Rhom Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 We are headed towards a very different season of basketball. With the MLB seemingly showing that sports can happen even with some hiccups along the way, I'm beginning to be hopeful that this could happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted September 1, 2020 Author Share Posted September 1, 2020 Also... Kentucky basketball released this video yesterday. You can imagine the kind of reaction it received from the fanbase... Closing the video with "Strange Fruit" was particularly haunting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 8 hours ago, Rhom said: Also... Kentucky basketball released this video yesterday. You can imagine the kind of reaction it received from the fanbase... Out of morbid curiosity I clicked on that tweet. Ewwwww. I'm still hoping there is a season, while still being massively pissed off that the last season was cut short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted September 2, 2020 Author Share Posted September 2, 2020 7 hours ago, RedEyedGhost said: Out of morbid curiosity I clicked on that tweet. Ewwwww. I'm still hoping there is a season, while still being massively pissed off that the last season was cut short. The Facebook reaction was worse... And yes, I still massively miss not having last season. Cal was on ESPN radio a week or two ago talking options for the season and was asked about the Champions Classic, he said it’s been mentioned to play it in a mini bubble as a round robin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 The dumb is so strong with this: Yeah, in a pandemic let's get all of the kids together flying all across the country... I just don't even... Am surprised that it was spearheaded by K and Boeheim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted September 17, 2020 Author Share Posted September 17, 2020 Let’s go!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 Such a bad idea. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted September 22, 2020 Author Share Posted September 22, 2020 It’s not college basketball, but thought I’d share the updated Kentucky high school basketball guidelines You can’t make this #$&@ up. So its okay to play defense… its okay to muscle people around for a rebound… its okay to pass the ball to each other… but the tip off… Yup. That’s a hotbed of COVID activity. Honestly, this is a part of why people don’t take guidelines seriously. When you put ridiculous restrictions in there that are flagrantly idiotic and illogical, it begins to chip away and erode at any professional authority that people may otherwise defer to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 Did the NBA thread get deleted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 9 hours ago, Tywin et al. said: Did the NBA thread get deleted? Oh hell... I don't know... I don't see it either! The Nuggets win one game and all of a sudden the internet starts deleting NBA discussion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted September 23, 2020 Author Share Posted September 23, 2020 Everything you need to know about college basketball bubbles. (From a UK perspective... but very good read overall.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted September 26, 2020 Author Share Posted September 26, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted October 14, 2020 Author Share Posted October 14, 2020 I mean... maybe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted October 22, 2020 Author Share Posted October 22, 2020 Let’s freakin gooooo!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted November 6, 2020 Author Share Posted November 6, 2020 Oooof... that's a solid schedule. No real cupcakes to let the frosh get their feet right. Toss 'em in the deep end and see if they can swim! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 On 11/6/2020 at 1:19 PM, Rhom said: Oooof... that's a solid schedule. No real cupcakes to let the frosh get their feet right. Toss 'em in the deep end and see if they can swim! Ehh. 12 of our scheduled 26 games are against the AP preseason top 20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 Do you really think a season can actually happen? It worked in the NBA's bubble, but it won't as teams travel. I said before the pandemic that basketball would be the thing to watch among sports. And the NBA had to shut down immediately. Same thing will probably happen with college basketball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted November 10, 2020 Author Share Posted November 10, 2020 18 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said: Do you really think a season can actually happen? It worked in the NBA's bubble, but it won't as teams travel. I said before the pandemic that basketball would be the thing to watch among sports. And the NBA had to shut down immediately. Same thing will probably happen with college basketball. That's obviously a possibility. But remember, the MLB topic here was subtitled "Enjoy it while it lasts, I guess" and they just finished their season. College football had leagues shutting down entirely before the season even started and it looks like we're going to get to championship weekend with relatively little interruption. The SEC commissioner was on Finebaum earlier today (okay... looking at the clock, it was yesterday...) and said that the positive test rate amongst all SEC athletes is less than 0.02%. It may surprise you. Plus with the news today (or yesterday... whatever) that the first of the three vaccines in trial has been found to be safe and effective; you'll see that start to get pushed out pretty soon. Doesn't mean it will happen, but I think there's hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhom Posted November 10, 2020 Author Share Posted November 10, 2020 48 minutes ago, RedEyedGhost said: Ehh. 12 of our scheduled 26 games are against the AP preseason top 20. That's only if you really believe Scott Drew has the number one team in the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 6 hours ago, Rhom said: That's obviously a possibility. But remember, the MLB topic here was subtitled "Enjoy it while it lasts, I guess" and they just finished their season. College football had leagues shutting down entirely before the season even started and it looks like we're going to get to championship weekend with relatively little interruption. The SEC commissioner was on Finebaum earlier today (okay... looking at the clock, it was yesterday...) and said that the positive test rate amongst all SEC athletes is less than 0.02%. It may surprise you. Plus with the news today (or yesterday... whatever) that the first of the three vaccines in trial has been found to be safe and effective; you'll see that start to get pushed out pretty soon. Doesn't mean it will happen, but I think there's hope. Well for starters, that vaccine has a very small sample size and there's no way it will be ready for college basketball players before the season starts...... I would disagree that there's been relatively little interruption. Teams have had to cancel weeks at a time. Entire teams have caught the virus. LSU's football team by their coach's own admission is on its own second wave of outbreaks. And worse, universities are being pretty open in that they're downplaying and trying to hide outbreaks on their rosters. Dumb mother fuckers still want to fill their stadiums up. I said in the college football thread that several people at Notre Dame need to be fired for that shameful display. And last, look at the cute wording there. "Among SEC athletes." Okay, that could literally mean anything. Not every sport is even playing and they aren't testing the athletes in smaller sports. It's really easy to be cynical about that kind of lawyer speak. "Err, 5% of SEC football players have caught it, but if we include the water polo teams, it goes down to 3%, and if we also include the golf teams, it goes down to 2%" Etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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