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TheRealVille said:

It's not been a good game for James Scott.

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I have come to realize that Scott has to rely on Chucky to get his points. Edwards has tried a couple of times but his passes are not on the money like Chucky's. I almost feel like Hadley also needs Chucky to give him the ball at the right moment or space. You can't just give it to him on the perimeter and expect him to work his way into the block. I love that Chucky had a big scoring game and probably needed it to get the tough win but I like it when we are getting production from 5 or 6 guys and Chucky is a big part of that.

beantowncard said:

Congratulations to Coach Mack. I’m sure he regrets some of the things that happened during his Louisville tenure.

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If getting CPK was the end result of what happened with Mack, then I don't regret it. I don't even think about what if with Mack.

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Bardman said:

The leadoff spot was discussed very recently and just like that - Moore leading off.

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I think what started that conversation was moving Alicea to the bottom of the lineup, which I didn't agree with but if Alicea is not leading off, it needs to be Moore.

earsky said:

I think the key to us being a really good offensive team is the 1-2 guys getting on base. Instant disruption of the psyche of opposing pitchers and defenses. If they get on, it's highly probable they're gonna score with no outs.
Rose is a guy that will drive the ball into gaps, already leading the team in doubles. Those two guys at the top just have to be the best at getting on base,where they can do their magic.
Btw,I think Alicea is better swinging from the left side and we've seemingly run into a lot of left handed starting pitchers so far.

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I do think that's a fair point about him being better from the left side. I also like Mac switching him and Moore in the lineup for game 3. I think collectively our top 5 in the lineup have hit about as well as you could hope to start the year, just have to find the right guys to plug in at the bottom of the lineup outside of Davis and hopefully Pike. I think when EKjr gets back it'll bring a lot more consistency throughout the lineup.

CardsFirst said:

Mack’s a very good coach, but by his own admission he wasn’t a good fit here. He said he really didn’t appreciate on how visible the HC was until he experienced it himself. I wish he and his family the best.

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Agree. I think he could have grown into it, but the dark cloud really got to him. I was ready to anoint the man as King when his Cards blew Duke out and he has the Cards ranked #1 in the nation. All the behind the scenes chaos added to that, and it all did him in by the end. He was kind to settle on his contract, something Payne refused to do after his disaster.

Think about that for a minute: Mack had Louisville ranked #1.

If Pitt hits their 3s, they win.

Cards play Olay Defense in Paint.

One of the best individual performances of any UL player that I can recall. My concern was the rest of the team’s defensive performance during that 4 minute span. Some of the Pitt baskets were wide open easy baskets. Those 3s resulted in a 6 point lead, but should have been at least 12 point advantage.

I hate to second guess CJW, but I have to wonder what could have been, had he played the freshman more during the regular season. I appreciate that we might have had more losses, but some of these kids are more talented than our upperclassmen who played a lot more minutes.

Someone please explain why UL is 6th, as that is what ESPN’s regular season standings show this morning? UNC, UL and FSU each tied with conference records at 13-5. UL defeated FSU in their head to head matchup, FSU defeated UNC, and UNC defeated UL; so all three are 1-1 in that 3 way face off. be ahead of FSU.

It appears that UL “got the short end of the seeding process”, when examining all of the numerical available data that is published. NCST and ND tied with 16-2 conference records, but NCST gets #1 as a result of having defeated ND, despite all of the other numerical data favors ND. So what was used to determine that UNC and FSU each are above UL?

This leads me to the AP rankings, as I have yet to see any published Strength of Schedule ratings that at one time was used to play a significant influence in both rankings and seeding for tournaments. Just for those interested, no team in the ACC played as many games involving top 25 AP rated teams as UL, with 12 (4-8). UNC played 8, and FSU only played 6. ND comes closest with 11, while NCST only played 9.

Aside from ACC conference games, UL played UCLA, UConn, Oklahoma and UK. If you look at the AP rankings as of this morning, UL played 5 of the top 10 teams.

That was a gross 4 minutes. Gave a bit of breathing room at the half.

KozmasAgain said:

Are you talking about the ACC Tournament ?

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Yes. We start Thursday with a bye. Play the winner of Clemson vs Stanford. We win we get Duke and if we were to beat Duke will get ND

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That was hard to watch, all that green was hurting my eyes

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