I wonder what people's opinion of Clingan would be if he was used as an offensive hub the same way Edey is

I do think Edey gets legitimately fouled more than the average player, but I also definitely think he benefits from referees not really knowing how to officiate a player of his size and/or situations in which one player can have damn near an entire foot of height over his defender

A lot of the calls on guys guarding Edey are while he's jockeying for position, and I've always been of the opinion that they should let guys play it out unless there's something egregious going on but Edey has clearly mastered making it look like smaller guys are fouling him on his post ups. I think that's the spot where he gets most of his phantom calls that other teams' bigs just don't get

I'm sure it's also jarring for people to see Purdue lead the country in 3 point percentage as a team while also being 9th in free throws attempted and 6th in free throw attempts given up. And that's almost entirely Edey - the rest of their players are perimeter oriented, especially their guards, but Edey often shoots more FTs than opposing teams by himself

The thing with which I most strongly agree is that it makes for an unenjoyable watch more often than not. I also don't think it's totally fair to place the blame entirely on Edey, it's not like he's doing anything scummy he's just benefiting from really inexperienced and poor officiating

Well I don’t know if he can be that (I’m pretty sure he can’t), but they’d be meat riding him probably

Edey definitely has the burden of “he’s that tall he SHOULD be eating like that in the post”. Expectations are unfortunate

There’s def a novice feel to college officiating that you just experience in general. You can tell with the elbow to create space as a post guy. Burns may have been called on that less than 5 times since the ACC tourney, and he does it probably every other possession.

But when you drop the shoulder into a post defender, that’s called basically every time if the defender falls. Doesn’t matter if it’s a flop (which is hard to discern in real time) or done in response to the defender bodying up the post player

There’s also a lack of real officiating education put into high level programs, it feels like. Auburn is bottom 20 in fouls called, and it definitely feels like we’ve done nothing to help understand what we’re doing (other than just playing physical and gaming for steals) on defense that’s different than others

LSU vs Iowa

you, my good sir, are a tiger!

UConn is shooting 28% from 3 as a team during the tournament and their closest game so far has been a 17 point win over Northwestern

That boy DJ Burned dook last night

They went on a 30-0 run against the 2nd best offense in the tournament and only made two 3s during it! Only made three the whole game!!!

I'm pretty confident I'm a better 3 point shooter than proctor

they've won on the defensive end just about all these games. simply stifling on defense when they need to be.

Kara Lawson's about to see some Orange colored brinks trucks doing donuts in her driveway soon.

Bama CAN give them some fits if they hit shots like they did against clemson

watching primarily 3pt shooting teams in real time is so disheartening when your team is predominantly a 2pt shooting team.

watching clemson in real time not be able to close the 3-6pt gap saturday was so brutal. It gets made so clear when you keep trading 2s for 3s and the lead just continues to creep up, DESPITE answering.

Geno vs Dawn in the natty would be cinema

good ol ESPN a***ytics redefining how percentages work

this is a good point even if it isn’t noting much. all of the big man are enhanced and work with amazing guard play for the most part but i was yapping all season about big men and their worthlessness

All of the remaining teams have really good guard play.

UConn has the best backcourt in the country, the lowest 3pt percentage in Purdue's guard rotation in 36%, Alabama's PG is a second team all american, and NC State has 2 senior guards averaging double figures, one of which is averaging 17 ppg and shooting 41% from 3 on 7 attempts per game