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Topic: 2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread

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bayareabadger

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Re: 2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #574 on: January 11, 2025, 10:11:19 AM »
Minnesota seems like a pretty poor team. I thought that big lead guard they imported would be better. Garcia is still Garcia. 

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Re: 2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #575 on: January 11, 2025, 10:47:07 AM »
I think Johnson is a decent coach.  Apparently their NIL commitment for basketball is dismal, perhaps lowest in the conference.

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Re: 2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #576 on: January 11, 2025, 02:11:08 PM »
USC wins at Illinois.  That might be as shocking a result as we will see all season in leasge

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« Reply #577 on: January 11, 2025, 07:57:37 PM »
Illinois' best player was out today.  Injuries can sometimes have an exponential effect on team morale.

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Re: 2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #578 on: January 11, 2025, 11:52:54 PM »
I think Johnson is a decent coach.  Apparently their NIL commitment for basketball is dismal, perhaps lowest in the conference.
It's weird to me because he's a recruiter first and foremost, and the NIL era probably reduces the value of that.

I don't feel like he gets the most of out some guys, but he's also got top players like Garcia and Battle, who have some flaws (the Cooper kid did get a ton better when he went to SC)

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Re: 2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #579 on: January 12, 2025, 10:19:06 AM »
It’s happening again…Death, Taxes, and a Chris Holtmann coached team cratering in conference play after overachieving in the non-conference schedule:




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Re: 2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #580 on: January 12, 2025, 10:23:59 AM »
It's DePaul. Irrelevant since 1990.
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« Reply #581 on: January 12, 2025, 01:21:17 PM »
Guessing they were underdogs in all of those

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Re: 2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #582 on: January 12, 2025, 01:22:26 PM »
It's weird to me because he's a recruiter first and foremost, and the NIL era probably reduces the value of that.

I don't feel like he gets the most of out some guys, but he's also got top players like Garcia and Battle, who have some flaws (the Cooper kid did get a ton better when he went to SC)
Agree.  Mel Tucker's problems aside, I liked the hire because I think MSU's recruiting had tanked.  I would be curious to see how he would have played out in a pre-NIL era, without the obvious personally issues.  Once NIL came into play, being a great recruiter at a 2nd tier P5 school lost a ton of value if you couldn't coach.

It's why I didn't like the Urban Meyer talk, and why Cal isn't doing great at Arkansas

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Re: 2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #583 on: January 12, 2025, 01:41:58 PM »
Nebraska might be the most home/away Jekyll/Hyde team in the conference

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Re: 2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #584 on: January 13, 2025, 10:53:33 AM »
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Re: 2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #585 on: January 13, 2025, 02:15:16 PM »
That Purdue / Nebraska game was the exact opposite of last year.  That was not a "Nebraska on the road thing", but more of a "Purdue is shooting so well right now that nobody in the country could beat them" thing.  Just every piece of garbage that Purdue threw in the air went in.  Same thing with Tominaga on Nebraska's home court last year.  The away team didn't play all that badly in both cases.  Just one of those buzzsaw days for the home team.

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Re: 2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #586 on: January 13, 2025, 02:48:46 PM »
Michigan is going to have a very interesting stretch after this week. Probably set up to be 7-0 in the conference heading into the West Lafayette a week from Friday and then it's a tough stretch. Facing Purdue twice, Oregon, Indiana and Michigan St with a couple other games sprinkled in a 3 week stretch.  It will be a true test of what level this team is at. Have they had teh luxury of an easier schedule and caught Wisconsin off guard or is this a legit team to make a run with their twin towers. Every game I've watched, broadcasters foam at the mouth over Wolf, but from my seat he has to correct his turnover problem and Goldin is actually the better player at this point.

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Re: 2024-2025 B1G Basketball Thread
« Reply #587 on: January 13, 2025, 03:56:49 PM »
Wolf is the better pro prospect.  Hes asked to be more ball dominant than any other similar player in the country.  The result is more turnovers.  Goldin is a great college big, Wolf is a great college big, who also might sneak into the back end of the first round of the NBA Draft

 

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