***Official Selection Sunday(It's about time) Thread***
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Ok- we really need to get off Gottliebs ***. He just gave a ton of love to RW. Dude sees the light now
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I know ESPN isn't the most trusted source in bracketology, but Lunardi has Iowa State playing UCONN in a 8/9 game. Would be pretty awesome to knock off the defending champs in the first round.
You completely inferred something from what I wrote wrong. I totally agree with you, which is why i said *LAPSES*, but you have to realize there's a difference between NOT PLAYING DEFENSE and having lapses.
If we didn't play defense, it wouldn't matter what team we're playing. We wouldn't be holding them under 10 seconds every damn game. I watched McDermott ball for 4 seasons, and we almost never held the opponent under 10 seconds. Every once in awhile, but it was once every handful of games.
Just because you give up an easy bucket with 7 seconds on the shot clock doesn't mean you weren't playing defense for the other 28 seconds. It means you have a defensive lapse most likely..that your hard work at getting it under 10 seconds was all for nothing.
Our problem is that we play perimeter defense well sometimes, then the other team catches someone napping basically somewhere within the perimeter and they get an easy bucket. Easily correctable although might need more time than a week. We are Jekyll and Hyde. Sometimes our defense is sufficient, and sometimes it's bad. But it's not TERRIBLE.
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The main point is that he said "we don't play ANY defense" ...and that's not true. We may have the lapses, but if we didn't play ANY defense, we wouldn't be holding guys under 10 on the shot clock every game. It's as simple as that.
And no, as much as you'd like to think, i'm not saying we're good defensively (except Babb). I'm saying we do play some defense whereas Gottlieb thinks we play NONE.
And no, as much as you'd like to think, i'm not saying we're good defensively (except Babb). I'm saying we do play some defense whereas Gottlieb thinks we play NONE.
Its probably been said already but I just saw on espn bracketology that projects KSU as an 8 seed and ISU as a 9 seed? What a joke. It took an insane performance from a team of refs to beat ISU in the Big 12 tournament! :smile: The Cyclones will be ****** for the tourney.
Okay, I rewinded. He said "Now, they don't really defend, but neither does Missouri" so I definitely misheard it. Sorry. I about 75% agree with that statement.
CycloneErik
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6-11 doesn't really matter how good or bad a team is. Its usually about where the committee needs to put a team geographically, or on a opposite side of a bracket from a fellow conference team.
As far as the rally at Hilton goes, I don't know if this has been mentioned, but it appears it will be covered as a "Live Event" on Clonezone at 430 pm. Not sure if you have to be a subscriber or if it is a free event, but it is listed.
Only if Mark Aguire, David Booth, and Stephen Howard are back from a time warp.
CycloneErik
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