Wow! :yikes:
Davidson is putting a major whoopin' on Wisconsin right now! And once again, as he has done in the previous 2 games, Stephen Curry is simply "going off" in the second half. The guy is just a scoring machine. ....... an unstoppable one, apparently, seeing as he has now torched 2 of the top defensive teams in the tournament (Georgetown, and now Wisconsin).
The biggest surprise is that the rest of the Davidson team isn't half-bad either, and they themselves have played some really great defense so far in their 3 tournament games.
Dare I say it? .......... Yes! I dare. Look out, Kansas! Davidson is coming.
Edit: The final is in. Davidson 73, Wisconsin 56. Wow!
Oh yeah, and did I fail to mention that this same Davidson team played "away" games at UNC, UCLA, NC State, and Duke during the regular season? And while they lost all four of those games, they were all by single digits. These guys won't be an "easy out" for anybody.
Yes, but Kansas has a more balanced team. I've said it before and I'll say it again. All the Jayhawks need to do is play consistent ball. Nothing fancy, just play like they always do. Someone guards Sasha Kaun - ball goes to the outside to either Brandon Rush or Mario Chalmers. You also have Darnell Jackson, Russell Robinson, Darrell Arthur, and Sherron Collins to contend with - and they'll drive it in the lane or just as easily knock it in from behind the arc.
Quote from: DocStrange1 on March 29, 2008, 02:10:36 AM
Yes, but Kansas has a more balanced team. I've said it before and I'll say it again. All the Jayhawks need to do is play consistent ball. Nothing fancy, just play like they always do. Someone guards Sasha Kaun - ball goes to the outside to either Brandon Rush or Mario Chalmers. You also have Darnell Jackson, Russell Robinson, Darrell Arthur, and Sherron Collins to contend with - and they'll drive it in the lane or just as easily knock it in from behind the arc.
Hmmmmmmmm? I remember similar comments coming from Connecticut fans two years ago, just before they played George Mason.
Kansas had better take this upcoming Davidson game verrrry seriously: as seriously as if it were the Championship game itself. Because if they don't take it
that seriously, they'll lose - just as Connecticut did to Mason.
gotta give a hats off to curry. he's hot. wow.
do you know what year in college he is? some how . . i'm not sure . . but i think he might be done with college ball very soon.
Quote from: newkris on March 29, 2008, 02:33:35 AM
... some how . . i'm not sure . . but i think he might be done with college ball very soon.
Gee. Ya think? *L*
Yeah. When the likes of Lebron James is in the audience, and is caught on camera shaking his head in amazement and clearly saying "Wow!" at one of Curry's scoring moves late in the game - Yeah! I'd say he's ready for the NBA.
:o
What he's doing kinda reminds me of what Dwayne Wade did in his final NCAA Tournament, ...... only better.
that's exactly what i was thinking.
wade is a class act, too. nice kid.
doesn't seem to have been overwhelmed by celebrity. come to think of it, lebron has done well, too, considering how extremely young he was when he started. we have an interesting young basketball crew coming up. i think the face of the nba is going to be interesting in a couple of years.
but, i digress . . . do you think curry can carry the team to the top?
Quote from: newkris on March 29, 2008, 11:53:55 AM
that's exactly what i was thinking.
wade is a class act, too. nice kid.
doesn't seem to have been overwhelmed by celebrity. come to think of it, lebron has done well, too, considering how extremely young he was when he started. we have an interesting young basketball crew coming up. i think the face of the nba is going to be interesting in a couple of years.
but, i digress . . . do you think curry can carry the team to the top?
Possibly? Look at the other side of the coin. You really can't guard just one person on the Kansas Jayhawks' side. They're much too-balanced for anyone to do so. Curry can easily be contained; and I really haven't seen anyone else for Davidson step up.
Quote from: DocStrange1 on March 29, 2008, 10:32:58 PM
Curry can easily be contained;...
I disagree. He's already taken three different top 10 defenses to the woodshed, and two of those three were top 5 defenses (Georgetown and Wisconsin). If he could be so "easily" contained, surely at least ONE of those defenses would have managed to do so. Yet not only did they fail to contain him, he did pretty much whatever he wanted to with them.
I sure hope that the Kansas players aren't taking Curry as lightly as you are - because as I said earlier, if they do that they will lose.
I think that Gregg Doyel (http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/10747219) of CBS Sportsline has it right on the money:
Kansas needs to put up a Memphis v. MSU type of blowout on Davidson, and - just as Memphis did - they need to do it in the first half! Because if they let Davidson "hang around" for the first five to ten minutes of the second half ...... and per Davidson's history in this tournament, "hanging around" means being anywhere within 20 points of Kansas! .... then Curry, along with a very large and highly partisan, pro-Davidson crowd are going to rain down on them and become their worst nightmare. (The game will be played at Ford Field in Detroit, in front of about 60,000 or so people. And, nothing against Kansas really, but, like the rest of America, with the exception of Kansas fans themselves, everyone else there (say, 45,000 to 50,000 of those in attendance) will be pulling for Davidson to win, and will be cheering raucously for them at ear-drum splitting decibel levels, if or when they are given any kind of opportunity to).
Essentially then, by approximately the 15 minute mark of the second half Kansas needs to have built up a 25 or 30 point lead, otherwise things will get verrrrry interesting (and very loud) in those last 10-15 minutes. ............. and believe me, if they have even an ounce of brains in them, the last things Kansas wants is for this game to in any way come close to anything even so much as merely resembling "interesting". They want this game to be so far out of reach that Curry's second half theatrics will be rendered moot; and trust me, Curry's second half flurry of points will definitely come, but if Kansas can take care of business beforehand, that flurry will be in vain.
However, having said that, Kansas fans need to keep in mind that it's not as if this Davidson team is going to find itself completely "over-matched" by an entire lineup of college basketball's best, large, extremely athletic, and highly talented "superstars". ....... and I suspect that many Kansas fans foolishly expect just that very thing to happen.
Aside from facing Georgetown just 2 games ago, Davidson faced no less than three teams this season that could all start up their own chains of McDonald's franchises, if you know what I mean. They faced UCLA, North Carolina, and Duke ...... all of them in "Away" games, .... and they held 2nd half leads on every single one of them.
So it's not as if this Davidson team is going to cower in fear, hang their heads in despair, or otherwise be "overwhelmed" or "in awe" when facing an entire roster made up of nothing but super-sized, super-fast, and super-athletic, former McDonald's All-American "wunderkinds". When it comes to facing such "Uber-Teams", Davidson has "been there", and "done that", and come within a hair's breath of taking down all three of them ..... away from home.
So personally, I think this game is going to much, much closer than the Kansas players, coach, and fans want it to be. And while I have no doubt whatsoever that Davidson can beat Kansas, on about a 3 out of 10 times basis, I'm just not sure if tonight will be one of those 3 out of 10 times. Both teams are "hot" right now, and with all things being equal like that I think that Kansas has to be the pick to win it. However, it would be far from "shocking" to see Davidson come out of it with the victory - they are that good.
Wow! That was a tight game!
Curry's hot streak finally ended, although he still scored 25 points. Kansas had to scratch and claw their way out of that game, squeaking by with a 2 point victory ..... but a victory nonetheless. And it's not as if Davidson didn't have their opportunities to win the game, because they had a number of them. The shots just didn't fall for them, while Kansas made just enough plays to squeeze out of there with a win (but it was a tight squeeze).
All in all, and considering that the other 3 Regional Finals were quite decisive, I think it's fair to say that this year there were five teams worthy of playing in the Final Four; but as the title says only four can make it, and by a narrow margin Davidson was the odd man out. But at least they made ONE of the Regional Finals interesting (because the other three were pretty boring).
Four #1 seeds in the Final Four. Wow. And could you ask for better match-ups than Kansas-UNC and UCLA-Memphis? That's the kind of Final Four that only happens in your dreams. .......... But this year, ... It's On, baby! ..... Looking forward to it. All three games should be a blast.
:clap:
Wow!, did you see the hurtin' that Kansas put on North Carolina. Hoo-dogie, as a long-time "hater" of UNC basketball, that was soooooooo sweet.
As an aside, I am proud to say that I was one of the minority 12% of voters on CBS.sportsline.com that chose both Kansas and Memphis to win the two games last Saturday (of the 4 possible match-ups, it was the least chosen). I chose them for the exact same reasons that they won: they were both deeper than UNC and UCLA, respectively,... but even more telling is that they were both significantly taller, faster, and more athletic than their two opponents, and they were especially so at the Guard positions. Poor Collison of UCLA, at 6' 1" I think, was going up against guys that are 6' 7" and 6' 6", and who (again) are faster and more athletic than him; he didn't stand a chance. Ty Lawson of UNC, at 5' 11", faced pretty much the same scenario against the Kansas Guards. Lawson's best advantage, his speed and quickness, was negated because the Kansas Guards are just as fast and quick, if not more so - and they are all 4 to 7 inches taller than Lawson; thus, he too didn't have a chance.
The Championship game is a great match-up precisely because the two teams have the exact same strengths, and have them abundantly. That said, IMO the Memphis Guards are just a little bit quicker, faster, and taller than those of Kansas, and I think that will be the difference.
I think Memphis will win it, with the score lower than possibly many folks think it will be (something like 77-70, in favor of Memphis, IMO).
Well, until that last second 3-pointer that tied it, things were looking pretty good for Memphis. But right now in OT, it's 69-65 Kansas, and Dorsey is on the bench having fouled out.
71-68, with one minute to go in OT. ........ It's a nail-biter, that's for sure.
73-68, with 29 seconds to go, and Kansas has th........... WAIT! Collins lost the ball! OMG! Memphis is still alive.
OK, they're looking dead again. Still 73-68, and now Collins is at the free throw line for 2.
........ first shot is good. 74-68
........ 2nd one is good too. ...... Missed three. ............ Kansas has the rebound, ....... and it's over!
Wow! What a game! Congrats to Kansas. Memphis had the game in their hands, but they missed a few key free throws down the stretch, and that allowed Kansas to come back and tie it. But give Kansas credit, they did what they had to do down the stretch, and Memphis didn't.
*plants the KU banner in jdcord's corner*
(http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k104/DJ_PlanetSynth/kansas.gif)
ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK!!!
Quote from: DocStrange1 on April 08, 2008, 04:35:43 AM
ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK!!!
Ya know, that's one of those things about this tournament that I "wanted to know, but was afraid to ask": What in the world is that saying supposed to mean, anyway?
*L*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Chalk%2C_Jayhawk
So basically, then, it's Kansas .... "dirt". :eyebrow:
........... yes. ...... I can see how that would be appealing. :o
*cough*
Quote from: jdcord on April 08, 2008, 11:13:01 AM
So basically, then, it's Kansas .... "dirt". :eyebrow:
........... yes. ...... I can see how that would be appealing. :o
*cough*
:eyebrow:
limestone = dirt? Please. :laughhard:
*goes to find the baseball thread, as A-Rod went oh-for-four today against Kansas City*
??
You did, ...... ya know, ..... READ .... the Wikipedia entry, didn't you? *L*
It says that "Rock Chalk" is a transposition of "Chalk Rock", which is - and I quote - "a mineral that exists in western Kansas and similar to the coccolith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccolith) found in the white cliffs of Dover".
Now then, ..... "cocoliths", according to the link provided (and other links contained therein), are essentially a calcium carbonate, plankton (http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808450090/photo/551407) organism (a "phytoplankton", to be precise), and after they die their remains become the main component of "chalk" found in sediment (i.e., "dirt").
Thus, "Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk!" is technically a reference to Kansas dirt.
:kermit:
*LOL*