I know, I know, causation and correlation and all that, but over the last six games, we're 0-4 in the games Keyonte George has finished (none of which were close) and 2-0 in those he hasn't -- overcoming an 18-4 deficit against Texas at the time of his exit.EvilTroyAndAbed said:
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These are kids, and I love them for choosing Baylor and playing for Baylor. But we're cooked. I think we've got one more win in us this season.
There aren't many 13-15 seeds (there may not even be one) with the dudes to outrebound us that way. I don't worry too much about us losing in the first round. But anyone we play in the second round will be talented enough to beat us -- particularly if we play the way we have for most of the last six games.CST Bear said:
I've told myself many times that Bridges was the key to this team. Never would I thought he could nearly score 30 and we'd lose.
But then we basically failed to rebound on both ends the entire day. We would absolutely lose to a 15, 14, 13 seed in the tourney with those numbers.
But only good teams have been able to do it. We haven't lost a game yet to a team outside of the KenPom top-25.CST Bear said:
Fair enough.
Seems like we've seen and learn there's many ways to beat this team who, to clarify, is still elite...at times.
Like I said in another thread, I think I've had a pretty good handle on this team since the Marquette game. All the things I said about this bunch after that one still hold true for the most part.DanaDane said:
We gave up just as many offensive rebounds to Ok State. They just couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with their team full of clankers or they could have easily won 2 weeks ago too. People can keep trying to sweep the dust under the carpet and pretend this is a one time event. It isn't. Instead of gradually getting better during the course of the season, there are many arguments to make that it got much worse toward the end. That's particularly disconcerting when you also have no visible, fiery player to serve as an on-court leader.
Teams that go far in the NCAA tournament are almost always teams that value possessions. That is one of the greatest flaws with this team. And, you certainly can't do that when you're not really a good rebounding squad to begin with. If we get the right match up in game 1 and maybe the R32 game, we can advance. If we get someone along the lines of Colgate, Charleston or Vermont in the first round -- watch out. All 3 play a style that we have shown to have a difficult time with.
bear2be2 said:There aren't many 13-15 seeds (there may not even be one) with the dudes to outrebound us that way. I don't worry too much about us losing in the first round. But anyone we play in the second round will be talented enough to beat us -- particularly if we play the way we have for most of the last six games.CST Bear said:
I've told myself many times that Bridges was the key to this team. Never would I thought he could nearly score 30 and we'd lose.
But then we basically failed to rebound on both ends the entire day. We would absolutely lose to a 15, 14, 13 seed in the tourney with those numbers.
and Thamba and JTT got their zero rebound days out of the wayScottS said:
One silver lining to all of this is we've gotten our losing out of the way.
CST Bear said:
I've told myself many times that Bridges was the key to this team. Never would I thought he could nearly score 30 and we'd lose.
No inside presence, lohner is absolutely horrible and we need a power forward, thamba soft as PuddingBluesBear said:
Calm down......Very tired legs.... I like our chances heading into the REAL tournament....
BluesBear said:
Calm down......Very tired legs.... I like our chances heading into the REAL tournament....
"every" team in CB has faced the same thing that Baylor has? Wow, I didn't realize that....the people most upset about the early departure from the Big12 tournament are likely the people who spent all this money traveling to KC for the games.SIC EM 94 said:BluesBear said:
Calm down......Very tired legs.... I like our chances heading into the REAL tournament....
BS…tell us something this Baylor team has dealt with that every other team in college basketball hasn't had to face?
This team has no chance of winning it all. We're currently ranked 100th in the nation in adjusted defensive efficiency. That's a bad, bad number for a top three seed.historian said:
As investment firms like to say, past performance does not predict future performance (or something like it). One would think it would with athletics but we all know that's not always the case. During the tournament anything can happen. That's why they call it "March Madness."
Although extremely unlikely, we could still win it all. I still expect us to get to the Sweet 16.
The question you have to ask, though, is why would a talented offensive big want to come play in this system? We haven't featured a power forward or post in our offense since Jonathan Motley, and that was six years ago now.IowaBear said:
We need to go back to having some resemblance of post play. There's nothing wrong with having a big on the floor who can do more than set a screen (Flo). We can be a guard oriented squad and still have a big (bigs) who can score Inside.
You're not going to attract talented offensive bigs as long as their role remains as currently defined. You're going to attract projects, which is basically all we've had since Acuil.IowaBear said:
I don't necessarily think you have to feature a big by any means. But what we have now in the post isn't cutting it.Miami comes to mind as a great example. A guard heavy scheme behind the 3 headed guard combo of Wong, Pack, and Miller. Yet their MVP is the do everything PF Omier. I'd have to look but I'd imagine he's at best 4th in the team in FG attempts.
