Let's try something! If your team is in, or on bubble, for the NCAA Tournament, AND you are VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE about a particular team then please post the following below. If you are a HOMER, then don't post....only want objective thoughts here.
TEAM NAME:
What the team does well:
What the team struggles with:
What kind of teams are a hard matchup for your team:
Remember, looking for objective post here....
TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS
Vols are a good defensive team this year but struggle at times on offense. Vols don't usually turn the ball over much. Vols play a lot of players with a lot of minutes. Vols don't lose close games, they either win it or get blown out.
Wayne Chism is our best player and our only reason threat down low. He has been banged up lately and playing through the injury. Scotty Hopson is very talented but isn't aggressive enough, he is a NO SHOW in big games. JP Prince is the most Bi-Polar player ever. He will do something amazing, and follow it up with the stupidest thing you've ever seen. He probably set the record this year for most fouls vs a guy who is shooting a 3.
If a team plays ZONE Defense on us, we are toast! Our offense is horrible against it and we aren't a good 3 pt shooting team like we were in the Lofton years.
The VOLS are very inconsistent. Beat #1 Kansas and lose to Georgia. Hard team to predict.
Most likely a 6 seed that may make the sweet 16, but most likely a 1st or 2nd round exit.
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Baylor
Does well: Shoot the 3, a point guard that can take control, Great inside presence and a premier shot blocker. Very quick and active hands.
Struggles: Never put teams away, A team with really good defensive guards, They also tend to get lazy and into foul trouble. Especially Lomars and Dunn. They have a great shot blocker but no shut down defender.
Could be good or bad but they tend to stay real even tempered. They never put away teams but never let teams get out of reach either.
Its hard to say who they will struggle with at this point because they have lost teams I thought would be good match ups and beat teams I thought they would struggle with. ie Texas has a good big and at the time the best defensive guard in the country. I think they will struggle against a team that shoots the 3 and have a premier guard. They match up well with a team with a premier big but lack the 3 point shot.
yucavich - you guys have a much better chance of making noise than we do! Stallings will pull his usual Sweet 16 appearance out that he has once every 4 years to keep his job.
I can't wait to see what Pearl can do with a team that doesn't have defectors every year (if we ever get to that point). In the past few years we have a long list of players who are no longer on the team and it isnt due to graduation! Major Wingate, Duke Crews, Ramar Smith, Tyler Smith, Daniel West, Emmanual Negadu, Boomer Herndon, Josh Tabb, Philip Jurick, Marques Johnson, Tony Passley, Damien Harris....that is an entire team we are missing before their time is up!
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