BYU - Florida (2011)

[jay santos]

what "word?" Where are the tickets? who is selling them? and who told you?

Scalper

[Art Vandelay]

For those who are students of CUF: What are the two things 3D will notice and comment on from this video?
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[Coach McGuirk]

Heard that BYU is the only team that went beyond their allotment. And only one of the other 3 schools bought their first allotment.

[jay santos]

Woohoo! I'm headed down for the game. Also, if you're looking for tix, word is it's a soft market and there will be plenty available likely at lower price before game time.

Clarification: lower price means lower than what they've been listed for, not lower than face.

[PaloAltoCougar]

I've been thinking about this Florida team and thought I would put my thoughts down....

That was very detailed and interesting, K'Dog, thanks. Before the Zags, I doubted BYU would recover its mojo. Thankfully, it's back and I think BYU will put up a very competitive effort. Who would have thought this possible two weeks ago?

[Surfah]

Strategy:
I think we can man this team up. Hartsock will do a solid job on Macklin. Macklin is used to being the undersized quick guy and Hartsock should be able to stay in front of him. KC will need to guard Parsons and would be giving up size but would be defending a type of player at a position he is comfortable defending. Abuou would have a very tough assignment because he would guard Tyus and would be forced to double Macklin on deep catches and multiple bounce possessions. This would let Tyus get on the offensive glass and is probably the reason we don't do too much man. Jimmer would get Boynton and Jax would get Walker. I don't think there are too many bad matchups there and we wouldn't need to double too much considering how their offense works. Best of all it would let us rebound better and allow us to push the pace.
We can zone Florida but if we do we run a substantial risk of not getting out to their 3 three point shooters while still giving up too much on the offensive glass. If we go zone, we probably find ourselves with a lot of matchup stuff that will morph our 2-3 into a 3-2 looking zone. Again, this doesn't help us inside or on the glass.

Offensively, I think our ability to spread the floor outside the perimeter will be key. I think KC can attack Parsons off the bounce (they mostly play zone) and I think Abuou can attack Tyus off the bounce. Jimmer can attack anyone off the bounce. The result is that we will see a lot of help from Macklin who won't be comfortable playing out where Noah is. Noah's 3 point shooting will be crucial again offensively and he has to make himself available early on. Jackson should be able to get his shot off against either potential defender given his shooting style. He shouldn't pump fake, either Walker or Boynton will rip that soft pumpfake and it is unnecessary.
I think we'll see that little side scissor cut play work well against Florida like it did against Gonzaga and SDSU.

Once again this will be a pace game. I think we'll have a lot of trouble stopping them defensively but liberal changes between zone and D should keep them off balance. We need to rebound and we need to push off misses or makes. I expect Florida will only send two to the offensive glass in an effort to slow our running. If we get this thing in the 75 range, it will be a win for us. Jimmer can still win it for us in a slow game but we would need a lot more luck.

I think we zone a lot more than man. We may use some situational changing of the defense like after a timeout to counter whatever Billy may have drawn up in the huddle. And I think we'll start in man like we usually do until we get a feel for their offense. The zone has been effective against Florida this season. We'll just have to closeout quickly after they kick out of the double before they can reverse it like New Mexico was able to.

This is going to be a very difficult game for BYU to win IMO. I am hopeful that we can suck them into running with us and taking them out of their half court game. If we can get them to jack up 32 three-pointers like they did last year that would help too. This will be the biggest team we have faced since UCLA and we had Davies and Collinsworth for that game.

[Donuthole]

For those who are students of CUF: What are the two things 3D will notice and comment on from this video?

1) Nashif's shoelaces/shoes/ankle socks;
2) Martineau's leggings (Jimmer was also wearing them, but Jimmer is above reproach).
2a) The awesome multicolored seats in the stands.

[TripletDaddy]

Clarification: lower price means lower than what they've been listed for, not lower than face.

this sounds right. I'm interested to see what the action is tomorrow.

When are you flying out?

[Blueintheface]

Heard that BYU is the only team that went beyond their allotment. And only one of the other 3 schools bought their first allotment.

Did Purdue ever sell out their Sweet 16 allotment with Brad Miller or UCLA with Reggie Miller? Or more appropriately did Florida with Mike Miller?

[jay santos]

this sounds right. I'm interested to see what the action is tomorrow.

When are you flying out?

Tomorrow morning.

[Art Vandelay]

1) Nashif's shoelaces/shoes/ankle socks;
2) Martineau's leggings (Jimmer was also wearing them, but Jimmer is above reproach).
2a) The awesome multicolored seats in the stands.

Winner, winner Cougareat dinner. As soon as I saw Nashif's shoes, I knew Trips and Donut will absolutely love those.

Martineau just can't pull off the Jimmer look. In all fairness, I'm not sure Jimmer pulls it off that well.

2a should have been, Zylstra bricked every shot they showed

[hello]

This will be the biggest team we have faced since UCLA and we had Davies and Collinsworth for that game.

I thought Collinsworth was out this game, and Noah was recovering from his concussion issues. Noah still played, just not very effectively.

[Surfah]

I thought Collinsworth was out this game, and Noah was recovering from his concussion issues. Noah still played, just not very effectively.

UCLA was his first game back after his initial injury IIRC. Noah logged just a few minutes because he was still shaking off the concussion. Davies had one of his best games that day.

[BGRTHNUMEGO]

Winner, winner Cougareat dinner. As soon as I saw Nashif's shoes, I knew Trips and Donut will absolutely love those.

Martineau just can't pull off the Jimmer look. In all fairness, I'm not sure Jimmer pulls it off that well.

2a should have been, Zylstra bricked every shot they showed

Would 2b have been Emery's attempt at a left handed dribble early in the clip?

[TripletDaddy]

The only thing I noticed was that Magnusson PF seemed to be practicing in anticipation of playing tomorrow.