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Shades
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PUmatty
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Posted: 03/24/21 12:19 pm ::: Re: #7 Alabama vs #2 Maryland - 3/24/21 |
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Man, this Maryland team is good.
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Stormeo
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Posted: 03/24/21 12:26 pm ::: |
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Welp, Alabama, it was a great season!
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PUmatty
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summertime blues
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Posted: 03/24/21 12:46 pm ::: |
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Well, this is disappointing. I thought Bama would put up a better fight. They’re just flat.
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undersized_post
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Posted: 03/24/21 12:47 pm ::: |
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Laughing my butt off watching another big ten team's offensive barrage that the SEC's heralded defense and physicality has no answer for.
Edit: Funnily enough, Maryland's starting line-up features two SEC transfers in Chloe Bibby and Mimi Collins.
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pilight
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Posted: 03/24/21 1:40 pm ::: |
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The B10 domination of the SEC continues
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undersized_post
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Posted: 03/24/21 1:47 pm ::: |
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pilight wrote: |
The B10 domination of the SEC continues |
Barring any upsets (which would be exciting in their own right!), I am so looking forward to Maryland vs. South Carolina.
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osubeavers
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Posted: 03/24/21 1:58 pm ::: |
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Tamika’s commentary is very good but I really have a hard time appreciating it through her speech impediment. Professional announcers should be able to ennunciate clearly. I hope she’s working on improving it. For the sake of her audience and for her own career in broadcasting.
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huskiemaniac
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BamaEd
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calbearman76
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Posted: 03/24/21 2:12 pm ::: |
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BamaEd wrote: |
undersized_post wrote: |
Laughing my butt off watching another big ten team's offensive barrage that the SEC's heralded defense and physicality has no answer for.
Edit: Funnily enough, Maryland's starting line-up features two SEC transfers in Chloe Bibby and Mimi Collins. |
Laugh all you want, but my Bama team made it to the tournament for the first time since 1999. That was also the last time they had 2 seasons of .500 or above in conference. Kristy Curry has this team trending upward finally after not trending that way this century.
So you can laugh at overall conference things, but I'm proud of what those 3 seniors brought to my alma mater :) |
And you should be. They are a very talented team that made great strides forward. Hopefully they can stay competitive in the SEC.
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CourtsideTix
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Posted: 03/24/21 2:21 pm ::: |
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osubeavers wrote: |
Tamika’s commentary is very good but I really have a hard time appreciating it through her speech impediment. Professional announcers should be able to annunciate clearly. I hope she’s working on improving it. For the sake of her audience and for her own career in broadcasting. |
I don't think it's really appropriate to say that Catchings has a speech "impediment" without appreciating that she was born with significant hearing loss; not being able to hear affects how one speaks. Since childhood, she's really had to overcome enormous hurdles because of her hearing loss.
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undersized_post
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undersized_post
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Posted: 03/24/21 2:42 pm ::: |
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CourtsideTix wrote: |
osubeavers wrote: |
Tamika’s commentary is very good but I really have a hard time appreciating it through her speech impediment. Professional announcers should be able to annunciate clearly. I hope she’s working on improving it. For the sake of her audience and for her own career in broadcasting. |
I don't think it's really appropriate to say that Catchings has a speech "impediment" without appreciating that she was born with significant hearing loss; not being able to hear affects how one speaks. Since childhood, she's really had to overcome enormous hurdles because of her hearing loss. |
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Osubeaver---how about you just get over it? It's so ableist to act like you are somehow enduring hardship just by having to listen to her voice. She is the one who has faced the hardship. Have some compassion. Will people with disabilities ever be able to just *exist* in society without everyone else acting like they are somehow inconvenienced by it? She is simply speaking with the voice that she was born with. It is beautiful and she is great at what she does, both in basketball and now in broadcasting.
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osubeavers
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Posted: 03/24/21 3:18 pm ::: |
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undersized_post wrote: |
CourtsideTix wrote: |
osubeavers wrote: |
Tamika’s commentary is very good but I really have a hard time appreciating it through her speech impediment. Professional announcers should be able to annunciate clearly. I hope she’s working on improving it. For the sake of her audience and for her own career in broadcasting. |
I don't think it's really appropriate to say that Catchings has a speech "impediment" without appreciating that she was born with significant hearing loss; not being able to hear affects how one speaks. Since childhood, she's really had to overcome enormous hurdles because of her hearing loss. |
+1
Osubeaver---how about you just get over it? It's so ableist to act like you are somehow enduring hardship just by having to listen to her voice. She is the one who has faced the hardship. Have some compassion. Will people with disabilities ever be able to just *exist* in society without everyone else acting like they are somehow inconvenienced by it? She is simply speaking with the voice that she was born with. It is beautiful and she is great at what she does, both in basketball and now in broadcasting. |
Isn’t this entire tournament (and sport of basketball for that matter) an exercise in “ableism”? We are watching the most extraordinarily “able” players compete against and defeat one other in order to determine a single “Champion” team. Countless hours are spent by these elite athletes in training and practice to sharpen and enhance those competitive “abilities”.
I didn’t know Tamika’s “backstory”. I don’t know any of the announcers’ backstories.
As I noted, I appreciate her commentary and her knowledge. I’ll try to “just get over it” as you kindly suggest.
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WNBA 09
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Posted: 03/24/21 3:53 pm ::: |
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I think its time people start looking at MD as the 5th #1 seed
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Rock Hard
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Posted: 03/24/21 3:57 pm ::: |
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pilight wrote: |
The B10 domination of the SEC continues |
It's about time!😁
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tfan
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Posted: 03/24/21 5:37 pm ::: |
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Angel Reese is very athletic and coordinated for her size. And I was actually thinking "for a center" as she was posting up. But I looked at the roster and while she is listed 6'3", her position is guard/forward. The tallest player in the game was a guard/forward. Diamond Miller is also listed as 6'3" but doesn't appear as tall as Reese. But she is listed as a guard. Maryland doesn't have anyone with a roster position of center. Their starting center, 6'1" listed Chloe Bibby is shown as a guard/forward. Mimi Collins is listed as a 6'3" forward, but that should be small forward the way she plays. All those 6'1"+ players running the floor makes for an impressive highlight reel.
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undersized_post
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Posted: 03/24/21 5:45 pm ::: |
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tfan wrote: |
Angel Reese is very athletic and coordinated for her size. And I was actually thinking "for a center" as she was posting up. But I looked at the roster and while she is listed 6'3" and her position is guard/forward. The tallest player in the game was a guard/forward. Diamond Miller is also listed as 6'3" but doesn't appear as tall as Reese. But she is listed as a guard. Maryland doesn't have anyone with a roster position of center. Their starting center, 6'1" listed Chloe Bibby is shown as a guard/forward. Mimi Collins is listed as a 6'3" forward, but that should be small forward the way she plays. |
Overall they are all obviously quite versatile. But I agree with you that Reese should be listed as C/F, not F/G.
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Queenie
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Posted: 03/25/21 12:39 pm ::: |
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undersized_post wrote: |
tfan wrote: |
Angel Reese is very athletic and coordinated for her size. And I was actually thinking "for a center" as she was posting up. But I looked at the roster and while she is listed 6'3" and her position is guard/forward. The tallest player in the game was a guard/forward. Diamond Miller is also listed as 6'3" but doesn't appear as tall as Reese. But she is listed as a guard. Maryland doesn't have anyone with a roster position of center. Their starting center, 6'1" listed Chloe Bibby is shown as a guard/forward. Mimi Collins is listed as a 6'3" forward, but that should be small forward the way she plays. |
Overall they are all obviously quite versatile. But I agree with you that Reese should be listed as C/F, not F/G. |
My understanding is that college teams try not to list players as centers; the explanation I heard, though take with the appropriate quantity of NaCl, is that being pigeonholed as a center is detrimental to a player's overseas prospects. It was immensely frustrating when playing fantasy on these here boards.
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summertime blues
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myrtle
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Stormeo
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Posted: 03/25/21 1:49 pm ::: |
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undersized_post wrote: |
Reese should be listed as C/F, not F/G. |
Funny thing is, Princeton’s Bella Alarie seemed to fall in the same category. With her, she was listed as a “G/F” while at Princeton, but then was changed to a “C/F” when she got to the pros. Seems that she got re-evaluated – or, perhaps, properly evaluated.
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