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Year 4, a 16-52 SEC record, and currently no players from Louisiana on the roster...

I didn't expect to see Miguel Tejada in a thread today. One of the best power-hitting shortstops in MLB history.

Knox may have been able to help on Philon. But what I was wondering during the game is why they don't have a specific role player that's a guard stopper.

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Guards win in March

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To the extent that this is true, it goes back to my idea of a guard stopper. A guy whose role is to just defend and disrupt a good guard like Philon. Arkansas has enough scoring and post defense. (That block that Brazile got on Philon that was initially called goaltending...)
This hypothetical guard stopper really just needs to be athletic, strong, quick, and generally a good defender with fouls to burn. Anything else would be a bonus, but he wouldn't need to be a scorer. Arkansas has enough scoring, and they're strong in other areas.
A role player like that would be far more beneficial to the team than Ewin. That guy fumbled every opportunity he had.

If it's a good argument, or debate, people learn from each other, and possibly build on each other to reach new ideas, or new solutions. But that's really rare. So it's usually about ego, trying to "win", insult or tear down the opponent, etc.

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without their best player.

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Keep in mind that it took some clutch shots from him for KU to beat Texas Tech without Anderson.
Based on the rationale of the KU pick, you have to be impressed with Texas Tech, right?

He allowed hits that knocked Daniels and Nussmeier out of games.
They were good rushers. Dallas Turner and R Mason Thomas, but those are the types of guys NFL teams look for on the edge.
He also had issues at times against South Carolina's good rushers.
It's not really surprising to me that he is having issues in the NFL.

It still doesn't work because Illinois won their Sweet 16 game in 24.
One major gauge for underachievement to me is in relation to football programs. If a university has all the pieces in place to have an elite football program, then it definitely has the potential for an elite basketball program.
Both programs have really good recruiting areas. If using that as the basis for an underachievement status, maybe there's somewhat of an argument. But Underwood obviously has an affinity for European players. The game last night showed they lack toughness and physicality inside. JT Toppin had his way too much. That should improve when they get Tomislav back, though.

The Illini have a good team. They just beat #11 Texas Tech without Tomislav Ivisic.
They're young at some spots, but they have a good mix of big guards and frontcout players. Boswell is a strong veteran player.
And with the Ivisic brothers, Stojakovic, Mirkovic, and Petrovic, they might lead the country in Slavic surnames.

Why are you so sure as to "hammer" when you haven't seen this version of Gators?
They return the main frontcourt players from last season, and there's a redshirt freshman on the roster listed at 7'9", 305. We'll have to see how their backcourt transfers mesh. There's a lot of potential with Fland and Lee. You don't see many Asian basketball players in the SEC. And obviously he's going to be playing against better athletes in the SEC than in the Ivy League, but he's a really skilled basketball player.

Sometimes, yes. But I rarely ever get into arguments or conversations specifically about religion with christians anymore. I became so tired of it years ago. Their viewpoints, almost always based on geographic indoctrination, are too predictable, and it becomes nails on a chalkboard while a baby cries to me.
They're not curious people. Not too into reason. Overly certain about their stories. If step 1 of their info gathering process is to attempt to confirm their preheld bias, I'm out.
I like having a meta view of the world religions. If someone wants to talk about that in a fairly unbiased way, I may do that. But if it becomes the thing in which a christian spins narratives that put down the veracity of other religions while trying to find "reasons" that their stories are the cosmic and metaphysical truth, no, I'll pass.

I'd say no at Louisiana Tech. Maybe somewhere else if there was an opportunity to get high-level athletes on defense. A lot of what made the LSU and Alabama teams so good was having corners that were good in man, then high-level big athletes along the front who could stop the run and rush QBs.