scott all play good perimeter defense, we have a chance. May will play well. We just need a nearly perfect game to be in this one at the end.
Edward M. Kennedy 4 April 2005 05:15:29 [ permanent link ]
"Donnie Barnes" <djbSPAMSUCKS@donniebarnes.com> wrote
Honestly, I'm not anti-woofing here...I really don't think we can beat> Illinois if they keep shooting threes at over 32% or so. 40% and they beat> us easily. We can probably pound them down low, but trading twos for> threes won't get it done.
Seeing as UNC is capable of shooting 50% from two, you 32% trey numbers smell like goat cheese.
On Mon, 04 Apr, Edward M. Kennedy wrote:> "Donnie Barnes" <djbSPAMSUCKS@donniebarnes.com> wrote>
Honestly, I'm not anti-woofing here...I really don't think we can beat>> Illinois if they keep shooting threes at over 32% or so. 40% and they beat>> us easily. We can probably pound them down low, but trading twos for>> threes won't get it done.>
Seeing as UNC is capable of shooting 50% from two, you> 32% trey numbers smell like goat cheese.
Edward M. Kennedy 5 April 2005 18:26:00 [ permanent link ]
"Edward M. Kennedy" <nospam@baconburger.com> wrote
Honestly, I'm not anti-woofing here...I really don't think we can beat> > Illinois if they keep shooting threes at over 32% or so. 40% and they beat> > us easily. We can probably pound them down low, but trading twos for> > threes won't get it done.>
Seeing as UNC is capable of shooting 50% from two, you> 32% trey numbers smell like goat cheese.
UNC shot exactly 50% from two and Illinois shot 30% from trey. What I didn't count on was UNC shooting 56% from trey. Holy fother mucking goat cheese, Batman.
