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Originally Posted by Bambi
WTF are you talking about? Hield torched Mason for 46 and had to cheat to get the final call.
Your basketball takes are unbelievably bad.
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Speaking of try-hards, the poor man's PB is at it again.
You do realize that Mason made two steals in the final 21 seconds off Hield (to go with his final contest at the buzzer) to turn a 1 point deficit into a win, right? And once again, stats and gifs on Mason's effective ball denial on Hield if you don't want to take it from me:
http://www.si.com/college-basketball...north-carolina
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KANSAS JAYHAWKS
LAST WEEK: 2
RECORD: 13–1
You don’t need another person telling you how amazing Monday’s Kansas-Oklahoma, three-overtime epic was. Its status as the Game of the Season (to date) was sealed before the final buzzer. In my film review I focused on my favorite postgame quote, from Jayhawks coach Bill Self, in regards to their defense on Sooner star Buddy Hield: “We actually did a really good job holding him to 46 [points].”
In almost any context but this one, it’s a ridiculous quote, but in the context of this ridiculous game, it’s not. Hield probably could’ve scored 60 if not for all the ball-denial work by Frank Mason III (and early in the game, Wayne Selden).
For every possession Hield was on the floor, I charted who guarded him and the outcome. In the chart below, PPP is Hield’s points per possession on all the possessions he was guarded, not just the ones he attempted a shot or committed a turnover; the next column is the percentage of time he took a shot or drew a shooting foul; the final column is the percentage of time he committed a turnover. In regulation, Mason did the bulk of the work, and did it quite well, but it was Selden’s stretch of guarding Hield to open the game that was exceptional:
Although Mason got burned a few times in OT, on the biggest possessions—the final two possessions of regulation and each of the three overtimes—he did some of his best work. Mason held Hield to just two points on eight possessions, and forced him into two turnovers.
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