New Final Four weekend thread

[spnited]

Because I didn't feel like digging for the old one and I thought this story was just a perfect way to get it started:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/sports/ncaabasketball/05brown.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin


Paging Starman. Starman please pick up the white courtesy ranting phone.

 

[hockeybeat]

Because I didn't feel like digging for the old one and I thought this story was just a perfect way to get it started:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/sports/ncaabasketball/05brown.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin


Paging Starman. Starman please pick up the white courtesy ranting phone.

Yes, we need more moronic ranting. Whee.

Memphis and Kansas are each down a player. Andre Allen (Memphis) was suspended for failing a drug test, while the Jayhawks' Rodrick Stewart fractured his kneecap.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Yes, we need more moronic ranting. Whee.

Pot, kettle.

 

[hockeybeat]

Yes, we need more moronic ranting. Whee.

Pot, kettle.

Hey, how was your stick-up-the-ass-ectomy? They get a two by four shoved up there, but good?

 

[Tripp McNeely]

Listening to all the pregame coverage, I'm starting to wonder if UCLA should even bother showing up. According to most "experts," Memphis is going to run the Bruins off the court. Hell, even the people who have picked UCLA to win are doing so only because they feel compelled to stick to their original pick.
On ESPN's "First & 10," columnist Rob Parker even called UCLA "underachievers" due to their finish the last two years. Nevermind the fact this is the Bruins' third consecutive Final Four appearance and the only team to defeat them was a, well .... pretty decent? ... Florida Gators squad.

Of course, these are the same experts who predicted that Memphis would overwhelm the Bruins two seasons ago, and that Kansas would do the same last season. And, the Bruins' style of play frustrated the Tigers and Jayhawks into their worst performances of the season.
I'm not saying Memphis can't win or won't win. The Tigers have some great talent. I just think UCLA might be able to take a cue from Calipari and play the "no respect" card as added motivation today.

 

[hockeybeat]

Listening to all the pregame coverage, I'm starting to wonder if UCLA should even bother showing up. According to most "experts," Memphis is going to run the Bruins off the court. Hell, even the people who have picked UCLA to win are doing so only because they feel compelled to stick to their original pick.
On ESPN's "First & 10," columnist Rob Parker even called UCLA "underachievers" due to their finish the last two years. Nevermind the fact this is the Bruins' third consecutive Final Four appearance and the only team to defeat them was a, well .... pretty decent? ... Florida Gators squad.

Of course, these are the same experts who predicted that Memphis would overwhelm the Bruins two seasons ago, and that Kansas would do the same last season. And, the Bruins' style of play frustrated the Tigers and Jayhawks into their worst performances of the season.
I'm not saying Memphis can't win or won't win. The Tigers have some great talent. I just think UCLA might be able to take a cue from Calipari and play the "no respect" card as added motivation today.

Rob Parker is a moron. Plain and simple.

UCLA may not play an up-and-down, atheistically pleasing style of game. But they win. Shouldn't that be what matters?

 

[Tripp McNeely]

Listening to all the pregame coverage, I'm starting to wonder if UCLA should even bother showing up. According to most "experts," Memphis is going to run the Bruins off the court. Hell, even the people who have picked UCLA to win are doing so only because they feel compelled to stick to their original pick.
On ESPN's "First & 10," columnist Rob Parker even called UCLA "underachievers" due to their finish the last two years. Nevermind the fact this is the Bruins' third consecutive Final Four appearance and the only team to defeat them was a, well .... pretty decent? ... Florida Gators squad.

Of course, these are the same experts who predicted that Memphis would overwhelm the Bruins two seasons ago, and that Kansas would do the same last season. And, the Bruins' style of play frustrated the Tigers and Jayhawks into their worst performances of the season.
I'm not saying Memphis can't win or won't win. The Tigers have some great talent. I just think UCLA might be able to take a cue from Calipari and play the "no respect" card as added motivation today.

Rob Parker is a moron. Plain and simple.

UCLA may not play an up-and-down, atheistically pleasing style of game. But they win. Shouldn't that be what matters?

You'd think. But each of the last three seasons has been the same thing. When the Bruins come up against an athletic team, they're barely given a chance to stay in the game. Again, no disrespect to Memphis, cuz if the Tigers are on their game, they're almost impossible to beat. I'd just like to see the Bruins given a little respect for their recent successes. Especially a team that eschews the highlight-reel style of play for a tough, hard-nosed style that wins games.

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

i've actually liked listening to all the sports talk this week simply because of how eveyrone is picking someone different. It's almost sounds like objectivity.

 

[dreunc1542]

I just want the next four hours to pass quickly. I can't remember the last time I was this excited for a Final Four. Both matchups tonight should be really fun to watch.

 

[Oz]

Of course, these are the same experts who predicted that Memphis would overwhelm the Bruins two seasons ago, and that Kansas would do the same last season. And, the Bruins' style of play frustrated the Tigers and Jayhawks into their worst performances of the season.

Of course, UCLA played those two games at home, basically -- at San Jose against KU last season and at Anaheim against Memphis two years ago. Not a bad home-court advantage for a No. 2 seed. Those crowds were easily 80-20 Bruins.

 

[CradleRobber]

I can't decide whether to wear the blue Chalmers jersey, blue Rush jersey or red Rush jersey to the barbecue today.

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

I can't decide whether to wear the blue Chalmers jersey, blue Rush jersey or red Rush jersey to the barbecue today.

I'm just trying to dig up something w/ the right colors. I'm out of town and I didn't bring my KU shirts w/ me. Sort of regretting it.

 

[sportshack06]

did CBS not send their studio team to San Antonio?

This is unusual, no?

 

[ondeadline]

It looks like they're in New York, which is weird. The crew the CBS Sports cable channel is in San Antonio.

 

[rube]

I can't decide whether to wear the blue Chalmers jersey, blue Rush jersey or red Rush jersey to the barbecue today.

Maybe you should wear an Oklahoma State jersey?

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Because I'm too lazy to look on page 2 for the old one

 

[ondeadline]

That is messed up that the studio crew is in New York. I remember past Final Fours where the coaches join the studio crew at the desk inside the same arena/stadium. Not this time, obviously.

 

[suburbia]

That is messed up that the studio crew is in New York. I remember past Final Fours where the coaches join the studio crew at the desk inside the same arena/stadium. Not this time, obviously.

Is money that tight these days where they don't want to spend the money to send their crew down there?

 

[ondeadline]

What would Freud say about the way Clark Kellogg drew the free-throw lanes on the white board?

 

[Norman Stansfield]

Of course, these are the same experts who predicted that Memphis would overwhelm the Bruins two seasons ago, and that Kansas would do the same last season. And, the Bruins' style of play frustrated the Tigers and Jayhawks into their worst performances of the season.

Of course, UCLA played those two games at home, basically -- at San Jose against KU last season and at Anaheim against Memphis two years ago. Not a bad home-court advantage for a No. 2 seed. Those crowds were easily 80-20 Bruins.

Oz, have a lucky pre-game sammich yet?