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Baylor @ Arkansas thread

I Cant College Basketball GIF by NCAA March Madness
 
Thiero looks legit. Different player.
Thiero didn't play this well against lesser talent, so I am not sure that this isn't anything more than an outlier performance. He needs to follow this game with a similar performance.

I think both Baylor and Arkansas are overrated which makes it difficult to really measure individual performances.
 
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Why any team plays Arkansas straight up man-man this year is beyond me. Zone them every second you play them and if they happen to make some shots you shake their hand. More times than not they will be building houses with all the bricks they are laying like tonight
And, fortunately, we finally have a coach not afraid to play a zone.
 
Give him credit, Thiero looks good. Without him, that game would not have even been competitive. Other than him though, it was same ole, same ole Cal. Soft Big Z getting pushed around, Wagner can’t shoot and drives left. Throw the ball around the perimeter with no screens and no plays. Play man to man all game even if you are getting beat.
 
My observations: Who would have thought Theiro would be their best player. Cal had them playing better swarming defense than he ever did here. But with a short bench don't know if they can keep up 40 minutes of hell all season. They can't shoot from the outside and don't have consistent inside except Theiro despite all their lauded bigs. Ivic was on the bench a lot because he plays soft. Everybody said Boogie was the second coming but he led his team to second place in this game, because he can't score from the outside. Drew dared Hogs to shoot from outside with sagging zone, a tactic that will be easy for every other opponent to emulate.
 
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