I didn't have expectations of him. He does his job well. I'd like to see him play more, but can't figure out who he should be playing instead of. He's pretty valuable on defense and can give an additional inside threat and is pretty consistent down low.

Are you trying to build a good lineup or just naming the 5 most well-known players?

I don't like the West team much even though you picked the 5 best. Nolan and Kemba and Kyrie all on the court at once? Seems weird on both ends. And D-Will is gonna guard Centers? Or you gonna make Kiwi do that? Takes away a huge part of his skillset (wing D)

I'd move Kiwi to 3 and D-Will to 4. Not a fan of taking people completely out of their position skillsets just to fit other good players on a team. Can be done with more versatile guys, but Nolan can't guard SFs and D-Will can't guard Cs and Kiwi SHOULD guard the best wing

I obviously don't watch every game, but I saw a fair amount of him when I got a chance, or when he plays Purdue, just seemed to me that he should be able to be a dominant force down there and it didn't seem to me that he was.

It's hard to have him and Sully down low on offense with our style. It becomes too easy to double-team Sully if Dallas is chilling out down low. And no one is going to even bother guarding Dallas outside since his shot beyond 5 feet is pretty bad. If Sullinger wasn't playing (and when he's on the bench), Dallas takes over that role a lot. Sullinger is just a ton better at it, so that takes away from Dallas's minutes. The strategy for Ohio State is very obviously to get Sully the ball down low. If he starts getting double-teamed, he usually kicks it back to the open man for a 3. It's hard to put Dallas in an offense like that. His main benefit is defense, and he's getting 1.5 blocks per game with only 17 minutes per game.

obv, idk why he did that

Where can I read a good analysis of the S-16 games ?

I was referring to the talent in the top 5, sorry if that wasn't clear.

I think much of this is true.

Fair enough, I don't really know anything about Richmond.

Singleton definitely is a must for me. Best defensively player in the country. I guess I'm assuming the 100% Singleton.

Why the Terrence Jones and Taylor hate? Also, the bigs from the SE I think should pretty clearly be Leuer and Howard. Leuer, pace adjusted, is having one of the best seasons of anybody in CBB. Howard is underrated, and would play well off the other players imo.

I guess in my head the West team would just be a crazy up-and-down run'n'gun team. I guess you leave off a guard and put Mason Plumlee in there? I dunno. But the objective wasn't completely to build a winning team, there really wasn't a defined objective to be honest. I just threw together some teams hoping to spark some discussion. You're right that the West team is in no way ideal for actually winning games.

for his size and skills, terrence jones simply isn't a very efficient offensive player. i don't think he displays good decision making or shot selection.

taylor is good. it's difficult to judge just how good he is, given the "system" wisconsin runs. he got torched by pullen last round, and i watched that game, and he was dreadful. sample size, yadda yadda, but i would take mack over him in pretty much every facet of the game. doesn't mean i dislike him, just means he's a little bit worse than mack at everything.

howard is ofc good and a fine pick, although if you had him and leuer you'd REALLY lack athleticism and shotblocking both weakside and on the ball. you'd sure take a lot of charges though!

Jordan Taylor has turned into an excellent outside shooter. That's one thing he definitely does better than Mack.

aejones homering it up super hard

Jordan Taylor >>> Mack

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how about shooting
passing
scoring

IIRC doesnt Taylor lead the nation in A/T ratio?

I'm really confused with Josh Selby. He's kind of non-existent in the tournament. It's like Self tried to find a spot or him but couldn't fit him anywhere. Maybe his numbers are better than I am remembering but I just don't remember him having any impact in the first 2 games.

well when considering only top 5 players from 4 teams that doesnt really hurt.

I assumed its an all-region team similar to a first team all american team where you can have all 3 guards be true PG, all 3 SGs, or anything else depending on that specific year.

against BU he had 4 pts, 2 rebs, 2 asts, 2 TO
against Illinois he had 0 pts, 1 reb, 2 asts

selbys not that good but he looked really great in his first couple games this season but since then hes just been a huge nonfactor

This year is far more understandable. Previous couple of years, seems like he could have given them a good inside presence offensively and really didn't, and they could have used it. His shot blocking has been solid, though....

I think Selby is good, not great, but he hasn't played at all, or at least that I can remember. It would be one thing if he was getting a lot of minutes and but he's not even in the regular rotation.

taylor is a good shooter. he is also a much different kind of shooter and has gotten much different kinds of shots than mack has this year.

afaik taylor is a pg and mack is not.

mack is a better shooter and scorer than taylor.

hahahaowow charder with some excellent basketball analysis as usually. i guess we'll get to find out how much b10 and butler i've watched real soon!

MJ telling Barnes to quit wearing Kobe's shoes lol

show your work

Taylor scores more on better efficiency while playing against better competition, while leading the nation in A/T ratio!

yeah, among many others

Taylor takes 27 percent of Wisky's shots, Mack takes 29%. Taylor has a 58% TS%, Mack has a 53% TS%. Taylor assists on 30% of made baskets, Mack 25%. The big huge difference is that Taylor is an absurd outlier when it comes to turning the ball over, he's the only player in kenpom's top 100 for both assist percentage and turnover percentage, and he's 2nd in the country in not turning the ball over. That's ridiculous for a point guard, I can't think of a single one who has ever even come close. Factor in that Taylor has done all of this against Big 10 defenses and not Horizon League defenses, and it's not close, Taylor>>>>>Mack.

I think aejones is just underrating Taylor (probably like the whole country has) I think his main point is Mack can create better for himself, which I agree with

Mack is a good player but Taylor has killed it this year, as a distributor AND a scorer

good ninja PG gonna run a team of whitey on wisconsin once again

People harping way too much on his A/T and TOV%. There's never been a Wisconsin team I remember that wasn't top 20ish in overall TOV. (I'm sure it's happened but it's not the norm) That's the system they run. They don't get in transition or fast-paced situations ever. That's where a ton of turnovers happen in basketball. They run a slow-down half court offense where is first pass is always a planned and easy one. And they don't gamble for turnovers period. I agree Taylor has probably made this turnover-less offense more efficient, but if he were on any other team left in the tournament, his TOV% would look more like your average good PG and not a GOAT ball protector.

Taylor is a perfect fit for the Wisconsin offense, but he'd probably struggle more than Mack in a faster pace where he's asked to create more in both half court and open floor

Well doesnt matter how slow pace there Offense is, if hes far away the GOAT in terms of TOV% its pretty impossible for him to be at minimum not an elite ball handler/passer/whatever