College Basketball Thread

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

This is probably because you're only looking at one side of the ball. Duke isn't going to outscore other teams, so they're less visually impressive. But they play great defense, and have enough good offensive players (Gerald Henderson has been unbelievable, Singler, Scheyer, Smith/Paulus) to win.

UNC gets more pub because they run up and down the floor and score a million points. But Duke is really good.

I look at the complete game. Duke has nothing inside defensively. They get manhandled like the little boys that they are. They also have no inside scoring offense and teams that rely on the jumper like they do rarely do much. The 2001 title team was an exception but they did have Carlos Boozer inside when they had to go in there. This team has nothing.

[gales0678]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

I look at the complete game. Duke has nothing inside defensively. They get manhandled like the little boys that they are. They also have no inside scoring offense and teams that rely on the jumper like they do rarely do much. The 2001 title team was an exception but they did have Carlos Boozer inside when they had to go in there. This team has nothing.

this i agree with , however , the shooting at home of the 3's could keep them in the game

wake killed them inside and then took the foot of the pedal and let them almost come back in the last 5 minutes , but, duke could not stop them inside

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

I look at the complete game. Duke has nothing inside defensively. They get manhandled like the little boys that they are. They also have no inside scoring offense and teams that rely on the jumper like they do rarely do much. The 2001 title team was an exception but they did have Carlos Boozer inside when they had to go in there. This team has nothing.

And Carolina is great in the paint? Hansbrough is super, but Ed Davis and Deon Thompson are mediocre. Even soft ass Brian Zoubek will be able to stick one of them and Lance Thomas can guard the other. And with the style the Heels run, they don't utilize paint players anyway, so any advantage they have over Duke will be negligible. Their strength is in their guards. Hansbrough is icing on the cake.

If you want to say that they lack the post presence to go all the way, that's understandable, but that's a weak reason to say they'll get destroyed tonight.

[King Glorious]

Their athletes are also much better than Duke's. If I am Williams, I press Duke from the start. If Duke stays within 10, I'll be shocked.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

Their athletes are also much better than Duke's. If I am Williams, I press Duke from the start. If Duke stays within 10, I'll be shocked.

There's nobody on Carolina who can guard Henderson since Ginyard got hurt. You're underestimating Duke. I think they'll win, but if they lose, it'll be close.

[Scav]

[Scav]

Originally Posted by Scav

MUSH ALERT!!

[ateamstupid]

Great final seven minutes by Carolina. Other than that it was a deadlock. UNC still doesn't defend well enough to win a title and Duke still doesn't score enough.