2h Washington-Stanford 82 under
- Thread starter Nelson
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Just too many points. Game is close. Don't see it going one way too far, nor any great speed up from 1h.
drops to 81' at 5d, as expected. still 82 at wsex. if this doesn't win barring OT i'll be surprised.
74, easy win, should have come in 64-66.
Record: 21-13
2 3s in last few seconds and at least two conspicuous examples of non-percentage play in the last few minutes, both of which pushed the score up.
ex.: wash up about ten with a couple minutes left. wash ball handler gets out of scrape, immediately jacks an 18-footer (2 not 3), using no time. wtf? zero reason to do this. the percentage play is to run 30 seconds off the clock, not take a quick shot with about a 30% chance of going in. that's the ONLY way stanford can get back in the game.
this kind of non-percentage play happens over and over but i never yet heard an announcer talk about low basketball iq.
Record: 21-13
2 3s in last few seconds and at least two conspicuous examples of non-percentage play in the last few minutes, both of which pushed the score up.
ex.: wash up about ten with a couple minutes left. wash ball handler gets out of scrape, immediately jacks an 18-footer (2 not 3), using no time. wtf? zero reason to do this. the percentage play is to run 30 seconds off the clock, not take a quick shot with about a 30% chance of going in. that's the ONLY way stanford can get back in the game.
this kind of non-percentage play happens over and over but i never yet heard an announcer talk about low basketball iq.
crap like that happens in college basketball all the time.....teams continue to foul down 10 points with 15 seconds left...whats the point??? teams that need to get fouled continue to try and push the ball and make cross court passes.....just fking stand there and let yourself get fouled.
yes. imo, it's obvious that many or most of these players are close to unteachable. i know the coach is telling them what to do but they dont care or forget what he screamed at them five seconds later. i believe based on a decade of observation that most of them lack the mental wherewithal to keep two things in mind at once. they know that 1) scoring is good; 2) running time off clock is good. they have enough brains to remember only one of those at a time. if they get scared or disrupted or hear the crowd, all bets are off. but of course this stupidity factor has to be taken into account going in. it's like in football when you watch players try to down a ball outside the endzone and you can see that even though they have the speed to get to the ball, they lack the brainpower to compute need-to-down vs. stay-out-of-EZ factors in realtime. and like i say, it's not a thing that can be taught because their coaches are paid seven-figures to teach them but cant. i mean, you're telling me these players making the mistakes i saw in the wash-stanford game (no worse than an average game) can handle stanford intellectual material in the classroom? there is no way.
what i find most irritating is when a game is basically over but some clown hits a three to bring it to 12 with say 1:30 left. then the team that had given up starts fouling and it becomes a nail-biter. basketball totals can drive you crazy in a way that other sports totals rarely do.
