Alright ervv-body, it’s February now, so that’s only one more month until the Madness, here’s some thoughts from last weeks Lamplighter College Hoops Game of the Week of #1 Kentucky @ South Carolina, as well as some thoughts on some bracket busters and over-rated teams. Today’s Lamplighter game of the Week is #5 Michigan State @ Wisconsin, hope to see you there…….here’s this weeks Insanity Report:
Welcome to the road to the Final THREE!!!! Four teams will enter Indianapolis, but one of those teams, Kentucky will have their final 4 berth stripped by an inevitable recruiting/academic violation by Head Coach, John Calipari. His resume reaks of ineligible Final 4 teams.
Last week his team reaked of stale bread. They lost their game to South Carolina by offering no movement on offense. They spread the floor with absolutely no movement away from the ball. Kentucky thought they could out-talent the Gamecocks, and the Gamecocks answered by punching Kentucky in the face!!!! South Carolina have some good players, especially in Devan Downey, but they’ll need to verify their status as a bracket buster with more wins.
South Carolina limited Kentucky’s transition game and their bigs actually matched up against Kentucky’s bigs in Cousins and Patterson. Again, give them credit for getting the W last week, but they didn’t win that game, Kentucky lost it.
They lost the game even with All-Adolph Player of the Year candidate, Devan Downey. I came into last week’s game thinking he was a Kobe-ish type player. That being, he achieved his 30 points per game average in SEC conference games by jacking 35-40 shots per game, but he only took 29 shots vs. Kentucky for his 30 points….heh heh. But he manufactured shots with his crazy fast first step or assassin-like shot from down town. It’ll be interesting if he and South Carolina can parlay this into a tourney run as they still haven’t received a singe vote in the AP Top 25 poll this past Monday.
But here are some other Bracket Busters in the nation:
NORTHWESTERN
They have all the ingredients for a team that will get a heavy bandwagon of fans come March. They’ve never made it to the tourney, so when they do, their first win celebration will rival the congo line around the arena concourse when Gonzaga made it to the Elite 8 back in ’99. These are Northwestern fans…..so they’re “crazy” celebrations may be a slew of 3000 word soliliquoys of their happiness. Anyways, they have all the ingredients in their players: A so-so deep team and rebounding from the loss of their best player for the rest of the season. Rookie Drew Crawford has come out of nowhere to be a solid froshie, even though he looks like he’s 30-35. Nash is a solid point guard, non-flashy and doesn’t make mistakes. And the kicker for the upcoming Northwester band wagoners is Jon Shurna. He’s their lanky wing who looks he just finished his 30 hour sess of online Call of Duty, with pizzaface pimples and a shot that rivals that of the bench player from McBride way back in the day (Paulsen knows, he does the best impression of McBride shooter….ask him to show you next time you see him). A guy that geeky AND with game, you gotta jump on board with the Wildcats!!!!
ANYTEAM IN THE WEST NOT IN THE PAC 10
Utah State? Louisiana Tech? BYU?
Catch WAC games online folks. They’re entertaining and always packed with madness.
Here are some teams that are like Wendy’s new Boneless Chicken Wings, OH-VER RATE-EDD
UCONN
Typical bigs that block shots and can get dirty in the trenches, but their guards can’t shoot. If they gotta match up against a good shooting team, then they’re done. Jerome Dyson and Kemba Walker are great talents, and they bring it every game, but they have very inconsistent jump shots. And in every game that UConn has lost, Dyson has been in early 2nd half foul trouble. Bad trend Jerome!!!
LOUISVILLE
In the 2 games I’ve seen, their leading scored Samardo Samuel, relies on his talent. This kid has no heart. He doesn’t get after in on the boards, and he’s no where to be found in crunch time. He’s a garbage time stats guy, he never scores his points or collect his rebounds during crunch time. Their point guard Sosa is an erratic turnover machine.
ILLINOIS
A soft 6-3 Big Ten conference record. They rely on Jr. Guard, Demetri McCamey to take all shots as well to uselessly dribble the ball for 30 seconds of the shot clock everytime. He is a certifiable chucker. Plus Illinois still plays boring half-court hoops with no identity on O or D
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