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Kansas State Basketball / Re: What a downer
« on: Today at 03:16:43 PM »Oscar giveth. Oscar taketh away. His floor is his ceiling. Most fortunate draw of all time provided a smoke screen last year.
9 seeds don't get a fortunate draw. We played 2 games against better seeds, two games against worse seeds. I'm sure you'll find this is the case for most 6-11 seeds that have made the elite 8 in the 64 team era?
You know what's odd? I hear some mention that oscar got lucky that the got to play a team who beat the one seed, but I never hear those same people talk about the misfortune of having to play a clearly misseeded Kentucky team in '14. They played the best team in the country in an 8-9'game. Just as I'm sure I won't hear the same about this year's team facing a 30+ win team with the nation's longest winning streak in a 4-13 game.
It's a total crapshoot. UK was definitely an unlucky draw. I know nothing about UC Irvine but sure let's call it unlucky.
oscar did a great job this year on a team with a razor thin margin for error because he needed to play three seniors, two of which were injury prone, 35+ minutes a game to win. The conference title says way more about the job he did than the one game fluke
what did oscar do that any other competent coach wouldn’t have done that made the job he did so worthy of praise?
i can tell you one thing that he did that no other coach with a pulse would not have, and that’s sitting his senior guard for as long as he did because he had 2 early fouls.
Winning a conference championship isn't worthy of praise? Can you list all of the other P5 coaches with a pulse with 2 conference titles the last 6 years? I know Coach K isn't on that list.
i think that with the team he had this season, including 3 seniors - 2 of which were all conference players, he should have shared the conference. maybe i'm being too tough, i guess he didn't screw it up?
you've played the coach k, 2 conference titles card a couple times and i get it but i also think that this team's weaknesses falls on oscar. i'm certainly not trying to pile on the guy but think that this team did everything they could with what their coach gave them.
he could have given them a lot more. seriously, what coach would have sat BBJ and not realized that UC-I took that game at that tie at half? momentum and chemistry is a lot in CBB and he decided to do what his coach in 8th grade taught him to do instead of giving his team the best chance to win.
