Maryland Minute 3.10.10 - The Eagle (Er...Terp) has Landed in Greensboro
by Ben Goldstein on Mar 10, 2010 9:34 PM EST
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National awards: CBSSports.com
Gary Parrish is one of the few national writers I like. But I wholeheartedly disagree with him about having Wall as a first team All American over Vasquez. Greivis' stats are better across the board - people like Parrish are putting way too much stock into what Wall WILL BE in a year or two. Greivis is the better player now. Also, I think Boeheim is fine as a national coach of the year, but Gary has done more with less, IMO. - DT
Basketball Prospectus on the ACC Tournament
Maryland is the #2 team, with a 15% shot at the championship. Duke, unsurprisingly, has a 63% shot. He pretty accurately sums up Maryland - extremely efficient, but awful defensive rebounding. - Ben B.
Projecting the Field: CBSSports.com
Got the Terps as a 4 seed. I like it. But I do not like having to possibly face Kansas. - DT
My Take: Kansas is the scariest team in the tournament, IMO.
Latest bracket - Andy Glockner - SI.com
Got the Terps as a 5 seed in the South. Please don't put us in the same bracket as Syracuse and their zone defense that will make us look like a high school team. - DT
Milbourne wants "blank slate" - Tracking the Terps
His slippage in play is definitely a story thats been lost amongst the team's success. If he can get back to his doule-figure form, the Terps could be even more dangerous. - Ben G.
Greivis Vasquez, Unsurprisingly, Makes a Halfcourt Shot in Practice
Why am I not surprised? - Ben B.
Gold Jerseys Made the Trip to Greensboro
Hoo-ray? - Ben B.
Recruiting Report: Weekend wrap
Great recruiting wrapup as always by the Sun's Matt Bracken. He gives a nice shout out to Ben B's recent scholarship assessment. - DT
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3 seed 3 seed 3 seed 3 seed 3 seed 3 seed 3 seed 3 seed 3 seed
We will be a 3 seed, because I said so.
Gary Williams for President!
Jordan Williams freshman Manbeast
Logic
Terp12’s cannot be defeated.
by Ben Broman on Mar 10, 2010 10:06 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
So are we hoping to either win the ACC tourney or lose 1st rd?
Losing first round might get us a 6 seed. Winning probably gets us a 3 seed. Anything in between and i think we are 4-5. Rather be on the bottom half right?
would we really be that bad against the zone?
at times we can shoot the lights out. but i could be wrong, maybe im missing something
Parrish
Personally, I feel Gary Parrish is a dick with a shitty spray tan
by Andrew Lepczyk on Mar 10, 2010 10:18 PM EST reply actions
Yeah i hate Parrish
Took him until the sunday night before the Duke game to barely put us in his power rankings at #25. Also he has some note on his page saying how he doesn’t spray tan and was just tan the day of the picture, what a joke
I would love to see GW do two things in the NCAA tournament. 1) Play some zone. The Terps played a little zone this year, and it worked. I think GW thinks zones are whimpy. Getting crushed on the boards is worse. Besides, forcing teams to hit outside shots with the pressure of the tournament is good strategy. 2) Play a frontline of Williams, Milbourne and Gregory and scrap the three guard thing every now and then. Gregory is as good in the flex as Mosley, and it allows Milbourne to play the three. O. And it would help with rebounding…………………….
Those two changes would catch everyone off guard. Teams don’t have that long to prepare, so wrinkles are effective in the tournament. And since Maryland is very predictable in their offensive and defensive sets, some changes might really throw other teams off..
I like the idea..
of the traditional lineup offensively but by doing this you lose our best on ball defender in Mosley
I know there are wrinkles to zones, but generally they hurt rebounding
Especially the most traditional ones, like 3-2, 2-3, and 1-3-1. All of them make it significantly harder to rebound. That was one of the reasons we struggled with rebounding last year – we were in that Catch-22 of needing to go to zone to make up for our lack of size in the low post, but thus exposing ourselves in rebounding, where we were already weak.
If we go zone and expect rebounding to improve, it’ll probably have to be a 2-1-2 or a 1-2-2, more complex than the traditional zones. I know it’s a small difference, but we haven’t practiced it much this year and I’m not sure the NCAAT is the time to break it out. Last year we started to mess with some of these things late in the year and in the ACCT, so we might see an indicator for the NCAAT in the coming days.
I do like the traditional lineup idea, especially if we face a more unathletic team that Landon can keep up with out on the wing.
Again with LM at the 3. It has been posed over and over again, but folks just don’t want to listen. Landon, who is one of my favorite Terps of all time, cannot play defense against an athletic wing. They will simply drive on him all day long. Not to mention the fact that you just upped Dino’s minutes at the expense of either GV (ACC POY), SM (our best defender), or EH (our best 3pt shooter, steady ball handler, and experienced, calm senior during tournament time). So, for a slightly taller team, you want us to sacrifice either our best player, our best defender, or our center of gravity. It is a bad idea.
My concern is Maryland getting beat up inside by taller, more athletic teams. Really, it’s hard to argue against the success of the team this year, but it’s not hard to see the glaring weaknesses: rebounding and Milbourne at the 4. I think a little zone would keep teams off balance. BB is right, the 1-2-2 is the best zone for rebounding, but the traditional 2-1-2 ain’t bad either. I still can’t figure out why they haven’t experimented a little with the traditional lineup. I think we will see it in the tournament.
Also, no reason why you couldn’t play either Mosley or Hayes with the traditional lineup.
im gonna put trust in gary here
this aint his first season and its not his first tourament. he probably has a few tricks up his sleeve thats we havent had to use yet. im hoping he’ll throw a few teams off when we come out with lineups and defenses we havent seen all season. i think were gonna have to count on a veyr dynamic team to stay ready for long tournament runs. very exciting for the next couple weeks
Coach of the year...
The argument that Gary has done more with less isn’t really true. I think Boeheim is the obvious choice. Preseason had Maryland higher than Syracuse in most polls or right behind them depending on which one you look at. Now he has Syracuse as a one seed and we are currently a 4 or 5. Great season for Boeheim, he deserves it. Not taking away from what GW did this season, I think he is an obvious second.
the pic used in this article...
is my new fav pic ever
First Round Matchups
Who do we want to face?
UNC/GTech
Who do we want to advance?
BC/UVA
Wake/Miami
Clemson/NC State
I’d assume we’d prefer Duke have to play BC as UVA is a joke now and that UNC is so weak they’d make a less threatening opener for us.
Just curious.
by ace4919 on Mar 11, 2010 9:28 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Question for DT...
Have you actually watched Wall play at all or are you just going by stats when you say “Greivis is the better player”? I would of course vote for Greivis as a biased MD fan, but I’m not sure I could say so definitively that he’s better than Wall. The few times I have seen Wall play, he’s been pretty frickin’ amazing. Keep in mind that with the talent on KY, Wall doesn’t need to score as much. If their team was different, he could pretty easily be averaging 20+ a game IMO.
I’m not necessarily arguing FOR Wall over Greivis, I’m just not sure I would make such a strong statement about Greivis being better.
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