From: Curt.Hill@launchpad.unc.edu (Curt Hill)
Subject: Who's Afraid of Indiana?
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:13:24 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.053243.17653@news.acns.nwu.edu> marek@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Marek Lugowski) writes:
>In article <C0D1D5.AJA@inews.Intel.COM>
>smaher@ismdqa.intel.com (Steve Maher ~) writes:
>
>>My top 9:	1. Duke  (look strong, beat UM)
>>		2. UK    (look strong, beat IU)
>>		3. UM    (lost to Duke @ Duke, beat UNC, KU)
>>		4. UNC   (strong wins, lost close to UM)
>>		5. KU    (lost to UM, beat IU)
>>		6. IU    (lost to UK, KU, beat Seton Hall)
>>		7. da Hall  (lost to IU, don't look quite as strong as other 6)
>>		8. Iowa  (looking impressive against weaker competition)
>>		9. Purdue/Oklahoma/several others not quite there yet.
>

An excellent breakdown (that looks a lot like mine).

>The not-quite-there-yet Oklahoma took Duke, at Duke, to overtime after
>trailing by 16.  And none of that bull that Duke was in control all the
>way.  You folks have this endearing tendency to practice arithmetic on
>scores and rate teams accordingly.

And an eeediot appears...

>Some predicitions (file for convenient retrieval later):
>
>1.  Oklahoma will win Big 8; Kansas will drop at least 3 games (Iowa State?)

Uh-huh.

>2.  Duke will drop at least two games.

Oh, this one's big time.  I said 5 in the ACC before the season; 3 might be
closer.

>In another message a KU fan disputes my assertion that IU is a far superior
>basketball team.  He does so by listing the roster and the players'
>attributes.  This is TV-droid talk, friend.  If you want to see why IU is a
>better team than KU watch the tapes of the games.  IU plays much smarter
>basketball and its players are thinking and moving in a much more
>sophisticated fashion than KU's.  IU makes unusual plays, counterintuitive,
>surprising and picks apart the opponent's defense with a variety of tools.

Oh, here we go.  Classic "look at Bobby win with a bunch of lepers!" talk.
KU is extremely well coached and runs, in my opinion, the best half court
game in the country.  You are an idiot.

>It is not particularly important that none of IU's players save Chaney are
>extremely good athletes.  Basketball is not an individual sport.  As a
>team, IU is a far superior, and may I say, far more fun basketball team to
>watch, even when losing, than KU, if you are into pure basketball played by
>a highly intelligent group coached with great savvy.  If you like TV
>highlights with uncontested jammin', or can't see past the school colors,
>that's different.  I think Kentucky cheerleaders remain the prettiest. :)
>But they will drop that road game at Vandy. :)


>
>But this post is about Oklahoma, who played as well as Duke tonight.  Bravo.

And Duke played like shit.  So what?  OU showed a lot of gumption, but
still took bad shots in the OT while Duke managed to suck up enough wind
during the break before OT to screw their heads back on straight.  If you
want to say a team played as well as Duke and should be proud when Hurley
had 8 turnovers and looked like World B. Free and Grant Hill was doing his
best Chris Dudley imitation, be more direct in your insults.


Draw a line after the top 8 and watch the team quality drop off.  The
odds of Steve's top 8 being the Final 8 is very, very good.  Better than
it's been in years.

When you want to get off your IU high horse, Marek (or dropout of the
Hoosierweenie Institute), please come back and discuss some ball.


Talk abot your bad losers....


Curtis Hill
chill%star3@mcnc.org


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