Freakin ESPN

[thebigabd]

After the OSU-TCU game I saw headlines on the website and on Sportscenter all night about Marcus Smart heating up. It was talked about several times on Sportscenter how great of a game Marcus Smart had.

He was 6-17 from the field playing against an 0-15 basketball team... Who cares. 15 of his points came in the last 5 minutes of the game. Before that, he was 1-12 from the field.

All that aside... 17 points and 8 rebounds is pretty pedestrian. I could pick any college game in America and find someone who scores 17+ points and had some rebounds and stuff to go with it. It's not special. Cameron Clark scored 18 points, Naadir Thorpe had 19.

When any random player scores 17 points, no big deal, why should it be? People score 17+ points in every single basketball game in America every night of the week.. When Marcus Smart gets 17 points, everyone at ESPN has an orgasm and it makes headlines all night. If he scores 30+, sure, make it a headline. But 17? Who the hell cares about 17 points against 0-15 TCU?

 

[SoonerBounce13]

Could you find someone with 17 pts, 8 reb, 7 assists, and FIVE steals?

That's a damn good game.

If he didn't have the fan incident I would t have been shown but it's pretty easy to see why he gets the coverage


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[hoopsaustin]

i will never understand it...... dude is SOOOOO overrated, everyone wants to convince everyone else that they see why he WAS a 5 star player..... fact of the matter is that hes not special

 

[Vinny78]

Could you find someone with 17 pts, 8 reb, 7 assists, and FIVE steals?

That's a damn good game.

If he didn't have the fan incident I would t have been shown but it's pretty easy to see why he gets the coverage


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Against one of the Worst teams in NCAA, I don't consider anything good, lol. If he has that line against KU then I will say good game.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

Against one of the Worst teams in NCAA, I don't consider anything good, lol. If he has that line against KU then I will say good game.

Well that's silly


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[Soonerman]

They show it because he's a story, whether you like him or not. He draws attention, as evidenced by this 500th thread made on Smart in the last month on this forum.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

[DenverSooner]

i will never understand it...... dude is SOOOOO overrated, everyone wants to convince everyone else that they see why he WAS a 5 star player..... fact of the matter is that hes not special

he is a good player but I don't see a lottery pick. He won't rebound like that in the NBA. He doesn't handle the ball like an NBA pg. He doesn't shoot well enough from the college 3 point line. He does seem to play defense well forcing a lot of steals.

 

[152219]

Smart is shooting 37.5% from the field in Big 12 play.

 

[thebigabd]

he is a good player but I don't see a lottery pick. He won't rebound like that in the NBA. He doesn't handle the ball like an NBA pg. He doesn't shoot well enough from the college 3 point line. He does seem to play defense well forcing a lot of steals.

Ya I think his rebounding numbers are skewed. He is the second biggest player in their rotation. Somebody has to get the rebounds.

Will be interesting to see how he does at the next level.

 

[skyvue]

They show it because he's a story, whether you like him or not. He draws attention, as evidenced by this 500th thread made on Smart in the last month on this forum.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

But he's a story born of hype. He was (over)hyped from Day 1, long before he'd earned it.

He's proven to be a good player.

He's also created some controversy.

But neither of those two points would have mattered as much if he hadn't been hyped to the stars from the day he first donned a clown-orange uniform.

 

[badger]

TCU is legit. They beat Kansas in 2013!*







*What they'll be saying every time TCU is mentioned as an easy opponent for the next decade.

 

[Soonerman]

But he's a story born of hype. He was (over)hyped from Day 1, long before he'd earned it.

He's proven to be a good player.

He's also created some controversy.

But neither of those two points would have mattered as much if he hadn't been hyped to the stars from the day he first donned a clown-orange uniform.

He was a MCD All-American in high school, won Big XII freshman of the year and won Big XII player of the year last year. There was a reason for the hype.

And every OU fan wanted him here when he was in HS, and many were bitter about him choosing OSU. Which is obviously a big reason why so many are infatuated with him on here and continue to slate him at every opportunity.

 

[quick release]

He was a MCD All-American in high school, won Big XII freshman of the year and won Big XII player of the year last year. There was a reason for the hype.

And every OU fan wanted him here when he was in HS, and many were bitter about him choosing OSU. Which is obviously a big reason why so many are infatuated with him on here and continue to slate him at every opportunity.

or maybe its because he pushes fans and flops all the time.

 

[Kewllane]

Careful with what we say guys. OSU could be our first game in the Big 12 tourney. Really hard to beat a team 3 times in one season.

 

[hoopsaustin]

Careful with what we say guys. OSU could be our first game in the Big 12 tourney. Really hard to beat a team 3 times in one season.

this is my dream scenario.. kick their sh!t in again :neal

 

[skyvue]

He was a MCD All-American in high school, won Big XII freshman of the year and won Big XII player of the year last year. There was a reason for the hype.

I'm not saying he's not a good player but the hype was there before his performance at the college level warranted it (and that hype helped him earn those honors, to boot -- especially the POY award).

Not every McD AA gets that kind of hype -- not by a mile.

I've cited this example more than once, but I'll keep bringing it up as long as OU fans (I expect it from aggies) keep claiming that Smart's not been over-hyped: Last season, in the third conference game of Smart's career, in a game OU led from wire to wire -- a game in which the then-11-4 aggies never seriously threatened and in which Smart, in one of his worst outings of the year, was only the fourth leading scorer on his own team, ESPN (I think that's who did the telecast) ran a Smart highlight reel with a couple of minutes left in the game and OU up by double digits.

And earlier in the game, one of the announcers excused Smart's poor play by saying he was so darned good that he got bored sometimes and lost his focus -- this in a Bedlam matchup in Norman.

You think every McD AA gets that kind of treatment, especially 15 games into his career? Of course they don't.

His freshman season matched up remarkably closely with Blake Griffin's, but BG wasn't even in the conversation for POY as a freshman. Why? Because he wasn't hyped NEARLY as much as Smart. And of course, Blake's sophomore campaign puts Smart's to shame. Blake's a player who earned his acclaim, and the hype didn't get hot and heavy until he proved deserving of it. That's not true of Smart.

Smart's had a good career, and his flopping (and recent attitude troubles) aside, I'd have been very happy to have him at OU (I don't hesitate to say he'd have been better off at OU -- he'd have progressed more as a player and wouldn't have regressed as a person).

But he is so far from being God's Gift to Hoops, it's not even funny, but that's how the national media has been touting him since the opening tip last season.

 

[Sooner04]

This madness must end, people!

BEAT TEXAS!

 

[campbest]

His freshman season matched up remarkably closely with Blake Griffin's, but BG wasn't even in the conversation for POY as a freshman. Why? Because he wasn't hyped NEARLY as much as Smart. And of course, Blake's sophomore campaign puts Smart's to shame. Blake's a player who earned his acclaim, and the hype didn't get hot and heavy until he proved deserving of it. That's not true of Smart.

That was due to Michael Beasley...dude averaged 26 and 12, his numbers were asinine. Points and rebounds were the second and third best totals in NCAA freshman history, all while shooting mid 50's percentage-wise.

 

[Mac]

I'm not saying he's not a good player but the hype was there before his performance at the college level warranted it (and that hype helped him earn those honors, to boot -- especially the POY award).

Not every McD AA gets that kind of hype -- not by a mile.

I've cited this example more than once, but I'll keep bringing it up as long as OU fans (I expect it from aggies) keep claiming that Smart's not been over-hyped: Last season, in the third conference game of Smart's career, in a game OU led from wire to wire -- a game in which the then-11-4 aggies never seriously threatened and in which Smart, in one of his worst outings of the year, was only the fourth leading scorer on his own team, ESPN (I think that's who did the telecast) ran a Smart highlight reel with a couple of minutes left in the game and OU up by double digits.

And earlier in the game, one of the announcers excused Smart's poor play by saying he was so darned good that he got bored sometimes and lost his focus -- this in a Bedlam matchup in Norman.

You think every McD AA gets that kind of treatment, especially 15 games into his career? Of course they don't.

His freshman season matched up remarkably closely with Blake Griffin's, but BG wasn't even in the conversation for POY as a freshman. Why? Because he wasn't hyped NEARLY as much as Smart. And of course, Blake's sophomore campaign puts Smart's to shame. Blake's a player who earned his acclaim, and the hype didn't get hot and heavy until he proved deserving of it. That's not true of Smart.

Smart's had a good career, and his flopping (and recent attitude troubles) aside, I'd have been very happy to have him at OU (I don't hesitate to say he'd have been better off at OU -- he'd have progressed more as a player and wouldn't have regressed as a person).

But he is so far from being God's Gift to Hoops, it's not even funny, but that's how the national media has been touting him since the opening tip last season.

sounds like your beef should be with the announcers and ESPN.

 

[Soonerman]

This madness must end, people!

It won't. It'll die down when Smart leaves for the NBA, but anytime he flops in the NBA, you can expect multiple threads on it. It's just a reality we now face here on OUhoops.com.