Recent content by rocketskates

Got our big man.

I’m glad that they’re in the SEC and also that they’re a “rival”. At the end of the year when we are pretty banged up from league play you can always count on a glorified bye week against them prior to postseason play. Bless their hearts.

IMO no. And he’s certainly good enough to be the coach at Kentucky, but at this point in his career I don’t see him going anywhere. I remember he said the allure of UCLA was that he was a big john wooden fan among some other things, but he turns 70 this year. Hes at a completely different place...

My only criticism was him starting Aidoo, and that’s not a knock on Jonas, he’s a great kid but he just wasn’t having a good tournament. It happens, sometimes you go cold. But, even then Barnes was able to figure that out.

A program is the reflection of the head coach and Painter is one of the biggest crybabys in college basketball. It should come as no surprise that same attitude has trickled down to his players. If one of our players said that he had a boner after the game or called out the opposing coach after...

And neither did any of the college basketball “blue bloods”. No one knew that a big man like Edey would get all of the officiating love that he has gotten this season. Normally guys that are that big foul out all of the time. Im not one to complain about the officiating but the bottom line is...

100%. The gameplan worked. We had a chance to win all the way until the last 2 min; and that’s working against biased officiating as well. Had we made our free throws we would’ve won. Basketball is a game of what ifs but we didn’t get blown out. Blowouts are the sign of poor preparation/poor...

Cry to someone else. Many people didn’t recruit him, he went to Purdue. North Carolina, Duke, Kentucky, etc also didn’t want him. I will agree that Barnes needs to try to find a tall and strong center though. And bulk Awaka up this offseason. He’s got the mindset but he needs to be a little bigger.

My personal theory is more that the network wants UConn vs Purdue in the final because people want to see how UConn’s center matches up with Edey. I’ll be curious to see how the game is called against NC State this weekend. As for UConn/Bama, I’d be shocked if UConn doesn’t run away with it and...

Agreed. The gameplan was solid because we had a chance to win all the way up until the final 2 minutes. Going against biased officiating and a 7’3 scoring machine that’s what you want. Hit your free throws and a “do over” on a bunch of those short range misses and we win. This wasn’t on coaching.

It was a fun year. There’s a reason that the ncaa basketball tournament is the toughest championship to win in sports.

If we lose this game that will be the downfall. This has been a fun year but the tale of the tape is that we rarely had games where Knecht was on fire and then JJJ or another player contributed heavily. We could win it all if our offense was clicking like it could.

100%. If they called it evenly Edey would’ve fouled out 7 minutes ago.

It’s close. They still have some gamers and the Big Ten is pretty weak. But they definitely wouldn’t have made it this far.

Purdue would’ve been out in the round of 32 if it wasn’t for that big goon. They will be an average team next year when some of this talent leaves.