Couple of notes from the recently completed
Sweet 16:
Thursday games went all chalk with all the
favorites winning and winning by a lot. It had to had happen with all the
Madness we’ve been lucky to have injected into our Madness veins from Week 1
there had to be a sugar madness crash of epic proportions.
Lets get to the brass tax of any Smack from
Thursday night and that of course is with Duke.
X’s and O’s wise their obvious lack of
depth got exposed by a deeper Oregon team who took the cue from many other
teams who beat Duke this year and forced Marshall Plumlee to guard up high on
the elbows which forced many 2 and 1 opportunities and easy alley-oops for
Oregon. Not only was Plumlee exposed on defense, but the rest of Duke’s
horrendous defense was exposed with their horrendous foot speed that couldn’t
catch up with Oregon’s quicks.
I agree with T-Smack on Oregon though that
they still have a lotta hype about them. They have a huge huge test vs.
Oklahoma tomorrow.
Okay….Grayson Allen
Tripper Boy who deserves everything that
comes to him with his 2 separate instances where he tripped a player during the
season. It was complete bush and Coach K decided to handle that in house. If
that’s how he wants to handle it, then fine, it’s HIS player.
But if Oregon’s Dillon Brooks wants to act
like a jackass at the end of the game then let him Coach
Sheh-shoves-his-nose-where-it-doesn’t-belong-ski!!!!!!
Brooks hit a trey late in the shot clock in
the last minute of a blow out and celebrated a bit too much. Then he hugs
Grayson Allen at the buzzer as Allen walked through it. None of that is nearly
as bush league as Grayson’s 2 trips.
Coach K, if you want to handle Grayson’s
trip in house then handle your dismay of Brooks’ actions in house. Talk to
Oregon Head Coach, Dana Altman or to Brooks…behind closed doors. You freaking
know that the cameras are on you and you know that you’re on national TV! So
don’t give any non-Duke player any lecture on National TV, because HE’S NOT YOUR
PLAYER TO LECTURE!!!!!
If you were going to shut up about YOUR OWN
PLAYER’S 1ST TRIP trip and then shut up about YOUR OWN PLAYER’S 2nd TRIP then shut the hell up
about another teams player!
Eff man, Coach K is the most under-rated
biggest sore loser out there! Just take a damn loss! Don’t lecture an opposing
player or don’t do some patronizing trip to an opponent’s locker room in front
the cameras like you’ve done in past Madness’. Yeah you’re giving credit to the
team that beat you, but you’re doing so in a media whore manner that Kim
Kardashian would be proud of!
BROOKS IS NOT YOUR PLAYER!!! SHUT THE HELL
UP!!!!
The rest of Thursday’s games:
Villanova looked real good with Daniel
Ochefu dominating Miami’s 7-footer Tonye Jekiri and the Nova guards holding off
a great effort by Miami’s guards.
Texas A&M didn’t get lucky with an
Oklahoma meltdown this time. Buddy Hield spread the ball around and if the
other Sooner’s can chip in on the score sheet like they did on Thursday, then
watch out for a hopeful rubber match with KU in the Final 4 who rag dolled
Maryland. Once KU decided to guard the Maryland on-ball screens then it was
over for the Terps.
Tonight’s games….
We got some mini-Madness with Notre Dame
stealing the ball in the last minute down one to steal the game from Wisconsin.
North Carolina may have woken up. Their
bigs are scary. Brice Johnson was a man among Hoosier boys today! Jeebus!
Virginia looked their usual efficient
surgical self vs. a grinding Iowa State team tonight. All year Steve Prohm was
fighting against the ghost of previous coach, Fred “The Mayor” Hoiberg and he
did so with grace. He got the Cyclones to play for him as best he could, but
damn those players loved Hoiberg. It’ll be exciting to see Prohm mold future
Iowa State teams in the same manner as he did his old Murray State teams.
And Gonzaga vs. Syracuse….
Sorry Paulsen! The Zags fought hard. They
looked great tonight vs. Syracuse. Their bigs, Sabonis and Wiltjer spread out
Syracuse’s 2-3 zone with some early treys and were able to penetrate it with
some baseline drives.
Holy moly Sabonis showed some quicks
shutting down Syracuse’s swingman senior, Michael Gbinije for most of the 2nd
half to the point where Gbinije was passing the ball off the second Sabonis
switched onto him off the high ball screen.
But yes McKaig, Jimmy Boeheim noticed this
and called a timeout late in the 2nd half and made the adjustment.
The Zags missed some late shots and had some costly turnovers in what was a
great game and an even more devastated Paulsen.
Paulsen was as devastated as Terry McKaig
was gloating and that is a lot. Syracuse is in tough vs. Virginia though. Will
be a great match up.
March Madness Insanity Pool update:
Huge huge ups to Leader, Derran Watts with
picking 7 of the 8 Elite Eight teams! Whoa! He snagged the lead outta 2nd
round leader Diana “D” Lee’s grasp and ran away with it!
As did Pete Vieweg Money Division leader:
PETE VIEWEG!!!! He’s in tough with K-Smack in 2nd Place and Al “Not
Stupid Al, No Mo!” Vieweg! This is the
Battle of Proponent and Opponent of the Multiple Bracket! Pete’s Smack Talk is
with his bracket…..somewhere in North Van, Pete is heard saying,
“Scoreboard!!!”
Oh yeah, somewhere in Salem, Oregon,
K-Smack is heard saying, “The Smacketh giveth, and K-Smacketh will taketh
away!”
Oh snap!
Brian Van Sickle and Zana Williams aren’t
far behind in the Pete Vieweg Money Division.
Well folks, it’s late, we have 2 great
games tomorrow with #1 v. #2 matchups with Oklahoma vs. Oregon and Villanova
vs. KU
What say U???
Enjoy the weekend games and may the Smack
Be With You!
Yours in Madness,
Commissioner Adolph
