LETS GO Baylor!!
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GU goes on a run to "close" to 12. Baylor looks like they need halftime even though GU is down double digits.
Agree Baylor should be up more but "should be" doesn't matter. It was 29-10 w/ 10 to go in the half. It's definitely still a game.
Definitely still a game.. I know most novices will focus on how many shots we make.. IE 7/12.. Those who have coached, know to focus on the shots we get..!!
Get the shots we want and shots will fall at a high clip...
I love how you miss quote me to support your point. I said they weren’t playing well... Meaning they had tons of missed opportunities.. If they were taking advantage of those opportunities they would have been up 20 which was my point.. In other words they out played Gonzaga by more then the points they were up..
Anytime watching B this game can clearly see that Gonzaga is struggling to score while Baylor is controlling every facet of the game... I don’t expect you to get it, but I do expect the score to reflect how close this game is not in the second half?!!!
Maybe they can start chucking from half court since they practice those shots so much...
FYI Homer Drew, Scott Drew’s father was an assistant at WSU in 1972😀😀
I don’t even say they played poorly... hahaha Exactly what I said came true.. To the trained eye it was clear in the first half that Baylor has many missed opportunities and was still up ten. The second half was further example of what I was saying..
WSU coaching families and more important Pullman residents have been NCAA men's hoops champions the last 3 years.
Cool story. You literally said they hadn't played well and should be up 20. Just because you think a team should be up more doesn't mean they weren't playing well. You didn't offer any other details about what they weren't doing well or what you meant by that.
Right thats what I said. Not well vs poor? I guess you can call that a big difference. I quit now. You're not even making sense.
Ok let me clarify for the uniformed.. Usually when you shoot 7/12 from 3 turn the other team over 8 times and completely dominate them on the defensive end you expect to be up more then 10 points. That doesn’t even include having the other teams second best player “Suggs”, on the bench for the majority of the half while your best player is in double digits.. Didnt think I needed to spell it out, but there you go..
Given those facts Baylor did not take advantage of opportunities.. HAPPY?
I thought Baylor would run them out of the gym. They just play such good D and help defense...nevermind their unselfishness on offense and the fact everyone can shoot.
Brilliantly coached team. One of the better ones on recent memory.
Maybe I'm a bit of a Homer(pun intended) being from Indiana.. but what Scott Drew has done taking over that mess is a great story
Brilliantly coached team. One of the better ones on recent memory.
Maybe I'm a bit of a Homer(pun intended) being from Indiana.. but what Scott Drew has done taking over that mess is a great story
I'm not in Spokane to have to deal with Zag arrogance, so I kind of wanted them to win. Not at all upset that a non-blueblood team out of Waco won though; happy for them. And I know that Baylor was probably the better team all year, so not to take anything away from them. But...
Any time one of these unexpected routs or upsets happen, there is some huge 3pt magic. The average 3pt percentage league-wide is about 38% (Baylor 41%), and Baylor hit - I believe - their first SEVEN, CONSECUTIVELY.
Statistically, the chances of this happening are about 0.19% for Baylor (~1 in 500) and 0.11% for an ordinary NCAA team (~1 in 1,000). Going by their own record, Baylor should have netted 8-9 points over that time but instead netted 21 points, allowing them to put the Zags in a moon-crater-sized hole early and forcing them off their transition scoring game.
Baylor came back down to earth near half, but this kind of magic reminds me of Manny Ramirez opening Super Bowl XLVIII by sailing the snap over Peyton's head into the EZ for a safety as the first play from scrimmage: Seattle came out like savages AND made them pay for every mistake. Hard to see a route to victory for Gonzaga (or Denver, then) but there is an element of getting to the big game, being punished by the gods, and just having to say, "are you f--ing kidding me with this?"
Any time one of these unexpected routs or upsets happen, there is some huge 3pt magic. The average 3pt percentage league-wide is about 38% (Baylor 41%), and Baylor hit - I believe - their first SEVEN, CONSECUTIVELY.
Statistically, the chances of this happening are about 0.19% for Baylor (~1 in 500) and 0.11% for an ordinary NCAA team (~1 in 1,000). Going by their own record, Baylor should have netted 8-9 points over that time but instead netted 21 points, allowing them to put the Zags in a moon-crater-sized hole early and forcing them off their transition scoring game.
Baylor came back down to earth near half, but this kind of magic reminds me of Manny Ramirez opening Super Bowl XLVIII by sailing the snap over Peyton's head into the EZ for a safety as the first play from scrimmage: Seattle came out like savages AND made them pay for every mistake. Hard to see a route to victory for Gonzaga (or Denver, then) but there is an element of getting to the big game, being punished by the gods, and just having to say, "are you f--ing kidding me with this?"
I don't know. Sure it's nice to have a great start, but basketball seems built around going on runs, and usually each team will have them. Baylor came out hot on a run, and Gonzaga finished the half with a strong run and were only down 9. Baylor easily looked like the better team in the first half. The second half was a little more even than the first, but again, Baylor just flat out looked like the better team. They played better defense and were much more athletic which gave Gonzaga fits on both ends. They easily won the rebounding, Turnover margin, steals, blocks - the hustle categories.
Baylor finished the night making 10-23 3's, 43%. So nothing special, and would have been bad had they not had a hot start, run in the game.
I have a hard time rooting for Baylor as a university. Although, Scott Drew seems like a good dude.
GU got punched in the mouth and couldn't respond. Kispert was cold and Suggs was the only player on GU that could match up with Baylor athletically. As soon as Suggs picked up foul No. 2 four minutes in, I more or less figured the game was over.
That whole situation is weird. Baylor is weird.
They have a murder scandal and then hire "some dood" and keep him for 23 years? Who keeps a coach that long, let alone one that took what... 10 years to get the program in the black? I mean, good for them for sticking it out but its definitely the exception and not the rule any more.
And then you have the football team/ coaches... what's in the water in Waco?
Not that anyone here needs to be told this, but I think they approach sports a little differently in the south. Especially football, but basketball seems to be enjoying a new focus down there as well. The fact that one or more of Baylor, Tech, UT, and now a handful in the SEC are now perennial contenders says something.
I have a bunch of SEC and OK/TX grad neighbors (Auburn, Florida, Alabama, Tech, OU, Texas), and not one of them has a job where a college degree is an intellectual necessity: it’s all sales, teaching, etc. If you ask them about college it’s nothing but sports and alcohol. I know that’s true to some degree everywhere, but I get the sense that at many of these schools, 100% of the experience revolves around sports and 0% around academics.
My point is, where sports/winning is everything, many offenses that would get you bounced on the west coast or in the NE are preemptively/secretly “forgiven” down south, provided you’re delivering the goods on the field. What came to light on Les Miles, Art Briles, Bobby Petrino, Hugh Freeze, and others in the modern era, and SMU before that, is hardly surprising. Not to mention what didn’t come to light with others, like Urban @ UF.
I agree with your whole post except the last point.
Even if they didn't get off to a great start, Gonzaga couldn't get anything going against their D.
That is what is so impressive about this team. Even if they didn't shoot well, their D was good enough to create stops and turnovers and win the championship
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Spent an afternoon in Waco a couple years back. Wife wanted to see Chip and Joanna’s silos/Magnolia thing so drove up from Austin
Remarkably unimpressed with the entirety of it all. Nice football stadium but that was it. Just a total m’eh town.
Must be some big alums funneling cash because nothing screamed destination in that place.
When I moved to Austin now many years ago one of the last thing my Mom told me before I hit the road was "to just stay away from Waco". I didn't go out of my way but I guess that was good advice?
Anybody else read these last two posts real quickly and see "Winco" instead of "Waco"?
"spent an afternoon in Winco a couple years back"
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"Mom told me 'to just stay away from Winco' "
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