November 28th, 2019 at 3:58 PM ^
Knew that was going get some play.
November 28th, 2019 at 4:41 PM ^
Its banner-worthy
November 28th, 2019 at 4:50 PM ^
The Big Mood
November 28th, 2019 at 3:29 PM ^
Who's yo daddy?!?!?
November 28th, 2019 at 3:29 PM ^
NC is our bitch now in basketball!!!!
November 28th, 2019 at 3:30 PM ^
LOL. Roy Williams remains a trash coach. 20+ point run and no TO? Meanwhile our first year coach calls TO after a 9-0 run to settle down the team and Keep control of the game. Win this weekend and I’m going to Louisville!
November 28th, 2019 at 4:15 PM ^
If you actually look at the numbers, there is essentially zero correlation between timeouts and scoring runs / droughts. “Momentum” in sports is a myth, and always has been. Use a timeout if you see a matchup imbalance that you need to correct, if there’s a schematic adjustment that needs to be made, etc. Using a timeout because the opposition has strung together a few baskets in a row shows little except ignorance about probability.
November 28th, 2019 at 4:54 PM ^
Ridiculous comment. The reason the other team generally goes on a run is because they have found something that works offensively and defensively. You call the TO to explain what's going wrong and make adjustments to counter what the other team had found, or to remind your team what was working and what they make have receded from. If TOs didn't work, coaches wouldn't have been doing it for a hundred years. The shifting tides caused by each team's adjustments is called, by the way, momentum.
November 28th, 2019 at 5:13 PM ^
No; absent personnel issues, the reason that teams normally go on runs is random chance. Michigan shoots about 50% from the floor (which is excellent). At one point during the run, they hit five consecutive shots. They didn’t do that because they identified some specific weakness; they got lucky.
TOs don’t work, but coaches have been doing it for a hundred years, for the same reason that they’ve been punting incorrectly on fourth down in basketball, refusing to foul when up three, etc.: common knowledge is often wrong.
Momentum doesn’t exist. It’s a false narrative created by these same thought processes. At best, you can determine, after the fact, that streaks occurred, but there’s nothing that you can do to create a streak or to stop your opponent’s streak. (If there were some magical way to make your team play better, why wouldn’t you do it all the time?)
November 28th, 2019 at 7:09 PM ^
Momentum exists. If I'm "on a roll" at work, it usually means I'm focused on my task and having a productive day. If the phone rings or an unexpected interruption occurs, my momentum is stopped. Maybe I can get it back. Maybe not. In any case, there's a period of time spent trying to get back up to speed.
In basketball, if you call a TO, you interrupt a system in which the opponent is clicking in unison, communicating, working together. Maybe they get that back, maybe they don't. At the very least, you give your team a chance to cut into the rhythm while they're getting back on track.
It's not a magic bullet, but to say momentum doesn't exist is silly.
November 28th, 2019 at 8:50 PM ^
I might go so far as to say momentum is an enormous part of college sports. These kids feed off energy and enthusiasm and they sink when there’s lack of confidence and mistakes. I suspect even the most clinical and tactical of coaches would admit that momentum plays a big part in games.
November 28th, 2019 at 9:47 PM ^
Sorry but that take could not be more wrong. I guess it is random chance that Carolina almost came back in the game immediately after the timeout. Come on, college coaches are paid millions of dollars to babysit random chance. They know what they are doing.
November 28th, 2019 at 6:21 PM ^
Williams recruits and develops players well, but his in game management is questionable
November 28th, 2019 at 3:30 PM ^
Holy shit, what a game!! Controlled it the entire second half. Go Blue!!
November 28th, 2019 at 3:31 PM ^
heart breaking for dickie v and the refs. i hope they'll be okay...
November 28th, 2019 at 3:31 PM ^
This team has a great feeling to them. Energy and great tempo.
November 28th, 2019 at 3:48 PM ^
And DEPTH. Today Zavier went out and the team surged. Yesterday Teske got in trouble and Austin Davis stepped up. I did not expect Brooks and DeJulius to be so improved.
November 28th, 2019 at 3:31 PM ^
This team has a great feeling to them. Energy and great tempo.
November 28th, 2019 at 3:31 PM ^
Worth repeating. We own UNC.
November 28th, 2019 at 3:38 PM ^
Wish we owned them 27 years ago...
November 28th, 2019 at 3:40 PM ^
We owned them 30 years ago. Good enough?
November 28th, 2019 at 3:42 PM ^
We knocked them off on the way to a National Championship. Great game.
November 28th, 2019 at 3:31 PM ^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9z9FcCRj3s
November 28th, 2019 at 3:31 PM ^
So we're.... pretty good?
November 28th, 2019 at 3:32 PM ^
Muppet Babies!
November 28th, 2019 at 3:33 PM ^
Juwan Howard’s first top 10 victory! FUCK YEAH!
November 28th, 2019 at 3:36 PM ^
First of many.
November 28th, 2019 at 3:34 PM ^
Great games by Eli and DDJ. Let Carolina shoot those brick mid-range jumpers and kept their ORebs to a manageable level. Franz was pressing and looked like the game was moving way too fast for him but that's to be expected at this stage. Can't wait to see us play Gonzaga. This team is fun.
November 28th, 2019 at 3:48 PM ^
We need less words and more posts like this.
November 28th, 2019 at 4:19 PM ^
Honestly, not a fan of giant woman punting tiny little event staff guys, no matter how pretty they are.
November 28th, 2019 at 8:44 PM ^
I don’t think that event guy is that pretty.
November 29th, 2019 at 6:07 AM ^
Dang! I thought man yells at cloud was funny but now this! Can this day get any better?
November 28th, 2019 at 3:35 PM ^
Best win in the conference this season?
I love this bootleg tournament and we should play in it forever.
November 28th, 2019 at 4:54 PM ^
What about Michigan State's win over Kentucky? Oh wait, I meant their win over Virginia Tech....
...oh wait, I mean Sparty No!
November 28th, 2019 at 3:35 PM ^
Happy Thanksgiving to Michigan, Stephen F Austin and Virginia Tech.
November 28th, 2019 at 3:36 PM ^
I kept checking the score on my phone and couldn’t believe it when it said we were up 63-36.
Screw Carolina and Vital’s tears.
November 28th, 2019 at 3:37 PM ^
Dickie V has already been spotted crying at the lazy river...
November 28th, 2019 at 3:40 PM ^
My wife and I floated on that thing so long they came and kicked us out.
Very relaxing.
November 28th, 2019 at 3:50 PM ^
I love how Dickie had to start trolling UofM football because he had nothing to talk about when his team was down 24.
November 28th, 2019 at 4:45 PM ^
I refused to listen to the announcers but I'm not surprised. Dick did the same thing when we killed unc last year. Talked about the football team instead of the basketball game in front of him
November 28th, 2019 at 3:37 PM ^
We kicked some powder blue butt in the wedding ballroom.
Feelin' hot, hot, hot!
November 28th, 2019 at 3:38 PM ^
Michigan up 24 mid-way second half...
Dickie V: Nobody expected this.
My Dad who never watches basketball (to me): Didn't you say Michigan beat them by 17 last year?
Priceless Thanksgiving memories.
November 28th, 2019 at 3:39 PM ^
UNDEFEATED
UNSTOPPABLE
November 28th, 2019 at 3:46 PM ^
This is clearly a team that should never let it's foot off the gas. We are not good in that role.
November 28th, 2019 at 3:51 PM ^
We didnt let our foot off so much as the fouls caught up with us.
November 28th, 2019 at 3:58 PM ^
so much as the refs caught up with us.
November 28th, 2019 at 3:52 PM ^
If Eli Brooks keeps playing like this, many people are gonna need to start writing some apology cards like that school did for Ronnie Bell.
November 28th, 2019 at 4:14 PM ^
I'll eat crow with Eli. He looked like he lacked confidence and over thought everything under JB, but he's playing loose and confident so far this year under Howard.
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