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    Uconn > MSU > Kansas


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    Quote Originally Posted by kNicKz
    Uconn > MSU > Kansas

    Yeah...because that's how that works.

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    UConn has good players and all, but I doubt anyone will think end of the year UConn > end of the year MSU and Kansas.

    Heck, I bet if you polled most experts, after a couple weeks of action, they'd pick MSU in a re-match. Just saying...lol

    Sad I only was able to see the highlights of last night's games. Had to step out of the house and my only viewing option was online.

    MSU's starting lineup is gonna be pretty tough. Not just to beat, but tough in general. There will never be an excuse for them to be manhandled this season, especially if Dawson is healthy.

    I am worried about the lack of a scoring threat off the bench though. Trice can do a little bit...but hopefully someone else grows into that role as well (when starters are struggling, that player who can put in 12-15 to save a game).

    If their outside shooting remains consistent this year though...I'm gonna be smiling. Not often you get a team that tough in the paint, with guards who can drive well, but also punish teams from outside. Not much a team can do on offense if that's the case.

    Oh, and as usual for an Izzo team, turnovers are a problem....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dolphin

    Heck, I bet if you polled most experts, after a couple weeks of action, they'd pick MSU in a re-match. Just saying...lol
    So? every expert in basketball picked them over us the first time, didn't seem to effect the outcome

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    Quote Originally Posted by KG215
    Yeah...because that's how that works.
    basically

    #bleedblue
    Last edited by kNicKz; 11-14-2012 at 05:25 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kNicKz
    basically

    #bleedblue
    The transitive property doesn't work in sports.

    Just because team A is better than team B, and team B is better than team C, that doesn't mean team A is better than team C.

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    Some people really don't pick up when you're joking on here

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    2k Sports Classic is fixed

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    Jordan Adams, a freshman shooting guard for UCLA, is absolutely lighting it up through the first 3 games. He's averaging 24 ppg in ~24 mpg. He's doing it on absurd percentages as well.

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    LA time's baxter holmes has tweeted shabazz's appeal was successful and he has been cleared to play.

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    CSUN is 3-0

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    Beat Wake Forest! Great game



    props to the 7 footer!!!

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    CSUN is now 4-0

    Tulsa & Northern Kentucky left before BYU, 6-0 is easily plausible

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    I guess it's not really a surprise he's playing so well given some of the games he had down the stretch last season, but James Michael McAdoo has been a stud so far. I know the competition for UNC hasn't been the greatest, but he's still been phenomenal on a team with a lot of new pieces. He's averaging 21.0 PPG, 11.3 PPG, and is shooting .481 from the field. I'd like to see the FG% up closer to or over 50%, but he's having to adjust to a lot of double teams anytime he catches the ball in the post.

    So glad he came back (obviously) because UNC would really struggle to make the NCAA tournament without him. With that said, the four freshmen (Marcus Paige, J.P. Tokoto, Brice Johnson, and Joel James) have shown flashes of what they will probably eventually become; Paige especially. Anyone that's followed UNC closely under Roy Williams knows the learning curve for PG's in his system is a sharp one. While Paige has looked lost and unsure of himself at times, he's actually been pretty good so far. Brice Johnson needs to add weight and get stronger (he couldn't play much tonight because he was being backed down way too easily in the post) but he definitely has good instincts and a good knack around the basket. Joel James, for a player of his size, is a much better athlete than I though. He's still raw as an offensive player but has been better than I expected in that regard. Tokoto doesn't get a ton of time due to UNC's depth on the wing, but he's also shown very brief flashes of being a very solid well-rounded player.

    For the second game in a row, after a really ugly first half, UNC came out looking like a completely different team in the second half to put their opponent away. There will definitely be a lot of ups and downs this year, but there's plenty of potential and talent on the team to be pretty dangerous come March. While the rotation is deep (10 players seeing consistent action) it still consists of four freshmen and two sophomores, so I expect some growing pains.

    At first thought, after all four of Barnes, Henson, Zeller and Marshall announced they would enter the draft, I thought this season had potential to be another 2009-2010. That season UNC had four new freshmen who saw heavy minutes early on, a returning post player with a ton of potential who was buried behind a deep bench the year before, and uncertainty at the PG position. While it's a little too early to say the season won't be that bad (UNC has been hit hard by the injury bug the last few years), this team just has a different feel to it. Not saying they're a legit Final Four team, but if McAdoo continues to play like this the rest of the season, the freshmen continue to improve, and the 3P shooting comes along, then I could see them being a sleeper Final Four team in the tournament; and by "sleeper" I mean sleeper by UNC standards in that they get in with a 4-6 seed, but things are coming together at the right time, and they get some favorable match-ups in their region.

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