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03-26-2008, 07:52 PM | #1 |
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With respect to the NCAA tourney.....
Danny Ainge's 4 years in Provo:
77-78 No tourney invite 78-79 First round choke 79-80 First round choke 80-81 BYU's last visit beyond round 2 and won as many tourney games as they have since. Even the great Danny Ainge was part of back to back choke 1st round losses. I think that was with a great supporting cast, by BYU standards. What do we learn from this? BYU's NCAA tourney history has sucked ass for a long time and that all is not lost for next year. I still believe this team was better than it showed against aTm, and if/when they get that monkey off their back it could be good ride. Even Archaea might smile.....
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03-26-2008, 08:03 PM | #2 |
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I think fans are irrational about tournament wins. Getting a win in the NCAA tournament is the same statistically as finishing in the top 10 in D-1 football. Neither has happened very often for the vast majority of D-1 sports programs.
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03-26-2008, 10:58 PM | #3 |
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But to be honest, with as solid as the Y has been over the past, you would think they could have pulled out at least one win. Yes, seeding has not been fabulous, but there have been many winnable games for them over the years.
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How do you figure? 32 teams get first round wins. I would say Sweet 16 is like the top 10 or a little lower.
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03-26-2008, 11:45 PM | #5 |
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BYU took third place in the WAC that Elite 8 year. Utah and Wyoming tied for first and Utah, by the way, went to the Sweet 16. This was their team:
"BYU made it to the NCAA Final 8 with a team starring future NBA players Danny Ainge, Greg Kite and Fred Roberts. Arnold struggled after the 1981 season and finished coaching at BYU in 1983." Underachieved badly even that year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Arnold
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03-27-2008, 12:28 AM | #6 |
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I had forgotten that. When was the last BYU had three NBA players on the roster? Never.
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I don't but I expect us to get past the first round now and then. And I expect it more often than once every two generations. Can I reasonably expect BYU to be one of the best 32 teams now and then? That doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Apparently the aspirations I hold for our program are proving to be too difficult and too lofty.
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Rose appears to be a good, not a great coach. My main complaint about him is the failure to adjust to changes made by the other team and his half court pressure time offense. He gets the team to play decent, not great, defense and the running offense is quite good. Yet tourney games devolve into half court games, and that is the major weakness of most of his teams at BYU.
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