NCAA Tournament Thread

Watched on DVR since I play on Monday nights.

Houston was Houston, they are truly beautiful to watch on D and the boards. You have to admire their absolutely relentless effort. Their offense depends on guys making high degree of difficulty shots and not enough of those went in for them last night. Credit Florida defense which was terrific, especially Billy Richards who is probably the only guy on that team who could play for Houston.

Also credit Todd Golden who I have been critical of. He had a good plan on offense to beat Houston at the rim, ran some very effective sets, had excellent plays out of time outs, sat Clayton when he needed to, and made good halftime adjustments.

It was obvious that he told his team at halftime that they had to meet Houston's physicality and that predictably resulted in a bunch of fouls because you can't tell guys to do that who haven't done it and aren't built to do it, but then they really settled down.

Houston did a tremendous job on Clayton (as expected) but Richards made them pay and Clayton did hit one big shot and made the key defensive play at the end.

Good,. competitive game but sorry Houston lost (even though I had Florida on all brackets on the theory that nobody was going to beat them which unfortunately turned out to be correct).
 
lawmanfan said:
Watched on DVR since I play on Monday nights.

Houston was Houston, they are truly beautiful to watch on D and the boards. You have to admire their absolutely relentless effort. Their offense depends on guys making high degree of difficulty shots and not enough of those went in for them last night. Credit Florida defense which was terrific, especially Billy Richards who is probably the only guy on that team who could play for Houston.

Also credit Todd Golden who I have been critical of. He had a good plan on offense to beat Houston at the rim, ran some very effective sets, had excellent plays out of time outs, sat Clayton when he needed to, and made good halftime adjustments.

It was obvious that he told his team at halftime that they had to meet Houston's physicality and that predictably resulted in a bunch of fouls because you can't tell guys to do that who haven't done it and aren't built to do it, but then they really settled down.

Houston did a tremendous job on Clayton (as expected) but Richards made them pay and Clayton did hit one big shot and made the key defensive play at the end.

Good,. competitive game but sorry Houston lost (even though I had Florida on all brackets on the theory that nobody was going to beat them which unfortunately turned out to be correct).
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Spot on post
 
Clayton's defensive play in the end, reminded me of Pitino praising Sim after one of our games where he didn't play well offensively, but hit a really big shot down the stretch, and made a huge defensive play at the end of the game to help us get the win. Georgetown, Nova, not sure which game it was.

Side note, Rick has to stop saying "if we beat Arkansas, we win the National Championship", it sounds silly IMO.
 
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BrookJersey Redmen said:
Clayton's defensive play in the end, reminded me of Pitino praising Sim after one of our games where he didn't play well offensively, but hit a really big shot down the stretch, and made a huge defensive play at the end of the game to help us get the win. Georgetown, Nova, not sure which game it was.

Side note, Rick hs to stop saying "if we beat Arkansas, we win the National Championship", it sounds silly IMO.
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Rick did get his Masters Degree at Hyperbole State.
 
BrookJersey Redmen said:
Clayton's defensive play in the end, reminded me of Pitino praising Sim after one of our games where he didn't play well offensively, but hit a really big shot down the stretch, and made a huge defensive play at the end of the game to help us get the win. Georgetown, Nova, not sure which game it was.

Side note, Rick has to stop saying "if we beat Arkansas, we win the National Championship", it sounds silly IMO.
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Well what I think he is getting at is that we'd been playing as well as anyone, and if we were able to get by Arkansas while playing our worst game with a much tighter whistle, we could have gone very far.

Nothing really wrong with that. A team goes far when their coach believes in them.
 
BrookJersey Redmen said:
Could have gone very far, versus winning a National Championship, is what I was getting at.

I wouldn't say either if it were me.

Sounds like sour grapes to me.......couldha, wouldha, shouldha..... Marlon Brando-like.
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It's something I guess, but I wouldn't call it sour grapes. Sour grapes to me would be blaming the refs.
 
Golden made a game winning decision to put Clayton jr, his All American back in the game at Crunch time

Despite Walter jr going Zero for the 1st half and being negated by the Cougar defense .

I think his play in the last 10 minutes turned the game for the Gators . He went to the basket, played good defense , shot a few jumpers that went in at key points in the game .

He will. Get drafted by the NBA but , who knows where ?

He’s Clutch for sure .
 
Mean Gene said:
He was still playing defense and hustling. RJ wasn’t .
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I'm sure he was playing at least as much defense as Lefty. I'm obviously not suggesting that Clayton should have spent the end of the final on the bench. That would be just as absurd as Rj's benching.

My guess is no matter what happened in the 1st 32.5 minutes, league and tournament mvp and all American RJ would have been hustling like crazy and playing balls to the wall defense to lead us into the sweet sixteen.
 
Rocket said:
When Walter Clayton was a freshman at Iona I watched Hofstra beat them. Iona had Walt, Jenkins and Nelly Joseph. They made tremendous progress after their freshman year.
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Jenkins was in a JUCO that year (as a junior). He only played his (first) senior year at Iona.
 
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