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OT: Moderate to Significant Snow (and some rain SE of 95) for Sunday, 1/19.

Apologies if I’m wrong, but I think They’ve certainly been trending a more north and west track. Hence why amounts where it wil be all snow seemed to have gone up slightly from the last few days. This track usually means more warmer temps at the coast, I thought

Always seems to be the case with the NW trend. If it's not trending that way yet I always expect it to at some point. Notice there is no Winter Storm Watch for anything south and east. It wouldn't surprise me if the totals get cut back for that area of the map

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Did you notice Pike run an unbelievable set with Martini posting hoiborg son? Too small so, Martini had a post option AND because of his size a weak side outlet to Ace or Dylan for 3 . (Ace hit the 4). He’s taller and easy to see over the defense.

Pike to his credit came right back to the same play. Found a weakness and is going to exploit it. To Hoiborgs credit he called a timeout after the 3 and changed there base defense which is too double the post and left martini one on one. He took away Dylan and Ace . No basket.

Unlike Pike who watched Martini get punished against Princeton 4x in a row. Calls timeout and makes no adjustments and lets them go right back to that play.

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No I’ve been assured by numerous geniuses that Pike does not run an offense so I’m pretty sure we collectively hallucinated those plays where we abused Nebraska’s double teams.

For what it’s worth I agree about the play with Ogbole, that was a mistake. Though you also have to give Nebraska credit because Ogbole only had the ball for a split second there and Nebraska was very alert to be able to foul him that quick.

Last night was our worst defensive night since November 16, 2019.....but

The challenge is using efficiency across just a single game as if it's meaningful. That runs into the same problem as other single-game metrics, which is that the numbers are too small. It was 64 possessions. Some people are even taking this down to specific 5-minute spans in a game!

In a given game, any number of factors can result in a lot of variance. The player who gets hot and hits a ton of threes in the face of stiff defense. The game we bungle several wide open layups. The tight whistle game where an opponent was hot from the FT line, or where we went ice cold. The game where their star player was out or missed most of the game due to health/foul trouble. Etc.

Over the course of a season, the variance smooths itself out.

Looking only at a single game, defensive efficiency doesn't necessarily speak to how good or bad the defense was - you can give up a lot of points in a game where you've played great defense if the other team gets hot, and you can hold a team to fewer points than their average in a game where you've played poor defense if the other team is cold. Over 30 games in a season, those factors smooth out.

As Pike says, sometimes the shots fall, and sometimes they don't. If you take more good shots, you'd expect more of them to fall - but that's not always the case in the microcosm of a single game. And if you force more bad shots, you'd expect more of them to miss - but that's not always the case in a single game,e ither.

Yeah but that’s a sample size thing; nothing to do with the statistic itself.
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Yes, he should have instructed his player not to let Ace steal it. What an idiot!!
Did you notice Pike run an unbelievable set with Martini posting hoiborg son? Too small so, Martini had a post option AND because of his size a weak side outlet to Ace or Dylan for 3 . (Ace hit the 4). He’s taller and easy to see over the defense.

Pike to his credit came right back to the same play. Found a weakness and is going to exploit it. To Hoiborgs credit he called a timeout after the 3 and changed there base defense which is too double the post and left martini one on one. He took away Dylan and Ace . No basket.

Unlike Pike who watched Martini get punished against Princeton 4x in a row. Calls timeout and makes no adjustments and lets them go right back to that play.

Coaching matters

OT: Moderate to Significant Snow (and some rain SE of 95) for Sunday, 1/19.

I like Lee is going for widespread 2-4 rather than biting on the gfs
I like Lee's approach as I think the NWS is overdone, but I actually think he's using the 12Z GFS (using 10:1 ratios), as the GFS has 5-8" close to his 4-8" area (only the CMC has that much for NW of 95), but it also has 2-5" close to his 2-4" area. Many forecasters rely on the GFS outside of 48 hrs and then start to use the hi-res/short term models like the HRRR/RAP/NAM-12K inside of 24 hrs, along with their favorite globals. But I also think he's making his own forecast too, since they're not identical, especially towards the coast, where his future radar shows zero rain, while the GFS has rain/mix for several hours at the start for coastal NJ.

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Yes, he should have instructed his player not to let Ace steal it. What an idiot!!
Pike ran an inbound up 4 w 30 sec left to a Ogbole handoff to Harper. They have to foul . Why is ogbole in the game? If it’s rebounding? Ok then you don’t design the play to go through him when they have to foul when we are in a 1 n 1:

Simple basketball and not in a KenPom spread sheet!

Nebraska can not impound with a small player attempting to throw it over Ace’s head. Both bad decisions.
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OT: Stock and Investment Talk

GEV broke $400 today. How is the chart looking? :)

Some news that may push the rally even higher:

Breaking new ground, don't know. Looks like it consolidated for a couple months and bounced off the 50DMA and is making another move. It is overbought but last time it was like this it stayed that way for about a couple months before it went into that consolidation for the next couple months. I don't know what to say lol. Let it run and use a trailing stop on some of it or all of it, depending on your tolerance. It's crazy to think this one time albatross around the neck of GE (GE Power) is what it is now haha. I thought it would be a solid company after the spinoff but nothing close to this.

Anyone else notice Gavin?

No it did not. I grew up with Les.

Man, that's a sad story... Articles are a good read for those that may have a problem with nil and the state of athletics currently..Vitale was coach at east Rutherford found this cason guy playing little league baseball in Passaic at 12. Moves his family to east Rutherford, amazing for a family from Passaic. Trains him, and by the time he gets to highschool he starts all 4 years wasn't going to class and was partying..it's no ones fault but his own for the way his life turned out. But let's not act like being a STUDENT athlete was a priority before nil.

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Agree to disagree. I don’t see this great defense. I didn’t think he was particularly effective on d yesterday. Burned on threes and switches. And Simpson never got this benefit of the doubt as last year it was nonstop Simpson bashing and JMike could do no wrong. There’s an active Derkack must be benched string. Is there a JMike must be benched string? Asking for a friend?
I will just say this —

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OT: College Football 2025 Championship Game Thread

Ohio St's run game is mediocre (66th) and ND has #2 pass defense that plays mostly man coverage.
If the Ohio that beat Oregon shows-up then they are the best team.
But I like ND's chances
Having a head coach that played for Ohio St takes some of the edge off the Ohio St. mystique for ND
Freeman is also a good guy with some serendipity working for him - and everybody likes him.
He's so much better than that spittle monster Kelly



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I'm indifferent to them and pretty much everyone, except for the SEC nonsense this year, but I've seen 2-3 articles with the topic of "is ND likeable now" lol

I'm guessing they'll play the same prevent defense Michigan and Texas used and keep everything in front of them. I don't think OSU needs to run. They're best when they throw the ball. When Day tried to prove himself and be "tough" like Michigan is when they lost their way imo. Be who you are and do what you do best. They were on the verge of beating an extremely good UGA team in the semis, the year UGA destroyed TCU. OSU was a very good passing team. Howard isn't as good as Stroud but point still stands and he was good against Tenn and Oregon, came back to earth against Texas.

To me they should pass to open up the run and that includes throw to the RBs out of the backfield, to flats, screens, wheel routes etc...I think they should have used that more in the Texas game instead of throwing to the TE. They're potential home run backs, worst case you can move the chains and best case maybe break one. If the defense is going to concentrate so much on Smith and the WRs make them pay with RBs but in the pass game, not just the run game. I think PSU should've done the same with their RBs. I think Allar made some ill advised throws versus taking some easy ones.
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