MBB: USA South Conference

[scottiedoug]

Hello Narch!  Maryville is coming your way Sat. to complete the Scot sweep of the USASouth teams that still will schedule them.  Although coming over there makes me nervous.  I still cannot decide how good the Scots are.  Sometimes very, sometimes not very, so far.  We have a couple of guys who are playing really well right now whom you have not seen (Bowers and Neal).  Mason can shoot really well or not.  One or both of Golden and Blair will produce inside, if they can get the ball through the zone y'all will probably throw up.  Are you going to be there?  Too far for me.  It will be on the radio/web.

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

Actually there is a formula.   Formula for Propensity to Argue (PTA) index = 

[(breathtakingly beautiful and logical sports analysis with no misspelled words) x 100] + [(breathtakingly beautiful and logical sports analysis with misspelled words) x 75] + [(reasonably competent data - correct score, date game was played, etc) X 50] + [(half truths with no real harm - correct score but listed wrong teams or date, for example) X 25] + [(half truth with some harm - had correct winner, but wrong score caused one poster to injure another in over & under betting pool) X 10] + [(thinking but keeping it to yourself) X 7]  + [(saying something, realizing it was wrong and apologizing) X 5] + [(saying something, realizing it was wrong and deleting it) X 3] + [(not thinking or saying anything) X 1]

minus

[(# of out and out lies with profanity) X 10] + [(out and out lies with clean language) X 8] + [(grossly stretching the limits of the truth) X 7] + [(mildly distorted facts) X 5] + [(misinterpretation of correct facts) X 4] + [(incorrectly spelled names of schools, mascots, cities, coaches, gyms and players in USASAC) X 3] + [(incorrectly spelled names of schools, mascots, cities, coaches, gyms and players in other conferences) X 2] + [(other misspelled words and gross grammatical errors) X 1] + [(miscellaneous stupid stuff) x 0.5]

Please note, all values have a 1.5 multiplier when opposing poster is addressing your school.

Proposed rating scale:

500 and over - Please marry my sister!
100 to 499 - Meet me at the game and I'll introduce you to my sister.
1 to 99 - I'll buy you a soda at the game, but only a game my sister doesn't attend.
0 - Do you (and your sister) post?
-1 to -99  - No wonder you (and your sister) attend that school!
-100 to - 499 - I'll give you (and your sister) $10 to please shut up!
-500 and below - Are you dating your sister?

Hasa......you are a trip man!!! Freakin hillarious!! 

Nova-
thats is very funny. I would have given you +1 for it.  I think someone already did.  I got hit hard today.  I made one post in the top 25 and got -2 for it.  I even knew I was going to get it too.  Oh well.

[hasanova]

Hasa,

That didn't Rime....ryme...the words didn't sound alike at the end!

what's your sister's name?

CNU85, wasn't trying to rhyme a formula, but give me two beers and thirty minutes and I bet I could.  lol  Actually, I have two sisters, but their names won't be printed here.  lol   When they get together with me and our two brothers, we have entertaining conversations.  My family's the best!  Peace

e = mc²

Einstein was thinner, not fatter - 
Between bratwurst and physics, the latter!
Albert's theory declared,
"At speed of light squared,
My energy's gone - does it matter?!"   

[hasanova]

allsky and PSBBG - thanks.  A mind is a terrible thing to waste.  lol  Or is that a waist is a terrible thing to mind? 

[CNU85]

dang it...I had a nice post earlier with good stats ready to go and when I hit the post button, my computer at work locked up. I see it didn't make it. I'll try again tomorrow. Get ready for some analysis narch!

[CNU85]

allsky and PSBBG - thanks.  A mind is a terrible thing to waste.  lol  Or is that a waist is a terrible thing to mind? 

I've always said, "a mind is a terrible thing"

[CNU85]

ok..can't wait until tomorrow...gonna go look all that stuff up again and try to figure out what I posted earlier...

[CNU85]

There are 363 d3 teams the NCAA has stat rankings for.....here are some rankings in various areas for CNU:

Offense
scoring offense - 25th
FG % - 22nd
FT % - 14th - pretty good...I remember when it was so bad, Captj could bounce more in!!!!
Assists - 16th (Davon is 3rd in nation in assists)

my interpretation (with not much thought)...a very good offense!

Offensive weakspot - 3 pt shots per game - 304th

Defense
Scoring D - 326th
rebound margin - 216th (blasingame is 15th in nation in rebounds)
steals per game - 362nd (which team is worse?)
blocks - 3rd (Blasingame is 3rd in nation)

Interpretation - Mark Blasingame is the only CNU guy playing D. Maybe that's why we're good on offense....everyone is releasing when the other team shoots and we get transition, fast break points (??). Maybe not, that would involve getting rebounds. Maybe we're quick on the inbounds pass after an opponent score...who usually does that? Blasingame!! CNU plays NBA style ball - "Coach, how do you spell "D"? (which sucks!). Mark needs help from Lewis and Riley. I bet that's why we're seeing a little more of Luke Jackson. We DO NOT have a defense!!!

other stat ... personal fouls - we rank 12th. CNU averages 15 fouls a game...7-8 in a half...barely enough to send the other team into the bonus! We're not aggressive enough, in my opinion....thus the pathetic steals stat. We don't foul, we don't steal the ball, we don't rebound....WE DON'T GO TO THE BALL!!!!!!! When we do happen to get it in our hands we can shoot the rock very well!!!

Narch, Tavi, Schemer - what are your thoughts on all this?

[SU97]

CNU85 I can only speak to the game in winchester a week ago, but there are some supporting statistics to what you are suggesting. Even though it's only a small slice of your season it sounds like a perfect example...

When you guys came into town, you shot 61% from the field, and even though you shot 50% from 3point range, you only took 4 attempts.  [FYI: on the other end SU put up 26 attempts and hit 23% (6-23) ? ]  But here's the real eye openers:  SU got 31 points on second chance points to CNU's 10 second chance points.  Even though largely outsized underneath, SU still grabbed 49 rebounds to CNU's 41.  You had 13 blocks, 5 by big number 50 and he had limited minutes if I remember correctly. 

All I can remember on the offensive end was that #45 and #43 couldn't miss that night.  I guess what you can ask is: is your team the one that barely lost to the defending national champion by a bucket, or the team that just lost to Piedmont?   

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

I don't think there will be any "upsets" saturday.  I think the one possible one would be the Ferrum-CNU game and the only way it will be is if CNU struggles at the FT line.

It looks like that probably won't happen since they are shooting a blistering 76.4% from the line 6% better then the next team in the conference.

[PrideSportBBallGuy]

We don't have a pick'em but I will throw out a spread pick'em for Saturday.

AU at SU (+11)

FC(+9) at CNU

GC at NCWC (Even)

MC at MU(+13)

[narch]

It looks like that probably won't happen since they are shooting a blistering 76.4% from the line 6% better then the next team in the conference.

the word you're looking for is THAN...and i don't see ferrum beating cnu any time in the near future

i like your spreads, though - if i were a betting man and vegas had these lines, i might jump on a few of those games...most notably your most likely upset - i think cnu will win by double digits

scottiedoug - i won't be at the game...family obligations...but i think the monarchs are playing much like the scots...very on and off - if the team that played against guilford and rutgers-newark and piedmont shows up, it will be a good game and i wouldn't be surprised to see a monarch "w"...if the other team shows up, it will be a long day for the green and gold - golden and blair are super scary, though, especially given the way the monarchs have failed to defend the post this season

[CNU85]

SU97,

good observations. You saw quite a bit in one game. Anyone who has been on this board for a few years will remember how much we have been screaming about rebounding. CNU doesn't seem to be able to rebound as well as the fans would like. It's a consistent theme, year after year. And if this year is abd in the rebounding category, just wait until next year! Other than Blasingame and little used Jackson...CNU will have NO EXPERIENCED big men. Mark must be getting frustrated inside. I know the playground mentaility of "give me the ball so I can shoot" is killing me!

When it comes to the tournament portion of the season...run and gun usually means one and done in college hoops!

[pride1fan]

It's I not i.

[CNU85]

I love it!!! North Carolina "Grammar Wars". It's a long way from Mayberry!!