My original lean was UCONN but the more I looked at this game the more I was not impressed with UCONN. Sure they had a ton of blocks, ran the floor well offensively, and caused turnovers throughout there 2-2-1 press but UCONN shot selection was not very good. There guards got too deep at times in the paint and forcing things and almost everything they through up seem to went in. This won happen against DUKE.
I thought UCONN looked very slow when pressing and DUKE guards will zip around them and one thing LSU did not have like DUKE is depth. LSU only had 8 scholarship players and it showed plus LSU is just a soft SEC school. I think the betters were mislead by that game and I hope im right.
UCONN has a ton of height but like I said when they were pressing they looked slow and if I know Coach K he will stretch this D and make these big slow footed guys come out and run a motion offense on them to wear them down in the 2nd half. This biggest thing that I think will have to happen is DUKE ability to hit a high percentage of jump shots has I think UCONN is one of the worst in the country defending the 3 ranking close to 250. That is a disaster for this team if DUKE is shooting well. Lets remember though this might be one of DUKE biggest team in quiet sometime.
I think the match-ups are there but I want a team that is going to play hard every possession and dive for balls. I didn't see this for 40 minutes from UCONN against LSU. At times they were standing around and if they do this tonight DUKE will exploit it.
If Duke can take Robinson or Dyson out of this game either one its going to be very difficult for UCONN to stay in this one. UCONN is going to need a lot of help from Walker or one of there big guys to keep them in this deep in the game.
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Why Duke?
My original lean was UCONN but the more I looked at this game the more I was not impressed with UCONN. Sure they had a ton of blocks, ran the floor well offensively, and caused turnovers throughout there 2-2-1 press but UCONN shot selection was not very good. There guards got too deep at times in the paint and forcing things and almost everything they through up seem to went in. This won happen against DUKE.
I thought UCONN looked very slow when pressing and DUKE guards will zip around them and one thing LSU did not have like DUKE is depth. LSU only had 8 scholarship players and it showed plus LSU is just a soft SEC school. I think the betters were mislead by that game and I hope im right.
UCONN has a ton of height but like I said when they were pressing they looked slow and if I know Coach K he will stretch this D and make these big slow footed guys come out and run a motion offense on them to wear them down in the 2nd half. This biggest thing that I think will have to happen is DUKE ability to hit a high percentage of jump shots has I think UCONN is one of the worst in the country defending the 3 ranking close to 250. That is a disaster for this team if DUKE is shooting well. Lets remember though this might be one of DUKE biggest team in quiet sometime.
I think the match-ups are there but I want a team that is going to play hard every possession and dive for balls. I didn't see this for 40 minutes from UCONN against LSU. At times they were standing around and if they do this tonight DUKE will exploit it.
If Duke can take Robinson or Dyson out of this game either one its going to be very difficult for UCONN to stay in this one. UCONN is going to need a lot of help from Walker or one of there big guys to keep them in this deep in the game.
Glad to see you had another good day. I went 1 and 1 with Portland and Long Beach St..WV looked GOOD yesterday...I thought their travel would tire and I could get a backdoor cover, but they completely took LB out of everything.
I am curious as to why you like Utah? They are not a good squad, and even worse on the road. I have not seen the Illini play this year, so do not know anything about them? Utah lost to Idaho and Seattle at home, barely beat Utah St who lost the game more than Utah won it IMO. I follow the MWC and I am not impressed with this team. There bigs are frail, so if the Illini have size and strength down low, they should own the boards, Carlton Brown is decent but not great, and Drca sucks. I cannot believe teams let him bring the ball up, he cannot handle the rock IMO.
If VCU has a good bench, they should outlast Nevada as their are 5 deep even though they play 7 guys.
Like the Mich St pick too.
Good luck buddy!
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Glad to see you had another good day. I went 1 and 1 with Portland and Long Beach St..WV looked GOOD yesterday...I thought their travel would tire and I could get a backdoor cover, but they completely took LB out of everything.
I am curious as to why you like Utah? They are not a good squad, and even worse on the road. I have not seen the Illini play this year, so do not know anything about them? Utah lost to Idaho and Seattle at home, barely beat Utah St who lost the game more than Utah won it IMO. I follow the MWC and I am not impressed with this team. There bigs are frail, so if the Illini have size and strength down low, they should own the boards, Carlton Brown is decent but not great, and Drca sucks. I cannot believe teams let him bring the ball up, he cannot handle the rock IMO.
If VCU has a good bench, they should outlast Nevada as their are 5 deep even though they play 7 guys.
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