Basketball:
Texas lost to Wake Forest in the first round last night. Trips Right somehow found the inner strength to do a final
post-mortem where he also prescribes a month of defensive drills for baby 2010-11 Texas basketball in order to foster its development into a team that can at least dribble towards the basket.
PeterBean was
reflective as well and deals with the future of Barnes at Texas. He concludes, with fairly strong reasoning
Here's an article discussing Syracuse's weaknesses and which teams have the necessary components needed to knock off the top ranked team in the country.
Interestingly enough, if you're talking big upsets in the tournament a team like Texas has a lot of what it takes to beat the Orangemen. Baylor is also a team that can give the 'Cuse fits.
You can use the information about the Bears as a little primer
First Gottlieb. If you listen to one basketball pundit on ESPN, listen to this guy.
A funny thing happened on the way to burying the 2010 Texas Longhorns. Defense. For all the handwringing and consternation bandied about on this and other sites about the Longhorn's anemic offense, defense carried the day...err...night.
The ability to defend a four guard, spread the floor offense was the difference in winning and losing. Not personnel packages, five out looks, or iso's and two man games. The difference was straight
Another conference game against a top 40 opponent, another disappointing outcome. If the way this team is playing surprises you at this point after a 17-0 start, you need to start looking at it this way.
The 17-0 team was a get up in your jersey, play free and loose, wear you down, onions dangling kind of ball club.
The team that took the floor last night was never 17-0. In
Watching Dexter Pittman’s draft status plummet is like watching my portfolio the last two years, depressing.
I have a man crush on Al McGuire, the basketball coach that led Marquette to its only national championship.
Watching the Dexter Pittman weight loss piece on College Gameday got me thinking about a different disappearing act when they mentioned that Pittman was likely a second rounder in the upcoming NBA draft.