I may be losing some in California!
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I ran a 5-mile race today in Dracut, #68.
Just flippin' great! One more win for each of our teams and the wife's Vols run headlong into Duke in the second round. Channeling my inner ostrich might be the only way I get by the weekend.
The use of a copy of qualifiers tends to indicate you are trying to convince yourself of this. No defense(Loyola Marymount) isn't good but team's that produce games in the 40s to low 60s aren't going to be remembered among the all time greats. At least not in the shot clock era.
Cold front blowing in tonight. It was high 80s today.
Glad to see it's mostly going to be in the 70s in San Antonio.
Icy mist in Durham this AM
The first sentence is actually not correct. What it indicates is that I'm still relatively new at appreciating exactly how defense works, so my appreciation still has room to grow. It is much easier to appreciate good offense than good defense, IMO, and appreciating good defense really requires looking at the entire court and a lot of the off-ball action from the perspective of the defending team. I'm more used to watching the offense develop on both ends of the floor, so I've still got some learning to do.
The second point is technically correct, but errs by omission. All-time great teams are good on both ends of the floor. If your team scores low 60s and wins anyway, if it's an all-time great team, that was a very bad day on offense, but it's still a win. An all-time great team can get held well below their scoring average and still win. But they can beat other teams 90-75, when their defense isn't working so well. So, yes, a team that routinely scores in the 40s to low 60s on offense won't be an all-time great team because they don't have a good enough offense. But it is also true that a team that routinely allows 75-90 points per game won't be a great team, either, because they don't have a good enough defense. All-time greats have to be at least good (if not very good) at both, so that when one part of their game is off, they can still win. That's obviously very rare, which is what makes them "all-time greats".
Morning rush more frenetic than usual when the toddlers continued to sleep without regard for the spring leap forward.