As Memphis starts out 2-12 from beyond the arc, I think it's worth restating the one real lesson I learned from watching all these games: College teams need to stop shooting so many threes. All of you (except maybe Duke ... you guys do whatever works). I thought maybe it was just Tubby Smith who told his team, "Hey, we're one for nineteen from three ... we're gonna get hot any second now." Nope ... that's the conventional wisdom now.
If there's one thing Strong and I can emphatically agree on, it is that to succeed on offense in college, you take the ball strong to the hoop. Good things will happen. Memphis, as always has the best athletes in the country, and a few of them may even be good basketball players (like Duke transfer Elliot Williams), but there is not a jump shot among this bunch. Jump over people. Dunk the ball. At the very least, shoot from closer in so that your teammates have a chance for the put-back.
Also, I know I've harped on this at some length already (and even won some money doing so) ... but there have been three total assists so far in this game. Seventeen minutes. Two teams. Three assists.
Again, I blame Duke for setting a bad example for all these teams. Forced three-pointers and flopping is not the recipe for success for anyone else.
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this man speaks truth. someday aaron and i will jointly coach the greatest little league basketball team ever. those kids will have scars to show their future children from how hard i make them drive the lane and how hard aaron makes them crash the boards.
ReplyDeleteif memphis somehow upsets kansas while simultaneously killing aldrich, i'll be a happy, happy man...
ReplyDeleteGoing back to our Harangody discussion earlier, how is it possible that so many college basketball players can be this ugly? I mean, does Cole Aldrich have nobody on campus who can tell him that perhaps if he's going to be on national TV 20 times this year he might want to visit a dermatologist? Are there no fake tanning beds in the entire city of Durham?
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