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I am surprised how fast UM has faded after a fairly promising nonconference performance. 1-6 is not the way to start conference play. I don't think you can compare what Beilein did at WVU with what he's doing at UM - he just hasn't gotten the same talent. His good WVU teams had some exceptionally skilled, heady players that his current UM teams just don't have. I don't think he's been able to recruit to UM as well as he did to WVU.
 
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brutus2002;1861630; said:
The BE they score...score...and when they get scoring...they score alot more. Same thing he did at WVU...The B10 is more physical and defensive minded IMO.
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Yea, I don't know. I mean, I do think the Big East is probably the best bball conference the past few years top to bottom. And it's hard to say a conference that has Pitt in it doesn't play physical, defensive minded ball. I know that's just one team, but I don't think of the BE as a finesse bball conference.
 
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sepia5;1861668; said:
Yea, I don't know. I mean, I do think the Big East is probably the best bball conference the past few years top to bottom. And it's hard to say a conference that has Pitt in it doesn't play physical, defensive minded ball. I know that's just one team, but I don't think of the BE as a finesse bball conference.
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Agreed mostly but at the time Beilein was Pitsnoggling people the BE wasn't as tough as it is today if memory serves.

Bottom line to me is they have morphed into a perimeter oriented offense that doesn't try and drive/get back door cuts/ etc, any of the things people do to make a perimeter oriented offense actually work. They don't rebound well and they don't defend well. They just shoot 3's and to put the cherry on top, they absolutely suck at shooting 3's! (33.2% for the year, 211th nationally*)

Consciously putting all of your offensive eggs into the basket that has the lowest % chance of success even if you are good at it (when you actually suck at it) is just so strategically dumb its hard to believe its happening until you see it game after game.


* data through Friday nights game, Saturday's orgy of clank will not improve their ranking.
 
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sepia5;1861668; said:
Yea, I don't know. I mean, I do think the Big East is probably the best bball conference the past few years top to bottom. And it's hard to say a conference that has Pitt in it doesn't play physical, defensive minded ball. I know that's just one team, but I don't think of the BE as a finesse bball conference.
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Yeah its kinda like the B10 is supposed to be in football...a hard nosed Physical conference...We have a few spread teams...Overall though its a very physical conference.

Teams like Pitt and Syracuse are well rounded...but Georgetown, WVU, and Nova are streaky IMO...Run, Run, Run...
 
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