Tom Burleson was the best player in the best college basketball game ever played. He was decisively better than David Thompson that day. And he beat the crap out of Lefty's All Americans Elmore and McMillen. He could teach the Davidson players a lot. Excellent shot blocker, rebounder, passer, and s...

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Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:18 pm

Acorn wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:09 pm

https://youtu.be/Jfe8qI68Bg0

I laughed. I don't think I was supposed to, so I laughed some more. Thank you, Acorn.

I laughed too. I guess we’ll all be in hell together.

Let's all remember that Davidson lost first round games in the SoCon tournament in consecutive seasons following the Curry era, but this was followed by 4 consecutive regular season championships (3 SoCon and 1 A-10) resulting in 3 tickets to the Dance and one to the NIT. Things will be better next...

I can tell you when we lost the game. We were up 13 and we gave them 4 shots then fouled, then gave them another possession on a missed free throw. Then they hit a three.

On the positive side, it’s amazing our defense is keeping us in the game—actually ahead.

Guys I’m sorry but this is really bad basketball.

We hashed out the nepotism question two years ago on this board when Matt was hired. Time to move on from trying to bring it up again. In my view, the biggest threat to our storied men's basketball program is the NIL phenomenon. It seemingly sprang up out of nowhere on the college sports landscape ...

Painful to watch.

We see Grant and forget this is a young team. The improvement in Connor over the past few weeks has been astounding. Hopefully we see the same level of improvement in others. That said, here comes the pessimist: This team found the most creative and astonishing ways to lose close games. Can they le...

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Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:42 am

Matt has the right stuff. The results will hinge on recruiting.

It always does. It's not the x's and the o's.....

I heard from ex players that Lefty was pretty bad at the X's and O's. But he got the Jimmies and Joes and motivated them.

Yeah I agree, my eyes tell me the problem is offense but the stats I found say otherwise. Maybe Kenpom is a better statistical tool than traditional OER. Certainly Kenpom confirms what our eyes are seeing.

I don't know how Kenpom ratings work. I looked at traditional OER and DER, which is a points per possession metric. I'd be interested to know how Kenpom is calculated.

I feel bad for this years team. Lot of effort but not much in results. A statistical observation: We are 102 in offensive efficiency ratings but 187 in defensive efficiency. Eyeball test indicates our problem is offense, stats say otherwise- though we’re not good at either one.

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Sat Feb 24, 2024 12:30 pm

I'm wondering if the NCAA will even be able to enforce scholarship limitations and eligibility rules. Why would schools need to give scholarships if they can just give piles of alumni cash?

Good point.

Connor has really figured out how to back cut in our offense.