First 2009 March Madness thread

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

Same thing people said the year they beat Illinois. When you have much better players across the board than your opponents, chances are that you'll win more than you'll lose. That's the case with UNC. They have better players than any team in the country top to bottom. It's that simple. They play enough defense. People are acting like they need to slow the game down and beat teams 50-48 if they want to win. That's just not true. Look at the team they won the title with a couple of years ago. Look at the Memphis and Kansas teams that played in the final last year. You have to be able to score the ball to win and they have the best offense in the country and play enough defense to get the job done. For me, the key is not how they play defense throughout the game but how they play it in stretches when it counts the most. There's no way this team is an early exit team.

Memphis and Kansas last year is not the example you want to use. Those two teams had historically outstanding defenses, and they scored enough in March to win. It wasn't the other way around.

It was the inability to play 40 minutes of defense that killed North Carolina the past two seasons. I don't see any improvement defensively this year. If anything they're worse on D. Fortunately for them, there are no great teams this season, so it may not matter, but to brush off their inconsistent D when it cost them championships the last two seasons is ridiculous.

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Memphis and Kansas last year is not the example you want to use. Those two teams had historically outstanding defenses, and they scored enough in March to win. It wasn't the other way around.

It was the inability to play 40 minutes of defense that killed North Carolina the past two seasons. I don't see any improvement defensively this year. If anything they're worse on D. Fortunately for them, there are no great teams this season, so it may not matter, but to brush off their inconsistent D when it cost them championships the last two seasons is ridiculous.

Wow. They had historically outstanding defenses? All I can say to that is that you and I see the game completely different.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

Wow. They had historically outstanding defenses? All I can say to that is that you and I see the game completely different.

Yeah, you watch 30 minutes of a primetime game every two weeks and feel comfortable making blanket statements about every team in the country, while I try to watch as many games as possible and actually pay some attention to statistics. Very different.

I'm not sure how the hell anyone could think those two teams last year were anything less than great on defense if they'd watched anything more than the title game.

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Yeah, you watch 30 minutes of a primetime game every two weeks and feel comfortable making blanket statements about every team in the country, while I try to watch as many games as possible and actually pay some attention to statistics. Very different.

I'm not sure how the hell anyone could think those two teams last year were anything less than great on defense if they'd watched anything more than the title game.

I'd like to apologize for never offering you anything to drink while you've sat in my living room and observed how much or how intensely I follow the game. Let's see, I think I've made statements this year about UNC, Duke, Pitt, UConn, Memphis, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Maybe a couple more. Yes, you're right. That's every team in the country. And my wife is going to be pretty upset that I use the DVR to record so many games and clutter it up and don't even watch them. Please don't tell her that I just record and erase and never watch them. Also, if you have any tapes of Memphis' run to the title game from last year, maybe you wouldn't mind sharing them with me since I neglected to watch them before the title game......even though it was probably the most excited I've been about any team's run in a long while, with them being my hometown team and all.

Originally Posted by King Glorious

I'd like to apologize for never offering you anything to drink while you've sat in my living room and observed how much or how intensely I follow the game. Let's see, I think I've made statements this year about UNC, Duke, Pitt, UConn, Memphis, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Maybe a couple more. Yes, you're right. That's every team in the country. And my wife is going to be pretty upset that I use the DVR to record so many games and clutter it up and don't even watch them. Please don't tell her that I just record and erase and never watch them. Also, if you have any tapes of Memphis' run to the title game from last year, maybe you wouldn't mind sharing them with me since I neglected to watch them before the title game......even though it was probably the most excited I've been about any team's run in a long while, with them being my hometown team and all.

You are worse than I am.
Except I concentrate on the Big 12.

On which I will make 1 comment on my alma matre.
They played very well against Kansas 1st half.
They were a totally diff. team. It is a tiny ray
of hope in what was otherwise an extremely
dissappointing year.

Hook em.
Please.