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https://www.theringer.com/nba/2021/2/24/22298351/jalen-suggs-nba-draft-scouting-report-gonzaga

Gonzaga is essentially an NBA team that plays college basketball. They spread the floor with...

Smart > Tough.

Everyone loves to talk about toughness, and I think this GU bunch is plenty tough both physically and mentally. But across the sports landscape the teams that win consistently do...

20 years of evidence that the cupboard will be restocked. I'll start to worry on about Nov 1st, 2021 if there isn't a loaded roster ready to go.

One of my colleagues who works closely with our electronic medical record is fond of saying "a system doesn't fail, it works exactly as it was designed to."

If you want to keep this thread off...

Great post, agree with you completely. Not my cup of tea, but these kids have a lot of competing interests. It's easy as a fan to talk about loyalty and commitment to your teammates, but the amount...

Oumar won't turn 19 until this summer. He has moved from Mali to Spain to Mexico to Spokane. After his redshirt year he had a summer that had much less time for competition due to Covid, followed by...

Poorly phrased on my part, and without surrounding context even more so. The point is, their effort, performance, and precision against Pacific is not at all predictive of how they’d play against...

The Kansas City Chiefs sleepwalked through the second half of the NFL season, barely winning (yet winning) almost every game by single digits. The majority of the pundits going into the playoffs were...

A few people have mentioned the "Any team any place" mentality as part of the fabric of Gonzaga basketball to support playing in the WCC tournament. I'd argue that another major ethos for the program...

I just can't imagine being an AD -- trying to manage an athletic program in the middle of a pandemic with cratering revenues, health considerations, remote learning, game cancellations and...

I’ve said it before, but the biggest recruiting factor for the Zags moving forward will be NBA success of their alum. That means a great deal to high level HS players. Congrats to Brandon and Rui....

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/29647337/can-college-basketball-avoid-repeat-college-football-calamity

The cost and logistics of any sort of bubble would be staggering. It's not just about isolating players, which is hard enough when they aren't being paid and have academic and family...

You are right, and that was poorly stated on my part. My apologies. I should have said that creating a bubble like you talked about would take similar amounts of effort, albeit in a different form. ...

Hoops is a winter sport, sure. But creating the type of bubble the OP is talking about took months of planning for 22 teams, with a centralized governing body, in one city, with adult professional...

It's not happening.

I've believed this for about 2-3 months, and my glimmer of hope has now disappeared with multiple college FB conferences cancelling their season. There is simply no way to...

This article from Rodger Sherman at The Ringer is about college football, but many of the themes he discusses apply at least somewhat to college basketball as well:
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I didn't mean to suggest his exit was the source of disdain. "Season long tantrums" is absolute hyperbole, though. He had his moments, sure, but he was the WCC player of the year for a reason. I...

Really disappointing to read this thread. A guy travels over 5,000 miles to come and play basketball for Gonzaga, and from a handful of bad moments on TV gets thrown under the bus the minute he...

I keep going back to this: The NBA, with only 22 teams, one location, a centralized commissioner, and millionaire adult professionals, is barely holding together a plan to play a brief tournament.
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If there is a season, it's likely going to look quite different. Limited fans, some changes and restrictions with travel, and players probably more quarantined. Maybe fewer practices, maybe just...

Thanks for the info JP. I should note that the physician and scientist I listened to were specifically estimating a herd immunity % for Covid based on their best estimate of the R value without...

Thank you. I've never heard this argument fully fleshed out. If you just isolate the "elderly and vulnerable" you first have to define those groups. What age are we talking about? Does this...

For what it's worth, I've never seen LTownZag post anything but objective data and interpretations of said data. At times, on other topics, he has politely disagreed or disputed points that I have...

I wish I had more optimism. I just can’t see it. This isn’t really about how worrisome (or not) one thinks COVID-19 is as a public health threat. It’s just the implausible scenario in which 347 D1...