Official 2021 March Madness Thread

[Spurtacular]

Second tournament in a row where the Zags get bounced by a much more physical Big XII team. Seems obvious now that beating up on cupcake teams for two months is clearly not preparing them for these types of games. IMO, for Baylor this probably feels like a typical conference game

Baylor's been allowed to play football in every game. Have yet to see a team prepared for it.

[GAustex]

I think Baylor is going to overpower Zaga at the rim and play the Zags even in guard play. Timmah is going need to be out of this world.

I'm thinking Baylor just beyond a toss up
Well got the overpower at the rim thing. Did not see Baylor abusing the Zags guards

[Spurtacular]

Baylor bailed out with another foul. They're allowed to play physical AF and then get all kinds of touch fouls. Ridiculous.

[Mark Celibate]

:lol everyone jerking off to Gonzaga's inflated stats after beating up on Montana State Community College every game

[Spurtacular]

That's what Gonzaga needs to do. Every time Baylor knocks them with the thighs, play it up. They can't let them get away with all this Miami Heat 2012 defense.

[Spurtacular]

The camera panned away, but I think the Butler dude tried to take a charge at half court to try to stop that fast break.
SMH. Such a cheesy team.

[GAustex]

So I learned playing golf tourneys that playing with a lead is hard. You have so much to lose.

[Spurtacular]

The dude was allowed to slap Timme 35 feet from the rim about three fucking times in a row.
It's obvious that the refs are giving them an advantage by not calling that shit.
Then they do the same thing the next possession.

[benefactor]

Fucking making excuses because of the UCLA game:lol

We will likely here that all offseason

[Spurtacular]

Are they pumping in boos through the speakers? Been wondering this all tourney.

There it is again. And it's always been for the ref's team only.

[GAustex]

Baylor is fouling a lot

[GAustex]

10 points after the start
There maybe hope for the Zags

[Spurtacular]

Fucking making excuses because of the UCLA game:lol

We will likely here that all offseason

Excuses for what?

[Mark Celibate]

Haven't watched TV (except for the occasional sporting event) in years...watching these CBS commercials, are these sh!t sandwiches what we're really stuck with now?

I can't imagine somebody could possibly hate themselves that much to come home from a long day of work, kick back, and watch an hour of "United States of Al". If you are that person and you are reading this....I'm not telling you to commit suicide but if a method of swiftly terminating your existence were to become available to you, I would recommend capitalizing on the opportunity

[Spurtacular]

BaylorRef calls Timme for hitting the ball away when they've been allowing Baylor to hack all night? WTF.

[Spurtacular]

And they weren't gonna call that hack; but then the Baylor dude just bulldozed the guy going for the loose ball and they had no choice.

[Spurtacular]

THE HONEST FUCK. TIMME DIDN'T JUST TRIP OVER HIS OWN FEET. CALL THAT SHIT, ASSHOLES.

[GAustex]

Haven't watched TV (except for the occasional sporting event) in years...watching these CBS commercials, are these sh!t sandwiches what we're really stuck with now?

I can't imagine somebody could possibly hate themselves that much to come home from a long day of work, kick back, and watch an hour of "United States of Al". If you are that person and you are reading this....I'm not telling you to commit suicide but if a method of swiftly terminating your existence were to become available to you, I would recommend capitalizing on the opportunity
I watch 0 network shows except sports

[Spurtacular]

Kispert needs to find the space and trust his shot. You can't be taking it to the teeth and be getting blocked.

[benefactor]

:lol Zags
:lol counting on a couple of slow white stiffs to save you

[Spurtacular]

Haven't watched TV (except for the occasional sporting event) in years...watching these CBS commercials, are these sh!t sandwiches what we're really stuck with now?

I can't imagine somebody could possibly hate themselves that much to come home from a long day of work, kick back, and watch an hour of "United States of Al". If you are that person and you are reading this....I'm not telling you to commit suicide but if a method of swiftly terminating your existence were to become available to you, I would recommend capitalizing on the opportunity

You tried Jew Tube lately? They put a commercial for every music video and tons of commercials like it's a premier TV show for every video. And any time you click to a certain part of a video, a new commercial comes up. Sh** was insufferable. I finally downloaded an ad blocker.

[MultiTroll]

Kispert needs to find the space and trust his shot. You can't be taking it to the teeth and be getting blocked.
This.
You could see that block coming from the moment Kispert abandoned his trey and tried to White Guy drive to the hoop.

[Spurtacular]

Just cos Vital has no hands, they call the foul. Dumb.

[Spurtacular]

There's the pumped-in boos for Baylor again.

[MultiTroll]

Turrble. Bring back the ATT chicks T & A.

[Spurtacular]

This.
You could see that block coming from the moment Kispert abandoned his trey and tried to White Guy drive to the hoop.

That block by Kispert was for you. He had a good poster on UCLA last game too.

It's not the white/black thing. It's just you don't be trying to a backhanded flick shot from your waist against a great shot blocker.

Find the f'ing shot or pass. Be composed.

[Spurtacular]

Turrble. Bring back the ATT chicks T & A.

That's the thing. Those commercials never were that.

It's a PR stunt / abiding the narrative.

[MultiTroll]

B.S. Baylor dude was definitely not set.
Charging on Timme.

Yep its over.

[Spurtacular]

Calling a guy jumping in at the very last second (a block) as a charge for a team up by 14 points;
and to give a star player a 4th foul.

Honestly, BaylorRef fucked up this game so bad. What a fucking joke.

[Spurtacular]

COME FUCKING ON. THE DUDE WAS RAPED ON THE SHOT. THAT'S NOT JUST AN OUT OF BOUNDS CALL. DOWN 17, GONZAGA CAN'T EVEN GET AN OBVIOUS FUCKING CALL. TOTAL FUCKING JOKE.

[Spurtacular]

THE HONEST FUCK. THEN THEY CALL A FOUL ON A CLEAN BLOCK AT THE OTHER END? THIS IS A FUCKING JOKE.
DOES BIG CONFERENCE TEAMS NEED RINGS THIS BADLY?

[Fat Brandon Bass]

Sons, This is gonna be the hottest Waco has been since David Koresh lit it on fire.

[GAustex]

Sic em bears

[Spurtacular]

Sons, This is gonna be the hottest Waco has been since David Koresh lit it on fire.

Hope Janet Reno's not enjoying Hell well enough.

[GAustex]

The Baylor coach has done a good job
Year ago he took over a scandal riddled team. I think a player murdered someone the year before he took over

[Spurtacular]

Kispert has such a sweet shot. It's on Mark Pew for not getting him enough clean looks.
It'd be like UCLA leaving Juzang with very limited looks.

[Spurtacular]

Kispert got to know not to get caught in the air like that. Fake the shot and swish it after the fly-by.

[GAustex]

I called it. Baylor overwhelms at the rim and the Baylor guards match Zags.

[Spurtacular]

Zags are being ridiculous. You can't be doing 30 second possessions.

[benefactor]

What the fuck is that trucker looking honkey doing?:lol

:lol injuring your own teammate

[Spurtacular]

Baylor guards been allowed to stiff arm defenders all tournament too. Tonight has been no exception.

[Spurtacular]

I assume that Suggs going pro and this is the end of the line for this squad.

[GAustex]

Zags need some of them big rebounding dudes

[Spurtacular]

Zags need some of them big rebounding dudes

The rebounding discrepancy among other things cost them the game.

Again, Mark Pew made no adjustments. He relied on the same six players no matter what.

[Spurtacular]

Zags need some of them big rebounding dudes

They totally missed out on that awesome center from Eastern Washington.

Mark Pew, man. Dude makes a lot of mistakes for a guy with a great record.

[140]

Gonzaga :lmao:lmao:lmao what a bunch of fucking chokers, specially that faggot with the mustache tbh

[Spurtacular]

Damn, they bailing out Baylor to the end. These refs are shit.

[Spurtacular]

Gonzaga :lmao:lmao:lmao what a bunch of fucking chokers, specially that faggot with the mustache tbh

0/10. Go back to your gay porn.

[Spurtacular]

Hold on. Does that Meyer dude have a twin or brother on the team? :lol

[GAustex]

Baylor story of redemption
Read up on where Scott Drew brought them back from. It is a rags to riches triumph

[GAustex]

Scott drew for Spurs coach?

[Spurtacular]

That Vital dude is a poor man's Big Baby.

[Spurtacular]

BaylorRefs really fucked up that game. It would've been close and worth watching if they called the game by the book.

[Spurtacular]

Pissed off at that officiating. Should've been a real championship game. Instead we get stuck with that shit show.

[Capt Bringdown]

Gonzaga thought they were entitled to the championship. Baylor wasn't convinced.
That was an ass-whooping from top to bottom. Baylor a better team by a country mile.

[Spurtacular]

Gonzaga thought they were entitled to the championship. Baylor wasn't convinced.
That was an ass-whooping from top to bottom. Baylor a better team by a country mile.

That was a hack fest sponsored by the power conference cartel.

[Robz4000]

Called this shit a mile away tbh.

[Chad.]

Was that Timme or Patrick Dennehy playing post for the Zags....because Baylor was murdering him out there

[Millennial_Messiah]

:lol durp bitching about the refs letting them play physical when otherwise always complaining that basketball/football are called too tightly compared to the "good old days". Selective judgment at its finest.

[Neo.]

:lmao derp

[Mark Celibate]

:lol not sure any change in reffing would've made a difference in last night's outcome. Baylor was jacking up step-back, iso 3 pointers and hitting them consistently. Their shot selection is poor sometimes, but they've shown they can hit those shots and there's not much you can do as a team to stop it unless you have elite athleticism at the guard position who can guard them man to man.

That game by Jared Butler was probably the most efficient shooting performance by a Baylor basketball player since Carlton Dotson in June 2003

[MultiTroll]

:lol not sure any change in reffing would've made a difference in last night's outcome. Baylor was jacking up step-back, iso 3 pointers and hitting them consistently. Their shot selection is poor sometimes, but they've shown they can hit those shots and there's not much you can do as a team to stop it unless you have elite athleticism at the guard position who can guard them man to man.
There were about 4 momentum calls / non calls that would have changed the game.
Now as to changing it enough for Zags to win, naw I'm not saying that.

Concur that Baylor was hitting some tough shots, meanwhile Zags were missing particularly treys.
Treys and O rebounds were the real swings imo.
BaylorRef came in 3rd.

White Zag guard Kispert i would definitely downgrade in the draft.
If he ends up being a trey chucker that fits in todays _efense NBA, oh well more power to him.
But he can't hang with better atheletes imo.

[Millennial_Messiah]

:lol not sure any change in reffing would've made a difference in last night's outcome. Baylor was jacking up step-back, iso 3 pointers and hitting them consistently. Their shot selection is poor sometimes, but they've shown they can hit those shots and there's not much you can do as a team to stop it unless you have elite athleticism at the guard position who can guard them man to man.
GSW vs. DAL 2007. Even Avery's *perfect* team couldn't stop them when Baron Davis/Stephen Jackson were hitting ridiculous, albeit terrible long shots, at a pace that was sustainable to win a 6 game series, but obviously not sustainable to go all the way to the championship, as evidenced in the next round.

[Spurtacular]

:lol durp bitching about the refs letting them play physical when otherwise always complaining that basketball/football are called too tightly compared to the "good old days". Selective judgment at its finest.

That's some philo shit. Lite would be proud. You're essentially saying that because I'm for physical play or otherwise acknowledging that that's how the game went that I'm for not calling hacks or that I'm for one-sided reffing. Seriously, pull your head out of your ass, Mr. Selective Judgment at it's finest. And knock off the durp shit unless you want to be treated like the beta chumpettes.

Baylor was hacking the shit out of Gonzaga. That's not just merely being physical. At one point Timme was tripped to the floor and even the announcer mused that okay, I guess the refs aren't calling that shit.

[Spurtacular]

:lol not sure any change in reffing would've made a difference in last night's outcome. Baylor was jacking up step-back, iso 3 pointers and hitting them consistently. Their shot selection is poor sometimes, but they've shown they can hit those shots and there's not much you can do as a team to stop it unless you have elite athleticism at the guard position who can guard them man to man.

That game by Jared Butler was probably the most efficient shooting performance by a Baylor basketball player since Carlton Dotson in June 2003

It had a huge impact on the game. Baylor may have still won; but the refs essentially decided that it was not going to be a contest.

[Millennial_Messiah]

That's some philo shit. Lite would be proud. You're essentially saying that because I'm for physical play or otherwise acknowledging that that's how the game went that I'm for not calling hacks or that I'm for one-sided reffing. Seriously, pull your head out of your ass, Mr. Selective Judgment at it's finest. And knock off the durp shit unless you want to be treated like the beta chumpettes.

Baylor was hacking the shit out of Gonzaga. That's not just merely being physical. At one point Timme was tripped to the floor and even the announcer mused that okay, I guess the refs aren't calling that shit.

It's a physical game. Soft offensive superpower teams (i.e. the 80s Showtime Lakers, the Nash Suns, the 07 Mavericks, the 12-16 OKC Thunder or the Faggot Splash Brother GSWarriors) suddenly don't look as fantastic when they're matched on a physical level. It's called good defense and hard nosed battling. It's a much more respectable brand of basketball than just watching a bunch of faggots make threes and layups all day and get rewarded with 40 free throws on top of that.

The Grizzlies of the early 2010s were the last of their kind in the NBA, I think. The Spurs once had that element with fighter dogs like Bruce Bowen, Kevin Willis, and Robert Horry in the 2000s. Then they went to beautiful game crap which was pretty at times but also cost us titles down the stretch of Duncan's career due to reduced emphasis on defense.

Just be glad that a Texas team finally won a major college sports national championship for the first time since, IDK, Vince Young's Texas Longhorns? I could be mistaken.

[Spurtacular]

It's a physical game. Soft offensive superpower teams (i.e. the 80s Showtime Lakers, the Nash Suns, the 07 Mavericks, the 12-16 OKC Thunder or the Faggot Splash Brother GSWarriors) suddenly don't look as fantastic when they're matched on a physical level. It's called good defense and hard nosed battling. It's a much more respectable brand of basketball than just watching a bunch of faggots make threes and layups all day and get rewarded with 40 free throws on top of that.

The Grizzlies of the early 2010s were the last of their kind in the NBA, I think. The Spurs once had that element with fighter dogs like Bruce Bowen, Kevin Willis, and Robert Horry in the 2000s. Then they went to beautiful game crap which was pretty at times but also cost us titles down the stretch of Duncan's career due to reduced emphasis on defense.

Just be glad that a Texas team finally won a major college sports national championship for the first time since, IDK, Vince Young's Texas Longhorns? I could be mistaken.

That's nice speechifying. But it's really not at all what we're talking about. Physical or no physical, there's just going to be some things that are a foul, like blatantly knocking a dude to the floor to create a turnover. And even if we're delving into the let them play arguments, we're talking about stuff like raking the Zags player's arm a shot at one end and no call and then the very next play at the other end calling a ghost foul for an and one.

If you're going to compare it to NBA teams, I go with what I've been comparing it to all along; 2012ish Miami Heat. Yea, they're a top five team. Yea, all things being equal they can win any series. But clearly the refs are allowing them to do all kinds of sh** and not the other team to make it seem like they are truly dominant.

[Millennial_Messiah]

That's nice speechifying. But it's really not at all what we're talking about. Physical or no physical, there's just going to be some things that are a foul, like blatantly knocking a dude to the floor to create a turnover. And even if we're delving into the let them play arguments, we're talking about stuff like raking the Zags player's arm a shot at one end and no call and then the very next play at the other end calling a ghost foul for an and one.

If you're going to compare it to NBA teams, I go with what I've been comparing it to all along; 2012ish Miami Heat. Yea, they're a top five team. Yea, all things being equal they can win any series. But clearly the refs are allowing them to do all kinds of sh** and not the other team to make it seem like they are truly dominant.

2012ish OKC was worse imo, especially with Durant-Westbrick-Harden-Ibaka-Perkins. Perkins got away with murder on defense and illegal screens on offense; Ibaka got away with goaltending 5 times a game; Durant and Harden couldn't be breathed on without a foul call and Westbrick would just drive and chunk up whatever random crap and get rewarded with free throws. I hated that team perhaps more than any, definitely more than the Heatles.

[Spurtacular]

2012ish OKC was worse imo, especially with Durant-Westbrick-Harden-Ibaka-Perkins. Perkins got away with murder on defense and illegal screens on offense; Ibaka got away with goaltending 5 times a game; Durant and Harden couldn't be breathed on without a foul call and Westbrick would just drive and chunk up whatever random crap and get rewarded with free throws. I hated that team perhaps more than any, definitely more than the Heatles.

Until the Finals. Yea, they got away with all kinds of sh** to get the Spurs out though. Game 5 of that Conference Finals will always be a tragedy. That illegal screen call on Manu was pathetic.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Until the Finals. Yea, they got away with all kinds of sh** to get the Spurs out though. Game 5 of that Conference Finals will always be a tragedy. That illegal screen call on Manu was pathetic.

Which one, tbh? 2012 was the most rigged especially Game 6 but 4 and 5 were bad too. 2016 were 50/50 calls that the Spurs just got the wrong end of. The Spurs wouldn't have beaten GSW that year though

[Spurtacular]

Which one, tbh? 2012 was the most rigged especially Game 6 but 4 and 5 were bad too. 2016 were 50/50 calls that the Spurs just got the wrong end of. The Spurs wouldn't have beaten GSW that year though

2012. Spurs were off'd. They would've killed the Heat and Stern knew it. Instead, without the refs on their side, OKC was easy prey in the finals.

[Millennial_Messiah]

2012. Spurs were off'd. They would've killed the Heat and Stern knew it. Instead, without the refs on their side, OKC was easy prey in the finals.

yeah, it was pretty funny seeing Dominos/Westbrick/Frauden throw their arms in the air and bitch like whiny babies throughout the Miami series. Memo... you're not playing the Spurs anymore so no free throws for you. :lol

[Spurtacular]

yeah, it was pretty funny seeing Dominos/Westbrick/Frauden throw their arms in the air and bitch like whiny babies throughout the Miami series. Memo... you're not playing the Spurs anymore so no free throws for you. :lol

I can imagine. But other than a few minutes of a game that I watched at the gym, I withheld my support of WWE Basketball.
The 2012 WCF officiating was a crime against humanity.

[Millennial_Messiah]

I can imagine. But other than a few minutes of a game that I watched at the gym, I withheld my support of WWE Basketball.
The 2012 WCF officiating was a crime against humanity.

It absolutely 100% was, but after some hard consideration I stuck it out for my high school senior year for an even worse fate the very next year, went to college on the note that I was swearing off basketball forever, then around the RRT in 2014 I decided to care about the Spurs again after all and it ended up being fully worth it in the end.

I have however completely renounced basketball on that afternoon in May 2017 when the faggiest team in league history was allowed to blatantly intentionally injure our superstar and get away with it, just as the UN has blatantly allowed China to get away with manufacturing and intentionally releasing a super pandemic virus to the world to kill millions and blame it on Trump. It was that point that I swore off basketball forever and I never looked back. As for the latter issue, I'm considering swearing off the USA and making it my enemy forever. I'm a very, very dangerous enemy, fwiw.

[Spurtacular]

It absolutely 100% was, but after some hard consideration I stuck it out for my high school senior year for an even worse fate the very next year, went to college on the note that I was swearing off basketball forever, then around the RRT in 2014 I decided to care about the Spurs again after all and it ended up being fully worth it in the end.

I have however completely renounced basketball on that afternoon in May 2017 when the faggiest team in league history was allowed to blatantly intentionally injure our superstar and get away with it, just as the UN has blatantly allowed China to get away with manufacturing and intentionally releasing a super pandemic virus to the world to kill millions and blame it on Trump. It was that point that I swore off basketball forever and I never looked back. As for the latter issue, I'm considering swearing off the USA and making it my enemy forever. I'm a very, very dangerous enemy, fwiw.

That never happened. Wuhan club scene was off the hook as beta blue anons were clutching their pearls about it all.
Corporate American media's job is to manufacture narratives; that is all. Medical industry was paid huge sums to go along with it.
NBA is just a microcosm of real life. When they learned that people would go along with cheating in sports, they knew they were good to go.

[Millennial_Messiah]

That never happened. Wuhan club scene was off the hook as beta blue anons were clutching their pearls about it all.
Corporate American media's job is to manufacture narratives; that is all. Medical industry was paid huge sums to go along with it.
NBA is just a microcosm of real life. When they learned that people would go along with cheating in sports, they knew they were good to go.

It was a CCP+DNC cooked-up plot and narrative to increase government wrath and power over citizens and to concoct a means out of left field to cheat in the election (i.e. mail ballots) to get rid of Trump.

[Spurtacular]

It was a CCP+DNC cooked-up plot and narrative to increase government wrath and power over citizens and to concoct a means out of left field to cheat in the election (i.e. mail ballots) to get rid of Trump.

I don't know if you're placating me or not; but that is correct.

[Millennial_Messiah]

I don't know if you're placating me or not; but that is correct.

I watch more primetime Fox news than you do probably

[Spurtacular]

I watch more primetime Fox news than you do probably

That's not FNC's narrative.

[Millennial_Messiah]

That's not FNC's narrative.

Tucker specifically. I'm not a huge Laura fan and Hannity is ok but not can't miss

the only primetime network TV show I watch weekly is Blue Bloods.

[Spurtacular]

Tucker specifically. I'm not a huge Laura fan and Hannity is ok but not can't miss

the only primetime network TV show I watch weekly is Blue Bloods.

None of them are calling COVID a fake virus or even saying the PCR tests are fake.
They've went along with the scam as ordered.

[Millennial_Messiah]

None of them are calling COVID a fake virus or even saying the PCR tests are fake.
They've went along with the scam as ordered.

Tucker has not. Neither has Jeanine Pirro or Mark Levin, or Gutfeld.

Fuck that fucker Chris Wallace though. Guy can get stung to death by a million murder hornets for all I care.

[Spurtacular]

Tucker has not. Neither has Jeanine Pirro or Mark Levin, or Gutfeld.

Fuck that fucker Chris Wallace though. Guy can get stung to death by a million murder hornets for all I care.

None of them have the balls to call it fake. They know they'd find themselves out on their asses. FNC is controlled opposition.

[Millennial_Messiah]

None of them have the balls to call it fake. They know they'd find themselves out on their asses. FNC is controlled opposition.

Where in California (in general) do you live?