If you like defense, this isn't the game for you.
Defense was good and bad at times, offense was better. I think the rule changes around offensive freedom of movement and shot clock are finally starting to show up in the product in the court.
Over the last 10+ years, the B1G schedule required programs to build these big slow plodding teams that can grind out ugly games. Then you accidentally see a Carolina or Kansas game and you see transition scoring and dunks and lots of points.
It’s no wonder the McDAA types haven’t wanted to play in the B1G. The conference turned basketball into a grind-it-out possession by possession game like football.
We spent a lot of last decade near the bottom of the B1G where sub par teams intentionally try to make it ugly to give themselves a chance to win. Games like this one or the Rutgers game sometimes look like bad defense because we got used to watching absolute shit for over a decade.
These games are reminding me a lot more of 1989 than 1999 or 2009 and that’s awesome. CBB is a much more palatable product when teams spend more time in transition and there’s more scoring and blocking and dunking.
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