stanford looks less athletic but more skilled than past teams, and look very good

they are efficiently taking out Colorado

ASU didn't get to 30 vs WSU

stanford has two very good foreign players

USC looks very tough

UCLA and USC look like 1, 2 to me

How did WSU get so athletic, long and talented in such a short time?

HoopDreams said:

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How did WSU get so athletic, long and talented in such a short time?

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Recruiting and transfer portal. Actually a similar mix of foreign players and transfers as Fox as Cal, just better rated and more attention to 3 pt shooting. Smith relies very heavily on advanced metrics for his evaluation of players and strategies (why he has been dubbed "Nerd Ball"). That is famously how he found Omar Samhan for St. Mary's.

https://www.si.com/college/2021/08/23/wazzu-basketball-kyle-smith-moneyball

calumnus said:

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HoopDreams said:

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How did WSU get so athletic, long and talented in such a short time?

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Recruiting and transfer portal. Actually a similar mix of foreign players and transfers as Fox as Cal, just better rated and more attention to 3 pt shooting. Smith relies very heavily on advanced metrics for his evaluation of players and strategies (why he has been dubbed "Nerd Ball"). That is famously how he found Omar Samhan for St. Mary's.

https://www.si.com/college/2021/08/23/wazzu-basketball-kyle-smith-moneyball

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And Fox is still coaching like my old SH coach Jerry Phillips. Win the CCS the year before I started high school and then never saw him not ruin a team until he was forced out.

HoopDreams said:

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stanford looks less athletic but more skilled than past teams, and look very good

they are efficiently taking out Colorado

ASU didn't get to 30 vs WSU

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Hoop, did you mean UCLA? I believe Colorado beat Stanfurd on Sunday, and UCLA beat Colorado last night.

82gradDLSdad said:

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calumnus said:

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HoopDreams said:

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How did WSU get so athletic, long and talented in such a short time?

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Recruiting and transfer portal. Actually a similar mix of foreign players and transfers as Fox as Cal, just better rated and more attention to 3 pt shooting. Smith relies very heavily on advanced metrics for his evaluation of players and strategies (why he has been dubbed "Nerd Ball"). That is famously how he found Omar Samhan for St. Mary's.

https://www.si.com/college/2021/08/23/wazzu-basketball-kyle-smith-moneyball

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And Fox is still coaching like my old SH coach Jerry Phillips. Win the CCS the year before I started high school and then never saw him not ruin a team until he was forced out.

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Paints a picture. We all know a version of that coach. But hey, I bet the other coaches in the league all sang his praises.

calumnus said:

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82gradDLSdad said:

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calumnus said:

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HoopDreams said:

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How did WSU get so athletic, long and talented in such a short time?

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Recruiting and transfer portal. Actually a similar mix of foreign players and transfers as Fox as Cal, just better rated and more attention to 3 pt shooting. Smith relies very heavily on advanced metrics for his evaluation of players and strategies (why he has been dubbed "Nerd Ball"). That is famously how he found Omar Samhan for St. Mary's.

https://www.si.com/college/2021/08/23/wazzu-basketball-kyle-smith-moneyball

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And Fox is still coaching like my old SH coach Jerry Phillips. Win the CCS the year before I started high school and then never saw him not ruin a team until he was forced out.

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Paints a picture. We all know a version of that coach. But hey, I bet the other coaches in the league all sang his praises.

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Yes. Very fundamentally sound.

Matt Bradley dropped 3 points on USC last Friday.

bearister said:

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Matt Bradley dropped 3 points on USC last Friday.

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He still leads San Diego State in scoring and is second in rebounding, but yes, SC knew him and focused on stopping him, so 5 other Aztecs scored as many or more points than he did in that game.

CalLifer said:

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HoopDreams said:

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stanford looks less athletic but more skilled than past teams, and look very good

they are efficiently taking out Colorado

ASU didn't get to 30 vs WSU

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Hoop, did you mean UCLA? I believe Colorado beat Stanfurd on Sunday, and UCLA beat Colorado last night.

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yeah, my mistake ... I was watching a replay and didn't know it

stanford was leading 9-2 and 21-10, and then colorado went on a huge run and beat them

still stanford has two freshmen overseas forwards that looked good, and they also look to have shooters