2024-25 Basketball,,, all things considered...
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Shaquille O'Neal Has Hilarious Encounter with College Basketball Player — Who Is Taller Than Him: Watch
Shaquille O'Neal was 'out-gianted' when he had a hilarious encounter with a Florida Gators player, who holds the Guinness Record for the world's tallest teen.
I'm happy/glad that the SEC agrees with the iG on Condon.... 😉
The 15-1 Gators continue to receive team accolades, as well, as the team moved up to No. 4 in Monday's USA Today Coaches Poll and No. 5 in the Associated Press Poll.
Midseason SEC basketball tiers: Title contenders, pretenders, dark horses, bubble-bound and basement-dweller. Separating the contenders from the pretenders in the SEC, college basketball's best overall conference.
This iteration of SEC basketball is all-time stuff. Just one league has a higher power rating than this year's SEC in kenpom.com's database: The 1996-97 ACC which featured just nine teams. So it isn't hyperbole to say that this version of SEC basketball is the best hoops league that we've seen in the modern era.
Coming off of a pair of victories – Tuesday's 73-43 win over No. 1 Tennessee and Saturday's 71-63 win at Arkansas – the Florida men's basketball team made a jump up the latest 247Sports SEC poll, released Monday morning.
The Gators moved up from No. 5 to in a tie with Alabama for No. 2 in the SEC rankings,
The Gators moved up from No. 5 to in a tie with Alabama for No. 2 in the SEC rankings,
Damn. Getting blown out on our home court. This is crazy shooting. Never seen anything like this before.
Except for Walter Clayton, everybody else has been awful the first half. We are the leading rebounding team in the nation and simply getting whipped on the glass by Missouri. They are playing better defense, workign the ball better and just beating us at our own game. No easy games in the SEC, my friends.
Condon has looked like a JV player tonight. Turnovers and dude forgot how to play defense. Mizzou made some early ridiculous threes and that was all she wrote. Down 16 at the half, ouch.
We are the hunted now, so we can expect this every night. Hate dropping one at home, as now we need to find a road win somewhere. Mizzou has been solid this year, but they haven't been this good. Good news is hopefully this will drop us far in the rankings, and we can get some hunger back.
Our 2 losses resulted in being lazy in the 1st half. This needs to be addressed.
Mizzou made several very low percentage threes in first half. Once those stopped falling we were able to climb back into the game. The decision to foul with 29 seconds left was a bad decision on Golden's part. Once that guy knocked down both free throws the game was essentially over.
They've got to come out with intensity every game and I credit Missouri for taking it to us tonight. They equalled us on the boards, had the best of 50/50 balls and simply played the better game. Todd Golden got them fired up at halftime to ramp it up the 2nd half and they almost pulled it off. But too big a deficit to get it done. Congrats to Missouri - lesson learned for the Gators, hopefully.
This confirms that you had better take every SEC team seriously from the start. That knockout blow sent us reeling. The team never gave up though.
Tigers Pounce on Gators Early, Claw to Victory Late - Florida Gators
Missouri built aquatic 19-point first half lead and held off a furious comeback attempt before handing UF an 83-82 loss and ending the Gators' home winning streak
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“They played harder than us”: Todd Golden recaps loss to Missouri | GatorCountry.com
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Mizzou came into the game 13-3 with a win over Kansas, so it shouldn’t have come as a surprise. That dudes a good coach. His teams compete hard.
In blowouts, the winner is obvious.
In close games, too often the officials pick the winner.
Like a 2 that was scored as a 3 late in the 1 Pt loss game.
But I won't fault the refs in this Gator loss because of the following:
10 missed free throws,,, again, including the 2 by Clayton late in the game.
The Gators missed 10 free throws and 3 of them came from Walter Clayton Jr. and Alijah Martin.
Plus Clayton went 3 of 9 from the arc.
The team also had 13 Turnovers leading to 18 Mizzou points.
Clayton 0 Ast, 2 TO's -- Martin 2 Ast, 3 TO's --- Combined 2 Asts, 5 TO's
I've seen some Uuu-Glee games in the past, and this one made the list.
The most annoying takeaway is how similar of a loss it was compared to Kentucky. The 3-point defense, free throw shooting and the turnover battle all dictated both games. The way the game was called makes my list of annoying things, but it was far from the only problem in that game. One of the most annoying things on my list is that they let a single player dominate them in 3-point shooting in both losses.
Chinyelu had 11 Pts and 10 Rbs for a double-double plus 2 Blks, before fouling out. So he gets the iG's PoG in that ugly loss....
In close games, too often the officials pick the winner.
Like a 2 that was scored as a 3 late in the 1 Pt loss game.
But I won't fault the refs in this Gator loss because of the following:
10 missed free throws,,, again, including the 2 by Clayton late in the game.
The Gators missed 10 free throws and 3 of them came from Walter Clayton Jr. and Alijah Martin.
Plus Clayton went 3 of 9 from the arc.
The team also had 13 Turnovers leading to 18 Mizzou points.
Clayton 0 Ast, 2 TO's -- Martin 2 Ast, 3 TO's --- Combined 2 Asts, 5 TO's
I've seen some Uuu-Glee games in the past, and this one made the list.
The most annoying takeaway is how similar of a loss it was compared to Kentucky. The 3-point defense, free throw shooting and the turnover battle all dictated both games. The way the game was called makes my list of annoying things, but it was far from the only problem in that game. One of the most annoying things on my list is that they let a single player dominate them in 3-point shooting in both losses.
Chinyelu had 11 Pts and 10 Rbs for a double-double plus 2 Blks, before fouling out. So he gets the iG's PoG in that ugly loss....
Grill was not near as open for his 3pointers as UK’s Brea was. He was just unconscious, or locked in or high or something. Most of us who have played BB have had a game or two like that. So the fact that two guys have went off on us should be enough for us this season.
Just posting this for some perspective on what a great PG looks like, and what it takes to be considered great.
Walter Clayton Career Stats
117 Gms - 1,707 Pts - 310 Asts
Alijah Martin Career Stats
141 Gms - 1,745 Pts - 215 Asts
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Their Combined Career College Stats
258 Gms - 3,452 Pts - 525 Asts
139 Gms - 3,951 Pts - 1,144 Asts
Caitlin Clark Career College Stats
CC broke and/or set 52 WNCAA Records.
In her WNBA Rookie season, she broke and/or set 62 Records....
Walter Clayton Career Stats
117 Gms - 1,707 Pts - 310 Asts
Alijah Martin Career Stats
141 Gms - 1,745 Pts - 215 Asts
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Their Combined Career College Stats
258 Gms - 3,452 Pts - 525 Asts
139 Gms - 3,951 Pts - 1,144 Asts
Caitlin Clark Career College Stats
CC broke and/or set 52 WNCAA Records.
In her WNBA Rookie season, she broke and/or set 62 Records....
Andrew Nembhard had pretty good career stats. 2 years at Florida, 2 years at Gonzaga. 131 games, 1308 points, 691 assists. Not as good as Clark, for sure, but I'll take him over either Clayton or Martin. Plus his assist to turnover ratio is much better than either Clayton or Martin.
Points scored are important for sure, but imo, for a PG, the total number of Assists are the job with the Ast/TO ratio indicating the quality of the assists.
Clayton has more points scored by the individual than Nemby, but Nemby had more than twice the number of assists leading to more than twice the points accounted for by the team.
Walter and Alijah are both quality CG's, but Andrew is definitely the better PG imo, while Caitlin is the best PG I've ever seen....
