At the National Association of Basketball Coaches Meeting a few years ago, they explained how pods and seeding worked. One thing was clear. If a team is a three seed, it could easily be a two or a four. A lot of it has to do with travel, match-ups and how long it's been since a team has been in the tournament.
Quotes about match-ups (14 Quotes)
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The way I see it, you have to play all the best teams anyway. I like our match-ups with anybody.
We're a pretty good percentage shooting team. If we can learn how to play off one another I think we will cause people problems with match-ups. Obviously, Baron is a big key to that. . . . He's bound and determined to come in here and make an impact. His willingness to make others better surprised me a little bit.
I don't think the number of receivers will change much. It can based on the opponent and match-ups. Again, that varies week-to-week. I look at it more as a good thing than as a bad thing.
It's played out about as well as the commissioner hoped for. You've had good match-ups, upsets and nationalism.
You can't stay the same. You stay the same and people catch up. They understand your schemes and they game plan for those things and it makes it very difficult. We have good players, but we also have to give those players advantages with proper match-ups.
We really have seven starters. It just depends on the match-ups, and I thought both Ryan and Philip did a nice job. Really, I thought Adam Pier did a nice job also.
We kept getting match-ups that we liked and every time we went to it we scored on it.
I think we're pretty focused. We've got momentum going in and I like out match-ups. We've been in enough tournaments and big games, so they know it's going to cost you to look past anyone.
Whenever we play McNairy, the rules get thrown out the window. It's just one of those match-ups that's going to be fun to watch.
When I look at how the match-ups played out, and when you look at how the season went for everybody, how many times could you say, 'We finished seventh in the league so we've got to play the second-place team, and we split with them' And we lost to them at their place on a shot at the buzzer.
We have become more aware of personal match-ups and having that point guard back who we know can attack and score will be a big difference this time around. That is going to be a big key to this game -- knowing match-ups that we can take advantage of and just using our size and strength against them.
They're playing well together, that's the biggest thing. Offensive line is less about the man-to-man match-ups and more about how the different layers work with each other to stop the defensive line as a group.